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I kinda like the idea of playing without Homecourt. Having Homecourt for Portland would be like any game they have a double digit lead in. I’d rather be the underdog.
 
Scalma said:
I kinda like the idea of playing without Homecourt. Having Homecourt for Portland would be like any game they have a double digit lead in. I’d rather be the underdog.
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But that would mean playing SA, right? SA is pretty strong at home. I agree with the underdog part, but SA would not be my first choice. The only team with a better home record is Houston, and that is only by one game.
 
So back to my original question... if we know the Pels are the 5th seed before the Utah game, do we intentionally lose the game to get HCA against the Pelicans? Yes? No?
 
Reep said:
You have to give it up for the schedulers. Having Portland/Utah and Denver/Minne playing on the final night is amazing. Denver/Minne winner is in, right?
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Well, they also gave us HOU vs LAL on national TV tonight. With all the tight playoff races in the West, they televise the one where the two teams are separated by 30 games with 2 games to go. Boy, that ones gonna be a real nail biter!

BNM
 
Scalma said:
I kinda like the idea of playing without Homecourt. Having Homecourt for Portland would be like any game they have a double digit lead in. I’d rather be the underdog.
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I know what you mean but if we're gonna be champs someday, we have to get used to winning series with HCA.
 
BonesJones said:
I'm going off of PlayoffStatus.com
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If you want to actually see what all of the scenarios are though, go to my thread. Percentages, at this point, don't really matter. It's all about wins and losses.
 
KingSpeed said:
If you want to actually see what all of the scenarios are though, go to my thread. Percentages, at this point, don't really matter. It's all about wins and losses.
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Percentages are based off the likelihood of wins and losses..? I've looked through all the scenarios. It's a good "What if" tool. Percentages wrap up all the scenarios and the likelihood of each. Just a good tool to see what's more likely.
 
Let’s Go Pelicans, go get the 5th seed. I bet the Blazers rather play the inexperience Pels rather than the Spurs.
 
DDolla said:
Let’s Go Pelicans, go get the 5th seed. I bet the Blazers rather play the inexperience Pels rather than the Spurs.
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If Pelicans win, do you think the Blazer rest the starters so they can lose the game and end up in the Pelican-Houston bracket? If Pels win and Blazers beat Utah, Portland gets the SA-(Utah/GS) bracket. I say rest the starters.
 
Reep said:
If Pelicans win, do you think the Blazer rest the starters so they can lose the game and end up in the Pelican-Houston bracket? If Pels win and Blazers beat Utah, Portland gets the SA-(Utah/GS) bracket. I say rest the starters.
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If Pels and Blazers win and OKC also won, UTA/OKC would beat Pels in the tie-breaker, and Pels would drop to 6. So, Blazers would get Pels anyway, regardless of if they're the 3 or 4 seed.

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PtldPlatypus said:
If Pels and Blazers win and OKC also won, UTA/OKC would beat Pels in the tie-breaker, and Pels would drop to 6. So, Blazers would get Pels anyway, regardless of if they're the 3 or 4 seed.
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I was thinking there is no way we could end up with OKC, but if Pels win, and OKC wins, and Blazers lose, then we could end up with OKC-Houston, right? Based on the regular season that seems better, but not sure what kind of calls Westbrick and PG will get in the playoffs.

We will know before tipoff on both those games. If Pels and OKC win, then the likely choices would be lose and get OKC-Houston or win and get Pels-(Utah/GS)?
 
Reep said:
I was thinking there is no way we could end up with OKC, but if Pels win, and OKC wins, and Blazers lose, then we could end up with OKC-Houston, right? Based on the regular season that seems better, but not sure what kind of calls Westbrick and PG will get in the playoffs.

We will know before tipoff on both those games. If Pels and OKC win, then the likely choices would be lose and get OKC-Houston or win and get Pels-(Utah/GS)?
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I think NOP has the tiebreaker on OKC, so in a three way tie with these two teams, we'd play NO as the 4th seed, and OKC would drop to 6th.

I think.
 
Reep said:
I was thinking there is no way we could end up with OKC, but if Pels win, and OKC wins, and Blazers lose, then we could end up with OKC-Houston, right? Based on the regular season that seems better, but not sure what kind of calls Westbrick and PG will get in the playoffs.

We will know before tipoff on both those games. If Pels and OKC win, then the likely choices would be lose and get OKC-Houston or win and get Pels-(Utah/GS)?
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No. In the situation you describe, Blazers would get the 4, and then NO would get the 5 based on their 2-1 H2H record against OKC.
 
yuyuza1 said:
I think NOP has the tiebreaker on OKC, so in a three way tie with these two teams, we'd play NO as the 4th seed, and OKC would drop to 6th.

I think.
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Ah, I think I see it. If Pels and OKC win, then a Portland loss throws it to a 3-way tie breaker, which puts Portland 4 and NO at 5. If Pels and OKC win and Portland wins, then it is a 2-way tie, Blazers are 3, and ... [head exploding]
 
Reep said:
Ah, I think I see it. If Pels and OKC win, then a Portland loss throws it to a 3-way tie breaker, which puts Portland 4 and NO at 5. If Pels and OKC win and Portland wins, then it is a 2-way tie, Blazers are 3, and ... [head exploding]
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Nope, you've actually got it reversed.
  • If Portland loses, Blazers are 4, and it's a 2-way tie w/NOP/OKC, which puts NOP at 5 and OKC at 6.
  • If Portland wins, that drops Utah into the mix, making it a 3-way tie, which OKC would actually win, putting the Thunder at 4, then Jazz at 5, and Pels at 6.
 
PtldPlatypus said:
Nope, you've actually got it reversed.
  • If Portland loses, Blazers are 4, and it's a 2-way tie w/NOP/OKC, which puts NOP at 5 and OKC at 6.
  • If Portland wins, that drops Utah into the mix, making it a 3-way tie, which OKC would actually win, putting the Thunder at 4, then Jazz at 5, and Pels at 6.
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If Portland loses, it would have the same record as NOP and OKC, so 3-way, wouldn't it? I think it comes out the same though.

Thanks, that is helpful. The bottom line is if SA wins, the Portland needs to win. If SA loses, then it doesn't really matter, unless they want to play for positioning with who they would want to face in the second round.
 
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Reep said:
If Portland loses, it would have the same record as NOP and OKC, so 3-way, wouldn't it?
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Sorry, you're right about that. But their sweep over the Thunder automatically wins them any tiebreak involving OKC, so I mis-stated. My error.
 
You know, I'm just gonna wait and find out what happens. No point in trying to figure things out when nobody really knows the tie-breaker/HCA rules. All I know is: we win we're 3rd / NOP wins worst we can do is 4th.
 
blue9 said:
You know, I'm just gonna wait and find out what happens. No point in trying to figure things out when nobody really knows the tie-breaker/HCA rules. All I know is: we win we're 3rd / NOP wins worst we can do is 4th.
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At this point, I almost want tie-break Armageddon to happen (POR/SAS/OKC) just so that we can actually get clarification on the debate.

Except that I really want basically anything else to happen.
 
Just trying to wrap my head around the top of the bracket, which I messed up before.

IF PELS WIN:

If Portland wins, then the path after the first round would be GSW(no HCA)-(Houston/Jazz, HCA in WCF). If Portland decides to rest and lose, then it would be (after the first round) Houston-Jazz (no HCA). I think that would be enough to make me want to win this game even if Pels win.

Portland wins tonight:
1st round Portland HCA
2nd round GSW HCA
WCF possible Portland HCA

Portland loses tonight (and Pels win):
1st round Portland HCA
2nd round Houston HCA
WCF Jazz HCA
 
Ladies and gentlemen, the playoffs matchups ! :

1. Rockets vs 8. Timberwolves
2. Warriors vs 7. Spurs
3/4. Blazers vs 5/6 Pelicans
3/4 Jazz vs 5/6 Thunder

GET FUCKED OKC !!
 
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