Fist Round Potential Matchup

[balla345]

Assuming we make the playoffs, which team you guys believe would give us the highest chance for an upset ? I would want the Milwaukee Bucks, because I feel like we match up with them the best compared to either the 76ers or Raptors.

[balla345]

Bucks depth chart VS Heat
PG Eric Bledsoe < PG Dragic
SG Malcom Brogdon?? = SG Waiters
SF Kris Middleton > SF Richardson??
PF Giannis Antetokounmpo >>>>> PF Kelly
C Brook Lopez < C Bam

Bucks Bench = George Hill , Tony snell , nikola mirotic? , Ersan Ilyasova
Heat Bench= Wade, Winslow? DJJ?, JJ , McGruder?, Whiteside

Advantage
Starters- Bucks
Bench- Heat
Coaching- Bucks
Home court advantage- Bucks
Best player- Bucks

Injuries - Middleton groin Day2Day , Ilyasova back soreness Day2Day, Snell ankle injury (out) , Gasol ankle injury ( out for a month ) Mirotic Fracture left thumb out for 2 -4 weeks , Brogdon also listed out .

DJJ knee is day2day, Richardson heel(out) should be back by playoffs , Mcgruder should also be back (out), Winslow thigh(out)

[Rapaz]

Death.

[ElDoggo]

May as well watch one of the best players in the league in Giannis. Good money for the AAA and Arison.

[Bishop45]

I wanted the Bucks before but those guys are loaded now, if I had a choice I'd take the 6ers, of whom could be more susceptible to spacing issues. Plus the added Drama, Dion in Philly during the playoffs is valuable television

But due to schedule, if we could get the Bucks, I'd take the match-up with glee

[MartyConlonJr]

Come on guys, DWade needs to be playing in Milwaukee near Marquette and Chicago in his farewell tour, regardless of our best matchup. I'm hoping the DWade fanship spurs him to an historic playoff series.

Also Giannis and Khris are both battling injuries. I would never wish ill on anyone but we could catch a break if they are not 100% along the way.

I feel like we are going to miss playoffs at this stage though. We have been blowing chances to make ground.

[Sign5]

Why assume atm when we can EASILY miss out. Haven't had faith in this team for years, wont start some fantasy that we upset the 2nd best team in the league now. The reason we struggle in the first place is lack of scoring and a true star, Bucks would sweep or go 4-1.

[contract]

Come on guys, DWade needs to be playing in Milwaukee near Marquette and Chicago in his farewell tour, regardless of our best matchup. I'm hoping the DWade fanship spurs him to an historic playoff series.

Also Giannis and Khris are both battling injuries. I would never wish ill on anyone but we could catch a break if they are not 100% along the way.

I feel like we are going to miss playoffs at this stage though. We have been blowing chances to make ground.

We don't need to make up ground, just stay ahead of Orlando, and lets face it, it's Orlando. We're in.

[MartyConlonJr]

Come on guys, DWade needs to be playing in Milwaukee near Marquette and Chicago in his farewell tour, regardless of our best matchup. I'm hoping the DWade fanship spurs him to an historic playoff series.

Also Giannis and Khris are both battling injuries. I would never wish ill on anyone but we could catch a break if they are not 100% along the way.

I feel like we are going to miss playoffs at this stage though. We have been blowing chances to make ground.

We don't need to make up ground, just stay ahead of Orlando, and lets face it, it's Orlando. We're in.

Orlando has the easiest schedule in the league, we have the 7th hardest.

http://www.tankathon.com/remaining_schedule_strength

They own the tie break, so we can't lose more games than they do the rest of the way. They are playing Knicks, Atlanta and Charlotte who have nothing to play for and are all lotto teams. Good news is that all three have little actual incentive to tank or rest players, so are playing spoiler. They are all basically locked into their draft lotto odds. Also Charlotte demolished them twice already and Knicks have beat them once. Bad news is they are among the worst teams in the league. The other team is Boston who they are 2-0 against so far (though only 2 and 3 point wins).

So it looks like a good run home for them.

We unfortunately have a motivated Boston who is still tied with Indiana, up next, and who just beat us days ago and we are only 1-2 against so far. We then fortunately have a Minnesota team that has shut many guys down and is neck and neck with Lakers so probably looking to give up this game. We then play a motivated Raptors team in Toronto that is trying to secure home court in the finals over GSW and Denver. Then Philly, who may help us out and rest players as are pretty locked in to a spot. Then we play our back to back with Brooklyn who will be as desperate as us most likely to get in the playoffs.

So we have 3 hard games and 2 that may not be, Orlando has 3 easy games and 1 possibly hard and we have a half game lead (which is basically no lead being that they have the tie break)

[eddieheatfan]

first potential matchup will be the lottery,OP

but if by some miracle.....we get in,then its going to be a quick exit by possibly a couple of blowouts to boot