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Throw in the ATL 2025 too
Best part is Hollinger says it'll cost us 15 wins so we can tank for AJ Dybantsa too
Giannis needs to get the out Milwaukee this off-season. They are going downhill fast with an aging Lopez, Lillard will be 35 this year etc.
Throw in the ATL 2025 too
Best part is Hollinger says it'll cost us 15 wins so we can tank for AJ Dybantsa too
Dang Rich with 36pts against the Bucks tonight got them the win
Wasn’t it too long ago when he threatened to leave if the Bucks don’t bring help. And Wemby’s co-runner seems starting to be the preferred destination.
End of 3rd
1 2 3 4 T ATL 34 38 24 96 DAL 32 35 34 101
4:47 - 4th
1 2 3 4 T ATL 34 38 24 14 110 DAL 32 35 34 12 113
1:46 - 4th
1 2 3 4 T ATL 34 38 24 22 118 DAL 32 35 34 14 115
Thank you Anthony Davis
Final
1 2 3 4 T ATL 34 38 24 22 118 DAL 32 35 34 19 120
Mavs win a close one. AD hits the game-winner with 3 seconds left. Nice.
More importantly, the tiny inefficient chucker misses a 25 foot fadeaway three with 1 second remaining. They had 3 seconds when they inbounded, and could have gone for 2.
I watched about 3 minutes of yesterdays Hawks Blazers game. In that 3 minutes I saw Trae Young do the following:
Draw a bull foul on Camara using a rip through move 30 feet from the basket.
Draw a bull foul on Camara driving to the basket and jump in g backwards and sideways into Camara directly under the basket.
Flail and flop around on another drive to the basket with a defender on his back.
Thank god this guy isn’t on the Spurs.
Oh, and Miami is one game back, and on a six game heater. ATL also has two games left in their last 5 against Orlando.
Wouldn’t it be ironic if ATL dropped back into the lottery, and pushed Sacto into the top 12, depriving themselves of that pick?
9 POR (games behind below)
10 CHI (1/2)
11 MIA (1)
12 PHO (1.5)
13 ATL (2.5)
13 SAC (2.5)
15 ORL (3.5)
16 DAL (4)
Can the Spurs thread the needle again and see the ATL pick land in the 9-11 range?
Anything can happen at this point, though as I recall ATL had some easy potential wins aka PHI, BRK.
They also play Orlando twice, and you know they’re going to want to shut that down, and lock down 7th. If things stay as they are, I think the winner of CHI/MIA has a decent chance to beat ATL in the play in, knocking them back into the lottery that way. Both teams are 6-4 in the last 10, compared to ATL’s 4-6.
Heat are so unpredictable. Went to the finals as an 8 seed/play-in 2 years ago, ousted as an 8 seed/play-in last year in the first round. Lost 10 straight followed by 6 straight wins followed by a loss the other night. Impossible to predict their season
Just gotta hope they get hot in the play-in tournament.
Looking only at tiebreak scenarios for ATL, as there is decent chance that ATL will finish with the same record as one of CHI/MIA/ORL, the tie-breaker for seeding is H2H, division record, conference record.
Those 2 ATL-ORL games most likely decide where ATL lands
Scenario 1: ATL wins both
Wins tiebreaker with ORL (3-1 H2H) and jumps to 7
Scenario 2: ATL splits
Drops tiebreaker to ORL and stays at 8 (H2H tied, ORL wins division record)
Wins tiebreaker with CHI and stays at 8 (H2H tied, ATL wins conference record vs CHI)
Drops tiebreaker to MIA and drops to 9 (H2H tied, MIA wins division record 11-5 vs 10-6 assuming MIA beats WAS)
Scenario 3: ATL loses both
Drops tiebreaker to ORL and stays at 8 (ORL wins H2H)
Wins tiebreaker with CHI and stays at 8 (H2H tied, ATL most likely still wins conference record vs CHI as they are 3 games ahead right now)
Drops tiebreaker to MIA and drops to 9 (H2H tied, MIA wins division record)
So since MIA has a better chance of winning the tiebreaker if ATL drops one or both with ORL, and currently MIA/CHI are tied in the standings, we should be rooting for MIA win @CHI in their matchup this Thursday (both teams only have one other compe ive game MIAvMIL and CHI@CLE)
Last edited by Splits; 04-05-2025 at 09:20 AM.
What is the rule on this draft seed? When DAL and SAC have better records, but in a different conference (9th and 10th) while ATL is at 8th. And the result of the play-in knocking a team off a playoff spot supersede the final record? So ultimately it’s who missed the playoffs who gets to be in the lottery? Then from there they determine the draft order from conference standings or team records?
Draft positions are resolved, post lottery, and are done strictly by record. Conference positions across conferences don’t matter.
There are 30 teams, 16 make the playoffs 14 are in the lottery. Spots 1-14 pre-lottery are based on final record.
I keep on looking at Tankathon and ATL (Spurs pick) outside the lottery despite having a worst record than DAL and SAC
Tankathon just assume 7-8 in each standings wins play-in and are in playoffs, hence out of lottery
correct. it is pretty safe to assume that, unless Hawks make a run these last 6 games, if they lose the play-in they will have a worse record than the 2 Western conference play-in losers and would be at 12
1-8 in each conference is out of the lottery, regardless of the records of teams on the other conference. The conferences have been imbalanced for years, even decades, with WC teams with better record in the lottery over EC playoff teams with worse records. That leads to further imbalance.
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