Call your shot. Official Playoff Run Predictions

[David.]

2-1 against the Pels. And 2 of their 3 wins against Portland came before everyone on that team got injured. When they were actually a contender.

Really think the Clippers are being underestimated. You don't win 56 games by accident, especially in the West, and Chris Paul is having the best season of his career. Of course, that means nothing, given that they very well could lose in the first round, but that says more about the state of the West than it does the Clippers. That conference is loaded.

everyone has their opinions.

clippers are 19-22 against teams over 500. They won 56 games bc they have the best record against bad teams in the entire nba

 

[Xearoii]

Cavs over Boston in 5
Cavs over Chicago in 6
Cavs over Atlanta in 6
Cavs over Golden State in 7. Final game in Cleveland, Kyrie with game winner!

Cya in June for the championship celebration!

 

[Douglar]

I can only think of a minimal number of reasons of why we wouldn't make the NBA Finals.

1) Injuries
2) David Blatt outcoached
3) J.R Smith goes into an extended shooting funk and no one picks up the slack

Sounds about right. That's why I think that a Chicago series will be the hardest series for the Cavs.

1) It's going to be very physical
2) Thibodeau
3) Cavs got a lot of lucky makes the Sunday before last.

 

[Mr. Orange]

The only thing that concerns me about Chicago is how Kyrie matches upto a healthy Derrick. Derrick is physical and has superhuman lateral speed--both weaknesses of Kyrie.

Hasn't existed in over 2 years.

 

[Simon]

Cavs over Boston in 5
Cavs over Chicago in 6
Cavs over Atlanta in 6
Cavs over Golden State in 7. Final game in Cleveland, Kyrie with game winner!

Cya in June for the championship celebration!

Golden State would have home court, so, game seven would be at GSW.

 

[CLEistheCITY]

Sounds about right. That's why I think that a Chicago series will be the hardest series for the Cavs.

1) It's going to be very physical
2) Thibodeau
3) Cavs got a lot of lucky makes the Sunday before last.

True, at the same time Dunleavy isn't going to be putting up the stat sheet he did that game. Cavs had lucky makes, but I also think they let off the gas whenever they were up 10. They had a chance to blow them out, and I think that is why Lebron wasn't happy after the win.

 

[Binkster]

Good lawd.

"Optimistic" he will play in game 1. Then says if it were a playoff game he would have stayed in. Which is it DERRICK?!

View: https://twitter.com/NickFriedell/status/588532638589288448

View: https://twitter.com/NickFriedell/status/588533067398144000

 

[Zen]

I don't see Golden State making the finals, call me crazy.

I can't even make a prediction, all I think about is how funny it is to revisit the "how many games will the cavs win this year" thread =p

 

[natedagg]

Cans in 5 over Boston. Boston playing well since ASB, we slip up on the road.
Cabs in 5 over Milwaukee. Kidd caps off an incredible run as Rose's lingering injuries once again distract the team.
Cavs in 6 over Atlanta. Do NOT want to see this go to 7.
CAVS in 6 over GSW. We figure out in game 1 that Shumpert is the secret weapon to guarding Thompson, we adjust, and we pull this out at home.

 

[KilgoreTrout]

We will lose to the Bulls in 6.

 

[Paul]

I gotta say I'm super pumped that the Spurs have a fairly tough road to the finals now. Their road is harder than ours, and ours doesn't look great either. They should be able to beat the Clippers but the Clippers are firing on all cylinders atm so I'm pretty excited to see them hopefully give the Spurs all they can handle.

 

[AmirT0]

Golden State would have home court, so, game seven would be at GSW.

He said final game in Cleveland, not the final game of the series or game 7.

 

[brownsbuck6]

He said final game in Cleveland, not the final game of the series or game 7.

Cavs over Golden State in 7. Final game in Cleveland, Kyrie with game winner!

The way he wrote it is hugely up for interpretation.

 

[Huber.]

Cavs over Boston in 5
Cavs over Chicago in 6
Atlanta over Cavs in 7



The Cleveland rebuild continues.

 

[KilgoreTrout]

I don't even know what I would DO, if we won a championship. I would probably lose it and just smear feces all over the bathroom walls. I wouldn't be able to process it. Unfortunately, I don't think I will have to. Would have been so much easier if the Browns won in '87. Or the Indians won in '97 or '07. The monkey on the back is just too big. Even for someone as superhuman as LeBron. It pains me to say so.