1st Round - Who do you want?

Yes. If the Pels beat San Antonio and Minnesota beats Denver, then we get the T'Wolves in Round 1. I would be stunned if Minnesota lost tomorrow night. How embarrassing would that be to miss the playoffs for the 14th straight year by dropping a game in front of your home fans on the last day of the season? And to the team who winds up making it into the postseason instead of you.

 

If Denver beats Minnesota then they will be tied with the loser of San Antonio and New Orleans and would win the tie-breaker over both. If OKC loses, then Denver wins the tie-breaker over them as well. OKC would lose the tie-breaker to New Orleans, Denver, and San Antonio, and Minnesota and end up 8th. If San Antonio loses and OKC wins, then we end up playing San Antonio, because Denver would win the tie-breaker over San Antonio. Right? That's what I came up with.

The only way we could play Minnesota is if they win, OKC wins, and San Antonio loses. Minnesota has the tie-breaker over OKC and New Orleans.

We could actually end up playing Spurs or OKC.

 

Is it possible for warriors to still play okc or spurs 1st round?

 

What a convoluted cluster f*** The Spurs make me the most nervous. It looks like the path for us to avoid the Spurs in the first round is for Utah to win at least 1 of it's final 2. If they lose both then we need the Spurs to beat the Pelican's in their final game. It Utah loses both and the Pelicans win then we get the Spurs in the first round. Basically this article (if correct) lays out 6 ways the Pelican's will end up the 8th seed. 3 ways the Wolves and 2 ways the Spurs.

 

Give credit to RayRay10 posted in the Dish thread, worth repeating as he covered all the scenarios:

To break it down:

Houston is the 1st seed

Golden State is the 2nd seed

Portland can finish:
- 3rd if POR beats UTA (or)
UTA loses to GSW and beats POR and OKC wins
- 4th if UTA goes 2-0 and NOP wins (or)
UTA goes 2-0 and OKC and SAS win (or)
UTA loses to GSW, beats POR, NOP wins, and OKC loses
- 5th if UTA beats POR (regardless of UTA result against GSW) and SAS wins and OKC loses

Utah can finish:
- 3rd if UTA goes 2-0 (or)
UTA loses to GSW, beats POR and OKC loses
- 4th if UTA wins against GSW and loses to POR and OKC loses
- 5th if UTA goes 1-1 and OKC wins
- 6th if UTA goes 0-2 and at least 1 of SAS, OKC, or MIN loses
- 7th if UTA lgoes 0-2 and SAS, OKC and MIN win

San Antonio can finish:
- 4th if SAS wins and UTA goes 0-2 (or)
SAS wins and UTA beats POR (regardless of result against GSW) and OKC loses
- 5th if SAS wins and UTA beats GSW and UTA loses to POR and OKC loses (or)
SAS wins and UTA beats GSW and UTA beats POR and OKC wins
- 6th if SAS loses and UTA beats GSW (regardless of UTA result against POR) and OKC loses and MIN wins (or)
SAS loses and UTA loses to GSW and UTA beats POR and OKC loses and MIN wins (or)
SAS wins and UTA goes 1-1 and OKC wins
- 7th if SAS loses and OKC wins and MIN wins (or)
SAS loses and UTA goes 1-1 and OKC loses and DEN wins
- 8th if SAS loses and OKC wins and DEN wins (or)
SAS loses and UTA goes 0-2 and OKC loses

New Orleans can finish:
- 4th if NOP wins and UTA goes 0-2
- 5th if NOP wins and UTA goes 2-0
NOP wins and UTA goes 1-1 and OKC loses
- 6th if NOP wins and UTA goes 1-1 and OKC wins
- 8th if NOP loses

OKC can finish:
- 4th if OKC wins and UTA goes 1-1
- 5th if OKC wins and UTA goes 0-2
- 6th if OKC wins and UTA goes 2-0
- 7th if OKC loses and SAS wins (or)
OKC loses and UTA goes 0-2 and NOP wins
- 8th if OKC loses and UTA does not go 0-2 and NOP wins

Minnesota can finish:
- 5th if MIN wins and UTA goes 0-2 and OKC loses
- 6th if MIN wins and UTA does not go 0-2 and SAS wins and OKC loses (or)
MIN wins and UTA goes 0-2 and SAS wins and OKC wins
- 7th if MIN wins and UTA does not go 0-2 and SAS wins and OKC wins (or)
MIN wins and UTA does not go 0-2 and NOP wins and OKC loses
- 8th if MIN wins and NOP wins and OKC wins
- Out of the Playoffs if MIN loses

Denver can finish:
- 5th if DEN wins and UTA goes 0-2 and NOP wins and OKC loses
- 6th if DEN wins and UTA does not go 0-2 and OKC loses
- 7th if DEN wins and OKC wins
- Out of the Playoffs if DEN loses

 

Nuggets cause I’m scared of Jamal Crawford.

 

Thats pretty dang tight. lol So what happen after tonights games? I guess just the jazz moving blazers 2 the 4th seed thats all.

 

So if you don’t want the Spurs, you want them to win Pelicans are probably our opponent.

 

Someone should put the OKC result first since them winning is pretty much a given and only those scenarios are realistic at this point.

 

Heard you. Last one, I believe, is the best case scenario for the Rockets. Pelicans in the first round, then Blazers/Spurs in the 2nd (7-1 record against them), while Warriors without Curry play healthy Timberwolves, and then Jazz/Thunder.

 

Exactly, though I’d love the Spurs first and then OKC / Utah / NO / Por

 

http://www.playoffstatus.com/nba/westernstandings.html

 

I don’t care the order. I want San Antonio, OKC and golden state. Bring em on.

 

What blows is there is no scenario in which both Portland and OKC end up on the Warrior side of the bracket. Can either have Portland winning which puts them on the warrior side. Or Both Utah and OKC winning which will put Portland on our side and OKC as 6. Half the scenarios have OKC and Portland as our first two opponents (of course that is assuming Memphis wins in OKC). Would OKC tank?

 

Looking like the spurs in the first round now. Great here we GO!

 

Not really, if games go how they are headed right now with Min/Pels/OKC winning that would make it the Wolves as our first round match up and the Spurs in the 7th spot

 

Your right, cause spurs have the tie breaker right? they won 2-1 this season vs minny. ok

 

yehhh i believe so, i had a good look at the table the NBA released and thats our ideal outcome i think

and Utah winning would be good for down the track

 

If Minny wins then GS plays SA first round. Don't mind that at all.