Which Potential #6 Seed Gives Us the Most Trouble, and Why?

The grizz will be tougher now that @swyyyguy main dude chandler parsons isn't going to be able to help us out

 

Bring on the Charmin soft crying Clippers & all of Glenn Rivers faces.

Spoiler

One-man show Thunder? Russell has no help, right?
Grizzlies? Gasol, Conley, ZBo, old man Carter who never misses, Tony Allen & John Blair Bickerstaff Nah.

 

OKC- Westbrook can match Harden's playmaking ability and they have bigs that can exploit our rebounding problems.

 

Memphis would be the easiest matchup, no question about that at all

LAC is the most talented team out of the 3. They have 2 all stars in Blake and CP3, and Deandre is 1 of the best at his position. However, their defense is lacking (currently 18th in defensive efficiency and they don't have anyone who can really guard Harden effectively), their bench is weak and can't compete with ours, and they are known choke artists in the playoffs.

OKC has Westbrook who can't be stopped. They have bigs who are constantly crashing the offensive glass. They have Roberson who does a pretty good job of containing Harden at times. When I checked about 2 weeks ago, OKC was the 2nd best team in clutch time while the Rockets were below average, and all of the games have come down to the wire so far. However, they can't shoot and it really is just the Westbrook show over there. OKC has no shot of matching our 3 point attack.

my preference would be to face Memphis, LAC, and OKC in that order, but I'm not really worried about the Rockets losing to any of them (especially Memphis)

 

Houston Rockets!

 

I fear playing clippers the most because they will have the best in series adjustments and who knows if CP3 can turn on his superstar mode and just go off in a series

 

As today i would avoid OKC tbh, while between those three teams they're probably the one with less talent, they play with a lot of energy (which is something we lack) and the MVP argument may be a bit annoying/distracting. The Clippers are looking really bad lately, not sure if there's something going on in the lockeroom but i don't really know if they're going to man up sooner or later...Memphis is still a good team but at this point i would probably like to get them more.

Anyway, i'm not sure there's that big of a difference at this point.

 

I am not a Mavs fan like @swyyyguy but I would prefer Mavs to finish 6th so we can obliterate them 4-0.

 

I'm hoping for:

5. Clippers
6. Grizzlies
7. Thunder

 

Memphis is the easiest match-up. Probably the Clippers after them. OKC would be the most difficult.

If the Rockets are legit, they should be able to decisively take care of business.

 

Yeah, he also had a couple of bad (shooting) games against them/Roberson this season fwiw

 

not a fan of facing memphis. not worried about gasol's scoring so much, but his passing in addition to that to give folks who normally don't score as much an opportunity to go off on them.

clippers, please.

 

Even though the Clippers are a mess right now, I could see them gelling in the last month and being a legitimately dangerous team by the time the first round comes. Memphis and OKC don't scare me in any way.

I'm mostly just paranoid that something weird is going to happen and we'll end up facing Utah.

 

I want no part of LAC and Memphis usually plays us close or wins .... I prefer OKC.

 

I'll take the cry baby Clippers any day of the week.

Hit em' with the baby wipes.

Call it a night.

Boom.

Wins.

 

Team I want to face in order

1:OKC don't scare me despite them playing well right now. We will have far to much firepower for them over a 7 game series .

2:Memphis if Gasol and Randolph get hot they are tough

3:Clippers are an enigma because if they get going they can beat anyone

 

IDK about wanting to play MEM in the 1st round; I think I'd rather see MEM bruise, batter and wear down another team, softening them up for the 2nd round. MEM plays a hard-nosed, physical grind-em-out style that I don't think we match up with very well - same goes for Utah. We're 2-2 against MEM this season, so its not like we have a huge mental/psychological edge against them, as I feel that we do against the Clippers. Right now, I think the Rockets totally believe that we can beat LA any day of the week... combine that with their lack of depth and they are the ones I'd prefer to match up against. I really don't know about the Thunder with their new additions; I'm anxious to see how well we play them on April 10th.

Ideally, I'd like to see MEM and the Jazzholes beat the hell out of any team we would face in the 2nd and 3rd round if we make it that far.

 

I'm not scared of any of them. No point in fretting about the minor differences in matchups, we have to beat four very good teams to be the champs no matter what.