Game 76: Cleveland Cavaliers (46-30) @ Phoenix Suns (44-31) | Tuesday | 7:00PM

[SunsRback4Good]

Finish up business and we could end up being the team others want to avoid

Agreed

[sunsbum]

I definitely want to be the Mavs on the way to the O’Brien if it’s in the cards. Book needs to confront that euoropean demon.

[bwgood77]

I think that Pelicans (without Ingram at least for another week) and Kings (Huerter and Monk out) are gonna lose enough games to not consider them a factor in our seed for the playoffs.

The Kings play tonight @ New York Knicks and tomorrow @ Boston...good luck with that.

And the Clippers play tonight against the Nuggets missing Khawi again.

Yeah, I think we likely get 6th now. I just posted in the other thread. Looks unlikely we catch Dallas...not that I really care to if we get 6th.

Regarding Dallas...I have mixed feelings about them. On one hand I think they are one of the strongest opponents and probably the toughest matchup for us because of Doncic.

On the other hand I would love to watch another series against them with all the trash-talking and all the other stuff that comes with our recent rivalry.

I think they are gonna end 4th or 5th at worst...probably our first round matchup if we win both games to the Clippers.

Well, it's better to think game by game. We aren't in the playoffs yet, we need to stay locked in. For now just bring us the Wolves.

4th? We are 2.5 games back of the Clips with 6 games left. Two against the Jazz. We'd have to beat them two nights in a row and hope they lose 3 more games than us.

I guess you are expecting us to go undefeated the rest of the way? Also Dallas still plays the Hornets and Pistons and are leading the Hawks right now. There "hard games" are Houston and GS at home and then a tough one on the road at OKC to end the season.

Though if it came down to it, I could see them preferring to play Minnesota or maybe even OKC over the Clippers, so they could just gift us the 5th spot.

They lost two close ones to OKC, but one was without Luka and the other without Kyrie. When they were healthy, they beat OKC by 35.

Or I guess you meant you think Dallas would finish 4th. I typed all that up and just realized that.

[sunsbg]

Looks more and more like another Clippers vs Mavs 1st round series. Kings lost and there is a good chance they lose tomorrow against Celtics. I'm more worried about Lakers now. If we beat MIN they have a game against DEN which will probably decide 1st seed.

[Saberestar]

Or I guess you meant you think Dallas would finish 4th. I typed all that up and just realized that.

Yeah, I think Dallas can be 4th if we win both games to the Clippers.

The Clippers won to the Nuggets tonight so they are in a better position now to finish 5th at worst, it would be very strange for them to lose so many games to end 6th or even in the Play-In.

[sasquatchBob]

Man, I love how Nurkic plays. I just wish he could move his feet faster to be a better defender