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AC TITTICOCK'S WEEKLY FREE NBA BASKETBALL PICKS AND WINNERS
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AC's Wagercom 2007-2008 NBA Picks Season Record
Wins: 98 Losses: 90 Ties: 4
NBA Picks Winning Percentage: 52%
Record updated Saturdays and Mondays
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AC'S NBA 2007-2008 PLAYOFFS ROUND 1 FREE NBA PICKS & COLUMN:
With the first week of the playoffs coming to end, I thought I would share with you what I learned this week (with apologies to Kiril Sokoloff).
1. Mo “Ass” Cheeks should be coach of the year:
Oh wait, I already said that in my year end awards column, so maybe I didn’t learn that this week but the rest of the country sure did. Cheeks has the Sixers up two games to one on the Pistons in what everyone, including me, thought would be an easy series for Detroit.
Somehow Cheeks has managed to get his team to buy into the notion of ball movement on offense, rotation on defense, and pushing the ball up the court when the opportunities are there. While their execution sometimes wanes (because the players aren’t that good), they almost always make the right play. Andre Miller controls the pace of the game and conducts the Sixers like a young Seiji Ozawa at Symphony Hall which makes Cheeks job a bit easier, but you have to give Cheeks credit for the development of Thaddeus Young, the unselfishness of Andre Igoudala, and the overall team effort.
2. The Atlanta Hawks may be the worst playoff team ever and they have no heart:
The Hawks have let the Celtics trample all over them as if Atlanta was the MILF in a MILFHunters video. The Celtics have not only completely dominated the series, but they have bullied and intimidated the Hawks to the point that Atlanta is going to have get group counseling. Not one Hawk has attempted to take it to Boston and they have shown less heart than Eddy Curry or the Tin Man. Word is sales of the AbioCor are skyrocketing in Atlanta. The NBA should just end this series now before Al Horford gets permanently scarred for life.
Oh yeah, can someone tell me what exactly Marvin Williams does? He doesn’t appear to be a shooter, slasher, rebounder, passer, defender, or leader. So what exactly is his role?
3. The Spurs can never be counted out:
Ok, we painfully relearn this every year. It just doesn’t make sense that they could be up 3-0 on the Suns except for the fact that Manu Ginobili is the most underrated player in the world, Tim Duncan is the most underrated player ever, and Tony Parker is jut plain underrated. The Spurs lack the depth, firepower, and youth to be this good but they just find ways to win. There isn’t much else you can say other than they are the Champs until proven otherwise.
4. Tracy McGrady may have grown a sac:
After losing the first two games in Houston, noted playoff loser Tracy McGrady dropped 27 in Utah leading the Rockets to victory in one of the toughest places to win in the NBA. The Game Three victory may be McGrady’s finest achievement in his NBA career. Can the Rockets win three of the next four? Doubtful. But for one night McGrady showed the promise that has been there for years and if surrounded by better teammates, perhaps he could finally win a playoff series.
5. Dandelions were originally called Pissabeds:
Ok, this has nothing to do with the NBA, but I just thought you all should know. We can all thank Carl Linnaeus for this, so pour some out for Carl next time you’re trekking through the Summer Garden.
6. There are one million things I would rater do than watch the Orlando-Toronto series:
I didn’t even attempt to catch any of these games on TV and I love the NBA. I tried to think of something I would less rather watch on TV and all I could come up with was reruns of Mad About You, anything involving Kathy Griffin, and live rectal surgery. The NBA should just let Chris Bosh and Dwight Howard play rock-paper-scissors to see who wins and save everyone from having to pretend to be interested.
7. Sam Cassell still has something left in the tank:
While Cassell was looking for his shot more than he should have been, he was able to drop in a number of jumpers against the Hawks including an eight point outburst in a two minute stretch. He played sporadically during the regular season so it was not clear how much he could/would contribute in the playoffs. The first two games against the Hakws show that Cassell will be a factor sometime during these playoffs and if we’re lucky we’ll get to see the testicle dance
FRIDAY 4/25/08 FREE NBA PICKS:
Detroit -5 at Philadelphia:
I know the Pistons play with all of the desperation of Hugh Hefner trying to get laid and I know the Sixers are relentless. That said, I will be taking the Pistons and giving the points all series as long as the lines remain below ten points (and you can see why after viewing Game 2). I will never, ever, pick a team who gives Reggie Evans and Samuel Dalembert each over thirty minutes a night when that team is paying RaWeed Wallace, Antonio McDyess, Jason Maxiell, and Rip Hamilton. I don’t care that the Pistons give effort like the Britney Spears parents, I am taking the Detroit and giving the points.
New Orleans at Dallas Over 196.5:
Roses are Red
Mark Cuban is a Jew (mazel tov by the way to one of my fellow yids during this Passover season)
I don’t have a fucking clue who is going to win this game
And neither do you
The Whorenets are going to lose one out of the next two, I just don’t know which one. Taking the Whorenets +5.5 seems like a good bet here but let’s just be safe and take the over. Dirk still has one good game left in him.
San Antonio at Phoenix -7:
I said I was going to take the Suns and give the points regardless of the line so I will stick to that, but then again, I thought the line would only be four. I can’t express how much I hate the Spurs. I wish they would just go away already never to be heard from again like Pauly Shore or JD Salinger did, but somehow they keep boring out wins. Phoenix choked in Games One and Two and the line here assumes they won’t do that again, especially as it is three points higher than it should be. Even knowing this is likely a bad bet, I am keeping it on as Amare eventually has to learn to close out opposing teams, right?
SATURDAY 4/26/08 FREE NBA PICKS:
I have to apologize for last night’s putrid performance. I took all of the consensus picks which is always the wrong thing to do. Tonight I will win you all of that money back as I feel worse about last night than David Spade does about Jillian Grace’s pregnancy.
Orlando +3 at Toronto:
Please God, Moses, Allah, Jebus, Brooklyn Decker , just let ths series end. Dwight Howard is going to be too much for the Raptors today and Hedo is going to be handing out Turkish Goggles to the whole Raptor team.
LA Lakers at Denver under 230:
I know Denver is to defense what Britney Spears is to class and I know that Kobe wants to punish the city of Denver for the hotel worker who said no to him so many years ago, but 230 points is a lot (one more than 229 to be exact). I would expect both teams to come out a bit flat today and have a 50 point first quarter which will likely hit the under for all of us so let’s root for Camby’s defensive intensity to rub off on the rest of the Nuggets for at least one quarter.
Boston -8 at Atlanta:
If the line were 20 I would think about taking the Hawks but this Celtic team is a force of nature. The mainstream media does not understand how good Boston is, nor do they understand that you can’t spell Horrible AWful FucKing Shitty team without “hawks.”
Houston +8.5 at Utah:
Taking Houston and the points goes against everything I believe in but after Detroit got pounded by the Sixers last night, I am throwing everything I believe in out the window. Utah is a dominant home team but Houston should be able to slow the game down just enough to keep it close. With a healthy Rafer Alston, the Rockets are much improved and Carl Landry loves to play in big games. Take the Rockets and hope they hit the boards and shoot over 45%.
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