Suns and Lakers in full tank mode, Brooklyn keeps winning. Trouble for us?

[Neurotic Guy]

The tie is not clinched. Brooklyn has 6 games left, and they only need to win 5 of those 6 to equal the Lakers' win total.

Nets loss tonight (just began) clinches the tie.

[nickagneta]

Over their last 20 games, the Nets are 8-12. Projecting that .400 winning percentage to their last 6 games means they most likely win only 2-3 more games.

Meanwhile the Lakers are 2-18 over their last 20 games and project to win either 0 or 1 game the rest of the way.

Just don't see the Nets catching the Lakers. Especially given each team's schedule. My guess is the Nets end up 2 games behind LA.

No offense but these projections are worthless.

Why are they worthless?

Because it doesn't take into account the typically weird things that happen during end of season. For example teams that have a spot locked in playoffs who want to rest guys (e.g. ATL) and teams that may have nothing to play for the last couple of games (e.g. Chicago if they slide out of playoff contention).

Plus doesn't take into account how hard Brooklyn is playing (when they lose, it's barely) and how soft Lakers playing (pretty much getting blown out by 10 plus every game).

I'm just not confident until the game clincher. Heck, it wouldn't surprise me if Brooklyn beats us in our last game against them. That game is by no means a given.

So the Lakers won one game already and will be at worst 1-5 in the last 6 games, which I said was probable. Let's see what the Nets do. Won't surprise me if they go .500 over their last 6. We still lock up the last spot, just not by a huge wide margin and that's cool.

[jbpats]

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[SHAQATTACK]

Lopez and Lin play n like it is the NBA final.....the rest of the bottom teams tanking out

[jbpats]

Lopez and Lin play n like it is the NBA final.....the rest of the bottom teams tanking out

You have to respect the Nets heart right now. It'd be easy to roll over and die like other teams but they're trying.. it's respectable even at our potential expense

[droopdog7]

So the have a four game "lead" with five games to go.  Why am I still not comfortable with the situation? 

[mctyson]

Lopez and Lin play n like it is the NBA final.....the rest of the bottom teams tanking out

I think we are lucky Lin was hurt all year.

[Chief]

Lopez and Lin play n like it is the NBA final.....the rest of the bottom teams tanking out

Nets ownership has no reason to lose and the players are playing for contracts.

[SHAQATTACK]

Lopez and Lin play n like it is the NBA final.....the rest of the bottom teams tanking out

Nets ownership has no reason to lose and the players are playing for contracts.

Yup......if Lin was play n all year sun and Lakers would have this to themselves.

[CelticsElite]

Lin is underrated still. He is a great player check out his season stats

[Ilikesports17]

Lin is underrated still. He is a great player check out his season stats

lin is not a great player.

Lin was never a great player.

He had a great month about 4 years ago.

[slamtheking]

Brooklyn 4 games behind the Lakers and Suns with 5 to go.  Nets would have to run the table to pass them both while they'd have to lose all 5.

Brooklyn has 1 left against the C's which I cannot see the C's choking away.  they have 2 against the Bulls who are fighting for the playoffs.  cannot see Nets getting either of those.  1 against Philly that I see Philly fighting hard to win.  only Orlando looks to actually be a likely Nets win.

[Chris22]

The team with the worst record only has a 25% chance of getting the top pick.
So the odds are that we won't get the top pick.
But a top four pick will be awesome, because there is so much talent in this draft.

[gouki88]

Lin is underrated still. He is a great player check out his season stats

lin is not a great player.

Lin was never a great player.

He had a great month about 4 years ago.

A decent player at best

[RockinRyA]

The team with the worst record only has a 25% chance of getting the top pick.
So the odds are that we won't get the top pick.
But a top four pick will be awesome, because there is so much talent in this draft.

As I said before that is a bad way to look at it. Sure we only have 25% chance of getting the top pick, but it is better than the rest. Sure the chance of getting the fourth pick is highest, but the chance of getting 1-3 is even higher. If odds are we wont get the top pick, odds are even higher that other teams also wont get the top pick.