The Sixers are UGLY without Embiid, on both ends of the court. If Embiid is out for the year they are 100% sliding into the play-in (about to be 1 game ahead of Indy in 7th and 1.5 ahead of Miami in 8th).
I don't think they fall that far (6.5 games ahead of the Bulls in 9th, that's a ton of ground to make up with 25/26 games remaining), but if Embiid remains out I have no idea who ends up getting the 8th seed and playing Boston in the first round. Sixers/Bulls/Hawks is thoroughly unimpressive.
Oh yea, my math is off. Was thinking they would supplant the Bulls in 9th, but didn't take into account that PHI just loses it spot
It may not knock them out of the top 10, but it’ll probably put extra mileage on their big 2.
I think—-someone can check me—Butler only one suspended for something other than leaving the bench, right?
I read that update and went “Hunh?” All I can think of is that there has to be something else going on or they’re trying to preserve his resale value. Maybe both.
He was on the court already. I assume he was suspended for shoving Marshall, right before Marshall put his hands on Butler's throat.
So unfortunate that there are five western teams that are either bad or not trying to win.
With 10 spots it's nearly impossible to not get in the play in if you stay healthy and are actively trying to win. At this point I'm looking forward to a Lakers/Warriors 9/10 matchup, that would easily be the most anticipated play in match up ever.
yes—-that had been my guess after it happened, he’s the guy who turned it into a brawl. Should have gotten the most games, but recognition of this suspension is something
Best part was Butlers post game conference after where he, with a straight face, blamed Zion for embellishing contact and that “he knew he shouldn’t have done that”
Gawd YES!!!!
If SAC vaults DAL and PHO (not that unlikely given that SAC is .5 game behind both), the WC play-in would have Curry, Klay, Draymond, LBJ, AD, KD, Luka, Kyrie, Beal, and Booker.
Not impossible, but to this point they've just been climbing over average at best teams (Utah, Houston, Lakers). To get to the top 6 they have to keep going at their current pace, against legitimately good teams (Dallas, NOP, Phoenix, Sac). They've got a relatively easy schedule by opposing SOS, but they've also got more road games remaining than any team in the league.
They will probably lose this game vs Denver then have 4 in a row on the road before back at home vs the Bucks. Do they even go 3-3 over these 6 games?
Still laughing about Barkley at the ASG saying to Draymond “Dray you’re a hell of a player and good luck in the play-in”
And he finishes with that, because the game is no longer in doubt. He's averaged 27/16/15 over his last 3 games, which I'm quite sure has never been done before.
Russ may have at the very least come close during his sicko OKC years especially that one when he has a bunch of 40pt triple doubles. I don't know if they have game by game assist data from early on in Oscar's career but he's the other who could have challenged Jokic's 27/16/15
They mentioned on the broadcast that no one had ever had 3 straight 14 rebound/14 assist games before this. It's still possible for someone to average better than Jokic over that stretch without having multiple games like that, but pretty difficult. Glancing through Oscar's game logs, he averaged 34/18/13 over 3 games in December 1963 and 32/17/14 in January 1965. Russ had 3 game stretches averaging 27/14/15 and 30/16/12 in 2017, and 20/15/14, 18/13/16 and 22/13/17 in 2019.
The closest you really I could find in Oscar's 1961-62, his triple-double average that seemed forever impossible to duplicate is within his first four games that season: 30.8 PPG, 13.0 RPG, 14.8 APG.
An annoying plausible scenario is that they fall into the 9-10 spot but start working Embiid back in April and wind up at full strength matched against the C's in round 1. Not that we should be terrified of out-of-shape Embiid, but I'd still rather face, I dunno, the Hawks.
I see what you did here. Wilt was known for happy endings.The historian in me feels the need to mention the happy ending that we knocked Wilt's Sixers out in the first-ever NBA 3-1 series comeback that year and beat the Lakers in the Finals for the sixth time in six Finals matchups for the cherry on the sundae.
That’s egregious. But nobody will care since it’s a Pistons game on a random Monday in February.
Refs said “we fucked up”. Like that makes a difference. Not like they can go back and replay the game….
https://official.nba.com/pool-report-on-the-final-seconds-of-tonights-detroit-pistons-at-new-york-knicks-game/
There really weren’t many chances for him to, Detroit barely possessed the ball. Just about half a second before the, I guess, legal rake across the guy’s hand/arm.
I'm waiting for you to post it. Please let the outcome warrant it.
