…it’s more about the matchup. I don’t wanna see OKC, Spurs, or a healthy Nuggets squad in the 1st round. That’ll be almost a guaranteed 1 & done due to the advantage they all have over us at the center spot but also the type of guards they have who can smoke Luka & Reaves on the perimeter with their dribble drive penetration.
But I think we have a decent shot to take down the Rockets. They don’t have a traditional PG who can burn us and they haven’t been right since they lost Adams for the year. Wildly inconsistent. It does us no good to get to the 3rd seed but have the Nuggs with Gordon & Watson back on the court at 6th as our reward. We saw what the 3 seed got us last year.
We’ve got 2 games coming up against HOU and it’ll be interesting to see how we look with the season quickly winding down.
Hard to get a read on MIN as well…
Ideally, we want to end up as #3 seed to avoid playing the # seed. Assume Thunder and Spurs will end up 1 and 2. I’d rather play the Spurs before the Thunder. I think we can beat Nuggets, Rockets, or Timberwolves. If we play like we did today, we could easily make the conference finals if we get #3 seed. Not worried about anybody from the play-in. West will be won by top-6 team.