>>6th seed is the most probable outcome for the Jazz. That’ll probably put them up against Denver. Jazz may push it to a 6th game; Denver should be considered clear favorites.
>>I’m very interested in the tier of dark-horse contenders this year. The teams I’m watching the closest are OKC, Toronto, and Miami. Call me crazy, but I wouldn’t be at all surprised if any of these teams won the tournament. I have Houston in this tier, too, but I hate them and don’t think they have as good a shot as the other three teams I mentioned.
>>The refereeing has been pretty bad bubble-wide. Unless this reverts back to normal, this is going to have a different kind of impact on the playoffs. I’m not sure what’s going on right now, but I’ve seen good chunks of about 9 games since the restart and at least 4 of them were very poorly officiated (two of them were Milwaukee games, fwiw).