9th seed has better record than the 3rd seed

[Dtown84]

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If the Nets make the playoffs and don't face Detroit or the Celtics I can see them making it out of the first round easily.

Hell, if they can put a stretch of games playing the level of ball they're capable of.... who knows what could happen.

Which is why I said 7 and 8, of course if the Nets were capable of playing consistent high quality basketball, they wouldn't be below .500.

[spaldingtattoos]

Denver is in lottery right now (9th spot) as I predicted a few days ago in this thread.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/matchups

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For one, why is Denver "most likely" to be the 9th seed at the all-star break? They're currently 7th and play Miami tomorrow. They have as much of a chance of being 4th at the break as they do being 9th.

[Gordon Bombay]

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Well EC fans are the ones with the inferiority complex and the WC are frustrated because they are worried their 45+ win team won't make the playoff's.

That's a recurring topic if I ever heard one........

im alright with the cavs being in the east. i see it as a reward for the indians having to play in the american league

[MaxRider]

Denver is in lottery right now (9th spot) as I predicted a few days ago in this thread.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/matchups

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nope
Houston is still in 9th place
3 team tie (Houston, Denver, Golden State)
the tie break is the better winning percentage for those team against each other
Golden State is 3-2 (2-1 vs Houston, 1-1 vs Denver)
Denver is 2-2 (1-1 vs Houston, 1-1 vs Golden State)
Houston is 2-3 (1-1 vs Denver, 1-2 vs Golden State)

so
Golden State is 7th, Denver is 8th, and Houston is 9th

[Magz50]

man i can't get over 9 freaking teams in the west with 60%+ wins. jeeez..scary times for the west!

[dacher]

it seems every season the balance of power between east and west gets worse.

it's funny reading the yearly off-season threads claiming this will be the season the east catches up to the west.

[farzi]

Watch the lottery end up being 1 Seattle 2 Minny 3 Portland or something like that, the west, let alone the NW would get even stronger....anyways, they need to move to a baseball esque division lineup.

And to the people bringing up an @LA / @ NY back to back, that wouldn't happen if the schedule makers had an IQ of over 50...

[jab]

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We have every right to be upset, if we win over 45 games and don't make the playoffs but a team with a losing record makes the playoffs in the East it's a legitimate gripe.

[SlickWilly8]

east sux rockets are better than boston and detroit

Thank you!!! I never LOLed so hard in my life, while reading realgm!

[snomeister]

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We have every right to be upset, if we win over 45 games and don't make the playoffs but a team with a losing record makes the playoffs in the East it's a legitimate gripe.

Oh BOO HOO. In 1987 the Blue Jays won 96 games, good for 2nd in the whole league and didn't make the play-offs.

What would it matter if the Rockets even made the playoffs? They wouldn't win.

[Diaper Dandy]

anyways, they need to move to a baseball esque division lineup.

...Why? What if in like ten years the "American" conference had most the good teams and the "National" conference had most the bad ones? Just switch again? That would kill the entire idea of rivalries.

From 1982 to 1997, the NFC won every single Super Bowl. 16 straight years. Some were close, but 10 of those 16 were by more than 14 points. A few were just ridiculous: 46-10, 42-10, 55-10, 52-17, 49-26. Alot of people at the time said the real Super Bowl was the NFC Championship game. Since 1998, when the Broncos won, there's only been 3 teams from the NFC to win. Typically, the AFC is seen as the better conference the last couple years.

It's cyclical. If there wasn't a change after the NFC beat the AFC sixteen straight years, there's not going to be a change now because for the last six or seven years teams in the Western Conference have played better during the regular season- but don't always win the championship!- than the Eastern conference has. It'll swing back. It was only like 10-15 years ago that the East was substantially better than the West.

Besides that, if a 48 win team misses the playoffs, they still have a small chance of getting a top 3 pick in the draft. How's that worse than being a 37 win team that gets into the playoffs and gets bounced in the first round and is stuck with like a #15 pick? I'll tell you: It's not worse, it's alot better.

[Raptor_Guy]

NBA:Where Un-Balance Happens

[Triple M]

I would get rid of the lotto why is the nba the only league that does its draft seeding like that. The lotto isn't even useful in stopping teams from tanking so it seems pretty useless.

[MagicNolesFSU]

Why are you complaing. Making the playoffs as a crap team and getting pancaked in the 1st round is way worse than not making it and getting a good pick.

A good team getting a good role player thats ready to contribute out of the draft makes your team alot better than supposed "1st round playoff experience"

imho

[Reks]

NBA:Where Un-Balance Happens

haha that is great
that's a sig quote