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Jazz 2017/18 Playoff Bus! All Aboard!

No one will ever lose again. We have half the west locked in a brutal playoff race and you have half the league in the biggest tankapalooza in recent memory. Plus the eastern conference playoff teams are basically locked, so you have the good EC teams throwing away games to western conference playoff teams. Really ****** situation. We can solve the tanking issue by always giving the jazz the number one pick.
 
Since February the top 11 teams in the West are a combined 61-9 vs the other 19 teams in the NBA.
Also, I just counted the previous 10 for the 9 worst teams in the league (the tankers) a day or two ago, and they had a combined 11-79 over 90 games. Wonder how many of those wins are against non-tankers...
 
Damn, y'all need to relax. They aren't even playing their hard games yet.

Spurs still plays:
Warriors x2, OKC x2, Rockets x2, Pelicans x2, Wolves, Wash x2 , Utah, Bucks, Clips, Blazers

OKC still plays:
Rockets x2, Spurs x2, Clips, Raptors, Celtics, Blazers, Nuggets, Pelicans, Warriors

Wolves still play:
Celtics, Warriors, Wash, Spurs, Rockets, Clips, Sixers, Utah, Nuggets x2

Nuggets still play:
Cavs, Wash, Sixers, Raptors, OKC, Bucks, Pacers, Wolves x2, Clips, Blazers (Nuggs last 10 games are brutal)

Blazers still play:
Warriors, Cavs, Clips, Rockets x2, Celtics, OKC, Pelicans, Clips, Spurs, Nuggets, Jazz

Pelicans still play:
Clips x2, Wash, Jazz, Spurs x2, Rockets x2, Celtics, Pacers, Blazers, Cavs, OKC Warriors

Clippers still play:
Pelicans x2, Cavs, Rockets, OKC, Blazers x2, Wolves, Bucks x2, Pacers x2, Raptors, Spurs, Jazz, Nuggets

There are a ton of games were the 7 teams directly in front of us play each other. That is a guaranteed loss in favor of the Jazz. One of them will lose. They've had mostly easy teams like the Lakers, Nets and Grizz since the all star break. But fear not. Their gauntlet is coming. Jazz keep winning and they are in, most likely 5th or 6th. I think the Clippers and Spurs are the teams that fall out of the playoffs.
 
The upcoming road trip will be huge. Pacers, Grizzlies, Pelicans. In particular the Pelicans game, of course. 2-1 would be okay, 1-2 not okay, 0-3 disaster (although it probably takes something special to pry a loss away from Memphis).
 
Houston @ OKC
Denver @ Dallas
Knicks
@ Blazers
Pelicans @ Lakers
Not entirely unreasonable to hope for some help. Rockets aren't trustworthy, but they are the better team. I doubt Knicks and Mavs can do anything, but Lakers aren't tanking, and could give us a hand at home.
 
SAS barely beat MEM home. They might be out of the playoffs if they keep this. Their schedule won't help either.

MIN looks lost without Butler, is playing terrible defense. Their remaining schedule has 3 B2Bs. They'll go 6-10 and miss the playoffs.

By the way so far UTA has played 43 teams over .500, 21 under .500

UTA 43 - 21
LAC 33 - 29
DEN 37 - 26
OKC 36 -29
MIN 40 - 26
SAS 34 - 30
NOP 36 - 26
POR 37 - 27

Playing in a tough division does not help obviously. I think UTA will go 13-5 in the remaining games to finish with 47 wins.

3. POR
4. DEN
5. OKC
6. UTA
7. NOP
8. SAS
 
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