playoff scenarios as of Tuesday morning 8/4, Spurs control their destiny

[Spurs oman]

I think technically the Spurs are alive even if POR/MEM/PHO all win today, but getting to the play-in would require POR and PHO each losing their final game. The Spurs have to beat the Jazz either way.

Yes you are right technicaly and mathmaticaly spurs will still have a chance.

However i personaly feel it must start happening today or it wont happen


portland toughest challange is dellas.
Memphis must lose 2.
Counting on them on losing

[ace3g]

Spurs win% right now if they would have beat the 76ers = 0.471 and the 8th seed.

[SASdynasty!]

Sucks that we won’t get to play as many games as the other teams. Very likely that we end the season with less losses and don’t get a chance to match their wins.

[TDomination]

Sucks that we won’t get to play as many games as the other teams. Very likely that we end the season with less losses and don’t get a chance to match their wins.

yeah its a shame

[justinandimcool]

yeah good start Philadelphia scrubs

[ace3g]

Hopefully Shake Milton has a career game.

4:44 - 1st

	1	2	3	4	T
PHX	12				12
PHI	21				21

[DAF86]

Suns vs Spurs play-in would be the best of both Worlds, right? We beat them, we get in. We lose, we get 10. Or am I mistaken?

[TDomination]

man these 4 teams are neck and neck. crazy.

the NBA should make a last minute adjustment with this playoff scenario thing. this whole restart thing is wack to begin with so making "in season adjustments" shouldn't be out of the question.

if the Grizzles, Blazers, Spurs and Suns end up within a game of each other to end the season, they should change the 8/9 "play in" to the 8,9,10,11 "play in". 8 vs 11 and 9 vs 10. One and done. Winners move on and winner of the 2nd game becomes the 8th seed. i don't think doing this would change much because the 8/9 seed were going to play against each other anyway so its not like they were a lock to make the playoff. i think the only team that wouldn't like this idea would be the team that ended up as 8 seed since now they would need to win 2 games vs just winning 1.

the eastern conference wont be having a play in so the extra game being played shouldn't be that big a deal scheduling wise. and this should be done as well since the separation between these teams seem to be based on uneven # of games played which makes it a bit unfair to lose out because you played less games.

i know it won't happen because they already made their rules but i don't think it would be an outrageous thing to do considering how close these teams are to each other record wise.

[cd98]

Suns will end up blowing out 76ers.

[ace3g]

gary washburn @GwashburnGlobe
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#Celtics starters: Walker, Brown, Hayward, Tatum, Theis

#Grizzlies: Morant, Brooks, Anderson, Tolliver, Valanciunas

[TDomination]

Suns will end up blowing out 76ers.

probably

suns up 2 now.

[ace3g]

Keep it up Michael Scott

2:59 - 2nd

	1	2	3	4	T
PHX	23	28			51
PHI	27	24			51

[itzsoweezee]

man these 4 teams are neck and neck. crazy.

the NBA should make a last minute adjustment with this playoff scenario thing. this whole restart thing is wack to begin with so making "in season adjustments" shouldn't be out of the question.

if the Grizzles, Blazers, Spurs and Suns end up within a game of each other to end the season, they should change the 8/9 "play in" to the 8,9,10,11 "play in". 8 vs 11 and 9 vs 10. One and done. Winners move on and winner of the 2nd game becomes the 8th seed. i don't think doing this would change much because the 8/9 seed were going to play against each other anyway so its not like they were a lock to make the playoff. i think the only team that wouldn't like this idea would be the team that ended up as 8 seed since now they would need to win 2 games vs just winning 1.

the eastern conference wont be having a play in so the extra game being played shouldn't be that big a deal scheduling wise. and this should be done as well since the separation between these teams seem to be based on uneven # of games played which makes it a bit unfair to lose out because you played less games.

i know it won't happen because they already made their rules but i don't think it would be an outrageous thing to do considering how close these teams are to each other record wise.

I agree. There should be a mini tournament for the 8 seed. The race for 8 has been the most interesting part of the restart

[ace3g]

1:25 - 1st

	1	2	3	4	T
BOS	20				20
MEM	13				13

[BillMc]

Philly doesn't look to care

[ace3g]

Halftime

	1	2	3	4	T
PHX	23	40			63
PHI	27	31			58

[spurs10]

Philly get it together!

[DC23]

All these what if's drive me crazy. I'll just check back in 4 hours and by then we'll have a pretty good idea or what is possible and what is not.

[DC23]

Philly doesn't look to care

Hard to care when Embiid, Simmons, Horford, Richardson, and Harris are all out.

[MultiTroll]

So the Suns control their own destiny.
If they win today vs the Sixers, win tommorow and they are in.
Right?

[objective]

Suns vs Spurs play-in would be the best of both Worlds, right? We beat them, we get in. We lose, we get 10. Or am I mistaken?

I was under the impression that the lottery odds were locked from the pre-bubble unless a team got into the playoffs, but I could be wrong.

[DC23]

So the Suns control their own destiny.
If they win today vs the Sixers, win tommorow and they are in.
Right?

The Suns get in if they win their last two, the Grizzlies lose their last two and the Blazers split their two. The Spurs get in if they win their last two, Memphis loses both and Portland and Phoenix split their final two.

[ace3g]

10:20 - 2nd

	1	2	3	4	T
BOS	24	5			29
MEM	17	0			17

[MultiTroll]

The Spurs get in if they win their last two, Memphis loses both.

What is just the above happens? Still not enough?

Portland and Phoenix split their final two

Do the Spurs need this to happen to get in period?

[DC23]

What is just the above happens? Still not enough?


Do the Spurs need this to happen to get in period?

Yes Portland and Phoenix must split because the teams in the bubble have not played equal games.