Would the number 2 seed be so bad....?

[rgreen165]

Honestly, think about. If we stay the second seed, we would more than likely get Orlando in the second round because the Hawks at the 4th or 5th seed which would play the number 1 seed. I would rather play them than play the Hawks in the second round, let Cleveland deal with the Hawks in the second round. We should be able to win at least one game in Cleveland in the conference finals, I don't see why we couldn't, if not...we shouldn't deserve to be in the Finals anyway. Any thoughts?

[BigAlTheFuture]

Home court means a lot in the playoffs. The number one spot is what we should be aiming for.

[rgreen165]

Oh yea I gotcha, but with the way we've been playing and with KG out another week and a half or so, I just see it being hard to obtain, still possible though. Just trying to find some positives incase we can't get it. We'd at least have it in the first two rounds, I just don't want to face the Hawks. They could have easily beat us in the first two meetings this year and we handled Orlando pretty good in those first two meetings

[twinbree]

It's a good question. IMO it doesn't really matter who they face in the 1st and 2nd rounds they're going to have tough series. The way every team gets pumped up to hand them a regular season loss you can bet any team they meet will go all out to try and pull an upset.
WRT having homecourt, this season I can't tell if they are playing particularly better at home I'm thinking not really. Add to the fact that the refs seem to go out of their way to give them the shaft in their home games and I'm left wondering how much the top seed will help.

[lon3lytoaster]

Yea, two seed would be pretty bad, honestly. First seed has a lot of benefits this year. Milwaukee in the first, probably Miami in the second. We would probably only have to play ten or eleven games in the first two rounds at most. Compare that to Detroit then Orlando. Plus I think we would have homecourt over Cleveland no matter what, and that's a huge deal with them being as good as they are at home.

[Rondo_is_better]

it'd worse than the 1 seed.... hence why everyone wants it.

[Who]

Nope, it'd do just fine

[illestmcsgt]

We have to stay close to the Cavs toward the end of the season. When we get KG back for the rest of the season we could steal it. Still I rather us be number one in the NBA over the Lakers. We have beat them on their court before, but it's gonna be more of a challenge in a 2-3-2 format.

[Fafnir]

Nope, it'd do just fine

Healthy is better than the number one seed. I'm just hoping we can have our full roster for the playoffs.

We really need someone to backup Pierce at the 3.

[celticmaestro]

It would hurt if we play the Pistons then the Magic before the Cavs. I don't like that at all.

[TatteredOnMySleeve]

unfortunately yes, and losing games you should never lose to the likes of the clippers, and then the cavs winning games by 1 in the last seconds off a horrible foul call and no call on the other end and winning games they probably shouldnt have are making it hard for me to believe we'll get homecourt

Yes its a big deal, we havent won in cleveland in the last 2 years

[Roy Hobbs]

People shouldn't discount Orlando.  Yes, we've played them well this year, but last year they won the season series, and they've improved their team since then.  The Jameer injury was big for them, but they still have three all-star caliber players, plus a lot of other talent.

I think Orlando is significantly better than Atlanta.  Also, as much as people discount Detroit, I'd prefer to not play them in the first round, and I certainly don't look forward to playing a Game 7 in Cleveland.