Analysts picks...

[Arroyo30]

Tell Rivers to throw cassell's dead body out there, farmar will have a field day.

[bru87tr]

DF has been good but lets not overblow him. stats cancel eachother out between the two and I see rondos quickness as an advantage.

[bru87tr]

I hope cassell sits the whole series. he is really bad.

[pballa]

agreed

[IEcelticfan]

During one of TNT's more recent telecasts, I heard Barkley mention that Kenny Smith -- off the air -- predicted the Pistons would win in 5. He tried to get him to repeat it on-air but they were going to commercials.

Barkley's gone out of his way to show his support of the Pistons as the "Best of the East" and picked them to win this series, too; but he's not really an analyst since he doesn't do jack in terms of game preperation, player knowledge, or much of anything. The guy probably has the most disproportionate work:salary ratio of anyone alive.

see: 400k bet loss @ the wynn

[pballa]

oh also

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_d ... =nba,83451

two of the editors from the BDL blog picked DET in 6