looks like 6th in the lottery is the best Portland can do. They won't 'catch' Orlando a couple of ill-timed wins can certainly push Portland to 8th or 9th in the lottery
Yep and we play Utah, NOP, and OKC. In bubble, we were 3.5 games behind 8th with 8 games to play and we pulled it off.
I believe that's where we finished last year, then we moved back one at the lottery. Don't believe it benefitted Dame Time and unless we luck out and get a top 3 pick not sure it will again this year? I'm guessing we package the pick and some to acquire a proven front line player as Dame Time time requires some immediate talent help.
I dunno. Lillard or not, the style of play we have been playing, we don’t stand a chance against too many teams. The way the Rockets have been playing they’d route us.
Since Blazers and Magic play, the Blazers are one Magic win from controlling their destiny for the 5/6th pick. Two Magic wins from having it outright. Time to go full on tank!
two Orlando wins while Portland goes win-less in two games still doesn't put the two teams in a tie since Portland is 3 games ahead/behind in the loss column and for lottery tiebreakers, head-2-head doesn't matter. Identical records are settled by a coin flip Orlando looks to have the harder remaining schedule, and I am doubting that the Blazers will shut Dame down. I'm pretty skeptical that the Blazers can climb to 5th in the lottery; they may have trouble holding on to 6th
We could be only 1.5 games behind Orlando in the tank if/when we lose to the Clippers and if the Magic can beat the Lakers.
Dame needs to play in 2 more games for all nba teams ... a little load management needed until then for Ant ... Jerami. Nurkic can play well and remind others he can still play. Then full tank-o-rama with Dame.