Remaining games Rockets Phoenix Seattle Memphis Denver Clippers Seattle Nuggets 1 game behind Minnesota Seattle Golden State New Orleans Memphis Houston Phoenix Portland Grizzlies 2 games behind Miami Charlotte Dallas Houston Denver San Antonio San Antonio Dallas Timberwolves 4.5 games behind Denver Atlanta Golden State Utah Seattle New Orleans San Antonio Rockets need to win 2 games to secure the playoff spot, with the remaining schedule and the way they are playing, winning 2 games will be tough. Denver will pass the Rockets for sure with the schedule they have left, when they meet Houston, they will win and pass Houston up. Memphis will play Duncanless Spurs twice and Charlotte, those are their easy games, the rest are tough to beat. Look for them to eliminate from playoff. Minnesota tough teams left are Denver Seattle, if they can win against Denver on Friday, im sure they will make the playoff with their remaining schedule. Their percentage of knocking off the Grizzlies are about 99% and the Rockets are 10%.
I hate to say it, but right now Golden State Warriors are a harder team to beat than Seattle They are just about the hottest team in the league (ok - behind Denver), but they've won 9 of their last 10. Hopefully they can do us a favour and knock over the Nuggets. I'm REALLY hoping for an enormous KG game vs Nuggets next up - if they beat them too then suddenly we've got a loss in hand again! Tough schedule for Memphis.... does look like they might miss out.
As I said, the team would finish strong and get the 6th seed, and what do you know...we're better then the Denver Nuggets. Big surprise there.
There's a lot of crow in this thread. I just wish we had the option to rest TMac and Yao a bit before the playoffs start, but the tight playoff race didn't allow for that.
