Standings Watch: Race To The Playoffs

stuff is getting real

 

Facing Suns in the 1st round is a nightmare. I would try to avoid that.

 

Lakers , Clippers , Warriors and Pelicans will all play their last game at the same time ... gonna be some weird stuff happening during these games

 

Do whatever it takes to avoid the play in.

Don’t piss off the basketball gods by trying to get cute with the standings.

 

Again - 5th is like 8th in terms of championship odds. Playing the Suns, then the Nuggs, then GS/Memphis/Clips would be the ultimate death path.

Needs Clips to play Suns. Winner plays Nuggs.

Need GS to play Memphis.

 

I want all of them



no more bubble excuses

"we had the hardest path and dominated" is just fine by me

 

yeah, you want phx or the clippers in later rounds, as kawhi and cp3 in particular don't tend to play 30 consecutive games at a high level.

but as someone else said, there's no room for getting cute. just try to win every game. our last game is with utah, and if we win the next three ahead of that, we may be in position to consider how seriously we take that game. but more than likely, we'll drop at least one (my bet is two) of the upcoming games and will have to win that one just to keep favorable play-in position.

 

I'm also against losing games on purpose to meet another team in the playoffs, for many different reasons. I also don't fear the Suns, if we can remain healthy and AD plays as he has been recently, I'm feeling pretty good about that matchup.

 

Seems like the determinative game will be Warriors @ Kings on Friday. If the Warriors win that one, it seems like we’ll be 5th or 7th. If the Warriors lose, we can win 3/4 (losing one of the B2B) and finish 6th. I suspect the Suns may rest against us after they beat the Spurs tomorrow and the Nuggets on Thursday.

 

This Team has no businesses tanking to try to avoid certain matchups in the Playoffs...
Keep taking care of business & let things fall where they may..

 

What a disaster

 

'What a disaster' is exactly right. One of them goes off for 40+ and both combined for 60+ in each of the past 2 games, and they still can't beat play-in level teams in the East.

And it's even worse than in the tweet above. When both Kyrie & Luka play, they are 4-11 for a 22-win pace.

 

Good, good. Come Luka, come!

 

Question for those who want Phoenix in the 1st round: in 2017 & 2018, would you have wanted GSW in the 1st round?

 

Personally: GS was the best team in the league, proved that and it wasn't based on a tiny sample size. They had and still have two of the best shooters of all time. Phoenix ain't that. I don't want Phoenix, but I don't believe in ducking or dodging anyone. Basketball gods don't like that. KD is unstoppable. Vando guards BI better than anyone in the league (that's from NO people) and KD is the richest version of BI that's ever existed. BUT that at least shows Vando can succeed against that type. Booker whines about double coverage in a pickup game. I'll never fear a whiney entitled chump like that. CP is old and losing steps by the day. His body doesn't get along with him any longer, either. Ayton was essentially shutdown by the coach and the team the last time they played significant basketball. Healthy AD hulk smashes this team. Who can cover him? Who's guarding Bron? They've traded away their best defenders. If KD covers Bron, he's doing it only for the 4th.

 

I agree, Phoenix isn't nearly what GSW was, and we have a chance to beat Pho this year.

That's not what I was getting at though - my point is, it's okay not to want someone in the 1st round. In 2017&18, it would have been okay to not want GSW in the 1st round, even if you have to go through them in the WCF. It's okay to want a regular or easier 1st round matchup, and then go through the best in the WCF and the Finals.

Like, if there were cross-conference seeding, it would be okay to not want Milwaukee in the 1st round but want to face them in the Finals.

Personally, I want to see the most Lakers basketball possible, and to face the best at the end and win the championship. Taking the hardest road possible just for the sake of it, doesn't do much for me, esp w highly increased odds of being out in the 1st round.

 

I'll take anyone in the West before the Bucks or C Bags. If we can beat the Suns in round 1, that would give them confidence in buckets about the rest of the journey before they get to the East matchup under best case scenario. Again, I'd love to dodge the Suns but I do not support the team doing anything to sway the outcome of a game before the play-in or post-season.


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