Rockets Wins Southwestern Division Title

I thought divisions were eliminated.

 

Division Winner is first tie-breaker in multi-team ties. And it is 2nd tie-breaker in 2-team ties, after H2H. So, it still has a useful role.

 

They should eliminate those roles if that's the only thing divisions accomplish. Standings aren't even listed by divisions anymore. It's ridiculous.

 

Division champ means nothing these days. Need to continue winning to get that third seat.

 

They added that when they correctly removed Division from directly determining seeding.

Every league has Divisions. NBA is the best league at making Division have the least impact. You think NFL or MLB does it better?

You can't play every team 4 games while also doing Home/Away with other conference, so multi-team ties based on aggregate record are not pure, anyhow. The only pure way is if all tied teams played each other the same amount of times. I don't see what's wrong with Division winner being the first tie-breaker, when there is no completely fair way to do it.

 

I still like it!!!

 

At the very least, until divisions are completely eliminated, it'll always mean we were the best Texas team. And I take no small amount of joy in that.

 

Well, the Rockets will have the tiebreaker against 4 of the top 6 teams in the West. Unfortunately, we don't have it against the team we're most likely to tie with, the Blazers. Gotta keep winning.

Interestingly, if the Clippers put on a little burst and ended in a three-way tie with us and Portland, this division win would kick in and grant us the tie breaker against both of them, even though they're the 2 out of 6 teams we've lost the head-to-head matchups with.

 

yes, but we hold multi-team ties with Blazers.

And the key one that could very well happen is if DEN loses enough games for us to gain three losses on them, then it is very likely Blazers will too ... given the schedules and POR plays DEN twice more. That is to say, POR taking one from DEN is kinda necessary for us to gain that ground. And if POR does that, all their other games are pancakes.

We win the 2nd seed in a HOU-DEN-POR tiebreaker.

DEN finishes 2-4
HOU finishes 4-1
POR finishes 5-1

we get 2nd seed
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Similarly, we get 3rd seed in a HOU-POR-UTA tiebreaker.

 

Pinnacle of our season. Time to tank for Zion. There's still time?

 

Spurs are just resisting the inevitable - rebuilding after the Three Amigo and Kawhi era.

During the Tracy Yao era, Spurs still had Mr. Consistent Duncan plus Gino/Tony, Memphis had couple years of younger Pau Gasol, Mavs had Prime Dirk and shooters/guard play.

Nola Hornets had CP3 and David West.

Division was harder fought.

 

I am predicting 30 points blowout....clippers win vs rockets only when we take them lightly

 

In the NFL it guarantees a home playoff game. Not exactly worthless.

 

glad we were able to claw our way into winning such a tough division.

 

Even with divisions you have games left over 30 games against the other conference plus 3 x 14 conference games (42) + 4 division rival games = 76

So there's 6 other games they have to randomly assign to other conference teams. how do the extra 4 games you play against divisional rivals out of an 82 game season really make that much of a difference to justify creating divisions. Instead of randomly assigning 6 games, just randomly assign 10 games.

The original point of divisions was to save on travel, but with computer algorithms and private jets do you really need them anymore?

 

Where’s the updated rafter with last year on it? Still crazy only 3 since the championship years, all in last 5 years!

 

There’s plenty of room in the stadium. Make a banner for every one of them. Why not? Its just a display of success.

 

It does the same in the nba. How many 6 seeds u see win SB. It don’t mean ****

 

#FireBillObrien

 

Eh... it would like highlighting the number of Players of the Week Dwight Howard has when introducing him for any interviews.