The race for Home Court Advantage

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hoopsjock said:
In other words, a win tonight and the Blazers would have to completely fall apart not to secure home court advantage in the 1st round.
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There’s NO way that could happen.
 
Pelicans (vs Celtics) and Thunder (@ Toronto) both had HUGE wins today. Those were games they were projected to lose and tough wins that others in the race now have to duplicate to keep pace.
 
TBpup said:
Pelicans (vs Celtics) and Thunder (@ Toronto) both had HUGE wins today. Those were games they were projected to lose and tough wins that others in the race now have to duplicate to keep pace.
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These projections don't really mean anything, dude. Isn't Denver supposed to be on a 9 game win streak?
 
KingSpeed said:
These projections don't really mean anything, dude. Isn't Denver supposed to be on a 9 game win streak?
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If I said the sun was out you'd find some way to disagree. Raptors were favored in that game so 'favored/projected' to win. Boston was 'favored' earlier when I wrote the original up as well. Damn, do you just sit in your basement and try to find things to nitpick? I guess it that is what makes you happy. #Stale
 
TBpup said:
If I said the sun was out you'd find some way to disagree. Raptors were favored in that game so 'favored/projected' to win. Boston was 'favored' earlier when I wrote the original up as well. Damn, do you just sit in your basement and try to find things to nitpick? I guess it that is what makes you happy. #Stale
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The Sun is not out and I still don't think projections mean anything whatsoever so they're pointless to talk about. That's my opinion. Nothing against you. I would say the same thing to other posters.
 
KingSpeed said:
The Sun is not out and I still don't think projections mean anything whatsoever so they're pointless to talk about. That's my opinion. Nothing against you. I would say the same thing to other posters.
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So if we play the Kings were not supposed to win because projections mean nothing?

Logical...
 
EGame said:
Then why do you have us pegged to win the next two games for sure? This seems contradictory.
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No. We aren't "supposed to win" the next 2 games. We are GOING to win. There's no supposed to about it. We'll go EARN it.
 
So when Vegas said LAC was favored to win tonight.
They just randomly made this favored thing up?
 
Top 5 can stay as it is. I don't want to play Thunder (because they can take off in the playoffs when it matters most) or Jazz (because of the form they have been in for the last two months and their defense) and we avoid them in the current playoff picture.

I think Jazz will overtake Thunder though, their schedule is really favourable and they should easily win the next two and most of the final 10.

We will probably stay third. I hope Nuggets can climb to 6th but they probably won't.
 
Sarni said:
Top 5 can stay as it is. I don't want to play Thunder (because they can take off in the playoffs when it matters most) or Jazz (because of the form they have been in for the last two months and their defense) and we avoid them in the current playoff picture.

I think Jazz will overtake Thunder though, their schedule is really favourable and they should easily win the next two and most of the final 10.

We will probably stay third. I hope Nuggets can climb to 6th but they probably won't.
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Yeah. Nuggets aren't going to make the big show.
 
Not that it means anything, but after their upset win in LA, I now have the Blazers "projected" to finish with 50 wins, projecting 6 losses the rest of the way (2 to HOU, @NOP, @HOU, @SAS, @DEN). Probably should project a win over the Nuggets the way they've been playing, but Blazers have always had difficulty playing at elevation in Denver, even when the Nugs were terrible.
 
PtldPlatypus said:
Not that it means anything, but after their upset win in LA, I now have the Blazers "projected" to finish with 50 wins, projecting 6 losses the rest of the way (2 to HOU, @NOP, @HOU, @SAS, @DEN). Probably should project a win over the Nuggets the way they've been playing, but Blazers have always had difficulty playing at elevation in Denver, even when the Nugs were terrible.
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And we will probably win a couple that you have us slated to lose.
 
PtldPlatypus said:
Not that it means anything, but after their upset win in LA, I now have the Blazers "projected" to finish with 50 wins, projecting 6 losses the rest of the way (2 to HOU, @NOP, @HOU, @SAS, @DEN). Probably should project a win over the Nuggets the way they've been playing, but Blazers have always had difficulty playing at elevation in Denver, even when the Nugs were terrible.
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We play Houston 3 more times?
 
PtldPlatypus said:
Not that it means anything, but after their upset win in LA, I now have the Blazers "projected" to finish with 50 wins, projecting 6 losses the rest of the way (2 to HOU, @NOP, @HOU, @SAS, @DEN). Probably should project a win over the Nuggets the way they've been playing, but Blazers have always had difficulty playing at elevation in Denver, even when the Nugs were terrible.
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If we finish 6-6, I’d be surprised. That would be a horrific end to the season and would signify a lot about what is going to occur in the playoffs if so.
 
Destroyer of Worlds said:
If we finish 6-6, I’d be surprised. That would be a horrific end to the season and would signify a lot about what is going to occur in the playoffs if so.
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I don't think that would be horrible. This streak has been great but has also been largely at home with only two road games against anyone that was even decent. Now they start playing teams with better records than theirs at home (like the GS wins) and tougher teams on the road and the schedule gets very road heavy after Boston.

No matter how well they are playing, I wouldn't expect their record to continue on the hot streak they have been on. In face, if they were to go 9-3 in the next 12, I would consider that to be about as much of an accomplishment as the 13 in a row given the SOS and the difference between Home and Road games.
 
PtldPlatypus said:
I'd go with "possibly" rather than "probably". Or "hopefully".
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I'd go with probably not because of our win streak but because of the phenomenal way we've been playing.
 
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