Sure--beating the Spurs could get the Pels up to the 5 seed, even up to the 4 seed if the Jazz lose tonight and again tomorrow.
I kinda like the idea of playing without Homecourt. Having Homecourt for Portland would be like any game they have a double digit lead in. I’d rather be the underdog.
But that would mean playing SA, right? SA is pretty strong at home. I agree with the underdog part, but SA would not be my first choice. The only team with a better home record is Houston, and that is only by one game.
So back to my original question... if we know the Pels are the 5th seed before the Utah game, do we intentionally lose the game to get HCA against the Pelicans? Yes? No?
Well, they also gave us HOU vs LAL on national TV tonight. With all the tight playoff races in the West, they televise the one where the two teams are separated by 30 games with 2 games to go. Boy, that ones gonna be a real nail biter! BNM
I know what you mean but if we're gonna be champs someday, we have to get used to winning series with HCA.
It's all broken down here. All of the scenarios: http://www.sportstwo.com/threads/all-the-playoff-scenarios-this-was-a-lot-of-work.329540/
If you want to actually see what all of the scenarios are though, go to my thread. Percentages, at this point, don't really matter. It's all about wins and losses.
Percentages are based off the likelihood of wins and losses..? I've looked through all the scenarios. It's a good "What if" tool. Percentages wrap up all the scenarios and the likelihood of each. Just a good tool to see what's more likely.
Let’s Go Pelicans, go get the 5th seed. I bet the Blazers rather play the inexperience Pels rather than the Spurs.
If Pelicans win, do you think the Blazer rest the starters so they can lose the game and end up in the Pelican-Houston bracket? If Pels win and Blazers beat Utah, Portland gets the SA-(Utah/GS) bracket. I say rest the starters.
If Pels and Blazers win and OKC also won, UTA/OKC would beat Pels in the tie-breaker, and Pels would drop to 6. So, Blazers would get Pels anyway, regardless of if they're the 3 or 4 seed.
I was thinking there is no way we could end up with OKC, but if Pels win, and OKC wins, and Blazers lose, then we could end up with OKC-Houston, right? Based on the regular season that seems better, but not sure what kind of calls Westbrick and PG will get in the playoffs. We will know before tipoff on both those games. If Pels and OKC win, then the likely choices would be lose and get OKC-Houston or win and get Pels-(Utah/GS)?
I think NOP has the tiebreaker on OKC, so in a three way tie with these two teams, we'd play NO as the 4th seed, and OKC would drop to 6th. I think.
No. In the situation you describe, Blazers would get the 4, and then NO would get the 5 based on their 2-1 H2H record against OKC.
Ah, I think I see it. If Pels and OKC win, then a Portland loss throws it to a 3-way tie breaker, which puts Portland 4 and NO at 5. If Pels and OKC win and Portland wins, then it is a 2-way tie, Blazers are 3, and ... [head exploding]
