Haven’t checked the west but anyone else bored already by the teams in the quarterfinals? I’ve seen enough boston/Milwaukee/NY coverage over the last few seasons. All this means is they’ll get even more prime time slots and I’ll have even less a chance of watching my guys broadcast. And if anyone deserves to be televised and an extra bunch of money, it’s a team like ours that’s been absolutely working their asses off.

Dang so Indy gets to go. They’re gonna have a whole broadcast salivating over Halliburton and their offense. Meanwhile we locked them the fuck up but won’t get the national attention… yet.

So I just heard the TNT crew say the East will be Indy, Boston, NYK, and Milwaukee. Unfortunate cause we know how we stack up against them (I assume we can handle NY right now). Time to focus on the rest of the season and hopefully the playoffs boys!

Shouldn’t have gotten blown out by the nets

Chicago keeps on spoiling Orlando.

The tiebreaker is a little goofy for this. In a normal round robin format, you’d only do point differential to break a tie where there is no existing head to head advantage. Perfect scenario: Magic, Celtics, Nets all at 3-1, with no head to head advantage.

But the key to that is you only count the scores of the games from the teams who are tied. So for Group C, the only games that would traditionally matter should’ve been Magic vs Nets, Magic vs Celtics, and Celtics vs Nets. If you add just those scores up, the Nets would actually have been the winner for Group C.

Why the NBA chose to use all games to break the tie vs just the relevant games is beyond me. Had to be that way for the wildcard, of course, with an absence of like games to compare against, but within the grouping? Strange decision.

All we had to do was score three more points against Boston. So annoying that they took their foot off the gas at the end of that game.