[Sports Illustrated] Rockets suddenly in prime playoff position

RealRocFan47 · Mar 3, 2011

Arun Sharma said: ↑

There is no way Denver is missing playoffs. They have decent schedule and they are too ahead...

Utah, looking at their recent play combined with left schedule, will miss the playoffs

Phoenix is still a weak team.. they will play 9 (5 of which on the road) games against top 8 teams (top 4 from each conference). We play only 5 (1 on the road, 4 @ home) games against top 8 teams. Plus, they got 5 more games on the road than us... Plus, they are closer to us.

Utah and Phoenix will miss the playoffs unless they beat teams they are not suppose to beat.

One of these teams: Hornets, Blazers or Memphis will need to drop for us.

Hornets has lost 12 of last 16... looks like they will be the one to drop. You mentioned that they have easy schedule.. well yeah, in a way. Basically, they don't play 8 teams much... but they don't play below .500 teams either. They play 16 of 19 games against .500 or better... we play only 11 of 19.. both teams play 5 games against top 8. Hornets schedule is not tough but their level of opponents is still above average.

Blazers have the worst schedule, but we lost tie-breaker... so that's 1 extra loss we have to count on.. they are resilient, so I think they will hang on there...

Memphis does not have tough schedule.. thing is that they have tough games altogether.. tough games are not scattered as our schedule. Unfortunately for them, they are about to play 10 of 12 games against good teams with no services of Rudy Gay possibly for a while.. if they are going to fall out then it will have to be in the next 10 games or so... if they survive this stretch then they are going to finish strong...

So, bottom line - PHX/UTAH are likely going to missing the playoffs.. Denver will make em.... of the other 3, any one can drop... all have some issues, it's just who can survive em.... We just need to pray that one of these teams get on a losing streak.
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I totally agree, phx and utah will def miss. Especially if we can win both against phx. POR NOR AND DEN will probably make it. That leaves Houston and Memphis to battle it out for the 8th

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