Forgot it was an ESPN game, it is a 7:30 game, which slides our tipoff down a couple minutes to 7:41. So we could know our situation midway thru the first quarter.
On the other end of the spectrum, we could end up with either the 19th pick or the 24th pick in the 2018 draft, pending pre-lottery tiebreakers. So much riding on the game tonight.
I believe the part of my post you deleted said this. So I guess thanks for agreeing with me. Spoiler Why I pushed 'show ignored content' is beyond my comprehension.
At this point, who would you rather play in the second round, Utah or GS? I guess we will know after tonight's game, when it is too late to matter.
Sounds like we'll have home court in the first round. I guess I'd rather face the Pels, but having home court is a bigger factor to me than which of those teams we get. I'm more concerned about not having home court in the second round, if we make it that far, which is why I really want the Blazers to win tonight. Win tonight, get playoff momentum, defend home court.
quoting doesn't require deleting anything....I responded to the part I agreed with....you don't need to push showed ignore content on my account...whatever floats your boat....
Neither, I'd like to get into HOU's bracket. I want the Pellies as the 4th seed. So us losing, and NO winning gets us there.
Ya this throws a wrench in this. I thought a three way tie breaker would be broken by overall record among those three teams. So if OKC-POR-SAS all end up with 48 wins, it would be: 3. UTA, 4. POR, 5. SAS, 6. OKC but would HCA revert back to our head to head vs SAS? We would then lose that.
The chart is clear for SEEDING. It doesn't state or mention anywhere about having HCA. I have yet to see anything definitive clarifying that higher SEED = HCA. There are some inferences, but nothing clear and definitive. If this quote has any truth to it, there is still some doubt on which rules take precedence. It's unbelievable to me that the NBA does not have the protocols for this situation clearly identified. The NBA could have easily seen this quagmire coming, and has not issued any clarification memos (that I have seen).
This seems consistent with what I'm seeing. Three-way tie breaker is only for seeding, HCA is separate and head-to-head as you show.
Damnit. Thought I had this figured out and all our hopes for HCA pinned on OKC beating MEM. Oh well. Go Pellies! I believe we have head to head tie breakers vs them and OKC.
