Playoff seeding predictions

[TheNetsFan]

Division record does not factor in when it comes to ties that include teams in different divisions.

Head to head amongst the tied teams comes before Conference record. Charlotte would be 4-3, We're 3-3 & Atlanta is 3-4, so a 3 way tie would break in that order.

Boston would win a tiebreaker against Milwaukee, but I think it's unlikely that Milwaukee loses 1 and Boston wins @Memphis. Boston would also hold the tiebreaker over Philly, so for them to flip, Philly needs to win out (back to back at home vs Indy & Detroit) & Boston would need to lose @Memphis. It's more realistic for Philly to sneak up to #3 than Boston to get back to #2.

Three-Team Tiebreaker:
1. Division winner (this criterion is applied regardless of whether the tied teams are in the same division)
2. Best head-to-head winning percentage among all teams tied
3. Highest winning percentage within division (if teams are in the same division)
4. Highest winning percentage in conference games
5. Highest winning percentage against playoff teams in own conference
6. Highest point differential between points scored and points allowed

We hold tie breakers when all things compared. So if ATL/BK/Cha all tied up we be higher seeded.

I think you misinterpret #1

it isnt "best division record" its if you won the division or not. a division winner would have the tiebreaker over non-division winners. none of the teams in the play-in race won their divisions. so it starts with #2 for our scenario.

#3 states what TheNetsFan is saying... that division record doesnt apply since nets/haws/hornets are not all in the same division

Exactly. #1 means if the Central Division winner was tied with the 2nd best team in the Atlantic division, the Central Division winner wins the tiebreaker.

[sashaturiaf]

Who the **** would even guard Giannis? Last year it was Griffin who Nash won't play.

Hes no longer a FT liability which saved us so many times.

You dont play Giannis 1 on 1. You use your big to impede him and give him space. Defending Giannis is really about avoiding turnovers and not allowing him to get out in transition. Drummond did a fantastic job on him the last 2 games and Nick seems more physical this year how he played embiid/giannis recently.

The guy we need to worry about is middleton. if he plays well, we lose. Gianns will get 40/10. live with it. dont let their shooters go off and dont let middleton get hot. Kyrie has played middleton well.

I would rather send a double team to force the ball out of Middleton's hands as opposed to even devote more than one person to Giannis.

I have said this repeatedly: I would let Giannis score sixty and keep defenders glues to Middleton, Holiday and Lopez. Same strategy with Embiid. Let these guys gas themselves out scoring on contested twos. They aren't hurting you any other way. I would absolute let Drummond defend him and stick KD on Brook.

Agree. Limit turnovers but play him straight up, no easy baskets for Giannis and let him tire himself out in the half court trying to create/bully. Helps limit his defensive impact as well.

[MagicBagley18]

I think we have different opinions on what ‘confirmed’ means. It literally says rumor in caps, and he says ‘my understanding’. Horford has also never said he would get vaccinated if they play Toronto. He has said, he can play against anyone right now.

Prok, as usual, always twisting things around.

That tweet hasn't confirmed it, its just the media story that is out there. I know for a fact both are not vaccinated. It is also why they didn't travel to Toronto.

Typically guys out sick or with a rest/minor injury travel with the team. they didnt. typically teams will definitively say guys are vaccinated, celtics have continued to decline. but i know from someone who has 1st hand knowledge neither are vaccinated.

Read on Twitter

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Cant be true....Prokorov said he knows for a fact

[TheNetsFan]

Heat beat the Hawks. So who should we want in a one game play-in? My gut says Cleveland even with Allen back.

[Prokorov]

That tweet hasn't confirmed it, its just the media story that is out there. I know for a fact both are not vaccinated. It is also why they didn't travel to Toronto.

Typically guys out sick or with a rest/minor injury travel with the team. they didnt. typically teams will definitively say guys are vaccinated, celtics have continued to decline. but i know from someone who has 1st hand knowledge neither are vaccinated.

Read on Twitter

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Cant be true....Prokorov said he knows for a fact

He's not. neither is Brown.

[Prokorov]

Heat beat the Hawks. So who shouldn't we want in a one game play-in? My gut says Cleveland even with Allen back.

Agree. Give me cleveland. Atlanta is too explosive and our defense plays too stupid to not give up 120. we would need to outscore them, which we can, but its a coinflip.

Cleveland we could beat without having to score 120.

we could lose to either though, we are playing awful basketball right now

[Prokorov]

1st hand knowledge!!! LOL

Horford is vaccinated the same way Aaron Rogers was vaccinated. We also know Horford lied about the issues with Brown and Gordon Heyward too. so he has a track record there

you can continue to deny, just like you deny boston isnt racist despite your own players confirming it

[Prokorov]

tiebreaker scenarios...

4-way tie:
Nets 6-4 combined head to head
Hornets 6-5 combined head to head
Atlanta 6-5 combined head to head
Cavs 4-8 combined head to head

Nets 30-22 conference record
Hornets 27-25 conference record
Hawks 26-26 conference record
Cavs 26-26 conference record


3-way tie:
Hornets 4-3 combined head to head
Nets 3-3 combined head to head
Atlanta 3-4 combined head to head

2-way tie:
we top cleveland, atlanta
Charlotte tops us

i believe the only way we can drop out of a 7 or 8 seed would be if we lose and the other 3 all win. that would put cleveland 1 game ahead in the 7 seed and we would lose the 3-way tiebreaker with atlanta and charlotte.

[myronbolitar]

1st hand knowledge!!! LOL

Horford is vaccinated the same way Aaron Rogers was vaccinated. We also know Horford lied about the issues with Brown and Gordon Heyward too. so he has a track record there

you can continue to deny, just like you deny boston isnt racist despite your own players confirming it

Your posts are the most entertaining ones on this board, just not in the way you think they are.

[CeltsfanSinceBirth]

1st hand knowledge!!! LOL

Horford is vaccinated the same way Aaron Rogers was vaccinated. We also know Horford lied about the issues with Brown and Gordon Heyward too. so he has a track record there

you can continue to deny, just like you deny boston isnt racist despite your own players confirming it

I’d love to place a bet with you on how wrong you are……..but we all know your track record when it comes to honouring bets. Good luck during the play-in. LOL

[MagicBagley18]

1st hand knowledge!!! LOL

Horford is vaccinated the same way Aaron Rogers was vaccinated. We also know Horford lied about the issues with Brown and Gordon Heyward too. so he has a track record there

you can continue to deny, just like you deny boston isnt racist despite your own players confirming it

I’d love to place a bet with you on how wrong you are……..but we all know your track record when it comes to honouring bets. Good luck during the play-in. LOL

This guy is so full of ****. He just lies and then plays the race card when he is wrong and he’s wrong a lot!! He’s done it on this board here with his Own posters. He’s a middle aged white guy who goes on the Internet and preaches these soliloquy’s telling actual minorities and people of color what they should be outraged at etc and what is and isn’t racist - tell me that ain’t a form of white privilege.

[DarkAzcura]

1st hand knowledge!!! LOL

Horford is vaccinated the same way Aaron Rogers was vaccinated. We also know Horford lied about the issues with Brown and Gordon Heyward too. so he has a track record there

you can continue to deny, just like you deny boston isnt racist despite your own players confirming it

I’m a minority, and it’s really gross and offensive how often you want to play the race card. You constantly use it as a defensive mechanism whenever someone from Boston talks to you even when it is completely unrelated to the topic at hand. It’s straight offensive.

[MrDollarBills]

Ok yall Boston fans need to take your grievances with Prok out on your own board, you're derailing our thread.

[MrDollarBills]

tiebreaker scenarios...

4-way tie:
Nets 6-4 combined head to head
Hornets 6-5 combined head to head
Atlanta 6-5 combined head to head
Cavs 4-8 combined head to head

Nets 30-22 conference record
Hornets 27-25 conference record
Hawks 26-26 conference record
Cavs 26-26 conference record


3-way tie:
Hornets 4-3 combined head to head
Nets 3-3 combined head to head
Atlanta 3-4 combined head to head

2-way tie:
we top cleveland, atlanta
Charlotte tops us

i believe the only way we can drop out of a 7 or 8 seed would be if we lose and the other 3 all win. that would put cleveland 1 game ahead in the 7 seed and we would lose the 3-way tiebreaker with atlanta and charlotte.

We cannot afford to lose tomorrow, period.

[GTR11]

Yo why scary ass Saltics here derailing our thread . If any of you had any heart y'all pissed how your team is ducking us.

Y'all now what's going to happen once we take care of Giannis. Yeah, going to spank your bum ass team in 4 maybe 5 games again.

[TheNetsFan]

tiebreaker scenarios...

4-way tie:
Nets 6-4 combined head to head
Hornets 6-5 combined head to head
Atlanta 6-5 combined head to head
Cavs 4-8 combined head to head

Nets 30-22 conference record
Hornets 27-25 conference record
Hawks 26-26 conference record
Cavs 26-26 conference record


3-way tie:
Hornets 4-3 combined head to head
Nets 3-3 combined head to head
Atlanta 3-4 combined head to head

2-way tie:
we top cleveland, atlanta
Charlotte tops us

i believe the only way we can drop out of a 7 or 8 seed would be if we lose and the other 3 all win. that would put cleveland 1 game ahead in the 7 seed and we would lose the 3-way tiebreaker with atlanta and charlotte.

Simply stated, we win the tiebreaker in a 4 way tie and a 3 way tie with Cleveland and Atlanta. We lose any 3 way tiebreaker that has Charlotte in it.

[TheNetsFan]

I don't think Boston will beat Memphis, but if they do and the Bucks lose to the Cavs and we beat Indy, we get Cavs in the play-in and Boston ends up as the two.

[GTR11]

I don't think Boston will beat Memphis, but if they do and the Bucks lose to the Cavs and we beat Indy, we get Cavs in the play-in and Boston ends up as the two.

That's what we hoping for. Going to troll Saltic board hard right after we spank them.

Getting Ben for Bucks series will be confidence booster too

[TheNetsFan]

Very well laid out. Atlanta needs the most help to get to the 7-8 game. It's most likely Nets vs Cleveland or Charlotte.

https://www.actionnetwork.com/nba/nba-playoff-picture-and-scenarios-for-the-final-day-of-the-2021-22-season

[TheNetsFan]

Looks like a rest day for Memphis. There's a chance we can have a first round matchup with Boston.