Crazy: there's only 3 losses difference between the #3 team and the #10 team. And both the Lakers and Pelicans are on winning streaks, and the Jazz are 8-2 in their last ten games...
I posted this in some other thread late last night. What do you think? AmI too far off? As far as my preseason questioning of you guys who thought we would get HCA, I honestly thought OKC would mesh sooner than they did. I can tell you of all the “lower Tier” teams, I am quite sure GS and Houston do NOT want to play them in the first round. I also thought Minny would finish up there and I believe they would had Butler stayed healthy. Spurs are starange man, we all know that. Without there best player they are still hanging. And now with LA out, who knows. It’s all a crapshoot and is going to be a blast watching it work itself out. Definitely going down to the last night of the season. I posted somewhere else that I’m quite sure there will be 50 different scenarios going into the 2nd half of our last game.
One of my friends in socal. Who is a non-bw GSW fan believes Portland will go 16-4. I think that's a little Kingspeed-ish but who knows. Personally if Portland finishes 10-10 I think they have a good chance at getting the 4th seed. All bets are off if Lillard continues to average nearly 40 ppg though. Shit if he does that Portland could go 20-0... Talk about an post all-star break FU tour. (I don't think OKC beats Portland, in Portland. Especially after the comments Westbrick made about Lillard when PG13 didn't make the game)
Was just looking at the Pelicans schedule. I wouldn't be surprised if they only lose 6 more games the rest of the year. Kinda thinking they're actually the favorite to get the 3 seed, playing the "W/L game" with them.
In case anyone wants an at-a-glance look at all the remaining schedules of the West's 3-10 teams, I threw this together. The gray games are the ones where two of these 8 play one another.
Just noticed NOP has to play 5 home games in a span of 6 days (don't remember if I have seen that before). For comparison we also have a 5 game home stand, but it is over 12 days.
Did a quick run-through the schedules, and I have 7 of the 8 teams finishing with either 46 or 47 wins. This is going to be a crazy 6 weeks.
yep--that includes a make-up game with Indiana that had to be sandwiched in there to create that 3-in-a-row. Had to double-check that when I was putting the schedule together.
That seems generally realistic. However I expect the Blazers to rise to the occasion and beat OKC at home Saturday; then pull out 2 or more of the games they "should" lose, and lose 1 they "should" win. You have them 9-11. I'm going to say 11-9, maybe 12-8 with my homer hat on.
I think you're selling this team short (again). Of course, any team can beat any other team on any given night, but I'm not sure why you have us losing two to OKC and losing at home to CLE. Neither of those teams are playing well right now. Since Christmas, CLE is 12-16 and POR is 19-10. That game is the 5th game of a 6 game road trip for CLE. Yeah, it only takes an epic LeBron performance and CLE an beat anyone, but as a team, they still are not playing well. OKC has had a very easy schedule lately with LAL twice, MEM twice, DAL, SAC and ORL all in the last 10 games and are still only 6-4 in those 10 games. They lost twice to the Lakers, barely beat SAC and had to go to OT to beat DAL (who is trying to lose). That OKC game is also the second night of a road back to back for them (they play in PHO tonight) and we are currently 2-0 against them this year. It's impossible to predict how all these games will go, but your predictions make it look like you think we automatically lose to every .500 team in the league no matter how bad they are playing or where we play them. Given the way we have been playing at home (winning 11 0f 12), the odds makers have us as favorites in most of our upcoming home games. Yep, they need to play the games and take care of business, but to just automatically assume this team roles over and loses to OKC and CLE at home is selling them short. I seem to recall you also had us losing to GSW ad UTA (in UTA), too. BNM
Of course I had us losing to the best team in basketball and a team on a 12 game winning streak AT the toughest place for us to win over the years. Why wouldn’t I?
You can come at me with all this common sense and facts all you want FAMS...... it won’t change how I feel. I’m set in my way of thinkin’.
Then why have us losing to teams that are playing poorly, when we are playing well. Role reversal is not equal.
And that in a nutshell, is why I cant help but want to fuck with you. Its like an addiction. My insistence in trying to give you a hard time is only preceded by your stubbornness. It's awesomely funny to me.
Our schedule is incredibly easy. Only 5 games against teams that have a better record than us. 14-6 seems fair.
