Peja & Wally's Playoff Prediction Thread Extravaganza 2014

[TheWalrus]

Welcome to the NBA playoff pick 'em thread.  Anyone is welcome to take part, although will probably be just me and peja because, you know, its basketball, not worms.  Scoring will be based on the daily picks + series picks.  Dailies are worth 1 point each, and correct series picks are worth 5 points each (Include final series score predicted, will be worth 1 point as well).  One person will post the daily picks for the day, (anyone can do this).  Example for daily challenges are below. 

Final Standings

Walrus
Daily: 21/30 21 PTS 70%
Series: 11/15 55 PTS 73%
Series closest: 6/15 6 PTS 40%
Total: 82 PTS

Peja
Daily: 18/30 18 PTS 60%
Series: 9/15 45 PTS 60%
Series closest: 4/15 4 PTS 27%
Total: 67 PTS

Ropa
Daily: 1 PTS 1/2 50%
Series: 10/15 50 PTS 66%
Series closest: 9/15 9 PTS 60%
Total: 60 PTS

Husk
Daily: 1 PTS 1/4 25%
Total: 1 PTS

[TheWalrus]

4/16 Daily Picks:

Dallas Mavericks vs Memphis Grizzlies

More points: Zach Randolph or Monta Ellis

My picks:

I'm taking Memphis and Zach

[Aerox]

the grizz + monta


I'm putting in 1k € into this year's PO. Hopefully still have some left come the finals

[Peja]

ok

Dallas Mavericks vs Memphis Grizzlies

More points: Zach Randolph or Monta Ellis

My Picks: im going for Memphis and Monta

My Daily:

Blazers vs Clippers

More rebounds: LMA or Jordan

My picks:

Portland and Aldridge

[TheWalrus]

ok

Dallas Mavericks vs Memphis Grizzlies

More points: Zach Randolph or Monta Ellis

My Picks: im going for Memphis and Monta

My Daily:

Blazers vs Clippers

More rebounds: LMA or Jordan

My picks:

Portland and Aldridge

I'll take the blazers and Jordan for RB's

[TheWalrus]

My Daily:

Blazers vs Clippers

More rebounds: LMA or Jordan

My picks:

Portland and Aldridge

Your daily is void as Aldridge isn't playing at all in the game tonight and I doubt Jordan will play more than 3-4 mins. 

[TheWalrus]

My Picks:

Eastern Conference:

(1) Indiana (56-26) vs. (8) Atlanta (38-44)  Indiana 4-2

(2) Miami (54-28) vs. (7) Charlotte (43-39)  Miami 4-1

(3) Toronto (48-34) vs. (6) Brooklyn (44-38)  Brooklyn 4-2

(4) Chicago (48-34) vs. (5) Washington (44-38)  Chicago 4-3

Western Conference:

(1) San Antonio (62-20) vs. (8) Dallas (49-33)  Spurs 4-1

(2) Oklahoma City (59-23) vs. (7) Memphis (50-32)  OKC 4-3

(3) Los Angeles (57-24) vs. (6) Golden State (50-31)  Clippers 4-1

(4) Houston (54-28) vs. (5) Portland (53-28)  Houston 4-3

[Peja]

Pacers vs hawks 4:0
Heat vs lolcats 4:0
Raptors vs nets : 4:3
Bulls vs wizards 4:1

Spurs vs mavs : 4:2
Okc vs Memphis 4:1
Clippers vs warriors 4:0
Rockets vs blazers 3:4

[Aerox]

indiana vs hawks 4-1
miami vs bobcats 4-1
raptors vs nets  3-4
bulls vs wizards 4-3

spurs vs dallas 4-3
okc vs memphis 4-3
clippers vs warriors 4-1
rockets vs blazers 2-4

[Peja]

quite interesting we dont trust the rockets. would like to know your reasons.
i think the blazers will be able to take away houstons 3 point shooting and kinda win the shootout battle.
LMA should also create a huge matchup problem. he will destroy terrance jones. if they decide to put howard on him, Lopez will controll the boards. 

[TheWalrus]

I'm not sure about the west at all, to be honest.  I think there is a pretty good chance the spurs get upset by the mavs.  The problem is the bottom 4 seeds are playing not so great, so its hard to pick, say, memphis.  But memphis has already beaten this same okc team in the playoffs with basically these same players.  And they really put it together at the end of the season and are finally healthy.  Damn tough first round matchups for both.

[Peja]

the grizzlies did beat okc without westbrook. i guess its a huge difference. this year they added some shooting with lee and miller but okc is complete this time and also their support improved. for me its save win. maybe some hard games, but they wont come close beating them.

[Aerox]

quite interesting we dont trust the rockets. would like to know your reasons.

DAMIAN

[TheWalrus]

quite interesting we dont trust the rockets. would like to know your reasons.

I actually changed my pick to the rockets.

Daily pick for tomorrow (4/20):

PTS over/under for Rockets/Blazers: 215 total

More points: JoNoah or Marcin Gortat?

I like the over in the rockets game and Noah to outscore Gortat.

[Peja]

noah vs gortat: gortat

portland and houston: over 215 points total

memphis vs okc: zbo commits more fouls than perkins scores points: yes