1. SEATTLE SONICS
ROTATIONCoach: Tom Thibodeau
Irving(30)/Chalmers(18)/T-Mac
Thabo(18)/Harden(30)/Green
LeBron(36)/Novak(12)/Jeffries
LMA(30)/Faried(18)/Thompkins
Dwight(34)/Camby(14)/Seraphin
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3. BUFFALO BRAVES
Coach: Vinny Del Negro
PG: Chris Paul (38) | George Hill (04) | Joe Johnson (06)
SG: Joe Johnson (30) | George Hill (18)
SF: Carmelo Anthony (42) | Bobby Simmons (06)
PF: Kenyon Martin (30) | Jordan Hill (10) | Ivan Johnson (08)
Ce: Tyson Chandler (40) | Jordan Hill (04) | Kurt Thomas (04)
RoyalWun wrote:PF:
We're going to put Tyson Chandler on LaMarcus Aldridge. Coming from a Portland fan, he's going to have a difficult time with Chandler in his face all game. Faried is good, but too young and gets most of his buckets off of assists. I can just switch and put Martin/Hill/Johnson on him and he won't get much easy buckets if we push him out the paint.
Ce:
Call me crazy, but I'm not going to put Tyson Chandler on Dwight. He has a better chance of shutting down LMA then Dwight and won't pick up as many fouls. There's no "stopping" Dwight Howard, so why bother? Let him have his way inside as long as the other big men are shut down.[/size]
This brings us to our 1st huge advantage... coaching
Tom Thibodeau is going to eat Vinny Del Negro for Breakfast and ask for 2nds.
Our defensive game plan will be to pack the paint and harass Chris Paul by throwing different looks at him during the course of games and the sure to be short series.
We will let JJ and Melo chuck away with contested shots from outside and ruin the flow of the Buffalo offense. Both are shooting under 40% in the playoffs this year and under 30 from 3(24% for JJ & 15% for Melo
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We will space the floor with our exceptional shooting and pound the ball inside to Dwight to create foul problems while on the offensive end. With Chandler guarding LMA the lane will be wide open as LMA draws TC out of the paint with his excellent midrange game. We will have a field day. On the other end of the floor Buffalo is beyond subpar with it's big man scoring so we expect a chuckfest of epic proportions.
Rebounding will be a huge advantage for our team and with our efficiency combined with more 2nd opportunity's to boot... yea, this will get messy.
CP3 will give Irving some problems for sure but Irving is also a rather smart player as is Harden and the rest of my squad. CP3 will get his but we will get more in the end and at a much more efficient rate on a team level.
Our team is a lot more rested and has considerably more depth to throw at the opposition so we expect a couple of routs along the way to our next series. This will not be pretty.
In the end it comes down to superior coaching, defense, rebounding, inside scoring, depth, and versatility. These parts of the game are where this series will be decided.
The Decision we have made is to win it all and we have the tools to do so.
Good luck to Buffalo and maybe we can meet again in next year's finals.
