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Message: [QUOTE="JoePgh, post: 3278550, member: 1131"] I hate to say it, but I think the Sun's success in the LA series was more the result of LA being really bad than the Sun being really good. As Rebecca said during the broadcast, LA looked like they should look for the first three and a half quarters of Game 1, and looked consistently terrible after that. It seems to revolve entirely around Parker's effectiveness. If she is just taking up space, they can't be a really good team. Even in Game 1, which I watched in person, she did not seem to move effectively on defense, and was not stopping any Sun players from getting a ton of offensive rebounds which they probably shouldn't have gotten. I am worried about the Washington-LV series. It is a rematch of the many Thibault vs. Laimbeer matches in the mid-2000's when Thibault was at Connnecticut and Laimbeer was in Detroit with the Shock. In the first three games, Las Vegas has looked better on the road in Games 1 and 2 than Washington looked on the road in Game 3. I would say that the series is a tossup right now. I hope that Washington can prevail, since I like Mike Thibault and have no fondness whatsoever for Laimbeer. I also think that LV would be a more difficult opponent for the Sun in the finals than Washington. [/QUOTE]