sunsbg wrote:bwgood77 wrote:bisme37 wrote:Ya know, it just hit me that the Suns locked up the #1 seed weeks ago but were the very last team to know who their opponent is and have the least time to prepare. One of the weird effects of the play-in format.
Funny I mentioned that on the Suns board...that's a disadvantage of the final play in. The Pelicans got that last spot late Friday and the Suns had the best record but will have less than 48 hours to prepare when all the 3-6 seeds had almost a week and the 2 seeds had like 3-4 days.
Just reading on the other thread how Hawks are tired while Heat rested confirms for me Nr1 seed is in no way in a disadvantage in addition to what I said above that Suns actually had more time to prepare than the Pelicans. Though your argument appears to be they are in disadvantage compared to other top seeds, which honestly doesn't matter much. Actually 2nd seed opponent had more time to rest and we saw how that reflected on Grizz - Wolves game.
The Pelicans are younger than the Hawks who were missing Capela, they also are very dependent on one man. The pelicans have more weapons and they can run all day, I’d be surprised if fatigue is that much of a factor.
The Suns have my respect tho, I picked them to avenge their finals loss to the Bucks. And to me CP3 is the goat point guard not named Magic.
