Looks like we can't face OKC. This is the following amount of scenarios for each playoff opponent. 7 SAS 6 NOP 2 DEN 1 MIN
Kingspeed after the Memphis loss "Definitely. Come playoff time, no one will care about this loss except for the haters." My response "Unless we miss the playoffs, lose home court or get a shitty match up because of it." I guesd I'm a hater and a troll?
You bring up a great point...we need production from our wings for sure. It just seemed that when we were rolling both CJ & Dame were getting others involved and you tell they felt the freedom to shoot and drive which helps their confidence. Even Mo was slashing to the hoop more and shooting more. Players weren't standing around as much, however, like you say if they are cold and ineffective, iso ball with Dame & CJ, but they must get Nurk involved.
Problem is playoffs aften slow down and turn into more of a half court game. Making the best of the iso players look better in the playoffs. Cj better come to life. Nurk will need to step up his post game like he did the p&r. Turner will post up more too. The key to this being successful, like you mentioned is wings hitting thier shots and movement off the ball. If we stand around and watch the iso, we will be doomed.
This is directly from the NBA. All tie breakers figured out. People are still arguing about who is playing who and who isn’t. This should pretty much answer everything. Petty? Trying to help with the confusion.
If we end up with the same record as SA and OKC wins tonight, it will be a three way tie. And our record vs. all three will take precedence for tiebreaker.
Taken from a different post http://www.nba.com/blazers/forwardcenter/playoff-race-update-it-comes-down-finale 2) From there, as you can see from the spreadsheet, it gets more complicated. The first and ninth scenarios (Denver, San Antonio, Oklahoma City and Utah win; Minnesota, San Antonio, Oklahoma City and Utah win) are the most difficult to figure out, as it results in a three-way tie resulting in the Trail Blazers getting the four seed and a matchup with the Spurs, though in that scenario, the Spurs would have homecourt advantage due to head-to-head record. This is because the Blazers would win the three-way "seeding" tiebreaker over the Spurs and Thunder, all of which would have 48-34 records, but not the homecourt advantage tiebreaker, which the Spurs would own due to winning the season series 2-1. There's been quite a bit of confusion about this scenario, as people are understandably under the impression that the higher seed always gets homecourt, but that's not the case.Please stop arguing with me about it.
I'm too damn nervous to watch the games and too damn nervous not to. And on a crazy news day when normally I'd be wanting to see news shows.
This is ridiculous. This punishes us for winning the three way tie. They have a lot of explaining to do. The 2015 memo was based on teams getting a higher seed because of winning a division, not because of winning a three way tie.
See this is why I think the higher seed gets HCA. The NBA simply eliminated any funny business. If the Spurs had homecourt they'd be the 4 seed after the tiebreaker.
Honestly, I would want it this way. In a series where you are tied with another team, the H2H should determine home court. My biggest gripe with it is that if you only play three games against that team, and two are away, then you get hosed.
