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with the Bulls losing, too, the Raptors and Bulls are tied for the 5/6 seeds and therefore out of the play-in. cleveland is 1 game behind them at #7. if toronto can just hold off one of them, the pick conveys without worrying about play-in scenarios
Thad Young played his best game as a raptor, Derrick White shot 4-16 for the celtics. big win for Toronto
with the Bulls losing, too, the Raptors and Bulls are tied for the 5/6 seeds and therefore out of the play-in. cleveland is 1 game behind them at #7. if toronto can just hold off one of them, the pick conveys without worrying about play-in scenarios
9th in west
la(31-43)
no(32-43)
sa(30-44)
What I'm hoping for is that the Spurs, Pels and Lakers all tie at the end of the year. throw LAC into the tie as well. The Spurs would win that tie-break and come out as the eighth seed. They'd give themselves the best chance possible to make the playoffs, but they'd still have a coin-flip's chance of getting the eighth pre-lottery slot. If they won one of their two play-in games, they'd get the 15th pick (it doesn't matter if they get the seventh or eighth seed), but they lose, they're basically in the same place they are now.
The Spurs control their destiny. It's hard to see them winning out, but if they do, they'd get at least the 10th seed. Magic Number thread inbound?
No doubt the Pelicans are still trying to win , however the Fakers are pretty much done for the season. At least we get their 2nd round pick. Pelicans finish 9th and we finish 10th. Lebron and the rest of the Fakers go on vacation to loserland. T-Wolves - Clippers loser vs Pelicans-Spurs winner. It should be an interesting matchup in a few weeks.
Best case scenario is spurs and lakers are 9 and 10. We knock the lakers out first then lose so we stay in the lottery
In this case you want LA 9 and Spurs 10.
Do the thread. Its confusing.
Robert Williams for the Celtics tore a meniscus. Celtics may not win as many games now, something to follow in regards to their pick.
Boston has the fourth hardest remaining schedule by win percentage. San Antonio fifth, Lakers second.
https://www.tankathon.com/remaining_schedule_strength
I'm less worried about the Spurs ability to package a 11th 12th or 13th pick and move up 4-5 spots if they think someone at 7 or 8 can be of greater impact or address a need than I am of the Spurs ability to take a 7th or 8th pick and package it to move up into the top 5.
I think its a wash at worst if you lose a little draft capital trying to make the play in. I also think you make that back by setting a nice tone going into the offseason for any prospective signings knowing that this team is about winning not tanking. We have some nice pieces and we're one solid PF away from being a legitimate playoff team.
Imo best scenario is Spurs at 10 , they make the play in ( a good thing for the team) and lose to the Pels. They will probably lose only one place in the Lottery.
Another good note is Flakers getting there Ass handed to them by the Mav’s so I think our second round will be 38
Makes losing that Detroit 2nd not a big deal
Man Boston has a legit chance to be number 1 out of the East last 25 games they are 22-3 it looks like the trade worked out for them.
Their starting center, Robert Williams, just tore his meniscus. They lost to Toronto last night.
New York lost, Washington won, leaving San Antonio three and two games worse in the loss column on them. It's starting to firm up that they won't end up with a better lottery position, although Washington has a pretty hard final games with the only 'easy' one against the Knicks.
Boston coughed up a game at hom against the Heat. We want to see Utah, Denver, and Philly do better than them in the final games. They may wind up at 21 or 22, if so.
Toronto beat a good Minnesota team at home and is two above the play-in.
NOP is plaing Portland, which should be a victory. The bigger drama is probably LAL/SAS/NOP at this point.
The tank is still alive boys.
Blazers are tight with Pelicans nearing the half. This is a game Portland has some incentive to play for -- they get New Orleans' pick and probably don't want them to make the play-offs.
It's for the best. We need to go winless.
Good night for the Spurs.
Washington, Toronto with the W’s, Spurs and Cavs L.
The bad was the Knicks with the L but I think they’ll stay ahead of the Spurs in the standings.
A W for the Pelicans against the Blazers would top it off.
Spurs, Lakers, Pelicans, Wizards and Knicks all between 43 and 45 losses and occupy the 8-12 draft lottery positions.
Apparently Anthony Davis is practicing and should be available to play soon and if Lebron comes back and some help from the refs I think the Lakers will make the play in. But those are quite a few ifs.
According to tankathon, if the Spurs stay in 8th their top 4 pick chances are 26.3%, 9th would be 20.3%, 10th would be 13.9%, 11th just ~9%.
Spurs clinging to that 8th spot for dear life
Two wins now separate Pelicans and Spurs. It looks like that gap will solidify. Down the stretch, the Spurs have four hard games -- Denver, GSW, Utah, and Minnesota. Pelicans have three -- Grizz, GSW, and LAC, and they play the Lakers once. Pels play Portland once, Spurs play them twice.
So... I think Pelicans will be out of range (meaning Spurs will have a worse record). This comes down to the Lakers and Spurs for the last play-in spot. The one that doesn't make it will finish with the #8 spot in the lottery.
I should note that Washington can definitely slip. I don't know what they're playing for and they have one of the hardest remaining schedules. This would require the Spurs to kill their stretch, though, and I'm not sure that's happening. Tonight's loss was pretty big for lottery position.
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