this is what i'd do. the dallas game becomes big then, but you should be able to handle that. be lying if i said that a finale at portland doesn't concern me. they're like a 50-win team in the latter half of the season, and they LOVE beating us in portland.
I like that path. Denver has nothing outside of Jokić with Murray’s injury. Unless he somehow comes back before the playoffs. Houston is a good team, but inexperienced I’d rather play them than Golden State in a 7 game series.
A Lakers loss is locking the 2nd seed up for Houston so I guess the Lakers think the Rockets will rest some players then you can send the backups to Portland
well totally wrong on this one lol Don't really see the incentives here - I thought they would go all in for the b2b tomorrow against Dallas.
I think all talk that Oklahoma don't care about regular season anymore pissed JJ off,but for this game referee will be Tony Brothers and he doesn't like Luka
We can install a lot of fear in the whole western conf... we can also get smoked and the last win won't mean s***. I would mess with OKC and other teams by playing deep reserves all game and then beating DAL and POR. Oh well...
I sort of get the thinking though, now is not the time to punt games, it’s time to gain momentum and build better habits. I can also see us giving poor effort vs Portland and losing, so this game might be very important haha.
Win 2 games and earn some rest the last game or 2 of the regular season. Don’t like punting and glad they’re giving it a go. If they come out flat and fall behind big early, then sit the guys in the 2nd half.
How so? The #2 seed isn’t locked up. Don’t understand the logic fans have that we should punting games when we don’t have the #2 seed locked up. Also not sure how this signifies we’re going to lose in Dallas it’s not like we’ve been world beaters even if AD plays. Unless they play on resting guys for that game. I fully expect a Lakers inspired effort especially considering what it’s going to mean for Luka.
I'm surprised, but fine with it. Even in a worst-case scenario where we play everyone tonight, lose, and then are worn out and lose to Dallas, that would mean Houston clinches the 2 seed. So we could still clinch the 3 seed by beating the Rockets, who are probably resting with nothing to play for, and then the Blazers.
Let's see how it goes. If we get hot early, try to win it. If not, pull the starters. No injuries, please.
Looks like we're losing tonight. I still feel pretty good about Dallas tomorrow. Its a short flight over to Dallas. The atmosphere of that game is going to be so weird that I'm not worried about our guys running out of steam. We'll have Rui back to battle against AD and Lively.
Lakers had a good chance to win before the refs got involved but it was dumb to go all out this game. OKC was going to go all out after being embarrassed and now the worst case scenario close game and still lose Made the Dallas so much tougher
