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Originally Posted by dalger
Avoiding the Lakers until the WCF would be a best-case scenario for us (or anyone else). The main reason is that Caron should be more likely to be ready in the conference finals than the 2nd round (that's of course presuming he'll be ready at some point, which is hardly a given). On top of that, Roddy could get more games under his belt before once again having to face the best team in the league. He didn't look ready for the test the last two times and more playing time could help him.
With that said, making it to the WCF will be tough enough anyway. The seven other playoff teams in our conference are too good to take anything for granted and really think about potential matchups in the 3rd round.
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Yeah, if we made it to the WCF, then that means we're already playing good enough basketball to take on the Lakers...
The same can't be said about the 2nd round (I'm thinking of our 1st round victory over the Spurs that was promptly followed by a Denver-administered trouncing...)