RealGM

Should we be worried?

nah

Yes, because the schedule from this point forward is pretty tough and cp3 still is out for another month at least. They will probably finish as a 6 or 7 seed. Sucks to not have home court. The only bright side would be that if they advanced they wouldn't play gsw until the conference finals. Maybe some team like Memphis could somehow upset gsw

we should just rest Blake and CP3 until the playoffs to make sure they wont suffer another injury.
play them like 10 minutes a game, play JJ like 15-20, play DJ like 20. keep all healthy until playoffs, shoot for the 7th seed.
We best matchup against the Spurs. home court advantage is overrated.
with a fully healthy team, we can pass Spurs and even beat Houston to reach the WCF.

oh almost forgot, gotta get rid of Doc and his son too.

I'm not worried at all about regular season. I've already resigned myself to accepting the fact that we are probably going to face the San Antonio Spurs in the 1st round. Best case scenario we get the 6 seed and an opportunity at revenge against HOU. Losing Paul and Griffin for so many games makes it almost impossible to keep a high seed. And to be honest, our first round will likely be tough anyway even if we hold onto the 4-6 seed. Memphis, Utah, Houston would all be tough first round matchups. At 6 or 7 seed we avoid the Warriors until the WCF.

The light at the end of the tunnel is that Blake looks super healthy right now and Paul will be in fresh condition once he gets back from the thumb injury in time for the playoffs.

Like all of you I'm not worried either. I know this team can play a lot better and we haven't played our best basketball in awhile. We had a hot start to begin the season and then fell back to the norm. As long as we're playing our best basketball at the end of the season we'll be fine. I'm with you guys in avoiding the Warriors as long as we can.

basically i look at what the team can do at its peak and then i imagine peak team

+ this version of austin rivers
- any contributions from paul pierce

and i'm good with that.

I would be worried if going down to a lower seed was necessarily a worse situation, but in reality it might be better. This team so far has shown so far that it sucks against the Warriors, so getting to 6th and having a first round matchup vs the Rockets even without HCA is a possible better path to getting the furthest in the playoffs.

If they remain 4th / 5th, they get Utah who they can certainly beat if they are healthy, but then they get GS in the second round. I think combining the return of Griffin and later the return of Paul they sadly might end up 5th. I'd prefer Memphis to pick it up a little big so that they can end up 6th. Don't mind matching up with Houston because of their weaker defense than everyone else as long as Beverly doesn't take anyone out.

og15 wrote:I would be worried if going down to a lower seed was necessarily a worse situation, but in reality it might be better. This team so far has shown so far that it sucks against the Warriors, so getting to 6th and having a first round matchup vs the Rockets even without HCA is a possible better path to getting the furthest in the playoffs.

If they remain 4th / 5th, they get Utah who they can certainly beat if they are healthy, but then they get GS in the second round. I think combining the return of Griffin and later the return of Paul they sadly might end up 5th. I'd prefer Memphis to pick it up a little big so that they can end up 6th. Don't mind matching up with Houston because of their weaker defense than everyone else as long as Beverly doesn't take anyone out.

6th place would be perfect for Clippers.

I am worried about falling too far and playing road series against a quality team in the 1st round, even if it means avoiding GSW for a round. Because then you're talking about 2 tough road series before GSW anyway.

At best Clippers could only have one series with HCA anyways and it would be playing a solid Utah team.

with Doc our coach, I'm not sure we can win a series against the Kings or Nuggets.

donemilio21 wrote:with Doc our coach, I'm not sure we can win a series against the Kings or Nuggets.

At best, it would go the full 7 games with Doc getting outcoached as usual and just squeaking by on talent alone.