Game 81: Hawks at Wolves

[jayu70]

Why are Young and Murray not in the game?

Trae still on minutes restrictions, 2nd game back from ligament surgery. Murray was a game time decision with Quad injury. Bogi and Caoela also sat the entire 4th.
Hawks are locked in the 10th seed and already have enough injuries with Johnson and Okongwu out for the rest of the season.
Just staying healthy for the playin.

[Loaf_of_bread]

ESPN has something against the Wolves. They put Wolves in 2nd place behind OKC again. Going to take them two days to fix it.

Ok, that's what i saw as well. Thanks

[_AIJ_]

Embarrassing win

[Calinks]

ESPN has something against the Wolves. They put Wolves in 2nd place behind OKC again. Going to take them two days to fix it.

We are in second. We have tie breakrs over all of them but OKC has tiebreakers over Denver than gives them an edge and make them 1. We are 2 and if we are all tied at the end of the season, we stay at 2 and we will have to face Denver in the second round if we both get out the first. OKC will get to avoid Us and Denver until the conference finals.

EDIT: I guess OKC has a tiebreaker over us too? I thought we had them. Either way, they got one over Denver and they get the 1 for sure.

[Nick K]

AAARRROOOOO!!

Rudy with 25-19-5 blks. WOW!

How do you figure Denver loses to SA tonight!!!?

[FrenchMinnyFan]

As i say Rudy, Mike and NAZ keep us alive tonight. I really like Rudy attitude at the end, he got the ball, could pass it but keep it to go to the FT line and make 2 clutch FT. Hope next week he got the DPOY, he deserves it so much.

[Loaf_of_bread]

ESPN has something against the Wolves. They put Wolves in 2nd place behind OKC again. Going to take them two days to fix it.

We are in second. We have tie breakrs over all of them but OKC has tiebreakers over Denver than gives them an edge and make them 1. We are 2 and if we are all tied at the end of the season, we stay at 2 and we will have to face Denver in the second round if we both get out the first. OKC will get to avoid Us and Denver until the conference finals.

EDIT: I guess OKC has a tiebreaker over us too? I thought we had them. Either way, they got one over Denver and they get the 1 for sure.

Can we get this straitened out?

I think guy is right and we have tie breaker over both if we all end up w the same record

[shrink]

Tiebreaker Basis – Three or More Teams Tied
(-) Tie breaker not needed (better overall winning percentage)
(1) Division leader wins tie from team not leading a division (this criterion is
applied regardless of whether the tied teams are in the same division)
(2) Better winning percentage in all games among the tied teams
(3) Division won-lost percentage (only if all teams are in same division)
(4) Conference won-lost percentage
(5) Better winning percentage against teams eligible for the playoffs in own
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”)

(1) Doesn’t apply
(2) OKC 3-1 vs DEN, OKC 2-2 vs MIN, DEN 2-2 vs MIN

1. Thunder 5-3
2. Wolves 4-4
3. Nuggets 3-5

Dang it!

[Nick K]

As i say Rudy, Mike and NAZ keep us alive tonight. I really like Rudy attitude at the end, he got the ball, could pass it but keep it to go to the FT line and make 2 clutch FT. Hope next week he got the DPOY, he deserves it so much.

I'm glad you were so confident!!! I was praying he'd pass it to anyone else!

[Calinks]

We pretty much need Dallas' scrubs to have the game of their lives and we need to beat the Suns to get that 1 spot. Dallas sitting Luka and Kyrie is going to be killer.

[Worm Guts]

ESPN has something against the Wolves. They put Wolves in 2nd place behind OKC again. Going to take them two days to fix it.

We are in second. We have tie breakrs over all of them but OKC has tiebreakers over Denver than gives them an edge and make them 1. We are 2 and if we are all tied at the end of the season, we stay at 2 and we will have to face Denver in the second round if we both get out the first. OKC will get to avoid Us and Denver until the conference finals.

EDIT: I guess OKC has a tiebreaker over us too? I thought we had them. Either way, they got one over Denver and they get the 1 for sure.

We have the tiebreaker over OKC in a two way tie.

[BlacJacMac]

Tiebreaker Basis – Three or More Teams Tied
(-) Tie breaker not needed (better overall winning percentage)
(1) Division leader wins tie from team not leading a division (this criterion is
applied regardless of whether the tied teams are in the same division)
(2) Better winning percentage in all games among the tied teams
(3) Division won-lost percentage (only if all teams are in same division)
(4) Conference won-lost percentage
(5) Better winning percentage against teams eligible for the playoffs in own
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”)

1. Doesn’t apply
2. OKC 3-1 vs DEN, OKC 2-2 vs MIN, DEN 2-2 vs MIN

1. Thunder 5-3
2. Wolves 4-4
3. Nuggets 3-5

Dang it!

Yup. The only way we get the #1 is if we beat Phoenix and either (or both) Denver loses to Memphis or OKC loses to Dallas (likely without Luka and Kyrie).

So most likely we need to beat Phoenix to stay at #2.

[Loaf_of_bread]

Tiebreaker Basis – Three or More Teams Tied
(-) Tie breaker not needed (better overall winning percentage)
(1) Division leader wins tie from team not leading a division (this criterion is
applied regardless of whether the tied teams are in the same division)
(2) Better winning percentage in all games among the tied teams
(3) Division won-lost percentage (only if all teams are in same division)
(4) Conference won-lost percentage
(5) Better winning percentage against teams eligible for the playoffs in own
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”)

1. Doesn’t apply
2. OKC 3-1 vs DEN, OKC 2-2 vs MIN, DEN 2-2 vs MIN

1. Thunder 5-3
2. Wolves 4-4
3. Nuggets 3-5

Dang it!

Well we need to play phx tough no matter what. Thanks for this

[TimberKat]

Tiebreaker Basis – Three or More Teams Tied
(-) Tie breaker not needed (better overall winning percentage)
(1) Division leader wins tie from team not leading a division (this criterion is
applied regardless of whether the tied teams are in the same division)
(2) Better winning percentage in all games among the tied teams
(3) Division won-lost percentage (only if all teams are in same division)
(4) Conference won-lost percentage
(5) Better winning percentage against teams eligible for the playoffs in own
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”)

1. Doesn’t apply
2. OKC 3-1 vs DEN, OKC 2-2 vs MIN, DEN 2-2 vs MIN

1. Thunder 5-3
2. Wolves 4-4
3. Nuggets 3-5

Dang it!

That really sucks. We got tie breaker over each team but don't have the 3 way tie. So we need to win and one of the lose on Sunday

[FrenchMinnyFan]

I would prefer get the top seat but it does not matter that much. West is totally packed this year and first round will be very tough. Great season so far, keep fighting.

[Nick K]

Tiebreaker Basis – Three or More Teams Tied
(-) Tie breaker not needed (better overall winning percentage)
(1) Division leader wins tie from team not leading a division (this criterion is
applied regardless of whether the tied teams are in the same division)
(2) Better winning percentage in all games among the tied teams
(3) Division won-lost percentage (only if all teams are in same division)
(4) Conference won-lost percentage
(5) Better winning percentage against teams eligible for the playoffs in own
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”)

1. Doesn’t apply
2. OKC 3-1 vs DEN, OKC 2-2 vs MIN, DEN 2-2 vs MIN

1. Thunder 5-3
2. Wolves 4-4
3. Nuggets 3-5

Dang it!

So were effed right? Facing Denver in the WCF is the ideal.

[shrink]

That really sucks. We got tie breaker over each team but don't have the 3 way tie. So we need to win and one of the lose on Sunday

Right! We have tie-breaker over both, and we can’t control how DEN lost to OKC. Doesn’t seem fair.

[casteral]

well, if we didn't get swept by the bulls, we prob have the #1 seed, but it is what it is now.

[TimberKat]

That really sucks. We got tie breaker over each team but don't have the 3 way tie. So we need to win and one of the lose on Sunday

Right! We have tie-breaker over both, and we can’t control how DEN lost to OKC. Doesn’t seem fair.

The DEN game on Wed was huge. If we beat them and lose to Hawks, we would had the 3 way tie breaker.

[Klomp]

Embarrassing win

Better than what happened to Denver (not that they really care)