Embrace The Playoff Push

If Jae says it, I believe it.

Sam

Heat hurting bigtime:

http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/nba/miami-heat/article17270891.html

Playoff push just got a lot easier.

Update on Miami:

Cold Cold Heat: LeBron James welcomed his old Miami Heat teammates to Cleveland for the second time and summarily pushed them out the door with a 114-88 thumping. The Cavaliers maintained their firm grip on the East's No. 2 seed, but the Heat have now fallen to 34-41 and find themselves in a virtual tie with the Boston Celtics for the final playoff spot in the East. Miami holds that tiebreaker due to a 3-1 advantage in their completed season series, but the Heat are courting disaster as a team that was constructed to avoid a crushing fall to mediocrity following the loss of LeBron last summer.

On the other hand, Thursday could have gone a lot worse for them, because Dwyane Wade left the game in the second quarter with a bruised knee and did not return. Wade said post-game that he does not consider the injury serious and will play again, but it's unclear if that means he will miss one or two games for sensible rest. Now locked in a tight race with four of seven games left to play against teams fighting for playoff berths or seeding, it's fair to say that the Heat need Wade to play as much as possible.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-ball-dont-lie/nba-playoff-picture-update--rockets-won-t-go-away--heat-flirt-with-disaster-062127214.html

bobheckler wrote:

steve3344 wrote:Update on Miami:

Cold Cold Heat: LeBron James welcomed his old Miami Heat teammates to Cleveland for the second time and summarily pushed them out the door with a 114-88 thumping. The Cavaliers maintained their firm grip on the East's No. 2 seed, but the Heat have now fallen to 34-41 and find themselves in a virtual tie with the Boston Celtics for the final playoff spot in the East. Miami holds that tiebreaker due to a 3-1 advantage in their completed season series, but the Heat are courting disaster as a team that was constructed to avoid a crushing fall to mediocrity following the loss of LeBron last summer.

On the other hand, Thursday could have gone a lot worse for them, because Dwyane Wade left the game in the second quarter with a bruised knee and did not return. Wade said post-game that he does not consider the injury serious and will play again, but it's unclear if that means he will miss one or two games for sensible rest. Now locked in a tight race with four of seven games left to play against teams fighting for playoff berths or seeding, it's fair to say that the Heat need Wade to play as much as possible.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-ball-dont-lie/nba-playoff-picture-update--rockets-won-t-go-away--heat-flirt-with-disaster-062127214.html

steve,

We are now in a statistical tie with Miami.  Unfortunately, they are in the 8th slot because of that stupid and unnecessary loss to Miami last week.  We are 1/2 game behind Brooklyn and 2 games in the loss column behind Milwaukee.

If we beat Milwaukee and Toronto beats Brooklyn tonight we will be in 7th place.  We will also only be 1 game in the loss column behind Milwaukee for 6th.

Man, is this neck-to-neck down to the wire or what!?


bob



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7th spot gets us Cleveland in the first round. Cakewalk.

With Wade is out, they could have a shot at Towns or Okafer, if they get lucky. Combine one of those with Bosh and Whiteside and they won't need Wade going further.

Steve we have to win one for the Gipper!!!!! thats more important than a franchise big.

Okafer and Towns will probably go one-two in some order on draft day, who is Miami (or Us) trading with to get there?

Cauley-Stein?

Kentucky keeps rolling and he'll be top 5, small chance Ainge could get up there for him either (without giving up more picks than he may want to).

but to the point:

how did the Nets get back into this thing?

geesh.

looking at the Schedules we need to win 5 out of 7 to get in for sure and 4 to have a shot.

Miami has the easiest go of it and looks to end up at 38 wins or more

Brooklyn also looks like a 38 win team at least.

Milwaukee already has 37 wins.

we have to play Cleveland TWICE yet...OUCH!

not much wiggle room for us, but that's what happens when you lose to a Detriot team and then a Miami team playing back ups. Win both of those and we'd talking about moving ahead or Milwaukee instead of maybe being home watching the playoffs.

those are always the games that piss me off the worst, as they come back to bite you in the ass.

KDP

OK to be pissed about those2 losses, but who would have thought they would matter at all 3 months ago.

beat

It's funny (ironic, not ha ha) how teams often get so high when a key player is missing that they overachieve and sometimes catch the opponent unprepared.

Sam

beat wrote:KDP

OK to be pissed about those2 losses, but who would have thought they would matter at all 3 months ago.

beat

I predicted 35 wins this year, so only needing 38 to make the playoffs in the east this year wasn't a stretch , if everything went right.

but I agree that we never really thought this years team would still be in a playoff push this late in the season.

oh well after last nights game 9another like Miami and Detroit) we're pretty much done it seems.

on to the draft and Free agency I guess.

kdp59 wrote:

beat wrote:KDP

OK to be pissed about those2 losses, but who would have thought they would matter at all 3 months ago.

beat

I predicted 35 wins this year, so only needing 38 to make the playoffs in the east this year wasn't a stretch , if everything went right.

but I agree that we never really thought this years team would still be in a playoff push this late in the season.

oh well after last nights game  9another like Miami and Detroit) we're pretty much done it seems.

on to the draft and Free agency I guess.

But any prediction made was certainly not based on the roster we have now. Who could have even come close to predicting that?

beat