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Official Utah/Minnesota/Philadelphia Pick Watch

I do t think there’s much hope in Minnesota falling much lower than 13, but if New Orleans and LA can each win 2 more games it won’t matter. As long as they are in the 9/10 single elimination game the Jazz still have a better than average chance at getting two lottery picks. That’s a huge boon after how this season started.
 
NUMBERICA said:
Why did OKC have to give me hope tonight.
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No kidding. I was looking at box scores earlier and saw OKC was leading 104-100 with 1:03 left. I turned the game on and saw that the scoreboard said 3rd quarter. I was mind ****ed for a second because I thought it was the 4th quarter.
 
Coach Ellis said:
I do t think there’s much hope in Minnesota falling much lower than 13, but if New Orleans and LA can each win 2 more games it won’t matter. As long as they are in the 9/10 single elimination game the Jazz still have a better than average chance at getting two lottery picks. That’s a huge boon after how this season started.
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There is a pretty decent chance that even if Minnesota made the playoffs as the 8th seed their pick could end up at 15.
 
Elizah Huge said:
There is a pretty decent chance that even if Minnesota made the playoffs as the 8th seed their pick could end up at 15.
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That’s all fine and good, but I’d still prefer to have their 10 lottery combinations if possible. Statistically insignificant, but still better than a 0.0% chance it moves up - which is exactly what happens if they win enough to get up into that 7th or 8th spot in the playoffs.
 
Coach Ellis said:
That’s all fine and good, but I’d still prefer to have their 10 lottery combinations if possible. Statistically insignificant, but still better than a 0.0% chance it moves up - which is exactly what happens if they win enough to get up into that 7th or 8th spot in the playoffs.
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Well of course lol.
 
Jingled said:
I swear if we beat OKC on Thursday...
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Thing is, OKC last game is against Memphis. If we assume Memphis rests everyone and OKC gets a freebie there then we are actually already eliminated.

See OKC would own the tiebreaker even if they lost to us so we cannot catch them even if we win out. All we can do is drop our 9th pick to 10th the rest of the way.
 
Also OKC losing was a positive in the sense that now Mavs have a theoretical path to the play-in. They get Sacramento at home today and Kings are pretty locked in at 3rd.... but Mavs also need help from us or Memphis since OKC owns the tiebreaker against them as well.
 
HermanG said:
Thing is, OKC last game is against Memphis. If we assume Memphis rests everyone and OKC gets a freebie there then we are actually already eliminated.

See OKC would own the tiebreaker even if they lost to us so we cannot catch them even if we win out. All we can do is drop our 9th pick to 10th the rest of the way.
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One of the underrated results from last night was Denver losing and Memphis winning. Denver still hasn't locked in the 1 seed. I'm not sure on the tie breaker situation there, but if the same result happens tomorrow (very possible), it would mean that Denver could likely play their guys vs us, which would be nice as I've been counting that as a win for us.
 
MT Steve said:
The Timberwolves are a good team.

We are lucky they got ravaged by whatever illness messed them up over the last week.
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They barely barely beat the nets. Who arent very good. Minnesota is an average team. As their record shows
 
fishonjazz said:
They barely barely beat the nets. Who arent very good. Minnesota is an average team. As their record shows
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Well they've also won @ the Clippers, @ the Kings (twice), @ the Knicks, and @ the Warriors since acquiring Conley.

They also seemed to have really gotten their **** together a week ago, before Naz Reid broke his wrist and their entire team got sick at the same time.
 
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