Pretty sure the Blazers end up in 6th if they win tonight. Not sure they want the Clips in the first round, though.
Clippers have really good defenders, Dame will have a brutal series against this team because we all know Stotts is clueless. If the Blazers are smart, they better avoid the Clippers and go in the Playin and rather face the Jazz or Suns. Yeah Jazz are good but not as good as the Clippers who have Superstars and Elite Defenders
Yeah, Clips are a worst case scenario. Like the Pels before, or when we faced Houston with Roy/LMA/Oden. Just not good matchups.
The Suns MIGHT be the best bet as most of their players (besides CP3) have no playoff experience. I would think Denver is our 2nd best option even though they are on fire right now.
I would definitely rather play Denver. Nurk v Jokic is a good matchup. Obviously Jokic is better, but Nurk gets fired up.
This is another example of what Television and national Media "experts" think about small market teams
I don't get this attitude. The Jazz are genuinely great and DO have superstars. Gobert has been much better than Kawhi this year and Donovan Mitchell was better in the playoffs last year than Paul George. Granted, everyone expects Playoff Kawhi to suddenly appear, but where was he in game 7 against the Nuggets last year? Besides, Utah ALWAYS kills us.
But let's rank 'em in order of preference anyway. I say: Nuggets (they lost a lot when they lost Jamal Crawford, and a bunch of others are injured too. Plus they lean a lot on Porter and will he step up in the playoffs) Suns (CP3 is bound to get injured) Clippers (they're fragile - they can go off the rails) Jazz (although it'd be interesting to see if Nurk and Kanter can get fouls on Gobert) All of them are better than us, but we could get lucky.
Because Kawhi/Paul George/Ibaka/Rondo is a worst case scenario for Dame. Can you name a worse defense for him to play against?
Why cant both be correct? I wasnt being that serious but it does happen. We have proof. Not really some kinda pie in the sky conspiracy to think the league would love for LA and GS to be in the play in.
Dame’s played against Wayoff P in the playoffs and waved him goodbye after 5 games. Clippers are weak mentally. They trailed Dallas by 50 points at HALFTIME of a game this season. I’m not worried about Clippers at all. Healthy Lakers is who I don’t want to play and that’s not going to happen so I’m good. The other teams are flawed.
If you think we'll beat the Clippers in a seven game series then you are possibly the one who is mentally weak (no personal attack implied). Unlike the teams that Dame killed with one shot, this team that has PG13 and PatBev also has more importantly Kawhi, Reggie Jackson, one of the Morris twins, Zubac, Nic, Rondo, Patrick Patterson and possibly Ibaka.
Ahh i thought this was a spousal bed game thread and was gonna ask why it isnt ot. Id be more interested in an ot version of this topic.
