Looking at the scenarios...and getting WAY ahead of myself....there is a decent chance San Antonio could pull a 2/7 upset over Dallas. Which would give us the home court if we could advance. Maybe I should remind myself to take it one day at a time.
The odds are that we will play Utah. Utah is at home against Phoenix, SA is at Dallas, and Portland is at home against the Warriors. If the teams win that should win.....Utah, Dallas and Portland, we will play the Jazz
Yes, but the Suns have a pretty decent chance of beating the Jazz, and the Spurs shouldn't be huge underdogs to the Mavs either, so the overall odds of facing the Jazz or Suns are pretty close. In another post, Tince presupposed the Jazz having a 55% likelihood of beating the Suns, the Mavs 60% odds of beating the Spurs, and the Blazers 90% likely to beat the Warriors. Under those percentages, we have about a 43% chance of getting the Suns in the first round, 35% chance of getting the Jazz, and 22% chance of getting the Mavs.
If Utah and Dallas win, we can't avoid Utah. If Dallas wins, we're locked into the 6 seed, regardless of what we do.
After looking at the chart, it appears that the only scenario where we face Dallas as the 6 is if Utah is the 2...I'd rather have them on the other side of the bracket, even with Boozer injured. We could face Dallas as the 7, w/PHX in the 2nd round, but we'd need to lose tonight. I'd rather go into the postseason w/a win, unless we're planning on doing our best Colts imitation...
Are we talking about guns here (in which case the metaphor is that they are out of bullets), or cars (in which case maybe they need a valve adjustment)? Or are they looking at internet cylinder-porn? barfo
