question to all... so if our last game decides who gets the 3rd seed or the 4th seed and Pelicans sits on the 5th spot and Spurs the 6th spot. Do we intentionally lose the game to avoid the Spurs and play the Pelicans?
Bring on the Spurs! The goal is to get better for future playoff runs. This includes the players and coaches. We'll learn more playing the Spurs then we would playing the Pels. Also beating LMA would be especially satisfying.
Although I think both teams could be tough. I would rather play the Pelicans just because of Gregg Popovich is such a great coach. But the west is so tight this year it really makes it hard to predict where teams will land in the seeding.
This is a pick your poison playoffs...not a lot of walk overs in the first round...having homecourt is the goal whether 3rd or 4th seed....after last night I'd rather play the Rockets or Thunder than the Jazz or the Spurs first round. There's just no easy series which is the way it should be...Spurs are old...I'd rather play them in the second round and hope they run out of gas
You never choose to lose IMO. Blazers can beat both. Scary thing about NO is those 3pt shooters. Scary thing about San Antone is the refs.
Fuck everyone else. Take care of your own shit. If the team is concerned about that, they should pack for vacation now.
We try to win every game. All we need is a strategy to secure the 4thQ and actually win those games. We allow too many inside rebounds, we don't initiate enough turnovers and fade on timely Defense. Our loss was due to these factors last night.
How far down can we drop? Can we drop to 7 if we lose both games? I see teams like OKC playing the Heat and Memphis ... come on man !!! Would you rather beat Denver or Utah, if you had 1 game to win? I rather beat the Jazz.
So if Spurs are 5 seed, we should lose to get them? That doesn't make sense either. Who cares what we'll learn from? Let's just beat whoever is in front of us.
And Manu shooting 7/7. That was the biggest factor. I believe we outrebounded SA and we got a good game out of Meyers. Manu went off like Dame on us and that is why we lost.
I just never go with intentional loss. It reeks of bad Karma. Always play to win. Even if you do it with the end of the bench.
Yeah, its a good thing the end of our bench showed up against the rockets, or Silver would have accused us of tanking.
Back in 2006, the division winners got top 3 seeds. Just that one year. The atrocious Nuggets thus got the 3rd seed while the better Mavs were 4th. The Grizzlies got 5th seed and were swept by Mavs. The Clippers got 6 seed and since they had a better record than the Nuggets, they got HCA and won the series in 5. Grizzlies were punished for finishing better than Clippers. Clippers nearly got out of the second round too.
