Around the NBA: Restart Edition

Dame's guy Bogie is coming up massive.

 

I don’t know. They had a 3 week training camp. Not much different than a usual fall training camp.

 

Wow. Kings and Pels are putting on quite the defensive battle.

 

First team to get a defensive stop, wins!

 

If the Pels lose this one they will be tied with PHX and SAC for last place in the west bubble.

 

Bazemore just missed the most embarrassing layup ever. So glad this dude is gone.

 

They don't go from training camp to playoff level intensity in three weeks.

 

Yep much different game.

 

Come on, Kings-- don't blow this. A win here for Sac would put NO effectively 3 games behind us.

 

Come on sac!!!

 

NO defense in the bubble has been worse than ours all season which is really something.

I also think all the strength of schedule talk was way premature. Sac is trying very hard while teams like Philly, Dallas, Milwaukee and Lakers are resting.

 

Yep. New Orleans sucks and I never bought the narrative that they had some breezy schedule that they’d fly through.

 

Kings doing God's work here. Up 18 with 7:36 left.

Sac winning here would leave NO/SAC/PHX all with the same 29-39 record.

 

Pelicans were overrated.

 

Day has started well. Now no Milsap against us - liking that!

 

The Pelicans suck. Is there a scenario where the play in games are between us and San Antonio? Because honestly all the other teams look like crap. Phoenix looks good but they may be too far behind.

 

Yes, with us at 9 and Spurs at 8. But we'd have to lose a ton.

 

Thanks for the help, Cow Town!

 

I said it a long time ago that it wasn't too logical to think that any sub .500 team coming into this bubble would be more than a game above .500 during the play-in/regular season portion. I said that with the exception of us, not because I'm a homer but because Nurk is so important to get back and Zach is a fair trade off for Ariza, especially on defense where we need the most help. That logic included NOLA even though they do have the easiest schedule. I don't think playing bad sub .500 teams who are supposedly hungrier is harder than playing actual good teams, playing the teams with more talent that have shown they no how to win is still harder but the Pels just aren't good enough to win a lot more than 50% of their games against NBA teams.

 

Pretty sure if the Grizz go 1-3 and the Spurs win out that would put the Spurs ahead of the Grizz. We would have to go 3-2 to be 8 instead of 9 vs the Spurs. Seems unlikely though.