The Tankathon Thread (since that's apparently what this is now)
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Does it really matter what anyone else says? They all think we've had the same GM and probably haven't paid attention to the shift in focus on hustle and energy and how a coaching change and a draft pick could swing things pretty hard. Also they think Bagley is breaking out in Detroit so yeah. They never watch us, who cares?
Huge!
The Spurs also somehow have 3 games left against the Blazers and a game against the Rockets. Very likely they 3-1 those 4 games. And then the rest of their schedule is rather tough (GSW, Nuggets, Mavs, Twolves, Grizz, NOP), but I think you can at least put them down for 1 or 2 wins in that stretch.
So say 4 wins left on their schedule? Would require us to go 7-2 down the stretch to match. Can't rule out total KANGZ, but seems pretty unlikely we catch them, assuming they just don't tank their face off and lose out the rest of the way. I'm tentatively thinking 7 is the furthest we fall at this point.
Kings starting a 5 game road trip here:
@Indy
@Magic
@Heat
@Rockets
@Rockets (2nd night B-B)
Warriors
Pelicans
@Clippers
@Suns
Heat should still have motivation to hold onto their 1 seed by the time we play them. They won't shut down yet. The Warriors are 1 behind the Grizz and 2 1/2 up on the Jazz. So likely have some playoff seeding down the wire there. The Suns absolutely will have everyone shut down with a massive lead holding first. The Clippers likely will be shut down with a 5 game lead on 9th and 6.5 behind 7th. The Pelicans will have plenty of motivation to keep fighting to host the 9-10 play in game.
I think those last 2 games are where the season is gonna be won or lost for us. If we don't shut everyone down, could easily snake 2 worthless wins vs teams resting all the regulars and move from 5th to 7th. It does work in our favor with 7 of 9 road games. That's a tough stretch for any team, even if the teams are bad/resting guys.
The Spurs also somehow have 3 games left against the Blazers and a game against the Rockets. Very likely they 3-1 those 4 games. And then the rest of their schedule is rather tough (GSW, Nuggets, Mavs, Twolves, Grizz, NOP), but I think you can at least put them down for 1 or 2 wins in that stretch.
So say 4 wins left on their schedule? Would require us to go 7-2 down the stretch to match. Can't rule out total KANGZ, but seems pretty unlikely we catch them, assuming they just don't tank their face off and lose out the rest of the way. I'm tentatively thinking 7 is the furthest we fall at this point.
Kings starting a 5 game road trip here:
@Indy
@Magic
@Heat
@Rockets
@Rockets (2nd night B-B)
Warriors
Pelicans
@Clippers
@Suns
Heat should still have motivation to hold onto their 1 seed by the time we play them. They won't shut down yet. The Warriors are 1 behind the Grizz and 2 1/2 up on the Jazz. So likely have some playoff seeding down the wire there. The Suns absolutely will have everyone shut down with a massive lead holding first. The Clippers likely will be shut down with a 5 game lead on 9th and 6.5 behind 7th. The Pelicans will have plenty of motivation to keep fighting to host the 9-10 play in game.
I think those last 2 games are where the season is gonna be won or lost for us. If we don't shut everyone down, could easily snake 2 worthless wins vs teams resting all the regulars and move from 5th to 7th. It does work in our favor with 7 of 9 road games. That's a tough stretch for any team, even if the teams are bad/resting guys.
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I don’t think we catch Indiana regardless.
Pacers play:
Us
@Memphis
@Toronto
Atlanta
Denver
@Boston
Detroit
76ers
i only see at most 2 losses in that stretch
We play
@ Indiana
@ Orlando
@ Miami
@ Houston
@ Houston
Golden State
Pelicans
ideally we either win them all or lose them all but I expect us to win 4 at least which will put us 7th behind Indiana and Portland.
Assuming Portland loses 7 of 9 against
Detroit
San Antonio
Houston
Houston
OKC
San Antonio
San Antonio
OKC
New Orleans.
Pacers play:
Us
@Memphis
@Toronto
Atlanta
Denver
@Boston
Detroit
76ers
i only see at most 2 losses in that stretch
We play
@ Indiana
@ Orlando
@ Miami
@ Houston
@ Houston
Golden State
Pelicans
ideally we either win them all or lose them all but I expect us to win 4 at least which will put us 7th behind Indiana and Portland.
Assuming Portland loses 7 of 9 against
Detroit
San Antonio
Houston
Houston
OKC
San Antonio
San Antonio
OKC
New Orleans.
I don't really think Portland is doing anything remotely on the level that Houston, OKC, Detroit have done over the last two seasons. They've shut everything down but they were far too far ahead to pull off a serious drop and it's pretty hard not to believe we haven't done the same just far less blatantly. We blew double digit leads every night for a week and a half a streak that's probably longer save for a random win and a blowout it's hard to believe there isn't a "let's go all out in the first half and take the third quarter off and then play a close 4th quarter" directive that allows some real situational analysis on the players we have while still keeping our draft status intact and letting the fans see some entertaining even if losing basketball.
And if that's not the directive, hooo boy is Gentry a bad coach.
And if that's not the directive, hooo boy is Gentry a bad coach.
They really could walk into 3-5 more wins pretty easily. Houston twice, OKC twice, Pelicans twice, Spurs 3 times. And their only hard games at the end of the season vs the Mavs and Jazz could be them resting starters if playoff seeding is decided (although, unfortunately, the 4-7 seed in the West only has 3.5 total games separating everybody.) Hopefully things become settled by those end of the season games.
hopefully with Sabonis out 5 and Fox likely out for a spell and our coach seemingly trying to get fired we'll manage to stay in place. A loss to Indy will be huge. We know Haliburton will have a huge game so the million dollar question will be will Buddy go on fire or shoot the Pacers out of the gam?
All the makeup games have been rescheduled, and all have been played except one, which is scheduled for next week
https://dknation.draftkings.com/nba...s-makeup-dates-covid-19-protocols-news-update
Also, every game on the last two days is listed as TBD so that the league has flexibility for TV scheduling- here is the schedule, showing all games as TBD: https://www.espn.com/nba/scoreboard/_/date/20220410
Here is the Brooklyn schedule- it shows the games that were cancelled, and then if you look you can see that all of those games were made up (including a brutal back to back in Brooklyn and Portland in January). Their last game is listed as TBD not because it is a makeup game, but again to maximize TV viewing. https://www.espn.com/nba/team/schedule/_/name/bkn/brooklyn-nets
Even a team like Orlando, with no real reason to play games, is playing all their games. They had one COVID postponement, and they had to make it up as part of a brutal three games in four night swing from Orlando to Toronto to Memphis https://www.espn.com/nba/team/schedule/_/name/orl/orlando-magic
So everyone is playing 82 games
https://dknation.draftkings.com/nba...s-makeup-dates-covid-19-protocols-news-update
Also, every game on the last two days is listed as TBD so that the league has flexibility for TV scheduling- here is the schedule, showing all games as TBD: https://www.espn.com/nba/scoreboard/_/date/20220410
Here is the Brooklyn schedule- it shows the games that were cancelled, and then if you look you can see that all of those games were made up (including a brutal back to back in Brooklyn and Portland in January). Their last game is listed as TBD not because it is a makeup game, but again to maximize TV viewing. https://www.espn.com/nba/team/schedule/_/name/bkn/brooklyn-nets
Even a team like Orlando, with no real reason to play games, is playing all their games. They had one COVID postponement, and they had to make it up as part of a brutal three games in four night swing from Orlando to Toronto to Memphis https://www.espn.com/nba/team/schedule/_/name/orl/orlando-magic
So everyone is playing 82 games