14th Tank Platoon
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The Thriller
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Denver, Sacramento, and New York are all winning. Great night for the tank!
Just need to find a way to lose Friday and Saturday to not undo all the good mojo from tonight.
I wouldn't be surprised to see NY still make the playoffs somehow. They are going to likely be 4 games back of Atlanta after tonight, and they have a pretty easy schedule. Cleveland might make the 8th spot, but they haven't been lighting things up. Atlanta is dropping fast (as fast as you can in the EC) and Detroit has been terrible as well. One of these 4 teams is going to make the playoffs...
Doublea
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Conferences are stupid.
Stifle Tower
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Agree. If Silver wants to make an impact he should change the playoffs. Still have conferences and divisions to promote geographic rivalries. Top teams in each division make the playoffs. The rest of the spots are by record. And the seedings are completely based on records.
Anyway back to the tank.
1. Kiss all hope of GS missing the playoffs goodbye. They'll be the 6th seed at least.
2. But it's good to see Denver, Sacramento and NY pick up wins. Maybe the Knicks will win on Fri night. If Utah could finish this trip with only a win against Philly, that would be amazing!
Its funny that the EC has the "high profile" cities like NY, BOS, Brooklyn, Atl, Mia, Chicago, while the WC has the "small market" teams, yet WC is so much better than the EC. It will turn around and the EC will be better than the WC at some point. I'm OK with conferences and separating it, just sometimes one will be stronger than the other.
If he does that, the he has to make it so teams play each other an equal number of times from EC to west coast, otherwise you are comparing apples to oranges schedule wise.
Doublea
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Divisions are stupid too. Best 16 teams should make the playoffs.
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This
Difference is ownership and front offices. You have a lot of stupid hires in the east.
Knicks have a history of bad off court guys under Dolan and Dolan is hands on in a way that he ruins it.
The Russian is new to the league and he might figure out, so I'm not scrutinizing his squad in the 2nd year playing in a big market.
ATL has cheap management and recently flipped FO and bench guys. Now with a couple of Spurs hires it might actually turn into something.
Philly has also seen new ownership, new management, new coach. Plus they're doing the tanking right. If they do the right decisions this offseason they might become big.
Boston had half a decade of contending and they're trying a quick rebuild. Ainge is ripping off bad front offices and their coach seems okay.
Miami has a high quality front office and they seem alright?
I just think that the EC teams are slowly figuring out what their trouble is and some teams are already heading into a different direction. The Bucks(bad owner AND/OR[not sure] bad GM), Bobcats(bad drafting), Detroit(Everything other than Drummond sucks there), Cavs(long way to go) and Wizards(owner ****ty and FO drafting every G-Town guy) are the teams that are probably contuinuing to stay bad as well as the Knicks. But the rest of the pack seem to have turned a corner and heading the right direction.
In the West you simply have better front offices. The Suns repaired their this summer, the Kings probably have too much **** on the floor to change anything quickly and handing out contracts like they do and attracting the personalities they go after they might stay at the bottom. New Orleans and Memphis have considerable problems. T-Wolves and Nuggets are next to blow their team up. If they do it and can gain substantial returns on their players they're poised to do a good rebuild like Orlando.
Crowning a division winner a top 4 seed is stupid. Still like banners for winning the division.
But they don't get home court adv. They only get that bracket spot
latin jazz
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0.8% according to Hollinger's playoff odds...so yeah. Damn it
mellow
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All is not lost, Curry only played 22 minutes last night, has " soreness" in his right leg but would not elaborate. Bogut banged up his right knee the other night. And Iggy dislocated a finger.
There is still hope. But I agree the window is closing. They need a major injury soon.
Stifle Tower
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I'm encouraged by losing streak Atlanta has. Brings the #8 playoff spot back into play for Cleveland, Detroit and New York. Making the playoffs IS desirable in the EC since the team that misses only drops 1 spot in the draft order. Sure, they have an infinitesimal chance of moving into the top-3 if they miss the playoffs, but making the playoffs brings in revenue and tells a nice story to fans and FA's.
Sexual Favors
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Good points
Or they could just keep losing and get the a better lottery seeding and avoid the chance to lose to Indy/Miami