Playoff Preview RD1

Chamberlain Conference
#1 Fat Jubas (15-4) vs #4 Half Man Half ImAsian (12-7)
After starting off 9-1, the Fat Jubas have hardly slowed down and are 6-2 during the past two months. The thing is, Half Man Half ImAsian were undefeated through their first eight weeks and established themselves as contenders immediately. Of course, with five losses in their last six weeks, Oliver's team might be fading at just the wrong time. Kevin Durant and LaMarcus Aldridge are going to have to carry this team and get help from more than just JaVale McGee (12.1 PTS, 9.0 REB, 4 BLK over last seven games) to take out Jubas' super vet trio of Steve Nash, Ray Allen, and Kevin Garnett.

#2 LA Buffy (13-6) vs #3 Sour Snails (14-5)
After fending off three other teams in the very competitive Transformers division, Buffy has secured home court advantage for this round despite having lost one more game than defending champion Sour Snails. There's a bit of concern here as Roger's team has only one win over the past month while Trieu has been virtually undefeated since the calendar flipped (and post-Lebron James), winning ten of their last eleven. Their only loss was versus division winner Fat Jubas, in the last week of the regular season.

Buffy has a strong inside game but nobody is fully stepping up to the plate, unless late season find Toney Douglas (15.8 PTS, 6.8 AST, 3.4 3PT over last nine games) is going to spearhead an upset. The Snails will rely on their small ball plus Kevin Love formula to run and gun on step one of their title defense.

Russell Conference
#1 100 Acre Wood Heffalumps (15-4) vs #4 Funk Coalition (9-10)
The surging Funk Coalition won five of their last six games to squeak into the playoffs. However, division leader 100 Acre Wood Heffalumps have won seven of their last eight matchups. The kicker though, was that their only loss was to the resurgent Funk in WK18. We could be primed for a big upset here, or just business as usual as the Heffalumps take their game up to post-season heights.

Kobe Bryant is going to do his damnest to make sure that the Heffalumps don't lose, but a slumping Rajon Rondo needs to step up his game as the AST and STL categories could be crucial this week. As for the Funk, they are peaking right now and even with Tyreke Evans out, this team is putting up huge numbers across the board, especially free agent find Tyler Hansbrough (22.4 PTS, 7.8 REB, 1.6 STL over last seven games).

#2 Slam N Dragon (11-8) vs #3 Human Amoebas (9-10)
Last year's winner of the Toilet Bowl, Slam N Dragons, are entering the playoffs as a division winner but are definitely stumbling over the past few weeks as they've lost four of their last five. Eric-A's Amoebas have had an up and down season with five straight wins followed by three losses and then a .500 record over the last month of the regular season.

The root cause of Thien's rough back half of the season has been that fact that nobody has really been helping take the pressure off Dwayne Wade. A healthy John Wall has been crucial (19.6 PTS, 7.0 AST, 6.7 REB, 2.3 STL) but nobody else is averaging more than fourteen points a game over the past two weeks. Andrew Bynum being out a game or two won't help matters either. Led to Derrick Rose and Monta Ellis, the Amoebas also have Eric Gordon back in the lineup and could easily romp ther way to an upset if Paul Millsap and DeMarcus Cousins step up a little.