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May 18, 2015
SpoFi NBA Pick 'Em: Round Two results and Conference Finals Picks.
Picks need to be in by 9:00 PM Eastern on Tuesday (tomorrow) before game 1 of the Rockets/Warriors tips off.
posted by Ufez Jones to basketball at 10:56 AM - 16 comments
Finals picks:
Pick the winner and number of games for each series - bonus point for getting both:
Cavaliers v. Hawks
Rockets v. Warriors
Bonus picks:
1 point - Who will score the most points in the Cavs/Hawks series?
1 point - Who will score the most points in the Rockets/Warriors series?
1 point - Who will have the most blocks in the Cavs/Hawks series?
1 point - Who will have the most steals in the Rockets/Warriors series?
2 points - Name a player that fouls out of a game in the conference finals (personal fouls only; ejections do not count)
2 points - Name the player with the most Offensive Rebounds in the Conf. Finals
3 points - Name the player with the highest average REB + AST in the round
3 points - What will the largest margin of victory in the round be? Points awarded for coming within +/- 3 points of the correct number
Total points possible: 20
posted by Ufez Jones at 11:28 AM on May 18, 2015
My picks:
CLE in 7
Golden State in 6
East points leader: Kyrie Irving
West points leader: Steph Curry
Blocks in the East: Mozgov
Steals in the West: Draymond Green
Fouls out: James Harden
Most Offensive Rebounds: Tristan Thompson
Highest Avg REB + AST: LBJ
Largest Margin of Victory: 19
posted by Ufez Jones at 12:00 PM on May 18, 2015
Cleveland in 6
Golden State in 5
East points leader: LeBron
West points leader: Steph Curry
Blocks: LeBron
Steals: Steph Curry
Fouls out: Timofey Mozgov
Most Offensive Rebounds: Tristan Thompson
Highest Avg REB + AST: LeBron
Largest Margin of Victory: 23
posted by bender at 12:23 PM on May 18, 2015
Cleveland in 5
Golden State in 5
East Points - LeBron
West Points - Harden
Blocks - Horford
Steals - Millsap
Foul out - Howard
Offensive Rebounds - Tristan Thompson
Reb + Assists - Draymond Green
Largest Margin of Victory - 15
posted by tron7 at 03:08 PM on May 18, 2015
Cleveland in 6
Warriors in 6
East Points: LeBron
West Points: Harden
East Blocks: Mozgov
West Steals: Green
Foul-out: Bogut
Off. Rebounds: Howard
REB + AST: LeBron
MOV: 23
posted by holden at 03:14 PM on May 18, 2015
hey tron7 - Steals are only for the Western Conf Finals (Blocks are for East), so you may want to pick someone other than Millsap.
posted by Ufez Jones at 04:22 PM on May 18, 2015
Uh...what?
I'm still in first?
Huh.
Cleveland in 5
Golden State in 5
East Points - L.James
West Points - S.Curry
East Blocks - T.Mozgov
West Steals - D.Green
Offensive Rebounds - D.Howard
Rebounds + Assists: L.James
Margin of Victory - 27
posted by grum@work at 05:15 PM on May 18, 2015
Oh, right. I'll go with Ariza
posted by tron7 at 05:47 PM on May 18, 2015
Cleveland in 6
Golden State in 5
East Points: LeBron James
West Points: Stephen Curry
East Blocks: Timofey Mozgov
West Steals: Draymond Green
Foul Out: Draymond Green
Offensive Rebounds: Dwight Howard
Rebounds + Assists: LeBron James
Margin: 19
posted by ic23b at 07:08 PM on May 18, 2015
Hey Grum, looks like you forgot to pick someone for the Foul Out category. I wouldn't want to beat you because you left out a pick. lol.
posted by ic23b at 07:11 PM on May 18, 2015
Cleveland in 7
Golden State in 6
East Points: LeBron James
West Points: Steph Curry
East Blocks: Al Horford
West Steals: Steph Curry
Foul Out: Draymond Green
Offensive Rebounds: Dwight Howard
Rebounds + Assists: LeBron James
Margin: 16
posted by dfleming at 08:21 PM on May 18, 2015
Gotcha, tron.
ic23b: In my initial writeup, I did give you credit for being the only person remotely close to getting the Assist Average bonus in the 2nd round. The final range wound up being 10.7-11.3 (11.0, Chris Paul) and you were damn close with 11.4. Just wanted to note that.
posted by Ufez Jones at 11:16 PM on May 18, 2015
Still waiting on picks from rcade and HowardT (and NoMich and GoYouColts if they want to hop back into the pool)...
posted by Ufez Jones at 04:13 PM on May 19, 2015
Hawks in 7
Warriors in 7
East points: LeBron James
West points: Stephen Curry
East blocks: Timofey Mozgov
West steals: Draymond Green
Foul outer: Dwight Howard
Offensive rebounds: Dwight Howard
Rebounds and assists: LeBron James
Largest margin: 20
Costanza, here I come.
posted by rcade at 07:45 PM on May 19, 2015
Count me out of this round. I had to work a baseball game by myself (no field umpire) yesterday, and by the time I got home, fixed dinner, cleaned up, and got to the laptop, I was dog tired. Overslept this morning, had to run to get to my game this afternoon, had a church vestry meeting that went late, and as a result I did not get to the laptop until about 2130. Too late. For the record, I'm looking at easy (4- or 5-game) wins for Golden State and Cleveland. As far as the side bets go, I have a day tomorrow that won't let me stop to breathe. (2 doctor's appointments, some critical mailings at the post office, and another game by myself. I'm thinking of taking my assigner to court for abuse of a senior citizen. (Problem is if the weather doesn't cooperate in March, teams can't get the fields ready before the season has already started. Thus a lot of middle school and JV games get rescheduled, as do the varsity games, and you wind up on any given day with 80 games and 130 umpires. The math doesn't work too well.)
posted by Howard_T at 11:39 PM on May 19, 2015
Round Two Results:
And I just lost the write-up I did for the Conference Finals picks. I'll have it back up around lunch. Apologies.