West Playoff seeding/results prediction thread

[playstation]

1.NO
2.Lakers
3.Suns
4.Jazz
5.Spurs
6.Rockets
7.Mavs
8.GS

the final game of the reg season is spurs/jazz, which may determine home court in the series...

rd 2 - NO, Lakers, Suns, Spurs
rd 3 - Spurs, Suns
rd 4 - Suns

 

[hsandhu]

As long as we get hou in round 1 we should be thrilled.

Also I think dallas and lal is a pick 'em series at this point. Dallas CAN beat them, the question is can they actually finish a game.

 

[Hat]

man I hope we get Houston for 1st round.

 

[Lorenzo]

As long as we get hou in round 1 we should be thrilled.

Also I think dallas and lal is a pick 'em series at this point. Dallas CAN beat them, the question is can they actually finish a game.

very true.....I think dallas CAN beat any of these teams....but will they is a totally different story.

 

[Lorenzo]

1.NO
2.Lakers
3.Suns
4.Jazz
5.Spurs
6.Rockets
7.Mavs
8.GS

the final game of the reg season is spurs/jazz, which may determine home court in the series...

rd 2 - NO, Lakers, Suns, Spurs
rd 3 - Spurs, Suns
rd 4 - Suns

I'll play that game. I'll kill my mavs in round one to take the bias out of my picks. but i'll use your seeding as well.

rd 2: NO, Lakers, Suns, Jazz
rd 3: Jazz, Lakers
rd 4: Lakers lose to celtics

 

[Michael]

I'd love these seedings but expect differently.

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

Rd 2: Hornets, Lakers, Spurs, Suns
Rd 3: Hornets, Spurs
Rd 4: Spurs (will lose to Celtics)

 

[AsUdUdE]

I honestly don't think there is any way the suns finish with the #5 seed....

First, if we lose to the Rockets Tonight.. they will have the #5 seed period....

Second, if we beat the rockets, all we have to do is have the Spurs lose one of @L.A., @Sac (next night), or Utah at home.... As long as we take care of the Warriors and Blazers at home, we should be atleast the #3 seed....

So #5 seed seems unlikely

 

[dreamcastrocks]

I wish we had vBookie for this..........

 

[Skumbag]

1. N.O. - 59/23
2. L.A. - 56/26
3. PHO - 56/26
4. UT - 55/27
5. SA - 55/27
6. HOU - 54/28
7. DAL - 52/30
8. DEN - 50/32
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9. GSW - 49/33

2nd Round:

NO vs SA = NO
LA vs PHO = PHO

3rd Round

NO vs PHO = PHO

Count it!

 

[nikko]

1 New Orleans 58 24
2 L.A. Lakers 56 26
3 Phoenix 56 26
4 Utah 54 28
5 San Antonio 55 27
6 Houston 54 28
7 Dallas 53 29
8 Denver 50 32

1 New Orleans vs 8 Denver --- New Orleans 4-1
4 Utah vs 5 San Antonio --- San Antonio 4-3

2 L.A. Lakers vs 7 Dallas --- Dallas 4-3 (if no healthy Bynum)
3 Phoenix vs 6 Houston --- Phoenix 4-1

West Semi-Finals
1 New Orleans vs 5 San Antonio --- San Antonio 4-2
3 Phoenix vs 7 Dallas --- Phoenix 4-3

West Finals
3 Phoenix vs 5 San Antonio --- San Antonio 4-3 (spurs fan here )

NBA Finals
Boston vs San Antonio --- Boston 4-3
But I hope...
Boston vs San Antonio --- San Antonio 4-2

Unfortunately, I think the Celtics are really the favorites to win it all this year !

 

[nashman]

^ Clearly a Spurs fan, so you think your team who can't score is just gonna beat Utah, and NO, and Phoenix huh? All teams who have absolutely bitched slapped the Spurs this year, whats gonna happen between now and then that makes you believe this?

 

[nikko]

^ Clearly a Spurs fan, so you think your team who can't score is just gonna beat Utah, and NO, and Phoenix huh? All teams who have absolutely bitched slapped the Spurs this year, whats gonna happen between now and then that makes you believe this?

1 Playoffs Spurs are good.
2 Manu Ginobili did not play well last 3 games but he will be huge in PO.
3 You're right, I am a Spurs fan and I believe in my team.

 

[AsUdUdE]

my official predicitons the Suns in 6th place....

 

[Lorenzo]

this is ridiculous. this WC is just not going to be figured out. i don't know who the mavs are going to play. there are so many possibilities.

 

[sLapzsHaQ]

we will end up at six. facing the spurs in the first round..

 

[arwillan]

1.N.O
2. Lakers
3. Spurs
4.Utah
5.Rockets
6.Suns
7.Dallas
8.Denver

First Round:

Denver over N.O in 7
Lakers over Dallas in 5 or 6
Suns over spurs in 6 or 7
Utah over Rockets in 7

Second Round:
Utah Over Denver in 7
Lakers over Suns in 7

WCF:
Lakers over Utah in 6

Finals:

Pistons over Lakers (again) in 7

 

[WuRaider]

We can still get the Rockets if they grab the #3 seed:

Spurs
@ Lakers L
@ Kings W
Vs Jazz W
56-26

Lakers
Vs Spurs W
Vs Kings W
57-25

Rockets
@ Nuggets W
@ Jazz L
Vs Clippers W
56-26

Rockets and Spurs tied season series. If they both lose just one game, Houston will get #3 because of a better conference record.

 

[jerryparid]

^^^^^

Not gonna happen (probably will even lose game on purpose to stay 5th seed); Rox are dead set on playing Utah at home. (Or even better Denver with 1st seed, but this is practically impossible). The match up problem prevents us from playing big teams.

Just need some playoff experience, preferably get out of first round. Next year, we got Carluis Scolandry, Yao, TMac. Thats pretty damn good.

 

[Proteus]

With the Hornets loss to the Kings, there are now 4 teams with 25 losses: the Hornets, the Lakers, the Spurs, and the Rockets.

 

[YouJustGotSUNSD]

Lakers-Spurs tomorrow is going to be AWESOME

p.s. 6 teams STILL within 2 games of each other with 4 days left in the season.

WTF

 

[Proteus]

Lakers-Spurs tomorrow is going to be AWESOME

p.s. 6 teams STILL within 2 games of each other with 4 days left in the season.

WTF

Not if you hate both teams.

 

[nikko]

We can still get the Rockets if they grab the #3 seed:

Spurs
@ Lakers L
@ Kings W
Vs Jazz W
56-26

Lakers
Vs Spurs W
Vs Kings W
57-25

Rockets
@ Nuggets W
@ Jazz L
Vs Clippers W
56-26

Rockets and Spurs tied season series. If they both lose just one game, Houston will get #3 because of a better conference record.

Humm... No.
Spurs own tiebreak with Houston because of a better DIVISION record.

 

[nikko]

Lakers-Spurs tomorrow is going to be AWESOME

p.s. 6 teams STILL within 2 games of each other with 4 days left in the season.

WTF

Without Manu Ginobili and before an important b2b game @Sacramento, i expect a blowout win for the Lakers.

 

[LV-Suns]

Humm... No.
Spurs own tiebreak with Houston because of a better DIVISION record.

Pretty sure they look at the conference record.

 

[nikko]

Pretty sure they look at the conference record.

http://www.nba.com/statistics/playoff_picture.html#tbb

(1) Better winning percentage in games against each other.

(2) Better winning percentage against teams in own division (only if tied teams are in same division).

(3) Better winning percentage against teams in own conference.

(4) Better winning percentage against teams eligible for playoffs in own conference (including teams that finished the regular season tied for a playoff position).

(5) Better winning percentage against teams eligible for playoffs in opposite 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”).