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Message: [QUOTE="champs99and04, post: 2715947, member: 488"] Perhaps you were right and I overrated them coming into the postseason. Even if that's the case, I think it says something that your expectations were so low. I don't dispute the concept of the playoff baptism so much as I question whether the conventional baptism that the normal championship teams undergo occurred here. It wasn't the 2010 Thunder losing to the Kobe/Gasol Lakers in 6. It wasn't LeBron losing to the Billups/Hamilton Pistons in 7. It wasn't the Magic getting swept by Houston in '95. This was a team of two superstars and solid role players losing to a depleted roster that was basically the same age as them. Baptism by fire would have been losing to the Warriors in 5. The fact that they lost when they did and how they did tells me they might not be on the trajectory I thought they were. [/QUOTE]