Three-Sided Coin Anyone?

Hear ye! Hear ye! We have here an invention from the City of Melbourne! Coins that have, wait for it... THREE SIDES! Get your three-sided coin.. Yes! You heard that right!  THREE-SIDED COIN! It will get you out of situations where old boring traditional coins can't help! Torn between three lovers? Flip a THREE-SIDED COIN! Torn between three picks??? THREE-SIDED COIN! Get them while they're hot... What?... There is already a three-sided DICE in America?... Frakkin' A!


So on Thursday instead of pitting two teams against each other in a playoff game. We're here now pitting three teams against each other in our fantasy game. It's the Thunder vs Pacers vs Warriors, all locked inside an arena filled with grizzly bears, hawks and.. err sharp clippers! Who will come out alive to fight another day? Our pick goes to the one with the least fight in them. Who shall it be?

The Thunder, man, tough loss. When I saw that play feed (a missed shot, an offensive rebound and a made layup all within the 0.0-second mark), I became a statue. The petrified type. I do not want Kevin Durant to receive the MVP award watching the Semis from his couch, because I saw it happened with 2007 MVP Dirk Nowitzki bounced in Round 1, and it was awkward! So do we pick Kevin Durant (or Russell Westbrook) on Thursday facing elimination? Or will the Thunder win Game 6 on the road, and be the favourite to win Game 7 at home?

The Warriors, unfortunately played on the day the Sterling banning came. So they too face elimination on Thursday. Do we pick Stephen Curry (or David Lee or Klay Thompson)? Or will the Warriors protect home court at Game 6, and then try to win Game 7 in L.A.?

The Pacers, yeah the dysfunctional one. Time to pick Paul George (or Lance Stephenson) as many of us already pre-picked? Or will they get lucky in Atlanta and in Game 7?

Who among these three teams get bounced on Thursday? Don't just pick the best available player in the whole lot. Milk out an extra 10% of our brains and get to it. Then pick your best available player from your chosen team. Hopefully, you'll guess correctly and if you're even luckier, the teams you've chosen to win Game 6 would win Game 7 as well. If not, then you're in deep.

For me, with all three teams: the Thunder are the least likely to lose Game 6 (and if they win, more likely to win Game 7); the Pacers are the most likely to lose Game 6; and the Warriors are middle-ground (but most likely to lose Game 7). So if I have Paul George, I'd pick him; but I don't. Lance Stephenson will be okay but his PRA is much much lower than the average of [Durant, Curry, George] who most people will pick. So my next in my list are the Warriors, but I already picked Stephen Curry. Next in line is Klay Thompson and David Lee, but their PRAs are comparative to Lance's.

So I have Kevin Durant (40+ PRA) and Russell Westbrook (40- PRA). But is it worth it to get their 40 PRA now and risk losing them (and the other stars in the other teams) in the next round? 40 PRA is yummy, but I think 30 PRA will do just fine. It's not a one-day race anyway. Besides, with 4 OTs already (and all 3 Grizzlies win by OT only), I am betting a cent from my dollar that of all three teams, the Thunder can push this a little bit further.

Alrighty then, my tentative pick is Klay Thompson.

I so wanted to convince myself to pick Durant at the end of this post. Flipped three-sided coin. Nah. End of post.