NBA Playoff Notes

NBA Playoff observations. After two rounds.

• There's quite a few players on the rosters of each team that can rise up occasionally and have a real impact on a given game making their team look unbeatable. Then the next game they return to earth and the team looks very beatable. What separates teams is not so much talent and ability but the ability of individual players to use their talents consistently.
• It must make a referee feel real good (sarcasm) to go check the video replay and have their calls overturned. Especially as often as it's been occurring. 
• Not an option. You just gotta get those rebounds and limit the turnovers!! Nothing is more frustrating than seeing your team struggle with either or both.
• I marvel at the energy and effort that it must take to win one game .... and even more so at the ability to come back two days later and starting from scratch, give that same effort. And then, to keep that up each game through a long series or extended playoff run.
• Sometimes it seems as if the referees have forgotten that flopping and defensive verticality were supposed to be a points of emphasis this season. But they've been focusing big-time on fouls on three point attempts.
• Ever since the early 1970's watching Ernie Digregorio with the ball in his hands for Providence, great passing has been what thrills the most. Still is!!!