We played well against Denver and Clippers too. The ending was a coin flip. The only truly bad game lately was the Hornets one and we lost by 8.
I don't know much about this team anymore. They seem to be just unprofessional. I believe people can change. If Dame will finally put team success over his ego MVP and Stotts stops drinking and can be a coach for these boys, let's go.
Honestly, with the injuries and the teams locking in resting their stars, I could see Portland going 9-3. And I'd go into the playoffs expecting to get swept in the first round. Does anybody at this point feel confident we pull off more than 2 wins in the first round?
Dallas really does have a ridiculously easy schedule, although the Wizards game is a lot harder than it would've looked a month ago. Blazers/Lakers next Friday should be INTENSE. Lakers will have played the Clippers the previous night.
I thought we had the tiebreaker over one of them? I guess the problem is that the Mavs have it over the Lakers? If the Lakers have it over us, how is it decided, and why are we the ones who'll get screwed?
I forgot about this thread, so I checked to see how dumb I was, even though you guys are always certain to let me know just how dumb... surprisingly, I didn't offer an opinion, but I sure wouldn't have predicted a 4-0 start to the 12 game stretch, and the very real chance at a 6-0 road trip. I've been following the Blazers since they had Sidney Wicks and Geoff Petrie, but I don't think I've even seen such a dramatic pivot to the way they've been playing in a 2 day period. It's crazy I am hoping for 1 loss though because if Portland goes 12-0 Sly will become even more insufferable than he already is. He'll be leg-humping all of us for years
Kevin Love reveals he would love to play with Blazers, Damian Lillard (yahoo.com) Additional story on offensive plays too.,
In the event two or more teams are tied in the standings, a series of tiebreakers are applied to determine which team receives the higher seeding. Two-Team Tiebreaker: 1. Better record in head-to-head games 2. Division winner (this criterion is applied regardless of whether the tied teams are in the same division) 3. Higher winning percentage within division (if teams are in the same division) 4. Higher winning percentage in conference games 5. Higher winning percentage against playoff teams in own conference 6. Higher winning percentage against playoff teams in opposite conference 7. Higher point differential between points scored and points allowed Three-Team Tiebreaker: 1. Division winner (this criterion is applied regardless of whether the tied teams are in the same division) 2. Best head-to-head winning percentage among all teams tied 3. Highest winning percentage within division (if teams are in the same division) 4. Highest winning percentage in conference games 5. Highest winning percentage against playoff teams in own conference 6. Highest point differential between points scored and points allowed http://www.espn.com/nba/playoffs/matchups
5 games left. Two of the teams have worse records than us and the other three have better than we do. That should mean that we go 2-3. The Lakers have a worse record than Phoenix the same record as the Knicks and a better record than the rest of the three teams they face. The Mavs don't face one team with a better record than they have. This would suggest that we have the best chance of the three teams to finish in the sixth spot and barely staying out of the play-ins. Obviously there are a myriad factors that might make a difference. The Mavs opponents all might be tanking or wanting to play the role of the spoiler, the Lakers and our opponents might be doing a combo of tanking, spoiler, resting or jockeying for playoff position but the odds are that the Lakers still finish tied with us but we have the tie breaker and we get the sixth seed.
