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Chris Craig said:
If we win

If MEM and Suns lose and Spurs win - Spurs 9th

I think Memphis loses to Bucks unless they sit starters (Giannis) maybe.

Suns will probably win if Dallas sits starters who are locked in 7th and have nothing to go for except being the team to stop PHX from going 8-0. If Dallas starters play, suns could lose.

Spurs could beat Utah.

Do we want Spurs or Suns?
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Let’s focus on beating the Nets first
 
Net have won 3 in a row and 4 out if six.
They've beat the Lakers, Bucks, Celtics & Clippers, sure with so so rosters, maybe.
The beat us earlier with 3 point shooting.
We know Dame will show but we need scoring from Melo Nurk and CJ Trent will get his.
We should be good if we play decent D.
 
Hey, a heads up...... IF our Blazers make the play-in scenario........Blazers Broadcassting is NOT covering the game. They become an exclusive for TNT/ESPN/ABC. So like yesterday, TNT may black them out here locally. Not quite sure yet.
 
THE HCP said:
Hey, a heads up...... IF our Blazers make the play-in scenario........Blazers Broadcassting is NOT covering the game. They become an exclusive for TNT/ESPN/ABC. So like yesterday, TNT may black them out here locally. Not quite sure yet.
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That sucks.

I also kinda miss Calabro. He got way more hype than Kent for big plays. Would have loved to have heard him call Dame's 61.
 
THE HCP said:
Hey, a heads up...... IF our Blazers make the play-in scenario........Blazers Broadcassting is NOT covering the game. They become an exclusive for TNT/ESPN/ABC. So like yesterday, TNT may black them out here locally. Not quite sure yet.
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If Blazers Broadcasting isn't covering the game, then why the heck would TNT black it out for us locally? I don't think they would.
 
Darkwebs said:
If Blazers Broadcasting isn't covering the game, then why the heck would TNT black it out for us locally? I don't think they would.
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Just happened yesterday Duck-Man!
 
Darkwebs said:
Yeah, TNT blacked out yesterday's game locally because it was broadcasted on the local NBCSNW channel. But if NBCSNW isn't broadcasting the game, then they have no reason to black it out for us in this area.
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Ahhhhh, I see what your saying. Yes I agree.
 
Chris Craig said:
But, that is only because it was being covered locally. Otherwise there is no reason to black it out.
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Good point and yes I agree. My guys in Orlando told me this might happen, but you guys bring up a good point that since locally it isn't being broadbcast locally, there is no need for a blackout.
 
tlongII said:
I don't care who we play as long as we get the 8 seed.
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And nice try last night bro! I saw you try to ruin the Timbers game for me.....knowing that I worked and had to come home and watch it later! Nice try FAMS!
 
THE HCP said:
And nice try last night bro! I saw you try to ruin the Timbers game for me.....knowing that I worked and had to come home and watch it later! Nice try FAMS!
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Did you get my PM?
 
Darkwebs said:
If Blazers Broadcasting isn't covering the game, then why the heck would TNT black it out for us locally? I don't think they would.
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It won't be blacked out as that's a mandate by the NBA to black out games in local broadcasting areas when the local station is also broadcasting the game. It's the same during the season when some games were on TNT and the Blazers weren't broadcasting the game.
 
Guys, actually nothing has changed, Memphis is gonna play against the C-Bucks Team, Phoenix is gonna play against the C-Dallas Team because they locked in at 7th, San Antonio is gonna play against the C-Utah Team because they don't want to move up, we saw that master tanking job by Snyder against Dallas. If only 2 of those 3 Teams win and we lose against a motivated Nets team (motivated because their players wanna earn minutes for next season when Durant and Kyrie come back), we will be out and the season will be over. We stil got a lot of work to do. Luckily for us, our game will start when the other games are over, which means our players will be full aware of what happens if we drop that game
 
Rick Carlisle said he played his stars last night because the league wants stars to play national TV games. Well tomorrow's game is on national TV so he should play his stars again, yes? Has it been confirmed either way?
 
Labinot41 said:
Guys, actually nothing has changed, Memphis is gonna play against the C-Bucks Team, Phoenix is gonna play against the C-Dallas Team because they locked in at 7th, San Antonio is gonna play against the C-Utah Team because they don't want to move up, we saw that master tanking job by Snyder against Dallas. If only 2 of those 3 Teams win and we lose against a motivated Nets team (motivated because their players wanna earn minutes for next season when Durant and Kyrie come back), we will be out and the season will be over. We stil got a lot of work to do. Luckily for us, our game will start when the other games are over, which means our players will be full aware of what happens if we drop that game
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We're going to be playing the worst team out of all four of the teams who are in contention for the play-in. That being said, we will likely be in a must win scenario. I sincerely doubt that all three teams will lose and we can't afford to be in the ninth spot having to win two in a row and obviously we don't want to be tenth or eleventh on the outside looking in. Our guys will know what they have to do, that was a good point. They will do whatever it takes to get that eighth spot.
 
blazerkor said:
We're going to be playing the worst team out of all four of the teams who are in contention for the play-in. That being said, we will likely be in a must win scenario. I sincerely doubt that all three teams will lose and we can't afford to be in the ninth spot having to win two in a row and obviously we don't want to be tenth or eleventh on the outside looking in. Our guys will know what they have to do, that was a good point. They will do whatever it takes to get that eighth spot.
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Brooklyn is 5-2 in the bubble. I believe they've beaten the Clippers and Bucks too
 
KSF-ERIC said:
Brooklyn is 5-2 in the bubble. I believe they've beaten the Clippers and Bucks too
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I've been over this with you the Bucks sat everyone in that game and still the Nets barely won. The only good win the Nets have in the bubble is the win against the George-less Clippers, who are still a really good team without PG13. They got blown out twice and the rest of their wins came against the worst teams in the bubble. OK their last win, against the Magic was pretty good too since they won it while sitting all of there guys. That being said, I'm not scared of them but I know our guys will get up for this game to lock up the 8th spot... if that is needed (which is very likely). Any team can beat any other team in this league in any given game but we will be desperate, they will not and we have the better team.
 
blazerkor said:
I've been over this with you the Bucks sat everyone in that game and still the Nets barely won. The only good win the Nets have in the bubble is the win against the George-less Clippers, who are still a really good team without PG13. They got blown out twice and the rest of their wins came against the worst teams in the bubble. OK their last win, against the Magic was pretty good too since they won it while sitting all of there guys. That being said, I'm not scared of them but I know our guys will get up for this game to lock up the 8th spot... if that is needed (which is very likely). Any team can beat any other team in this league in any given game but we will be desperate, they will not and we have the better team.
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Actually, it was the Brooklyn Nets that sat everyone in that game. Harris, Allen, and LaVert all sat out the game. Meanwhile, most of the Bucks rotation players played at least 15 minutes including Giannis and Khris.

https://www.nba.com/games/20200804/BKNMIL#/boxscore
 
KSF-ERIC said:
Actually, it was the Brooklyn Nets that sat everyone in that game. Harris, Allen, and LaVert all sat out the game. Meanwhile, most of the Bucks rotation players played at least 15 minutes including Giannis and Khris.

https://www.nba.com/games/20200804/BKNMIL#/boxscore
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Okay they both sat a ton of their players, look at Giannis' minutes and the minutes of the rest of the starters. Also take a look at the depth chart and look how many of their third stringers got major minutes. Both teams didn't give a damn about that game. That win still means nothing to me. By the way, do you think they're going to beat us tomorrow?
 
Look at the last item in this article, every writer from ESPN has us advancing to the playoffs. I can't decide if that's a good thing or a bad thing. I mean I totally agree with them. Our team just needs to take tonight's game extremely seriously, biggest game of the season (unless the unlikely happens and the game means nothing).

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id...ames-best-bubble-moments-our-play-predictions
 
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