Tiebreakers: Blazers and Thunder are likely to have tiebreakers over Rockets.

i'll blame our first month on melo

 

Found something new to b!+ch about



Rocket River

 

We need the Magic Number thread. It's that time of the season now.

 

Relax...we landing 1st seed.

 

Thunder choked tonight lol

 

Indy with Matthews was no cakewalk even with the deficit.

 

According to the NBA site, located at: https://stats.nba.com/playoffpicture/ (after head-to-head matchup), the next tiebreaker goes to division winners. So, unless OKC/POR passes Denver to win the division, tiebreaker advantage will go to the Rockets.

 

Insane conclusions with absolutely no evidence suggesting them? I must be in a bum thread.

 

I stated this when the whole ‘we are the 3rd seed’ cropped up. The reason it showed we were 3 (when tied), was due to the fact that espn and others list teams in alphabetical order, and Houston is before Portland and Oklahoma.

We’ve already lost the tiebreaker to Portland, we take the tiebreaker from OKC if we win, evening the series but being a division winner, if all of us are tied in the end, we will still take the 3rd seed.

 

Looking at the remaining games, Houston can legitimately end up with 51-53 wins.

OKC is 42-27 and they have GS, Toronto, @toronto, Indiana, Denver, Houston, @Milwaukee. If they got 4-3, in those games, they are maxed out at 52 wins if they win all their other games. With how they have been playing, I’m not sure they win all the other games or go 4-3. I’d project them to go 3-4 in those games and lose one or two of the other games. That would be 5-6 losses, putting them at 49-50 wins, 7-6 or 8-5.

Portland is 41-26, their schedule is not like OKC’s. They are capable of winning another 10-11 of their remaining 15 games, so they are the team that Houston might be more concerned about based on schedule. I would project Portland at 51-52 wins, 10-5 or 11-4

Of course anything can happen, OKC can go on a run against all those solid teams, but it isn’t the likely outcome. Houston has SA, @Milwaukee, Denver, @LAC and @OKC as the tougher games. If they go 3-2 in those games and win the rest, that’s 54 wins. So how well Houston does against Phoenix, Minnesota, @Atlanta, @Memphis, @New Orleans, Sacramento, @Sacramento, New York, Phoenix might be the final determinor. Sacramento is solid, Minnesota competes, but Houston especially at home is favoured there. They can’t lose more than 2 of those games to be at 52+ Wins (assuming 3-2 vs the tougher teams)

 

no jeff bigd, ariza, luc

ennis was new (didn't have house yet)

injuries

and new rules

no excuses but preparation/adjustment/coaching were also needed to overcome these and not simply playing hard

 

If our guys had just made 1 more 3 though we would have won. Just think, if Tucker and James had only hit 4 of 19 instead of only 3 we would have won. I think the odds of them shooting a little better during the playoffs are pretty good, don't you?

 

Blazers own individual tiebreaker over Houston

-Assume Rockets and Portland are tied and OKC finished 3rd. Blazers would take 4 seed and home court even if Rockets were Southwest division champs.

-If Rockets and Portland finish tied and ahead of OKC, Portland would take 3, and Houston would host OKC in the 4/5 matchup.

-Rockets would win tiebreaker vs OKC if they won the 4th game of their head to head season matchup.
(Division leader wins tie from team not leading a division)

So in reality, being division winner comes in handy in two scenarios, the other one of course being a three way tie between HOU OKC and POR, but only in those two exact situations.

 

Yeah... I hope we manage to get the 3rd seed, because, if we get the 5th because of tiebreakers, it's not going to be a fun post mortem looking at games the team absolutely should have won regardless of injury status.

 

It was a three way tie. The rockets win the three way tie in that scenario which you just said. It wasn’t alphabetical.

I love me some magic number and tiebreaker threads.

 

Thunder lost and Denver is trailing the mavs in the 4th. Keep calm

 

Jokic just hit a game winner damn . Atleast Thunder lost. Third seed is still ours to lose

 

won't matter. we suck either way and will get swept in the playoffs. amirite?

 

To be honest, gimme OKC over Portland in the first round.

Portland is playing some good basketball.