Well, wiyh that Dallas win, Utah absolutely has to win tonight (they're up 20) and at the Lakers. If they don't beat the Lakers, they're automatically 8th. The Lakers can kind of control who their first round opponent is going to be. If they win, they face Utah. If they lose, they face either Dallas or New Orleans. If Utah beats the Lakers and only one of Dallas/NO lose on Wednesday, the Jazz are 7th. If Utah beats the Lakers and both Dallas and NO lose, the Jazz are 6th. And if Utah beats the Lakers but both Dallas and NO win, the Jazz are 8th.
Are the Jazz the 8th seed with the Mavs win tonight? Doesn't Mavs have the tie breaker over Jazz if they are tied after the regular season?
Utah holds the tiebreaker vs. both Dallas and New Orleans. The Mavs and Hornets have to have a better record to finish ahead of the Jazz.
Ah ****, that is not good news. Most Laker fans that I have talked to do NOT want to face Utah in the first round either. So, that means that LA could just rest their players in this one and let Utah win so that they dont have to face them. This means that the Rockets are in control of who they want to face if Utah should beat LA. Good thing that the Utah-LA game is one game before the Rockets-Mavs game, so that we can think about how we want to do this. Whether they should win (and face Utah in the playoffs) or lose. I'm getting mind-****ed with all these possibilities.
if there's a 3-way tie between utah, dallas, and new orleans (utah beats LA, dallas loses to us, NOH loses to SA), it goes: 6. utah 7. new orleans 8. dallas and provided portland manages to beat denver too, we get the 2nd seed and we face NOH while avoiding utah. basically, this is one of many possible scenarios, but i think many of them are in our favor.
If Jazz beat the Lakers tomorrow, we either....... Beat Dallas and possibly face Jazz in the 1st round or Drop the game against Dallas and possibly drop to the 5th seed I say bring on the j*zz
We basically need the Hornets to beat the Spurs on Wednesday. Correct me if I'm wrong guys: 1. If the Jazz wins tomorrow 2. If the Hornets wins on Wednesday 3. If we beat the Mavericks on Wednesday 3. Rockets 4. Blazers 5. Spurs 6. Hornets 7. Jazz. 8. Mavericks
<B> Games H2H Div Con Overall Magic </B> <B> Team W/L L10 H2H Left TB Div TB Conf TB TieBreak Number Diff</B> 1 Lakers 64-17 7-3 0-4 None L 43-8 L No*<B> 13</B> (-1) 2 Nuggets 53-27 8-2 3-1 None W 34-16 W Yes*<B> 2</B> (-1) 3 Rockets 53-28 7-3 9-6 35-16 4 Blazers 52-28 8-2 2-1 None W 30-20 W Yes*<B> 1</B> (-1) 5 Spurs 52-28 6-4 2-2 None T 9-6 T 34-16 W Yes<B> 2</B> (-1) 6 Hornets 49-32 5-5 2-1 None W 9-6 T 30-21 W Yes<B> Exterminated</B> 7 Mavericks 49-32 6-4 2-1 1A W 6-9 W 28-23 W Yes*<B> Bridled</B> 8 Jazz 47-33 3-7 2-2 None T 32-18 W Yes<B> Silenced</B> * Indicates the Tie Break is final <B>Clinched the #5 seed</B> Here is the latest batch of Magic Numbers after the <B>Hornets @ Rockets game</B>. I'll be posting a full recap after all the games, including a breakdown of all scenarios for all teams over the next two days.
And possibly give up the SW Title(what can I say, I want us to win it cause I hate the Spurs) and homecourt? Have you gone mad?
The division title basically boils down to this. If San Antonio loses to New Orleans, we win the division no matter what. If San Antonio beats New Orleans then we have to beat the Mavs or the Spurs win the division. Explanation: If the Rox beat the Mavs, we will either have a better record than the Spurs or be tied in which case we win the tiebreak. If we lose and SA loses to New Orleans then we either have a better record (if SA loses to GS) or we're tied and we still have the tiebreak. If we lose to Dallas and San Antonio beats NO, they'll either have a better record (if they beat GS) or we'll be tied and SA will win the tiebreak with a better division record. So either a Rockets win or a Hornets win will do it.
in your scenario, you didn't include the implications of portland vs denver. if blazers win, rockets take over the 2nd spot, matching them up with the jazz.
