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Philly at home is nice

Uh whats this? Another IST thing?

RookieStar wrote:Uh whats this? Another IST thing?

Yeah man. They're doing it every year moving forward.

We got 2 of the projected top 4 teams in our group... damn we got hosed.

thelead wrote:We got 2 of the projected top 4 teams in our group... damn we got hosed.

Much tougher drawing than last season

It is what it is. No complaining about groups or seedings. Just go win.

Knightro wrote:

RookieStar wrote:Uh whats this? Another IST thing?

Yeah man. They're doing it every year moving forward.

You mean we havr this and another IST in the middle of the season?

The five tiers where teams were drawn from.

Tier 1: Boston, New York, Milwaukee
Tier 2: Cleveland, Orlando, Indiana
Tier 3: Philadelphia, Miami, Chicago
Tier 4: Atlanta, Toronto, Brooklyn
Tier 5: Charlotte, Detroit, Washington

Our group has the #2, #2, #1, #3, and #1 best teams from each tier.

Could be worse?

eyriq wrote:The five tiers where teams were drawn from.

Tier 1: Boston, New York, Milwaukee
Tier 2: Cleveland, Orlando, Indiana
Tier 3: Philadelphia, Miami, Chicago
Tier 4: Atlanta, Toronto, Brooklyn
Tier 5: Charlotte, Detroit, Washington

Our group has the #2, #2, #1, #3, and #1 best teams from each tier.

Could be worse?

How do you have Philly in a lower tier than Cleveland, Us, and Indy?

thelead wrote:

eyriq wrote:The five tiers where teams were drawn from.

Tier 1: Boston, New York, Milwaukee
Tier 2: Cleveland, Orlando, Indiana
Tier 3: Philadelphia, Miami, Chicago
Tier 4: Atlanta, Toronto, Brooklyn
Tier 5: Charlotte, Detroit, Washington

Our group has the #2, #2, #1, #3, and #1 best teams from each tier.

Could be worse?

How do you have Philly in a lower tier than Cleveland, Us, and Indy?

The NBA set up the tiers based on last seasons record

RookieStar wrote:

Knightro wrote:

RookieStar wrote:Uh whats this? Another IST thing?

Yeah man. They're doing it every year moving forward.

You mean we havr this and another IST in the middle of the season?

This is the renamed IST.

Tough draw for us, I think. I don't love how we match up with the Knicks if they have all their guys. Philly and Charlotte (I'm expecting a bigger improvement than most from Charlotte this season) are the worst case scenarios from those pots. Brooklyn seems to be pivoting towards tanking, but they played us tough last year. We'll see if our squad is up to the task.

Imo if you look at the groups, group A is by far the best group in the East (i think it's C for the West).

I dont think its too bad of a draw, could easily see us coming up on top.

Any group that got tier 3 Philly was going to be the toughest group. That is the brutal part of the draw. At least we get them at home.

Win both our home games, take care of tanking Brooklyn on road and basically this group comes down to 1 road game in MSG.

I honestly couldn't remember who won last year, had to Google it, just remembered that the Pacers lost in the finals

Knicks are going to be a beast this year.

I still think Orlando wins the group and possibly the whole thing.

Just treating it as a regular season game...