In their last 25 games, Utah has lost 4 times. Once against POR and HOU. And twice against ATL. Gotta love the oddities of the NBA
3 months ago. In Atlanta. Without Lillard. We then beat them by even more in Portland less than a week later once at full strength. Very, very, very different.
Yep. Minny has an easy schedule, & Nuggets, Thunder, Jazz & Pels all have a tough one. http://www.playoffstatus.com/nba/westernsosrg.html
Wait a minute... We only have the 9th toughest remaining schedule in the Western Conference. How can that be? @HCP told me the schedule was about to get a lot tougher. BNM
Well, I would assume that MEM has the toughest. Followed by PHX, DAL, SAC, LAL, LAC, DEN...or some variation of that group - the suckier you are, the tougher your schedule?
Strength of Schedule is based on the quality of your opponents, not the quality of you. Otherwise, it would just be the standings in reverse order. BNM
not really...the sucker teams are already out of the playoffs, they have nothing to play for. no stress. easy street. If the win amazing. If they lose, oh well.
I figured SoS was a combo of the team's "strength" vs their opponents "strength". Like, there's a much larger disparity between PHX and HOU than us and HOU, which I thought would be reflected. Eh - whatever. It matters not.
No, strength of schedule is only based on how good your opponents are. So, strength of schedule for remaining games is an average of the strength of all your remaining opponents. FiveThirtyEight also publishes game-by-game odds, as well as expected margin. This, I believe, is what you are looking for, and you can find it here: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2018-nba-predictions/games/ So, for example, tonight, BRK plays @TOR, and here's FiveThirtyEight's prediction: Nets 7% Raptors -15.5 93% So, they predict TOR will have a 93% of beating the Nets and the expected margin of victory is 15.5 points. BNM
That’s not what I said. I said if that is the difference between us beating teams that are barely .500, I (as in, my opinion,) believe that the Blazers will not do very well in the playoffs.
Once again, if you read the whole thing, I said... in my opinion, we aren’t very good or great if we go 6-6 heading into the playoffs, as suggested. No point in judging based on my opinion, because it doesn’t mean jackshit. That’s why I said I’ll wait to see what happens in the playoffs because my opinion isn’t changing the future. My opinion is, we look good right now, but if we finished the season 6-6, I wouldn’t be surprised by a first round loss.
When you are that much better than the team you are playing, those factors are vastly mitigated. If the Cavs ended the season vs Wizards, Pacers, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Orlando, Pacers... all road games, say they are back to backs, and went 3-3... do you honestly think Cavs fans wouldn’t be worried? Fact is, they are the better team, and if they went 3-3, I doubt they’d be a threat in the playoffs.
Blazers were by far the better team last night and from the tip, I didn't like the way they were playing and was worried the Celtic game could be a loss. Still figured they would pull it out in the end. They beat us without their Dame, CJ, Turner and Harkles.....WOW!
