re: Play-in Race Tracker Updated: 4/6

Posted by rt3

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Posted on 3/29/23 at 9:29 pm to jprdbulldog20

quote:
very impressive tank by the pistons there

that was Detroit's 60th loss on the season

I guess that's what you should expect

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Posted on 3/29/23 at 9:33 pm to rt3

so to update...

8) Lakers (0.0 GB of NOP... LAL has tiebreaker)
9) Pelicans
10) Thunder (0.5 GB of NOP... NOP has tiebreaker)
11) Mavs (1.5 GB of NOP... tiebreaker TBD)
12) Jazz (2.0 GB of NOP... UTA has tiebreaker)

This post was edited on 3/29/23 at 9:38 pm

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Posted on 3/29/23 at 9:37 pm to rt3

Portland leads Sacramento 20-19 at the end of the 1st

Phoenix leads Minnesota 25-24 at the end of the 1st

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Posted on 3/29/23 at 10:19 pm to rt3

Kings up 4 at halftime

T-Wolves up 3 at halftime

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Posted on 3/29/23 at 10:32 pm to Louisianabound88

If we can dodge the wolves in the playin, I would love that. They seem to be doing well with a healthy squad and Conley leading them.

Posted by WaydownSouth

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Posted on 3/29/23 at 10:46 pm to duyp

Looking at the remaining schedules I’ve got

Phoenix- WLWWLWW 45-37
Minny LWWLWW 43-39
Clips LLWWL 43-39
GSW- WLWLW 43-39
LAL LWWLLW 41-41
Pels LWWLWL 41-41
OKC WLLWL 40-42

Not sure how tie breakers would work but Lakers get GSW or LAC in play in, lose and would play us after we beat OKC

We would almost assuredly get hosed by refs

Only way to avoid the 9 seed imo is beating Denver tomorrow or going 4-0 on the home stand

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Posted on 3/29/23 at 10:46 pm to rt3

Kings putting away the Trail Blazers in the 3rd

which will make Portland officially not a problem anymore as a loss means the Blazers mathematically can not catch the Pelicans (since the Pelicans own the tiebreaker)

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Posted on 3/29/23 at 10:56 pm to duyp

Suns take a 7-point lead over the T-Wolves to the 4th... good quarter for the Suns

3 ...

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Posted on 3/29/23 at 11:15 pm to rt3

Sacramento outscores Portland 70-34 in the 2nd half... wins by 40, 120-80

The Trail Blazers mathematically can NOT pass the Pelicans in the standings following this result

so we can officially disregard Portland from any further discussions about our potential playoff spot

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Posted on 3/29/23 at 11:17 pm to rt3

less than 4:00 left... 8-point lead for the Suns

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Posted on 3/29/23 at 11:33 pm to rt3

Suns beat the T-Wolves 107-100... another small bit of help on a night where we got very little help

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Posted on 3/29/23 at 11:36 pm to rt3

to update after March 30 games... and since this is a play-in tracker I'll only update the teams currently in and fighting for the play-in...

7) Pelicans:
vs. LAC
vs. SAC
vs. MEM
vs. NYK
@ MIN

8) Timberwolves: (0.0 GB of NOP... season series with NOP tied 1-1... Final Game April 9)
vs. LAL
vs. POR
@ BKN
@ SAS
vs. NOP

9) Lakers: (0.5 GB of NOP... won season series over NOP 3-1)
@ MIN
@ HOU
@ UTA
@ LAC
vs. PHX
vs. UTA

10) Thunder: (1.0 GB of NOP... lost season series to NOP 3-1)
@ IND
vs. PHX
@ GSW
@ UTA
vs. MEM

11) Mavericks: (2.0 GB of NOP... season series with NOP tied 2-2)
@ MIA
@ ATL
vs. SAC
vs. CHI
vs. SAS

12) Jazz: (2.5 GB of NOP... won season series over NOP 3-0)
@ BOS
@ BKN
vs. LAL
vs. OKC
vs. DEN
vs. LAL

This post was edited on 3/30/23 at 11:49 pm

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Posted on 3/30/23 at 9:03 pm to rt3

if the Pelicans win tonight at Denver... we would jump back ahead of the Lakers and into a tie with Minnesota and of course we've split our previous 2 games with Minny with game 82 being the tiebreak decider between the 2

I'm not sure if division record is still in play as a tiebreaker since we're not in the same division as the T-Wolves

if so... we would jump into the 7-seed (NOP is 10-5 in SW Divison... MIN is 8-7 in the NW Division)

if not (and I don't think it does)... then we have to go real deep into tiebreakers since we'd be tied in conference record at 27-21 and I can't math that hard right now to determine if we'd end the night at #8 or #7

if the Pelicans lose tonight at Denver... we remain at #9 in the standings due to holding the tiebreaker over the Thunder

This post was edited on 3/30/23 at 9:21 pm

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Posted on 3/30/23 at 11:47 pm to rt3

ESPN moves the Pels all the way to 7 after tonight's win

so 7 it is

I will just update the standings above

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Posted on 3/30/23 at 11:47 pm to rt3

Huge news regarding the Pelicans match up with Minnesota, Naz Reid broke his wrist and won't play against us, he always lights us up so this is good.

Clippers off a B2B against Memphis, Knicks without Randle, and Minnesota without Reid.

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Posted on 3/30/23 at 11:51 pm to supe12sta12z

tomorrow night is a win-win with (8) MIN @ (9) LAL

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Posted on 3/30/23 at 11:55 pm to supe12sta12z

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Clippers off a B2B against Memphis

not to mention we dominated them TWICE on their home floor already this season and clinched the season series

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Posted on 3/30/23 at 11:56 pm to rt3

I really feel like we essentially clinched a postseason spot tonight. I know we didn't technically clinch, but I'm not worried about missing the play-in anymore.