Spurs trying to track down the 2/3/4 seed

[FlAVaK]

Well atleast the grizzlies lost tonight. If the thunder can win tom, LA, POR and SAS will all be a game behind the L colum. memphis and houston. What happens if all these teams end up with identical records?

Depends on how the HOU-SAS games turn out, but I guess those would be Spurs wins, to get to this scenario. And what about the Clips?

Too many unknowns, here are the rules:

http://stats.nba.com/playoffpicture/

b. More Than Two Teams Tied
(1) Division leader wins tie from team not leading a division.
(2) Better winning percentage in all games among the tied teams.
(3) Better winning percentage against teams in own division (only if all tied teams are in the same division).
(4) Better winning percentage against teams in own conference.
(5) Better winning percentage against teams eligible for playoffs in own conference (including teams that finished the regular season tied for a playoff position).
(6) Better net result of total points scored less total points allowed against all opponents (“point differential”).

Do the math...

[FlAVaK]

And for tie-breakers:

http://www.sbnation.com/nba/2015/3/1...ern-conference

The most relevant head-to-head tiebreaks already clinched are:

Memphis over Portland
Memphis over Dallas
Portland over Houston
Portland over San Antonio
Los Angeles over Portland
Los Angeles over Dallas
Dallas over Oklahoma City
Dallas over New Orleans
Phoenix over Dallas
New Orleans over Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City over Phoenix

The most relevant head-to-head tiebreaks that have already ended in ties are:

Houston and Memphis
Houston and Los Angeles
San Antonio and Memphis
San Antonio and Los Angeles
San Antonio and Dallas

[SpurPadre]

Portlands record is irrelevant, if we have homecourt, they are done in 5, if they have homecourt, they may last 6 if they are lucky. They arent my concern

It is more about me wanting the pelicans to get the eighth seed and not okc.

[Duncanforthree]

I'd love for us to finish 3rd tbh.

Avoid GSW until the real wcf.

Not have to deal with the Mavs and their hard on for us since they are all but locked in at 7.

Road to the finals is Hou-Mem-Gsw. I'd take it.

Houston with no Beverley, broke DHo, and most importantly Terrence out.

It's been a long time and SAS/HOU in the playoffs.

[cd021]

Who owns the tie-breaker between us and the Grizz? Too lazy to look it up.

Depends on how the division standings shake out.

Memphis plays N.O.P

Spurs play Houston twice and N.O.P

Memphis are 8-7
Spurs are 6-7

A win to against the Warriors and a Memphis loss to the Pelicans would boost the chances of the Spurs jumping over Memphis.I'd be fine if the Spurs stay in 6th with Memphis staying in 3rd. If the Spurs can beat them in round 1, they could face Dallas in the second round (with the Spurs having home court in the second round in that scenario)

[MultiTroll]

OKC tankin to get the lottery chance rather then 8th seed and 1st round blown out.

[timtonymanu]

smh another team failing to help us

[apalisoc_9]

[timtonymanu]

Harden, dumb way to foul out

Probably doesn't matter anyway

[apalisoc_9]

[timtonymanu]

Enes Cancer

[Darius Bieber]

Damnit. Was hoping for an OKC upset.... Oh well.

[MultiTroll]

Houstons Brewer does an intentional foul with 3 seconds left and rigged ref lets it go.

[Mel_13]

Houstons Brewer does an intentional foul with 3 seconds left and rigged ref lets it go.

Not rigged, just incompetent.

[Ron Swanson]

Goddamn OKC can't do anything right.

[daslicer]

If the spurs can't get the 5th seed they are better off with the standings staying the way they are which is playing the Grizzlies in round 1 instead of the Rockets.

[spurs10]

If the spurs can't get the 5th seed they are better off with the standings staying the way they are which is playing the Grizzlies in round 1 instead of the Rockets.

Might be the way it is.

[Spurs 4 The Win]

At this point, if the spurs go 6-0 to close out the season, they are guaranteed homecourt and will likely capture the 2 seed. However, if they lose even one game, they will likely finish 6 (with an outside shot at 5)

[Budkin]

If the spurs can't get the 5th seed they are better off with the standings staying the way they are which is playing the Grizzlies in round 1 instead of the Rockets.

That's what I'm rooting for at this point.

[MultiTroll]

At this point, if the spurs go 6-0 to close out the season, they are guaranteed homecourt and will likely capture the 2 seed.

Really?! Just when i thought i was out, you pulled me back in. (out of following the other teams. Gave up after their continual letdowns ie Portland choking to the Slippers in the 4th qtr.)

[Spurs 4 The Win]

Really?! Just when i thought i was out, you pulled me back in. (out of following the other teams. Gave up after their continual letdowns ie Portland choking to the Slippers in the 4th qtr.)

Yeah, we will have tiebreaker over Houston if we tie them and if Grizzlies end in 3 way tie we have the breaker over them (if head to head, grizzlies will have tiebreaker) and we would only need clippers to lose one more, then we would get the 2 seed

[SpurPadre]

Hope the Lakers make the clips sweat at least. One of our many inexcusable losses this season was to those ing scrubs. Still remember gy P celebrating like it was Game 7 of the Finals.

[apalisoc_9]

Hope the Lakers make the clips sweat at least. One of our many inexcusable losses this season was to those ing scrubs. Still remember gy P celebrating like it was Game 7 of the Finals.

damn...two easy wins for la

[apalisoc_9]

Let's go Lakers!

[Kidd K]

Gotta be honest, I didn't think the Spurs could close the gap in the standings this much. It's not even so much how the Spurs have played that surprises me as to how ty the west has been doing to allow us to catch up.

Even the 2 seed is possible now. Crazy. I'll be very happy with the 3 seed though considering how far back we were