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This completely ruined my night.
Bring us the Mavs !!!
This completely ruined my night.
The 1 seed and 8th seed matchup is decided. Lakers vs. Jazz
If the Mavs and Spurs both win tonight it looks like it will be Dallas vs. Spurs in the first round. Yippeee
after Utah's loss to LAL which clinched the #8 seed for them.
The number of possibilities still open for the Spurs is staggering for the last day of the season. For the first game of the playoffs, they could find themselves:
- on the road at Portland
- on the road at Houston
- at home against Portland
- at home against Dallas
The Hornets can clinch the #6 seed by beating the Spurs, so they do have something to play for.
If the Spurs lose, they are the #5 seed and will start at the #4 seed. In this case the #4 seed will be Houston, if Portland beats Denver and Dallas beats Houston. Otherwise it'll be Portland.
If the Spurs win, the following possibilities ensue:
#5 seed starting at Portland, if Portland beats Denver and Houston beats Dallas.
#4 seed starting vs. Portland if Denver beats Portland and Houston beats Dallas.
#3 seed starting vs. Dallas if Dallas beats Houston .
Here's the complete rundown for the West:
Los Angeles Lakers have clinched #1 and will play Utah in the first round.
Denver (playing at Portland) will be seeded:
• #2 if Nuggets win OR Rockets lose
• #3 if Nuggets lose and Rockets win
Houston (playing at Dallas) will be seeded:
• #2 if Rockets win and Nuggets lose
• #3 if Rockets win and Nuggets win OR if Spurs and Blazers lose.
• #4 if Rockets lose, Spurs win and Blazers lose OR if Rockets lose, Spurs lose and Blazers win.
• #5 if Rockets lose and Spurs and Blazers win.
Portland (playing vs. Denver) will be seeded:
• #3 if Blazers win and Rockets and Spurs lose.
• #4 if Blazers win and either the Rockets or Spurs win (but not both) OR if Blazers and Spurs both lose.
• #5 if Blazers lose and Spurs win.
San Antonio (playing vs. New Orleans) will be seeded:
• #3 if Spurs win and Rockets lose.
• #4 if Spurs win, Rockets win and Blazers lose.
• #5 if Spurs lose OR if Rockets and Blazers win.
New Orleans (playing at San Antonio) will be seeded:
• #6 if Hornets win OR Mavericks lose.
• #7 if Hornets lose and Mavericks win.
Dallas (playing vs. Houston) will be seeded:
• #6 if Mavericks win and Hornets lose.
• #7 if Mavericks lose OR Hornets win.
Utah is the #8 seed and will face the Lakers in the first round.
I want Dallas.
I'm wondering about the motivation of the Hornets and Mavericks tonight.
Dallas is 0-4 this season against Denver, having lost by 3, 10, 2, and 2. Would the Mavericks prefer to avoid the Nuggets if possible -- something they might be able to do with a win tonight -- or do the close scores leave the Mavs convinced that they were really close and that a matchup with Denver would be better than moving up to 6 to get either SA or Houston? I think if Dallas could get to 6 and find Portland waiting there (which would require a DAL win tonight, a PRT win tonight, and an SA loss tonight), they'd be exstatic, having swept the Blazers this year.
Honestly...I think 2-7, the teams are all so close and all match up pretty evenly against eachother, with no clear cut "Easier" team, that all teams tonight are just going to try their best to win and have some momentum going into the playoffs.
I think Dallas will still be motivated to win tonight. They'll be playing a division rival at home on the last day of the season with a chance to move up in the standings. Even though it would only be going from 7 to 6th seed I think anytime a team has a chance to move up they would want to take advantage because you never know what can happen.
I think Dallas wants to play the Spurs for sure. Not only have the Mavs beat the Spurs in the playoffs, many of their players openly say they have absolutely no fear of the Spurs and that the Spurs would hate to see them in the playoffs.
I agree.
What if SA, Portland and Houston all win. I don't see the results for that scenario. Houston will be the #2 and Denver will be #3 but what about the rest.
IF you're Dallas, who would you rather play?
Does Dallas tank tonight's game to be matched up with a team like Denver or Houston, over the Spurs?
Spurs will play Portland and be 5th seed.
1.LA
2.Houston
3.Denver
4.Portland
5.Spurs
6.New Orleans
7.Dallas
8.Utah
I see now where I missed it. Or If Portland and Houston win spurs get #5 seed.
Yes Dallas will tank it. Houston will win tonight.
Dallas doesn't want Denver.
Dallas wants to play San Antonio. There are no questions about it.
As good as SAS is i agree with you here...out of DEN, HOU and SAS the Spurs are the most vunerable w/o Manu and Timmy's knee. Not saying the Mavs would win but there best chance is vs. SAS....plus we know the Spurs usually bring the best out of the mavs (minus that pathetic effort in Feb when Spurs where w/o Manu and Tim
Like i said in another thread...
If Mavs lose to the Spurs without Manu....Mavs fans should never be able to bring up '06 Game 7 ever again
Thou shalt be quoted on that.
Thou shalt be quoted on that.
Kinda like requiring a 6 year old to give up his imaginary friend once he starts elementary school?
In both of these examples, it's highly unlikely that either would occur.......
We want the Spurs. No question.
The Mavs have already proven they can win in San Antonio and all they have to do is win 1 game in River City to have a chance. Now factor in no Ginob and the Mavs are drooling over this matchup.
However, they aren't scared of Thuggets even though they lost 4 close games to them. 2 of those games were w/o Josh Howard and 1 of the games was his first game back and his minutes were limited under 20 (the 2 pt. loss).
Portland is young and inexperienced and the Mavs have already won in Portland. But this team should scare people. They are young and athletic and have no fear.
Houston will go as far as Yao's big toe will take them. Great home team. Average road team.
But make no mistake the Mavs ,as someone pointed out, have no fear of the Spurs whatsoever. So that is their first choice.
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