{"id":717,"date":"2006-04-29T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-30T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mercuryranch.org\/blog\/2006\/04\/29\/nba-playoff-basketball-so-far\/"},"modified":"2006-04-29T19:30:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-30T00:30:00","slug":"nba-playoff-basketball-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/nba-playoff-basketball-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Playoff Basketball So Far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you might imagine, She and I have been watching the NBA Playoffs with intense interest. I&#8217;m not sure what She thinks&#8211;beyond the belief the Spurs will meet the Pistons in The Finals. Is there anyone on the planet who truly believes otherwise?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; I have no respect for Kobe Bryant. On the other hand, if he is able to grow up and play team basketball, the Lakers will be a force to be reckoned with. If Kobe figures out he can make his teammates better, and, as a result, he&#8217;ll be better, most bets are off. The Lakers will be in the Finals again. I don&#8217;t believe it will be this year, but next year will be a scary year.<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; Rasho&#8217;s first three pointer of the year came at a very opportune time last night.  I loved it!<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; Spurs-style basketball is spreading. This will be a good thing for the league. As Spurs players and front office folks move to other teams and bring what they&#8217;ve learned about success, we&#8217;ll be seeing more character-based and team-playing basketball. I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;m missing something, but the Dallas Mavericks and first-year coach Avery Johnson are a key example. The Cleveland Cavaliers are coming along. LeBron has more maturing to do, and he&#8217;s not as fortunate to have as experienced a coaching staff as Tony Parker and the Spurs are, so they&#8217;ll have to learn things the hard way.<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; The Miami Heat show all the signs of a team intent on imploding.  They&#8217;ve been losing their cool way too often.<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; Great move by George Karl to suspend Kenyon Martin indefinitely.<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; Great finish by Sacramento last night. But several of their players have anger management issues. See Miami and losing your cool.<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; Good work Clippers.<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; Will Memphis get a playoff win?  I hope so.  The Mavs are still going to win that series.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Keep watching.  This is a good Playoffs so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you might imagine, She and I have been watching the NBA Playoffs with intense interest. I&#8217;m not sure what She thinks&#8211;beyond the belief the Spurs will meet the Pistons in The Finals. Is there anyone on the planet who truly believes otherwise? &#8211; I have no respect for Kobe <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/nba-playoff-basketball-so-far\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pbotl-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}