Postseason Housekeeping

First of all, I apologize for the inactivity vis a vis On The Ball, and once again offer my kudos to my dedicated commenters who are proving perfectly capable of continuing intelligent discussion without me. That said, I owe readers a little heads up about how I’ll be handling postseason posts.

I went to the Wolves press conference with McHale yesterday morning and will offer up my thoughts on the state of the team moving forward–but probably not until Monday. I just needed to decompress from the season a bit; plus there were three interesting music gigs in the Twin Cities, concluding tonight with Eric Bibb at the Dakota, that I felt like writing about over at my music blog, Hear Hear.

Sometime this evening or night, I’ll post my picks for various NBA awards–I still haven’t made up my mind on MVP and Coach of the Year, two unbelievably competitive races–and do previews and picks for the playoff series that begin on Saturday. On Saturday night I’ll do my previews and picks for the playoff series that begin on Sunday. And on Monday I’ll have my Wolves’ season recap and review.

Somewhere in the midst of all of that, I also want to take up commenter AK’s suggestion that we coordinate playoff series to view and dissect. In fairness to folks who don’t have cable, I want to say that I’ll definitely talk about and provide a forum for the network games this weekend, which are San Antonio and Phoenix on Saturday afternoon and Denver and the Lakers on Sunday afternoon. The other series I know I am catching this weekend are Houston and Utah on Saturday night and Boston and Atlanta on Sunday night. I’m still not clear how I’m going to set up shop for this playoff thread, at least initially, as you notice that I’ve also set myself up with quite a bit of writing otherwise over the weekend. But rest assured that as the field winnows and the pivotal games and series become more apparent, there will be a place here for both me and my reader/commenters to chime in and kick stuff around.

Meanwhile, I notice that there are some discussions continuing apace beneath my past On the Ball submission. Feel free to extend it there or transfer it over to this one. And know that, for better or worse, you’ll be reading quite a bit more of my hoops reactions in the days ahead.

Thanks for your patience and your participation.