Go Mavs!
Congratulations to my Dallas Mavericks and to my 2nd-favorite NBA team, the defending champion San Antonio Spurs, on a hard-fought and excellent 7-game series.
Thankfully, the Mavericks - behind the scoring of Dirk Nowitski and Jason Terry - outlasted a 2nd-half-come-from-behind surge from the Spurs (who erased a 20-point 1st-half deficit), in order to win the series and advance to the Western Conference finals against the Phoenix Suns.
This series was one for the ages, and certainly the best playoff series in my recent memory. It's just too bad that it had to take place in the Western Conference semifinals, with the 2 best teams in the conference pitted against one another way too early due to the NBA's idiotic seeding system (the Mavs had the 2nd-best record, but were seeded 4th).
Both teams should be proud of their efforts (of course, had the Mavericks lost, I'd be berating them right now for blowing a 3-games-to-1 lead in the series and a 20-point advantage last night). Nevertheless, I'm proud of the way both teams played.
Go Mavericks!
posted by Pro Ecclesia 7:31 AM
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Congratulations to the Mavs, even though we were rooting for the Spurs.
But Jay, even if they had ignored the third division champ that placed the Mavs in fourth, they would have been in third under the old rules. The real test will be this: will the Suns be able to beat them again? If so, then I think all this ruckus is for nothing. What will they do? Abandon ranking division leaders? What will be the point of even HAVING divisions within the conferences? There were times under the old system when the third-best team in the conference was seeded higher because they won their division. But it's only this year that people are really complaining enough to make the NBA think of changing how they seed.
I'm just curious how they'll "fix" it without abadoning the divisional champions completely because there will always be someone unhappy about the seeding as long as they rank the division champs as the top three teams in each conference. (Which is what baseball does, too. Do people complain about that?)
You fix it by "re-seeding" the teams after the first round - which is what they do in the NHL.
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