Playoff Talking Points: What's Wrong With Too Soon?

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No one with a wife and kids, or the need to eat leafy greens, has time to watch all this basketball. But we do. So, as a service to the public, here are the Playoff Talking Points you need to fake it at the water cooler:



o. First, You Must Bleed: When the Thunder were eliminated, and Kevin Durant and Jeff Green threw themselves on the ground like they had just seen an angel defiled, my first thought was "good."



Let my words not go mistaken: the Thunder were the best thing about the NBA this season. The only reason I hesitate to call them one of my favorite teams ever is that the core is still getting better, the draft beckons, and Sam Presti will have cap space to fiddle with. The Ford Center should have played some Carpenters as the team, dazed but proud, found its way back to the locker room. I know I did, and I was visiting relatives.



I have been around this game long enough that, when it comes to young teams putting on a show at home, I'm either harsh and rational or depressingly low on faith. I found it funny that Kobe Bryant found a way to get himself in the game-winning highlight even when he missed, and -- whether you love or hate him -- you should, too. Pau Gasol's tip-in, though, was somewhere between fate and euthanasia.

 

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