Henry Imler April 21st, 2006

Before the 2005-2006 NBA season started, I made some predictions on who would make the playoffs. Now the field is set, lets see how I did:

Eastern Conference
Prediction / Result

1. Heat / Pistons
2. Cavs / Heat
3. Nets / Nets
4. Pistons / Cavs
5. Indiana / Washington
6. Washington / Indiana
7. Chicago / Chicago
8. New York / Milwaukee

Let’s see, I did a pretty decent job. Overall, I went 7/8 on the pool. Picked two of the division’s right,
just messed up on how good the Pistons were going to be and some minor
seeding issues. Well, this is if you leave out the New York debacle.
You figure, with that much talent and with Larry Brown at the helm,
that they would win more than 23 games. After all, they have the
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best point guard in the NBA[/url]. What I should have seen coming was
the Bucks. With Ford, Magloire, Redd, and Bogut, I should have seen them in the postseason.

Western Conference
Prediction / Result

1. Spurs / Spurs
2. Denver / Suns
3. Suns / Denver
4. Houston / Dallas
5. T-Wolves / Memphis
6. Memphis / Clippers
7. Sacramento / LA
8. Jazz / Sacramento

There is one glaring problem here. Where did I put the Mavericks? I
don’t know what I was thinking when I left them out of the playoffs. My
only guess was that I wrote T-Wolves when I mean to write Mavericks.
Still, I got all of the division winners correct,
even though I vastly overestimated how good the Nuggets were going to
be. Plus, I think that everyone gets a pass on the Rockets. Who knew
that all of their starters were going to be injured for months at a
time? Both Dave and Brad had them winning their division or finishing
second.

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