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If the lakers win tonight and the Hornets win, it will be no reason for the Hornets to play their starters against the Mavs. Dallas should win!
Denver draws the Grizzlies in their last game and the Mav's draw the Hornets in their last game. If the Nuggets win and the Mav's lose (very likely scenario) then they would have identical records.
This would go to the tiebreaker in head to head matchups this season. Denver owns the better head to head record in this case 2-1 against the Mavs which means the Nuggets move up to 7 and the Mavs fall to 8.
Lakers vs Mavs first round baby!!!
If the lakers win tonight and the Hornets win, it will be no reason for the Hornets to play their starters against the Mavs. Dallas should win!
Wait...the Lakers host the Queens and the Hornets play the Clip Show. If LA wins, do they clinch HCA throughout the West no matter what NOLA does? Or would NOLA need a win at Dallas just to hang onto the #2 seed? In which case a win against LAC gives them at least the #2?
Gotta watch out for the Kings...they are playing for pride and with some pretty good basktball. Question is, will they have their starters or not?
Yes. Lakers win with a clinch regardless of anyone else.
And if the Hornets win tonight they clinch the division. Not sure about #2.
And Hornets clinch #2 with a win over Clippers, correct? So Lakeshow is correct, if both the Lakers and Hornets win tonight, then the Hornets would be locked in at #2 and have no incentive to play their starters against Dallas?
Hornets will be locked, but they have an incentive to play--they can decide whether they want to play Dallas or Denver first round by either "resting" or playing hard and beating Dallas.
Yeah - I had to check but thats correct. If the Lakers and Hornets both win, they also clinch the top two seeds in the West.
Just reading the le of this thread gets me nervous...
Forgot that angle, you are correct.
What are the chances that the Hornets play the Mavs straight up as a means to avoid them? I think it's safe to assume they and the Lakers win tonight.
Spurs/Hornets with identical records and tied for second if the Hornets lose and the Spurs win.
I am not sure how the tie breaker works in this case because the Spurs and Hornets have split their games 2-2
Spursfans should be the biggest Clipper fans on the planet. Cause that means a first round matchup with either the Mavs or the Nuggets.
Conference record when teams have the same record and split head to head.
Just depends on who the Hornets feel is a better matchup. Also they've kind of fallen down to earth in their last two losses, so they may also want to play hard and carry momentum into the playoffs.
But really the Mavs could have had 7th seed locked up and it wouldn't have come to the last game if they had just beaten either Portland or Seattle.
What if conference record is identical because that is what it would be.
You also gotta figure that Dallas would go all out to play NO instead of having to face LA again - who they lost 3 in a row to. Win that game and they can send a message to NO and maybe get an advantage.
dallas should win against lal
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I guess we need to be Laker and Hornet fans tonight. I can't see Byron Scott playing full tilt trying to avoid the Mavericks. They'll be on the 2nd of a b2b and on the road. If you play hard and lose, you still get the Mavs and there's a psychological component at play now.
I wouldn't say we'd be favored to beat the Hornets, far from it, but we have a better shot against them than the Lakers, against whom we have no shot.
Gosh, I have no idea. I think the Spurs are two behind in the loss column in conference play to the Hornets as of now.
Dallas-LA would be a dream matchup for everyone but Dallas and LA.It'll be a travesty if the Lakers end up with a 1st-round date with the Nuggets, while everyone else has to play their asses off just to make it to the 2nd round.
Everyone's underestimating the Mavs right now, and I don't think that's a very smart thing to do.
Well if the Spurs are two behind in the loss column, then the Spurs would be number 3 and the Hornets number 2. Spurs would draw the sixth seed which again, is the Suns. Unless I am missing something here.
I looked it up, something is not right. The Spurs win and tie the Hornets than the conference records would be 33-17 Hornets and 33-18 Spurs. That's not fair based on the fact that the Hornets played one less game.
Except that I forgot the Hornets have two more games to play. The Clippers and the Mavs. IF and this is a big IF
Hornets lose to Clippers and lose to the Mavs then they will have identical conference records but would lose flat out to the Spurs based on the Spurs having a better overall record.
So the Hornets lose one game and Beat the Mavs, and the Spurs beat the Jazz they will be tied with the Spurs in all likelyhood with identical records of 56-26. The conference record would then be Hornets favor and the Hornets would get Number 2 and the Spurs 3.
Last edited by Indazone; 04-15-2008 at 02:08 PM.
I dunno, but I don't think any of these guys will tank a game with the playoffs the way it is now. Can you seriously say that Pop has ever tanked a game before? Byron Scott? Well maybe he'd do it but I don't think Pop would ever do it.
If they're locked into their seed, and if they are truly are better than Dallas, then why should they be afraid of them and bust their asses off and risk injury to key playes in a game just to avoid them?
On the other hand, what business do we have worrying about seeds and potential opponents when we can't beat the Sonics?
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