the wild difference in the NBA playoffs between last year and this year

Willie99

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2014: the first round may have been the best round of NBA playoffs ever. I believe 5 out of 8 series went 7 games. Lots of upsets and drama. The 2nd round sucked, chalk city romps.

2015: the first round totally sucked, maybe one or two series were even interesting. A few sweeps and 1 series went 7. In the second round, the lower seeded team leads all 4 series 2-1 thus far, not sure I've ever seen that in this league before.

 

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The NBA Championship is as wide open this year as it has been in a long, long time...

 

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Yes the first round sucked overall this year.

BUT the SA/LA series was by far the best 1st round series in NBA history.
First time ever you had a first round matchup where both teams at least had a chance to win an NBA title.

All others series in the first round sucked.

 

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We could have all 4 of the 2nd round go to game 7 potentially also.

 

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I agree. Other than the Clipps Spurs series not much exciting in the first round. The rest of the playoffs now should be entertaining

 

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Willie99 said:

2014: the first round may have been the best round of NBA playoffs ever. I believe 5 out of 8 series went 7 games. Lots of upsets and drama. The 2nd round sucked, chalk city romps.

2015: the first round totally sucked, maybe one or two series were even interesting. A few sweeps and 1 series went 7. In the second round, the lower seeded team leads all 4 series 2-1 thus far, not sure I've ever seen that in this league before.

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Not sure I've ever seen so many key injuries occur while the playoffs are going either.. Of those lower seeded teams that all lead 2-1 thus far,,,memphis had conley out game 1 and now wears a mask,,,,,,chicago has gasol injured in game 3 and out for game 4 or probable,,,clips had cp3 out game 1 and 2,,,,wiz lose wall for game 3 and unknown for how much longer.

 

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gamblingshark1 said:

Not sure I've ever seen so many key injuries occur while the playoffs are going either.. Of those lower seeded teams that all lead 2-1 thus far,,,memphis had conley out game 1 and now wears a mask,,,,,,chicago has gasol injured in game 3 and out for game 4 or probable,,,clips had cp3 out game 1 and 2,,,,wiz lose wall for game 3 and unknown for how much longer.

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Yeah pretty brutal. This was a trend in the regular season as well and its carried over. Hopefully it is just really bad variance and not some type of new norm. Although I have my doubts.

Don't forget Love. So in a matter of like 2 weeks you got CP3/Wall/Love/Conley/Pau and even Kyrie all getting hurt.