Originally Posted by
Mythrol
We have 7 games in 10 days. 5 games with playoff teams, the Rockets TWICE. The two non playoff teams are sandwiched between a playoff team and we play both in the run of 3 games in 3 nights. For anyone curious our death stretch is March 17th through 27th. 14 of our 21 last games are against playoff teams or teams fighting for a seed.
Yes other teams have butal schedules as well but ours is still a brutal run. I'm not comfortable with any position we are in right now because anyone can fall out of this 10 team race.
Winning these 3 games would be huge for us because it puts us so high above 500 and 1 of the games is against the Clippers which pushes them down a game. We need that because take for example the Jazz, of their 19 games left they only have 9 playoff teams on their schedule. After these 3, 13 of our last 18 are playoff teams.
I actually could see the Thunder falling as well. They have 17 games left and 13 are against playoff teams. Still the hope is Wolves or Spurs or both continue to fall.
For reference here's the other teams and their remaining schedule:
Clippers - 21 games 16 against playoff teams
Nuggets - 21 games 12 against playoff teams (a good number of playoff teams are Eastern) weak schedule overall
Spurs - 19 games 13 against playoff teams
Wolves - 16 games 10 against playoff teams
Blazers - 19 games 13 against playoff teams
If we assume the Clippers fall due to their schedule that leaves 1 spot outside the playoffs with Pelicans, Thunder, Jazz, Spurs, and Wolves all possible of landing in it due to schedule. With how weak the Nuggets schedule is and where their position is in the rankings I'm assuming they get in.