Official Seedings Thread

[Princess Pimp]

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/recap?gameId=280414023

Clinched? I'm still confused.

What part you don't understand?

The victory, coupled with Houston's loss to Utah, put the Spurs in position to clinch third place in the conference for a second straight season.

[Warlord23]

Basically the best scenarios for us have us facing the Rockets:
We win, Houston loses, Phoenix wins. We end up # 3 and face Houston (#6)
We lose, Houston loses, Phoenix loses. We end up #4 and play #5 Houston.
We lose, Houston wins, Phoenix loses. We end up #5 and play Houston (#4) w/o HCA

Worst scenarios: we don't get HCA and we don't get Houston
We lose, Houston loses, Phoenix wins. We end up #5 and play #4 Phoenix w/o HCA
We lose, Houston wins, Phoenix wins. We end up #6 and play #3 Utah w/o HCA.

Average scenarios: we get HCA, but we don't get Houston
We win, Houston wins, Phoenix wins. We end up#3 and play #6 Phoenix
We win, Phoenix loses. We end up #3 and play # 6 Phoenix (doesn't matter what Houston does)

[BonnerDynasty]

What sucks is that if the Warriors would have hung on to beat the Suns, the Spurs could have tanked the game against the Jazz to setup Spurs vs. Rockets with the Spurs having homecourt in the 4 vs. 5 matchup. That would have been niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice.



A must lose game followed by HCA versus the Rockets. Why did the Warriors have to choke?

They tried man! Pop showed his cards way too early tonight and the Suns figured out what was going on with plenty of time left.

[timaios]

If Rockets win
If Suns win
If Spurs win

3 Spurs 56 26
4 Jazz 54 28
5 Rockets 55 27
6 Suns 55 27

If Rockets win
If Suns win
If Utah win

3. Jazz 55 27
4. Suns 55 27
5. Rockets 55 27
6. Spurs 55 27

1st case the Jazz play the Rockets without HCA
2nd case the Jazz play the Spurs with HCA

Utah could lose against San Antonio on purpose to play Houston in 1st round !
If you are the Jazz what do you prefer ???

[Warlord23]

^^Utah with HCA is damn near unbeatable. No way they even consider tanking tomorrow.

[timaios]

^^Utah with HCA is damn near unbeatable. No way they even consider tanking tomorrow.

Yeah but Rockets or Spurs, in playoffs, it's not the same !

[TampaDude]

Utah could lose against San Antonio on purpose to play Houston in 1st round !
If you are the Jazz what do you prefer ???

It would be funny to watch both the Jazz and the Spurs trying to tank that game on Wednesday...

[timaios]

It would be funny to watch both the Jazz and the Spurs trying to tank that game on Wednesday...

But Spurs don't want to tank that game at all.
If Spurs lose that game, they got the Jazz without HCA !!!

[Allanon]

I guess what we DO KNOW for certain, just to get it out of the way:

Lakers/Hornets will be #1 or #2 (Hornets own Spurs tiebreaker)

Dallas/Nuggets will be #7 or #8. If Dallas loses and Denver wins their final games, they will switch...ugh!

[FearDaFro]

If you're Utah, you'd rather play the 96 Bulls with homecourt advantage than the 96 clippers without.

[BonnerDynasty]

Having to play Utah without HCA

AND

Having The Suns get Rockets in 1st round.


Jumping off the ledge right now....

[Ice009]

^^Utah with HCA is damn near unbeatable. No way they even consider tanking tomorrow.

Good point. I was thinking Utah would rather lose and face the Rockets in round one, but maybe they want the third seed because that would give them home court advantage against more teams in the west. Interesting scenario.

So who thinks Utah want the win?

[TampaDude]

It's all gonna come down to Wednesday...the #3 through #6 seeds are still up in the air...what a crazy year...

[Ice009]

I think the Spurs need to win this one.

[Warlord23]

Edit ... Never mind ... I got that wrong ... guess I need to go to bed now

[ploto]

Boston 65-16
Detroit 57-23
Orlando 50-30
Cleveland 45-36
Washington 43-38
Toronto 41-40
Philadelphia 40-41
Atlanta 37-43

Toronto has the tie breaker with Philly so these are all set.

[Budkin]

It's time for ing revenge against the Jazz on Wednesday. those es.

[Dingle Barry]

Basically the best scenarios for us have us facing the Rockets:
We win, Houston loses, Phoenix wins. We end up # 3 and face Houston (#6)
We lose, Houston loses, Phoenix loses. We end up #4 and play #5 Houston.
We lose, Houston wins, Phoenix loses. We end up #5 and play Houston (#4) w/o HCA

Worst scenarios: we don't get HCA and we don't get Houston
We lose, Houston loses, Phoenix wins. We end up #5 and play #4 Phoenix w/o HCA
We lose, Houston wins, Phoenix wins. We end up #6 and play #3 Utah w/o HCA.

Average scenarios: we get HCA, but we don't get Houston
We win, Houston wins, Phoenix wins. We end up#3 and play #6 Phoenix
We win, Phoenix loses. We end up #3 and play # 6 Phoenix (doesn't matter what Houston does)

Thanks.

[pku47]

They were saying that on TV but I don't think that is correct. If the Spurs lose against the Jazz and the Rockets and Suns both win, it'll be a four-way tie. The tiebreaker is ulative record versus the tied teams.

The four teams would be Spurs, Jazz, Suns and Rockets. The Spurs are 4-8 versus those teams, the Rockets are 5-6, the Suns are 6-5 and the Jazz are 7-3.

That'd make the bracket end up us:

1. Lakers
2. Hornets
3. Jazz
4. Suns
5. Rockets
6. Spurs
7. Mavs
8. Nuggets

That'd be horrible for the Spurs. Going out on the road with a rusty team into the hardest gym in the NBA against a team that just beat the Spurs at home?

That'd most likely be season over.

The Spurs MUST beat Utah on Wednesday.

You're not right timvp, but
5 spurs 6 Rox

[Allanon]

Boston 65-16
Detroit 57-23
Orlando 50-30
Cleveland 45-36
Washington 43-38
Toronto 41-40
Philadelphia 40-41
Atlanta 37-43

Toronto has the tie breaker with Philly so these are all set.

That's cool, the East is all set and ready?

Crazy thing is 28 of 30 NBA teams play on Wednesday, but the only ones that will matter then are the Spurs, Suns, Rockets, Jazz and Mavs.

[cly2tw]

it, then...we gotta beat the Jazz...I don't care if we have to face the Suns...and maybe they won't end up in 6th place, anyway...

There is no "maybe" if Rockets win their gimmy to secure HCA in the 4/5 bracket. In that case, Suns will finish 6 with Spurs win, no matter what.

[DazedAndConfused]

Basically the Rockets and Suns will most likely win their games.

If the Spurs win or lose they are ed. Going to play PHX or UTAH.

[FearDaFro]

You're not right timvp

yes, he is.

[FearDaFro]

That's cool, the East is all set and ready?

Yep.

All 8 seeds in the east are clinched, but no seeds in the west are clinched.

Funny world.

[NuGGeTs-FaN]

Likely scenario is the Jazz without HCA is that correct?

Jazz should beat the Spurs (unless the Spurs wake up)

Suns will beat Portland

Rockets will beat clippers

is that right?

I wanted the Spurs to get the Jazz in round 1 BUT i wanted them to have HCA coz they could beat the Jazz. I guess that wont happen

Spurs are pretty much guaranteed a tough 1st round again. Although this time it wont be the pretender Nuggets