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How are the Spurs winning without Leonard and with Parker + Ginobily Stinking up like that? Can't tell me it is all Aldridge.
 
joeBlazers said:
How are the Spurs winning without Leonard and with Parker + Ginobily Stinking up like that? Can't tell me it is all Aldridge.
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Because Pop plays his bench all year long from the start so they are ready and able to step up and fill in when necessary. Every year they have guys most people have never heard of making big contributions.
 
TBpup said:
Because Pop plays his bench all year long from the start so they are ready and able to step up and fill in when necessary. Every year they have guys most people have never heard of making big contributions.
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As much as I hate to say it, Aldridge is having the best season of his career. Career highs in both PER and TS%.

Pop and his system also has some sort of magic that turns guys like Rudy Gay into positive defenders. The 6MOY award will probably come down to Eric Gordon and Lou Williams, but Gay should be in the top 5, if not the top 3.

BNM
 
Boob-No-More said:
As much as I hate to say it, Aldridge is having the best season of his career. Career highs in both PER and TS%.

Pop and his system also has some sort of magic that turns guys like Rudy Gay into positive defenders. The 6MOY award will probably come down to Eric Gordon and Lou Williams, but Gay should be in the top 5, if not the top 3.

BNM
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Has Gay played enough? Hasn't he missed most of the year??
 
I just checked. Gay has played 51 games, 6 of which he started so no, he is not top 5 for 6th man of the year.
 
BonesJones said:
50 games off the bench isnt enough to win?
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That would also eliminate Eric Gordon who has only come off the bench 37 times and almost eliminates Lou Williams who has only come off the bench 57 times.

Thankfully, the NBA takes a more sensible approach to this award. The only requirement to be eligible is a player must come off the bench more times than he starts.

So Gay, Gordon and Williams all qualify.

BNM
 
yuyuza1 said:
Really gotta avoid Utah, though. They destroyed Minny in Minny last night. Gobert is tough!
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Wonder if it'll end up in our best interests to tank the final game of the season so as to cement the Jazz into the 4/5 matchup.
 
PtldPlatypus said:
Wonder if it'll end up in our best interests to tank the final game of the season so as to cement the Jazz into the 4/5 matchup.
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sure, only if we don't also slip to 4 in the process. That last game could be fairly meaningless to both teams if we get locked into 3/6 or 4/5. Only impact would be for second round matchups
 
yuyuza1 said:
Really gotta avoid Utah, though. They destroyed Minny in Minny last night. Gobert is tough!
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Gobert and Mitchell are good.
But I believe Ingles would present a giant matchup problem for Portland with or without Harkless.
imo that's the reason why Portland shouldn't want Utah.
 
Terry is currently on radio. He said "3 seed or 4 seed doesn't matter. We just want home court in the first round."

He also seems to think division winners get HCA, and he's wrong.
 
yuyuza1 said:
He also seems to think division winners get HCA, and he's wrong.
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Huh? Thought division winners got seeds 1-4?

Edit: guess winning your division is the second tie breaker just behind head to head.
 
yuyuza1 said:
Terry is currently on radio. He said "3 seed or 4 seed doesn't matter. We just want home court in the first round."

He also seems to think division winners get HCA, and he's wrong.
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I got the impression that he was saying that if they win enough games to win the division, that will also be enough wins to be in the top 4, which is true. Spurs are the only non-NW team that could possibly finish #3.
 
PtldPlatypus said:
I got the impression that he was saying that if they win enough games to win the division, that will also be enough wins to be in the top 4, which is true. Spurs are the only non-NW team that could possibly finish #3.
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Ah, that's prolly it. Surprised me that he didn't know the rules, but he's one step ahead
 
Driew said:
Huh? Thought division winners got seeds 1-4?

Edit: guess winning your division is the second tie breaker just behind head to head.
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The NBA changed that several seasons ago. Teams were getting upset that other teams with lower records were getting higher seeds because they won their division.
 
TBpup said:
A loss by the Spurs to the Clippers would be HUGE because Portland (with a win) could really start playing guys limited minutes and resting them for the Playoffs.
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Portland's magic number is 3 (any combination of PDX wins and SAS losses).
A Spurs loss to Clips with a Blazers win in Dallas would only be 2. We'd still be in need of an additional win before we can rest players.
 
tester551 said:
Portland's magic number is 3 (any combination of PDX wins and SAS losses).
A Spurs loss to Clips with a Blazers win in Dallas would only be 2. We'd still be in need of an additional win before we can rest players.
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Wait, I'm confused.

you said combination... so a win and a loss is a combination of 2 of those things happening, so then wouldn't it be 1?
 
Strenuus said:
Wait, I'm confused.

you said combination... so a win and a loss is a combination of 2 of those things happening, so then wouldn't it be 1?
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Yes. Any combination of Spurs losses and Portland wins totaling 3.

In the discussion above:
SAS loosing to Clippers (1)
+ Blazers winning against Mavs (1)
Only equals 2

Blazers would still need to get one additional win (so that the total would reach 3) before they put it in cruise control for the rest of the season.
 
yuyuza1 said:
Terry is currently on radio. He said "3 seed or 4 seed doesn't matter. We just want home court in the first round."

He also seems to think division winners get HCA, and he's wrong.
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He should know better because of the year we played Memphis as a 4th seeded divisional winner without home court advantage.
 
tester551 said:
Portland's magic number is 3 (any combination of PDX wins and SAS losses).
A Spurs loss to Clips with a Blazers win in Dallas would only be 2. We'd still be in need of an additional win before we can rest players.
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Ehhh, if SAS loses 3 times, but UTA wins out, they could pass us. I'd say a combination of wins by us and losses by teams tied for 4th in the loss column that could win a tiebreaker against us... complicated. Haha.
 
tester551 said:
Yes. Any combination of Spurs losses and Portland wins totaling 3.

In the discussion above:
SAS loosing to Clippers (1)
+ Blazers winning against Mavs (1)
Only equals 2

Blazers would still need to get one additional win (so that the total would reach 3) before they put it in cruise control for the rest of the season.
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Oh shit, thanks. I read it as 3 down to 0, not 0 up to 3. We were thinking the same thing I just took the information differently. LOL. Thanks.
 
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