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Suns secure home court, but no Robin Lopez in the first round. Their play the last few weeks has been great though, the bench has stepped up big time even with Barbosa still searching for a rythm and a role.

Highly impressed by their season, 53 wins (and 1 game left) and home court when a lot of people didn´t even grant them a good shot at reaching the playoffs.
21-5 and 28-8 to close out the season.
As long as they don´t face the Spurs (kryptonite ...) i see them having a decent shot at advancing to the 2nd round the way teams have been playing and considering they looked great against Denver the last 3 meetings and Portland likely hasn´t Roy available, which you can overcome for a game or 2 but not a series imo.

Oklahoma-Lakers should be fun, hope Thabo does his best Shane Battier impersonation on Bryant.

Them, Portland and Oklahoma are the pleasant surprises in the West Playoffs definitely.

Boston has been highly mediocre for a while now. Remember, they started the year 23-5...

As for Rondo : I tend to agree that he gambles too much, but getting lit up by a player really isn´t that big of a deal. Happens to everyone.
The more terrible part was letting Kirk Hinrich score 30. Hello Ray Allen ...