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2016-17 Hype Train Playoff Chase!!!

Maybe I'm speaking too soon on this, but the Jazz are going to end up in 3rd. I think the Rockets will be coming back down to earth a little bit, I bet they play close to .500 the rest of the way.

I can see them jumping SAS with Gasol being injured and Utah challenging SAS for 3rd. Possible? Yes. Likely? Maybe, maybe not.
 
I can see them jumping SAS with Gasol being injured and Utah challenging SAS for 3rd. Possible? Yes. Likely? Maybe, maybe not.

I'm interested to see how the spurs go without gasol, their defense is sure to get better.
 
If the Jazz can get consistency from Favors and Hood, their line-up starts to resemble the 2004 Detroit Pistons--Chauncey Billups, Rip Hamilton, Tayshaun Prince, Rasheed Wallace, Ben Wallace.

The problem is that that Pistons team would probably get waxed in a series against the Warriors.
 
And BAM... the Jazz are tied for fourth.

Tied record wise but the Clips hold the tie breaker. The Jazz are also tied for the longest win streak at 6.

Another good win and Gobert has 30 straight games with 10+ boards. Extending his franchise record and the longest active streak in the NBA.

Spurs, Blazers, Nuggets and Rockets won.

Grizz lost.

Tomorrow's games:

Nothing.
 
Sometimes it ain't pretty, but the Jazz are taking care of business. Two very tough games coming up. Need a win against OKC because it will be tough to win a B2B against Denver. Nuggets are much improved.
 
I think Utah technically holds the tiebreaker with the first tiebreaker rule being a division winner followed by head to head. Yes? No?


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things that make you go hmmm
 
Ok so a 2015 NBA press release says: "The league also changed the tiebreaker procedures, making head-to-head results the first tiebreaker for seeding and home-court advantage, and whether a team won its division second. A division winner previously got the home-court advantage if it met a team with the same record in the playoffs. "

But this damn espn link says otherwise at the bottom. I'll assume I'm wrong and head to head is first: https://www.espn.com/nba/playoffs/matchups


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Ok so a 2015 NBA press release says: "The league also changed the tiebreaker procedures, making head-to-head results the first tiebreaker for seeding and home-court advantage, and whether a team won its division second. A division winner previously got the home-court advantage if it met a team with the same record in the playoffs. "

But this damn espn link says otherwise at the bottom. I'll assume I'm wrong and head to head is first: https://www.espn.com/nba/playoffs/matchups


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Yup. Utah is 0-1 against the Clips for the season.
 
Maybe I'm speaking too soon on this, but the Jazz are going to end up in 3rd. I think the Rockets will be coming back down to earth a little bit, I bet they play close to .500 the rest of the way.

The Rockets are more vulnerable than any top 8 team in the West to an injury to a single player. The Jazz have proven that they could lose any player to a season-ending injury and still go 5-6 games over .500 the rest of the way. If Harden missed any significant time, how well does anyone think a starting lineup of Ariza, Beverly, Anderson, Capella and Eric Gordon would go? Hell, it's only because teams 8-15 in the West are utter garbage that they'd make the playoffs at all if something happened to Harden right now.
 
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