"Terraholm"
hotmail.com> wrote
> Best and worst of the first two rounds of the playoffs
>
> By John Hollinger
ESPN.com
>
> Most Valuable Player of the Playoffs: Chris Paul
That's an easy one.
> Rookie of the Playoffs: Rodney Stuckey
> OK, they can't get a do-over on drafting Darko Milicic
Why would they want a do-over? Anita says the stores will be filled with
Darko shoes by next year!
> but at least the Pistons got something out of him.
I think it may be time to retire the old phrase "silk purse out of a sow's
ear" and replace it with "Get Stuckey by trading Darko."
>The 6-5 guard
He's 6-5 in the same way that Ben Wallace used to get listed as 6-9.
> Defensive Player of the Playoffs: Tayshaun Prince
Good choice here.
> In Round 2, he didn't dominate quite as thoroughly against Orlando's
> Hedo Turkoglu, but he made the signature stop of the series when he
> rejected Turkoglu's dunk attempt in the final seconds of the clinching
> Game 5.
Plus the block on Evans.
> And like with
> Iguodala, Prince forced more than four turnovers a game out of
> Turkoglu -- which is pretty impressive considering how rarely he
> gambles on D.
To be honest, I don't think Prince deserves all the credit for Turkoglu's
TOs -- he was playing pretty loose and free even when Prince wasn't on him
or giving him much pressure.
> Worst Use of Smoke and Fire: (tie) New Orleans and Boston
This is getting more and more embarrasing.
> While several other teams enjoy pregame pyromania, Boston is the only
> arena where players must navigate through fog banks during the opening
> minutes because of all the resultant smoke.
I think they're trying to recreate the feeling of the old Garden when the
Celtics turned the heat up to 109 degrees in the visitors locker room and
all of the steam leaking out of the radiators met the Bruins' ice and the
resulting fog seeped out through the 3/4 inch gaps in the parquet floor
that were caused when all of Whitey Bulger's relatives quit work early and
left half of the nuts and bolts undone and went out for Gansetts.
