2022-2023 Regular Season Game 81: Orlando Magic (34-46) at Brooklyn Nets (44-36) -7:30pm

[thelead]

Blazers still play the Clippers and the Warriors - now smart money would say the Blazers get destroyed in both games. And they probably will.

However...

If the Clippers or Warriors want to avoid the Suns in Round 1 and would prefer to play the less playoff experienced Kings, then one of those two teams could opt to try and tank against the Blazers to ensure a matchup with Sacramento instead of Phoenix.

Will be interesting to see if LAC or GSW goes that route or not.

The only problem with that is that they could fall into the play-ins with NOP right behind them. NOP owns the tiebreaker against LAC but GSW owns the tiebreaker against NOP. Lots of stuff going on with these tight standings

[pepe1991]

Clippers nor Warriors can't afford to lose.
Blazers will probably sign 2 fat fans to start at PG & SF position to secure 5th worst

[MartinsIzAfraud]

Tonight was basically Okeke's whole NBA career in a nutshell.

6 rebounds, 3 assists, 1 steal, pretty good defense all night.

1-8 from 3PT.

Sooo not an NBA player

[basketballRob]

Clippers nor Warriors can't afford to lose.
Blazers will probably sign 2 fat fans to start at PG & SF position to secure 5th worst

I think the Warriors could definitely rest everyone in the last game. They would probably rather be rested going into the playoffs. Plus, they don't like the Trailblazers after the whole thing with Gary Payton.

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[bigdogdylan5]

Well we went from 8th worst to 7th worst, so that's good.

Lets hope we keep the 7th spot becausw we will leapfrog the others

We're actually tied for 6th and splitting the odds with the pacers.

Are the odds split though? If there is a tie I thought a coin flip is used to see who would get 6 and 7 and we wouldn’t divide up the ping pong balls

[Bergmaniac]

The Bol Bol experience made this game more entertaining than it should have been. For some reason he decided to chuck 2 threes when we were on a fast break and had a man advantage, and the second was pretty well contested too.

Losing by 17 to a team which shot 39% from the field and 21% from 3 is pretty rare in the current NBA, but we made it happen with all the turnovers and bricks we had all game.

[thelead]

Lets hope we keep the 7th spot becausw we will leapfrog the others

We're actually tied for 6th and splitting the odds with the pacers.

Are the odds split though? If there is a tie I thought a coin flip is used to see who would get 6 and 7 and we wouldn’t divide up the ping pong balls

Odds are split. Coin toss determines which default position you are in before lotto drawings shake things up. In other words you split the odds (winner may get one more combo if it’s an odd number of combos) but then you’re slotted into positions 6 and 7 in the event that you or better teams don’t win the lotto.

[bigdogdylan5]

We're actually tied for 6th and splitting the odds with the pacers.

Are the odds split though? If there is a tie I thought a coin flip is used to see who would get 6 and 7 and we wouldn’t divide up the ping pong balls

Odds are split. Coin toss determines which default position you are in before lotto drawings shake things up. In other words you split the odds (winner may get one more combo if it’s an odd number of combos) but then you’re slotted into positions 6 and 7 in the event that you or better teams don’t win the lotto.

That makes a ton on sense glad they do it that way and just do coin toss for the non moving up position. We have avoided some ties in the last couple years in terms of lottery placement