There are plenty of reasons why Magic Johnson and Charles Barkley are Hall of Famers, and common sense is one of them. (OK, so Magic wasn’t the best coach in the world, but forget about that for a sec.) In all the analysis and over-analysis we saw regarding Sunday’s playoff games, Chuck and Buck made the best points of the night: first, Magic correctly pointed out that the Cavs would have destroyed the Wizards if only they’d played hard the entire time instead of turning it on in spots. And later he asked why Cleveland wasn’t double-teaming Antawn Jamison when he’s Washington’s only real scorer. Barkley hit the nail on the head during Mavs/Warriors; specifically, why was Dallas adjusting to Golden State when they should have forced the issue and made GS adjust to them? … After the Warriors’ upset win, Avery Johnson was talking about how GS put Dallas in a bind throughout the season with their small lineup, which is why he went small to counteract. The Mavs won 60-something games this year playing their way — they should have started Diop or Dampier next to Dirk and pounded it inside to pull the Warriors out of their small-ball tactics. Instead they played right into Don Nelson’s hands … Dallas still would have had a chance if Dirk had played like the 7-footer he is. He was being guarded by 6-6 and 6-8 guys and still wouldn’t post up and was getting routinely boxed out for rebounds. Dirk had 14 points when he should have had about 30, taking too many jumpers when he should have brought guys like Stephen Jackson and Mickael Pietrus into the paint and gone to work. Overall, the Mavs just looked soft … Meanwhile, Baron Davis was an animal, putting up 33 points, 8 boards and 14 dimes. S-Jack getting up in Baron’s face after the final buzzer and yelling “You did that! You did that!” was great … Someone tell Matt Barnes that his mohawk ain’t working, and tell Chris Mullin that his flat top is dying … After Kobe (39 pts) dropped 28 points in the first half and had the Lakers leading going into the fourth quarter, the question came up: Could Mamba really beat the Suns single-handedly? Then Leandro Barbosa took over, scoring 15 in a row at one point and finishing with 26 in a Phoenix win. Kobe’s fourth quarter was something out of last year’s Game 7, as he went 1-for-10 in the quarter … How about Michelle Tafoya trying to get Kobe to throw his teammates under the bus at halftime? She asked Kobe two different ways, “Do you wish your teammates would score more?” Kobe avoided the question well enough … Denver beating the Spurs in Game 1 doesn’t seem like as big of an upset when you realize the Nuggets have two of the three best players in the series: Allen Iverson (31 pts) and Carmelo (30 pts). Still, you kept waiting for the big Spurs’ run that never came, and the Nuggets role players were crucial in the win. Nene (13 pts, 12 rebs) did his thing to help neutralize Tim Duncan (14 pts, 10 rebs, 7 asts, 3 blks, 5 turnovers), and Steve Blake ran the point effectively against the League’s best defense … Did Magic call Ed Najera “Na-rah-ho”? … If you turned on Cavs/Wizards in the fourth quarter to see Larry Hughes airball a pull-up jumper, followed by Big Z getting the rebound and bricking it off the bottom of the rim, you got a taste of how unwatchable the game was for us … LeBron put up 23 points, 9 boards and 7 dimes, but hurt his ankle in the third quarter. We’ll see how/if that bothers him throughout the series … We figured Jamison would go all DJ Clue on us, and he did, tossing up 27 shots from the field and getting to the line 11 times. Jamison finished with 28 points and 14 boards. Will the Cavs smarten up and double him in Game 2? … Did you see when the TNT reporter stood on the Cavs court long after the game talking about how “the confetti was still fresh”? Did you notice how every other part of the floor had already been swept clean and it was obvious they had just left the confetti in that spot so dude could use that opening line? … Kevin McHale is staying, but it looks like everyone else wants to leave Minnesota. From the Minneapolis-area newspapers, we’re reading that Mike James, Troy Hudson, Marko Jaric and Bracey Wright are all making noise about wanting to bounce … UNC freshman forward Brandan Wright, who a lot of people see as the third-best player in the draft pool after Oden and Durant should he decide to enter, is reportedly doing just that. Kansas’ Brandon Rush is said to be waiting to see who else enters before he makes a decision, and ex-Boston College big man Sean Williams (kicked off the team midseason) is entering the draft … Had we known about the US Texting Championship — which was held in NYC yesterday for a $25,000 prize — beforehand, we would have sent some of our peeps. Jed, for one, is pretty quick with the thumbs. The mostly teenage contestants had to stand with their hands behind their back until a message appeared on a big screen that they had to text to the judges. The first one that got there first with exact punctuation moved on to the next round. 13-year-old Morgan Pozgar edged out her 21-year-old opponent in the final, texting the lyrics to “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” to take the chip … We’re out like the Wolves …