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Much as I love Wesley Matthews, I think I could get some satisfaction if he woke some morning and looked at the standings and found his old team above his new team.
 
When was the last time a team had both a 7 game losing streak and a 6 game win streak in the same season? Seems like it would be uncommon.
 
yuyuza1 said:
When was the last time a team had both a 7 game losing streak and a 6 game win streak in the same season? Seems like it would be uncommon.
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I want to say the Rockets did something similar during one of their championship years in the 90's.

And didn't we have a similar losing and much longer winning streak that year Outlaw had the game winner and Steve Blake through the chair?
 
KingAlbertoJrSpeed said:
6. Dallas 32-28
7. Portland 32-28
8. Houston 29-31
9. Utah 28-31

THREE GAMES ABOVE THE ROCKETS

THREE AND A HALF GAMES ABOVE THE JAZZ

Wow. We were once 11-20.
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Don't we have the tie-breaker against the Jazz (head to head)? That would make the lead 4.5 games.
Also, don't we likely have the tie-breaker against the Rockets (record against Western Conference opponents)? Although this one is still up for grabs.
 
tester551 said:
Don't we have the tie-breaker against the Jazz (head to head)? That would make the lead 4.5 games.
Also, don't we likely have the tie-breaker against the Rockets (record against Western Conference opponents)? Although this one is still up for grabs.
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Yeah we're looking good for both those tiebreakers. Once we beat Dallas twice we'll have theirs too. Similar to Houston we should end up with better conference record than Memphis and own tiebreaker with them.

We own them all!!!
 
http://hangtime.blogs.nba.com/2016/03/01/remaining-schedule-breakdown/?ls=iref:nbahpt6d

Good update on remaining schedules
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We definitely have a touch schedule, remaining opponent winning % is .551. But it's also good to note that Dallas's is .552 and Memphis at .540, so the teams were jockeying with for position are also facing tough schedules. Also note Houston's opponent winning % is .493 but they actually face 14 teams over .500 and only 8 under .500. Just mean's they've got a lot of games left against celler dwellers but they still have to face a lot of good teams.
 
yuyuza1 said:
When was the last time a team had both a 7 game losing streak and a 6 game win streak in the same season? Seems like it would be uncommon.
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There have been 8 examples in the past 7 years, including 4 just last season. Utah, Indiana, Detroit, and Brooklyn all accomplished the feat. Most notably, the Pistons had a 13 game losing streak along with their 7 game winner, by far the longest example. Also interesting about the Pistons' pair of streaks--they were very close together: lost 13 straight from 11/15/14-12/9/14, then started their 7 game winning streak just 17 days later on 12/26/14--if you recall, immediately after cutting Josh Smith. Strangely enough, the Pistons followed that up with a 10 game losing streak later that same season, from 2/24/15 to 3/14/15.
 
Utah's schedule is not that easy either. I think playing the Lakers twice is helping their OPCT. (Along with Phoenix) But most of their games could go either way.
 
PtldPlatypus said:
There have been 8 examples in the past 7 years, including 4 just last season. Utah, Indiana, Detroit, and Brooklyn all accomplished the feat. Most notably, the Pistons had a 13 game losing streak along with their 7 game winner, by far the longest example. Also interesting about the Pistons' pair of streaks--they were very close together: lost 13 straight from 11/15/14-12/9/14, then started their 7 game winning streak just 17 days later on 12/26/14--if you recall, immediately after cutting Josh Smith. Strangely enough, the Pistons followed that up with a 10 game losing streak later that same season, from 2/24/15 to 3/14/15.
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Thank you. Not as uncommon as I thought.
 
yuyuza1 said:
Thank you. Not as uncommon as I thought.
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What is uncommon is teams with a pair of such streaks finishing the season above .500. All the examples from last year or the year before (Knicks and Nuggets) won between 32 and 38 games. The last time it happened was the 2010 Bobcats, who finished 44-38 after losing 7 straight in November and then winning 6 straight in January.
 
Okay, I'm fairly confident that we are gonna make the playoffs..... so the next question is:

Winning in the playoffs?
 
21 games left, and 9 games on the road against plus .500 teams. But our home games look relatively "easy". If we go 11-10 that's 44 wins.
 
Natebishop3 said:
Okay, I'm fairly confident that we are gonna make the playoffs..... so the next question is:

Winning in the playoffs?
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I'd say most likely win is against Clips. The way we are playing I don't think any west team wants to face us round 1. We steal game 1; win only one of the next 4 and then would find ourselves playing a game 6 at home with a chance to force a deciding elimination game. Could be an exciting series! I think we have some difficult matchups for any opponent.
 
I want the Warriors in the first round but that's not gonna happen. We'll probably have 5 or 6 seed so it's Clippers or Warriors. We can beat them. Only team I think we can't beat is San Antonio.
 
6 seed would be against OKC which isn't really a great match up for anyone considering how great those 2 guys are. I just don't like much about the Thunder beyond those 2 though, we're talking about Dion Waiters..Enes Kanter, not exactly the scariest guys in the world. Serge Ibaka is a nice player but I'd love to see Ed Davis matched up on him. That would be a fun series.
 
Natebishop3 said:
Okay, I'm fairly confident that we are gonna make the playoffs..... so the next question is:

Winning in the playoffs?
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Why not? We're going to be fifth seed and make the second round.

Ask me again after.

:cheers:
 
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