| 21 March 2010
I just wanted to give a quick nod to the East for Saturday night's games. In particular, the Boston Celtics and the Milwaukee Bucks. These two teams took it upon themselves to upset (on the road) both the Dallas Mavericks and the Denver Nuggets, respectively. A perfectly equitable trade with the eastern conference since the Celtics and the Bucks have NO SHOT of making it to the NBA finals this year.
What? Don't look at me like that. We all know the east will be represented by Orlando or Cleveland. Even maybe, slightly, possibly Atlanta. I can't help but feel they're on mission this year. Whether that mission is to lose in the conference finals or not remains to be seen. Milwaukee is too young and the Celtics are too old (and beat up) to be in the hunt this year.
Back in the western conference,...
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...losses can be hard to come by. Real hard! If you naively count the last ten games for each of the top eight teams in the western conference you see the teams are a combined 61-19 for a 76% win percentage. Of course, if you go through and remove the games played between these eight teams, you get an astounding 53-12 record (81.5%). A better win percentage than Cleveland!
This time of the year, I don't waste my time comparing records, all I do is look at the losses. For a group of teams that wins over 75% of their games. I assume they've won a game until they actually lose it. Once a team loses one, they won't be getting it back.
For those that poo poo my 7th seed dreams and hope the Suns can pick up a highest seed possible. Saturday night's losses by Dallas and Denver now put the 2nd through 7th seeds within three losses of each other with 12-14 games to go. Once again putting the western conference on a path so muddled that the second seed can drop to fifth in the last game of the season, like last year's Rockets. Or did you prefer the year before when the first through sixth seeds were separated by three games and the fifth and sixth seed had a better record than the fourth seed?
Honestly? Who needs all this excitement year after year?
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