Western Conference Semis: Kings (1) Vs Warriors (5)

[ChampKind]

I don't think this can be stressed enough.

EXPERIENCE IN THE PLAYOFFS WINS IN THE PLAYOFFS.

Unless there is transcendent young superstars involved.

OKC with Durant and Westbrook is the exception. Not the rule and they are transcendent superstars.

Curry, Young, Young, Batum, Brewer, Lee. These aren't playoff experienced warriors(pardon the pun). They aren't transcendent superstars. They are pretty good young players with NO PLAYOFF EXPERIENCE and are mostly role players.

Andre Miller: Starter on a playoff team.
Marcus Camby: Starter on a playoff team.
Sam Young: Starter on a playoff team.
Nic Batum: Starter on a playoff team.
Rodrigue Beaubois: Starter for a playoff team (semantics, yes!)
Dirk Nowitzki: Starter for a playoff team.
Thad Young: 6th man for a playoff team.

I understand your point, but "NO PLAYOFF EXPERIENCE" is simply an all-caps untruthitude.

[action781]

I think that experience helps, but doesn't always win playoff series.  I mean look at what Memphis did to San Antonio this year.  Look what Cleveland did to Detroit in 2007.

Yeah, it doesn't happen often, but those are two cases that jump out to me where the FAVORED team that had MORE experience ended up losing to the underdogs with less experience.  Experience is  certainly better than inexperience, but I wouldn't exactly it a trump card.

[nickagneta]

I don't think this can be stressed enough.

EXPERIENCE IN THE PLAYOFFS WINS IN THE PLAYOFFS.

Unless there is transcendent young superstars involved.

OKC with Durant and Westbrook is the exception. Not the rule and they are transcendent superstars.

Curry, Young, Young, Batum, Brewer, Lee. These aren't playoff experienced warriors(pardon the pun). They aren't transcendent superstars. They are pretty good young players with NO PLAYOFF EXPERIENCE and are mostly role players.

Andre Miller: Starter on a playoff team.
Marcus Camby: Starter on a playoff team.
Sam Young: Starter on a playoff team.
Nic Batum: Starter on a playoff team.
Rodrigue Beaubois: Starter for a playoff team (semantics, yes!)
Dirk Nowitzki: Starter for a playoff team.
Thad Young: 6th man for a playoff team.

I understand your point, but "NO PLAYOFF EXPERIENCE" is simply an all-caps untruthitude.

I never tell untruthatudes. I am just prone to hyperboles.

[celticpride07]

if kobe can't make the playoffs on here..lebron ain't winning a championship...just saying

[Yoki_IsTheName]

I think Sacramento will advance. Boxer-Bots' defense I think is too much for Golden State to handle.

LeBron will easily out muscle and outplay Batum, on both ends. Chauncey might be slow but he is capable of staying in front of his man. Dirk will be handled by Tyson who is relentless. And Millsap can handle Camby and his somewhat non existent offense.

And deep in the bench with Jared Jefferies, Chris Singleton and Nazr Mohammed, all solid defensive players, it's gonna be too much.

Warriors will be held to low scoring games.

[Kane3387]

I think that experience helps, but doesn't always win playoff series.  I mean look at what Memphis did to San Antonio this year.  Look what Cleveland did to Detroit in 2007.

Yeah, it doesn't happen often, but those are two cases that jump out to me where the FAVORED team that had MORE experience ended up losing to the underdogs with less experience.  Experience is  certainly better than inexperience, but I wouldn't exactly it a trump card.

Memphis had a huge match-up advantage in the paint and most everyone saw that including themselves as they lost their last few games to ensure a match-up with them. As for Cleveland, they took Detroit to 7 games the year before and lost in a game 7. That experience helped them to upset Detroit the next year.

[mgent]

I ended up going Sacramento.