Eastern Bracket: All parties included.

[roseorbust]

Bold who you pick

Brackets
Eastern
1. Lebron James VS Andre Miller
2. Chris Paul VS Andrew Bynum
3. Yao Ming VS Josh Howard
4. Allen Iverson VS Marcus Camby
5. Chauncey Billups VS Danny Granger
6. Carlos Boozer VS Caron Butler
7. Ray Allen VS Joe Johnson
8. Brandon Roy VS Pau Gasol

[HarlemHeat37]

I'll take all the favorites from 1 to 6, but I'll take JJ and Gasol over Allen and Roy..

[dockingsched]

lebron, paul, yao, camby, billups, boozer, johnson, roy

[risktaker91]

1. Lebron James VS Andre Miller
2. Chris Paul VS Andrew Bynum
3. Yao Ming VS Josh Howard
4. Allen Iverson VS Marcus Camby
5. Chauncey Billups VS Danny Granger
6. Carlos Boozer VS Caron Butler
7. Ray Allen VS Joe Johnson
8. Brandon Roy VS Pau Gasol

[farzi]

1. Lebron James
2. Chris Paul
3. Yao Ming
4. Allen Iverson
5. Chauncey Billups
6. Caron Butler
7. Joe Johnson
8. Brandon Roy

[TMU]

1. Lebron James
2. Chris Paul
3. Yao Ming
4. Marcus Camby
5. Chauncey Billups
6. Carlos Boozer
7. Joe Johnson
8. Brandon Roy

[TheSheriff]

1. Lebron James VS Andre Miller
2. Chris Paul VS Andrew Bynum
3. Yao Ming VS Josh Howard
4. Allen Iverson VS Marcus Camby
5. Chauncey Billups VS Danny Granger
6. Carlos Boozer VS Caron Butler
7. Ray Allen VS Joe Johnson
8. Brandon Roy VS Pau Gasol

[Red Robot]

1. Lebron James VS Andre Miller
2. Chris Paul VS Andrew Bynum
3. Yao Ming VS Josh Howard
4. Allen Iverson VS Marcus Camby
5. Chauncey Billups VS Danny Granger
6. Carlos Boozer VS Caron Butler
7. Ray Allen VS Joe Johnson
8. Brandon Roy VS Pau Gasol

[LeQuitterNotMVP]

1. Lebron James VS Andre Miller
2. Chris Paul VS Andrew Bynum
3. Yao Ming VS Josh Howard
4. Allen Iverson VS Marcus Camby
5. Chauncey Billups VS Danny Granger
6. Carlos Boozer VS Caron Butler (kind of a personal thing, but w/e)
7. Ray Allen VS Joe Johnson
8. Brandon Roy VS Pau Gasol

[roseorbust]

Please post your voetes like the one above this post

[raps4life~]

1. Lebron James VS Andre Miller
2. Chris Paul VS Andrew Bynum
3. Yao Ming VS Josh Howard
4. Allen Iverson VS Marcus Camby
5. Chauncey Billups VS Danny Granger
6. Carlos Boozer VS Caron Butler
7. Ray Allen VS Joe Johnson
8. Brandon Roy VS Pau Gasol

[Cammo101]

Eastern

1. Lebron James VS Andre Miller
2. Chris Paul VS Andrew Bynum
3. Yao Ming VS Josh Howard
4. Allen Iverson VS Marcus Camby
5. Chauncey Billups VS Danny Granger
6. Carlos Boozer VS Caron Butler
7. Ray Allen VS Joe Johnson
8. Brandon Roy VS Pau Gasol

[penbeast0]

Bold who you pick
Brackets
Eastern
1. Lebron James VS Andre Miller
2. Chris Paul VS Andrew Bynum
3. Yao Ming VS Josh Howard
4. Allen Iverson VS Marcus Camby
5. Chauncey Billups VS Danny Granger
6. Carlos Boozer VS Caron Butler
7. Ray Allen VS Joe Johnson
8. Brandon Roy VS Pau Gasol

The first 3 aren't close . . . shame that Bynum got such a tough first rounder, I'd have liked to see if his fanboys carried him past someone. Billups over Granger is an easy call too.

I'd take Camby over Iverson. Iverson has improved tremendously since the no handchecking rule freed him from physical defense on his drives but he is still a weak defending undersized gunner; he's just a much more efficient one now to the point where he is a very good player. Camby, however, is a great help defender at a position where talent is still very tough to find. I'd rather have his defense than Iverson's offense on the average title contending team.

As for the rest, Butler has been carrying Washington to an over .500 record without Gil Arenas. Boozer is terrific too but i'm a Wiz fan so I go for Caron. Johnson is younger and Ray Allen seems to be settling into a lesser role, I don't know how much do to age and how much teammates but I would rather have JJ at this point. Similarly Roy has been the main man on a shockingly good Portland team, Gasol never carried his weak Memphis teams anywhere so I take Roy.

[Pai Gow]

Bold who you pick

Brackets
Eastern
1. Lebron James VS Andre Miller
2. Chris Paul VS Andrew Bynum
3. Yao Ming VS Josh Howard
4. Allen Iverson VS Marcus Camby
5. Chauncey Billups VS Danny Granger
6. Carlos Boozer VS Caron Butler
7. Ray Allen VS Joe Johnson
8. Brandon Roy VS Pau Gasol

[nate33]

You may as well eliminate 1, 2, 3 and 5 from the poll. Anyone with any sense is going to pick Lebron, Paul, Yao and Billups.

[miller31time]

Brackets
Eastern
1. Lebron James VS Andre Miller
2. Chris Paul VS Andrew Bynum
3. Yao Ming VS Josh Howard
4. Allen Iverson VS Marcus Camby
5. Chauncey Billups VS Danny Granger
6. Carlos Boozer VS Caron Butler
7. Ray Allen VS Joe Johnson
8. Brandon Roy VS Pau Gasol

[penbeast0]

Are you only picking 3 players Miller? only ones that I see highlighted are Paul, Billups, and Butler

[miller31time]

Are you only picking 3 players Miller? only ones that I see highlighted are Paul, Billups, and Butler

Really? All 8 highlights are showing up for me. No idea what the problem is there.



Anyway, to make it clear, here are my 8 choices....

1. Lebron James
2. Chris Paul
3. Yao Ming
4. Allen Iverson
5. Chauncey Billups
6. Caron Butler
7. Joe Johnson
8. Pau Gasol

[penbeast0]

Right now it is running:

LeBron, Paul, Yao, Billups . . . 13-0

Iverson 7, Camby 6
Boozer 8, Butler 5
Allen 5, JJohnson 8
Roy 6, Gasol 7

Some nice races this time in the lower echelons

[miller31time]

Oh, and let me elaborate a bit on the Boozer-Butler choice...

They're both excellent players on winning ball-clubs, but I see them as being rather equal on offense. They're equally good scorers who play very efficiently. Boozer is the better rebounder. Butler is the better passer. The difference and what separates them enough for me to say Butler is the better player, is that Caron is seen (and is) an above-average defender. Not only man-to-man, but help defense, especially picking off passing lanes with the best of them (well over 2 steals per game). Boozer, on the other hand, is seen (at best) as an average defender, and some would go so far as to say below average.