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2016-17 Hype Train Playoff Chase!!!

Stoked said:
Spurs have officially started the resting game. This could be big for their fine game against Utah.

In their game against the Mavs tonight the Spurs are resting Aldridge, Gasol, and Kawhi. This is on top of Ginobili, Green and Murray being out for injury.
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They are just resting tonight. Parker said he think they would all play against the Clippers.
 
I could see Popovich messing with the Lakers and helping them win last night to panic them over their draft position. That said, the Suns were a game ahead in the loss column and could lose out the rest of the season.

I hope the Spurs play enough of a team when they play the Clippers, but if not, I hope they make the Jazz's final game winnable for the Jazz as well.
 
Catchall said:
I could see Popovich messing with the Lakers and helping them win last night to panic them over their draft position. That said, the Suns were a game ahead in the loss column and could lose out the rest of the season.

I hope the Spurs play enough of a team when they play the Clippers, but if not, I hope they make the Jazz's final game winnable for the Jazz as well.
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I just dont think good teams with nothing to play for have anything to gain playing a ****ty team. Against teams like Jazz/Clippers they gain experience playing a team they might face in the playoffs, so there is something to gain.
 
Stoked said:
Spurs have officially started the resting game. This could be big for their fine game against Utah.

In their game against the Mavs tonight the Spurs are resting Aldridge, Gasol, and Kawhi. This is on top of Ginobili, Green and Murray being out for injury.
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I think that game's tomorrow night.
 
yamers said:
jazz resting who?
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Stoked said:
Just hear don Locke's Podcast that if 1 team jumps the Lakers and they drop to 4th in the draft they lose their draft pick. HAHAHAHA!! YES!! Come on BB Gods! You owe us!
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Not only that. From what I read, if they trade their pick this year, they will concede their 2019 pick to Orlando (or something). If they keep their pick this year, next year's pick go to Philly, so they can't give the 2019 away, and then apparently it turns into two second round picks.

So one team jumping the Lakers in the lottery, and bang goes two top draft picks...
 
Jazz record: 48-30
Clippers record: 48-31

Jazz road record: 21-18
Clippers road record: 21-19

Jazz Home record: 27-12
Clippers Home record: 27-12

Jazz record against the western conference: 28-20
Clippers record against the western conference: 28-21

Jazz point per game: 100.6
Jazz Opponents point per game: 96.5
Jazz point differential: +4.1

Clippers points per game: 108.5
Clippers opponents points per game: 104.8
Clippers point differential: +3.7

This playoff series should be a great one. Maybe the best series of the 1st round. Teams are pretty evenly matched. I cant wait!

I think that homecourt advantage is crucial. Clippers have more star power so they will probably be favored by the refs already anyway (Glad DL is talking about the officiating early on) so you dont want them to have the home court home cooking advantage as well. I want a game 7 in Salt Lake City. That would be ****ing awesome!

Clippers have the bigs and the point guard to play the half court slow down playoff basketball that the jazz tend to favor. Gonna be an ugly, foul filled slobberknocker of a series. We all pretty much hate most of the clippers players already........... we are gonna really hate them after this playoff series i think.
 
Tonight's games:

Knicks @ Grizzlies
Pistons @ Rockets
Spurs @ Mavericks
T-Wolves @ Jazz

If the bolded win tonight the west will look like this:

Warriors 65-14
Spurs 60-19
Rockets 53-26
Jazz 49-30
Clippers 48-31
Thunder 45-33
Grizzlies 42-38
Blazers 39-40

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Guys, I'd rate the Clippers third best team in the NBA postseason behind GSW and CLE. I still think they're contenders.
You should not be paying too much attention to how teams perform in the regular season, playoffs are another stage where star players shine and LAC have three.

Good news is they have a boatload of problems. Their top two players missed tons of games due to injuries. Their coach sucks. Something looks wrong with CP3, likely both mentally and physically. Besides him they don't have high IQ players. If we somehow contain CP3 they'll struggle. Griffin will score though. We need Favors, the only playerin our roster that can defend him but last time he was on one leg, it's vital how he'll return from the injury this time.

A major concern would be officiating.

This will be a long series with ups and downs.. I see our chance of winning the series at 45%, and a bit more than that if Hood shows up and helps scoring. He should! JJ Redick learned a lot about team defense during his time in ORL but he still is not good a solid individual defender, will never be. This is a key matchup. If I know the Coach Q, we'll see some Hood-Redick isos throughout the series and if Hood delivers we might win the series. Overall if Favors and Hood play better than they did so far in the season we'll beat floppers.
 
jjscap said:
Guys, I'd rate the Clippers third best team in the NBA postseason behind GSW and CLE..
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Yeah, you're nuts. Clippers are a bad matchup for us, but they are no where close to 3rd best postseason team. They are several spots back, but the very idea that they are better than the spurs is crazy talk.
 
Ellis269 said:
I actually wouldn't mind if the Jazz hired Sam Hinkie for some role in the front office. Guy has balls and a sharp mind. . . and a willingness to stick his neck out there. He knows how to work a deal, and he has a history working with DL (they came up through Houston at the same time.) I wouldn't want him calling the shots because I think he's a little overzealous sometimes. . . but I sure wouldn't mind having his voice in the room.
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Wait, wuh?

I thought you were a rabid Hinkie hater? I thought I remembered a disagreement you and I had about the job he was doing in Philly. Anyway, there's no doubt Hinkie did some great work there, and if/when Utah is back in a position that they need to build from the ground up, I'd have no problem giving him full control. Much of what he did in Philly has been blown out of proportion anyway. Injury after injury and really it was only Embiid that they really drafted knowing his injury would prolong their tank.
 
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