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Originally Posted by tchaz
It probably comes down to the head-to-head game. Just isolating that if Denver wins they have a 3 game lead and 12 others to play. If Portland win the lead is only 1 and have more home games - and arguably a weaker slate of opponents.
fwiw, I'm too lazy tonight to look up who has the tie break dependent on the result of tht game.
Nah it's going to come down to more than the H2H game. Portland has a lock at the tiebreaker thanks to division record, and their schedule is much much easier. The Blazers would have to choke away some easy-ish home wins (MIL/MIN/NOP) for it to be Denver imo.
Portland winning 3/4 in a pretty brutal road stretch of @NOP(b2b)@SAS, @ATL(b2b)@MIA put them in the driver's seat, and losing two close ones to Houston didn't help even though they were dogs in both.
The only saving grace is that Denver
may be playing better than Portland right now, DAME has been on fire and I guess that could cool off. Defensively they've actually been worse than pre-ASB numbers if you can believe that.