Very disappointing night for NBA fans, as I'm sure everyone expected more competitive games that that.

First, Indiana embarrassed Boston on their own court by smoking them with a 27-point victory.  There had been blowouts like this before, but you expected for Boston to at least show up on their home court. 

Maybe Antoine Walker's smack talk after Game 6, saying how he believed it was Reggie Miller's last time playing in Canseco Fieldhouse, jinxed the team.  Yeah, well only managing to put up the second lowest score in the playoffs since the shot clock rule was implemented guarantees you he'll play at least two more games there.  Maybe next time Walker willl let his game do the talking rather than his mouth.

Walker shouldn't feel too bad, because they definitely had company.  Dallas took Houston to the woodshed, and you would have thought Houston didn't deserve to even be in the playoffs, much less a Game 7.

Both games were very similar; the stars of the team tried to do it all and the role players that start as well as the ones coming off the bench didn't do squat.  Only Pierce and Walker hit double digits for Boston, and only McGrady and Yao did the same for Houston.  As I've been saying for two years now; the superstar-driven NBA title run is history.  You're going to need an all-around team to win one now.

Meanwhile, Indiana and Dallas ate those teams alive with help from almost every position.  Everyone on their teams were able to put some points on the board.  And when Shawn Bradley is hitting 17-footers, you know it's a bad day for Houston.

Boston and Houston weren't just "gone fishin", they were so cold they were ICE fishin:

   

HIL-AR-I-OUS. (Photos from NBA.com's "Gone Fishin" Gallery)

I'll talk about the matchups for Round 2 sometime tomorrow when I regain consciousness.