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You really love the Lakers or?
Final WC standings:
1. Lakers
2. Spurs
3. Thunder
4. Mavericks
To preface, I realize this has an extremely low probability of happening, but whatever, I'm bored and just entertaining the idea.
Remaining schedules...
Dallas (52-21):
@LAC
@LAL
@GSW
@POR
DEN
LAC
PHX
@HOU
NOH
Oklahoma City (48-24):
GSW
@PHX
@POR
@LAC
@DEN
LAC
DEN
@LAL
@SAC
MIL
LA Lakers (53-20):
DAL
@UTH
DEN
UTH
@GSW
@POR
OKC
SAS
@SAC
San Antonio (57-17)
BOS
@HOU
PHX
@ATL
SAC
UTH
@LAL
@PHX
As a Laker fan, I'd like them to avoid OKC till the WCF (if they even play each other)...but this is going on the wild assumption that both LAL and OKC make up their 3.5 game deficits against SAS and DAL with only 9 games to play.
Pipe-dream or a possibility?
Last edited by DeadlyDynasty; 03-29-2011 at 09:20 AM.
You really love the Lakers or?
my bad, fixed.
Naw
only team that will fall would be SA without Duncan. Dallas will atleast save the collapse for the playoffs (get it???? cause Dallas always chokes in the playoffs!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Lakers may be able to catch the Spurs because of the injury bug, but I doubt that the Thunder catches the Mavs.
Clever.Naw
only team that will fall would be SA without Duncan. Dallas will atleast save the collapse for the playoffs (get it???? cause Dallas always chokes in the playoffs!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's definitely possible the way things have been going in the last week or so.
That's chicken , Deads.
Tell that to Bryant face-to-face.
We quit runnin' when Vuj led everybody to the ft line last June.
Let us proceed...
I don't care who the Lakers play, really...why avoid anyone? 3 years of reaching the finals, the Lakers aren't some playoff neophyte. Bring all teams and let the chips fall as they may. I just want the playoffs to hurry up and get here already.
Got to respect the Lakers and they are on full bore right now playing absolutely dominant basketball; but a lot can happen in the last 9 games. Lakers have some tough tests again (finally) and Spurs will play better and getting Hill and Splitter going may well turn out to be a blessing in disguise. It may also help the Spurs to have some need to actually focus and win some games down the stretch. Time will tell.
Mavs meanwhile have one of the lowest point differentials since their collapse last year and in their 67 win season and unless Caron Butler comes back they might lose in the first round (again, and it would not shock me at all - Chandler is over-rated and having to play zone portends they cannot play one on one defense to cover other weaknesses like Kidd and Dirk an entire series)
OKC and Dallas tbh...maybe Portland...
Dallas, Thunder, Portland, Spurs - if LAL runs that gauntlet and wins out they fully deserve the top seed if the the Spurs cannot win 5 games.
Anything is possibleeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If Portland doesn't themselves. As to the others above...
- "Nobody comes into our house and pushes us around. Nobody."
- "Dan Devine" - "Rudy"
The Mavs don't play nearly as much zone as you suggest, and don't play it as frequently as they did early in the season.
Butler is not the key and never was the key for the Mavs. He was simply a nice 3rd/4th option. The key will be the combo of JET and Roddy, and whether they can combine to give scoring punches on a nightly basis.
Quit talking about the Mavs as if you know about them, because you clearly don't know about them, nor do you know about your own team, or know about basketball, period.
lol thinking a short 10-game stretch of late season basketball will magically morph Splitter into a seasoned playoff veteran that will for the first time in his career contribute to his team winning a game, when he has been a worthless sack of all through the regular season and cant even get off the bench in favor of a guy with no ACLs (or MCLs? cant remember) or a 50 year old undersized bigman with a vagina on his ing forehead.
At this point it does not matter to the Spurs. Where they end up or who they face. Main thing is to get healthy and try to integrate Splitter into rotation.
We are pretty much in same boat as Boston Celtics.
With the way the Spurs are playing and injuries starting to pile up, I don't see why the Lakers won't get the #1 spot
Last edited by kamikazi_player; 03-29-2011 at 01:18 PM.
It all hinges on this Boston game Thursday evening. If the Spurs lose & we back it up with a win immediately after Vs. Dallas the door swings wide open and the race is on.
I just want LA to ignore the standings and keep winning. Then they can take a look where they land after the regular season
Just worry about sending the Mavs to the tree of playoff woe and we straight...one game at a time, eh!
I'm more worried against OKC rather than Dallas. This is not to discredit the Mavs but their game plays right to LA's strengths.
If Westbrook raped Fisher last year, imagine what he's going to do to him this year.
Well, if you'd uncross your fingers we might could stand a chance.
Fisher won't be on Westbrook. And if we'd have done that earlier last year, OKC would have gone home fishing in 5.
Not really cos Kobe had an injury and he got his knee drained in gm 5 or gm 6 if I remember it right
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