Schedule Watch/Discussion: Now They All Matter

https://www.playoffstatus.com/nba/lakersstandings.html
It's more accurate than b reference
Second place is basically gone only 2 % and big chance that Lakers will play GSW

 

Houston is up by 20 vs Oklahoma
Second place is out of question and Houston has nothing to play for rest of regular season vs Lakers,GSW, Clippers and Denver.So basically playoffs seedings completely up to Rockets

 

Good win I suppose, but given how this team has looked the recently I don’t have a lot of confidence they can win either of the next two games in OKC. I hope they prove me wrong.

 

GSW beats DEN and, as of the night of 4/4/25, all the games have been played and the standings are effing bonkers.

Lakers are currently #3 in the West. We're 47-30.

MEM is #8 - a play-in team - and they're at 45-32. I mean, it's nutz!

No BTBs in the playoffs. Does that favor us? I sorta think so. Yea, a little bit.

Tomorrow: MEM could lose in DET.
MAVS are playing Ballmer's toilet rink. Clips have more urgent needs than AD's team, who are gonna be in the play-in.
T-Wolves are in PHI, a game they really should win.

Not a ton of consequence from tomorrow's games, but who knows about SUN 6th-SUN 13th? We could be #3. We could be in the play-in. Damn.

Lakers:
@OKC
@OKC
Right there: we have the most difficult schedule the last week of the season. Then:
@DAL
HOU
@POR

DEN: kinda nutty: they lost in GSW tonight, fly home for
IND, then back:
@SAC
back home for MEM
@ HOU

GSW:
HOU
@PHO
Spurs
@POR
Clips
(From where I sit, of all the teams bunched up around us in the standings, they have the easiest schedule - unless it's the T-Wolves who have it easier? - but who the eff knows.)

MIN:
@PHI
@MIL
@MEM
Nets
Jazz

Ballmer's Team:
DAL
Spurs
HOU
@SAC
@GSW

MEM:
@DET
@CHA
MIN
@DEN
DAL

In the West, 2 games separate #3 and #8 as of right now.

In the Least...I mean...East: 14 games separate #3 and #8. The urgency and scramble in the East is long gone. They can rest up. Not so for the West. And it seems it's ever so.

Looking at these crucial games, I'm nervous. @OKC twice? And HOU. Maybe we'll get lucky and the last game of the season, @POR will be a must-win and we'll play our azzez off.

Last 8 days gonna be high stress. Stay hydrated, hug your loved ones, and say your Laker prayers. Or if everything falls apart - jit happens - hope for luck in the draft.

 

We’re on the brink of play in if we lost both OKC games. We need to get the 1st one if we want to win at least one.

That Bulls loss is gonna put a damper on our chances. LeBron needs to be superhuman in the last 5 to atone for his stupidity in that game

 

Lakers can't end up in the play-in even with 33 losses , they have all the tie-breakers

Edit : Unless 1 of Grizz/Wolves ( they'll play each other ) and Clippers win out which is not going to happen .

 

Lakers finish 6 and play Denver first round. Sigh.

 

Warriors are peaking at the right time and will finish 3rd imo ( and make the WCF)

Nuggets-Lakers in the 4th-5th matchup and we'll advance .. Nuggets are trash on D

 

Warriors need to go the f*** away. People keep talking about them, Den, Okc... but watch out for the clippers. If they stay healthy...

 

Playoffs Harden and hospital Kawhi ? Ain't happeing in a millions year

 

... has to happen at some point, right?

 

not through 4 rounds of playoffs. but yeah, i'd want to avoid healthy kawhi in the playoffs at almost any cost.

 

He played a total of 4 playoffs game in the latest 3 seasons ..

I wish him to stay healthy but it's close to impossible with the intensity of the playoffs AND the way the game is played

 

clips in round 1 would scare me. but no way both kawhi and harden are lasting an entire playoffs

 

That's why it's important to face them as late in the PO as possible. GSW and Houston would be a nice 1st and 2nd round matchup.