Now, if only we could be this zen about how the team is actually playing and how that will fare in any playoff matchup. And thanks to the Cavs injuries, they won’t!
The top 4 teams in the East are all jockeying for position themselves, and there’s really no way of knowing who is going to slide or rise with strategic rest or trying to avoid the Nets in the first round or getting ‘on the better side of the bracket’ or whatever.īulls just can’t fall into 7th. So even if the rest of the season schedule slightly favors the Cavs over the Bulls, and as we know the Bulls can lose to anybody.this iteration of the Cavs is just not going to make up 3 games (tiebreakers, yeah!) in six remaining to sink the Bulls into the play-in seeds.Ĭavs: (back-to-back), Sixers (b2b), Bucksīulls: Clippers, Heat, Bucks, Celtics (b2b), Hornets, truly does not matter if the Bulls get leapfrogged by the Raptors in the 5th seed. (fake create-a-player? it’s a superfluous ‘junior’.), and Brandon Goodwin. In the Cavs Wednesday loss against the Mavericks, they started 10-day signee Moses Brown at center, and played guys named Lamar Stevens, Dylan Windler, RJ Nembhard Jr.
4 seeded Knicks (38-30) are well on their way to clinching their own spot. With four games left on their schedule, the No. The Cavs also lost rotation contributor Dean Wade for the season, and are the latest victims of the Rajon Rondo con-job as the team’s only backup point guard hasn’t played in weeks. Eastern Conference Standings: What are the New York Knicks playoffs chances As of now, the Philadelphia 76ers, Brooklyn Nets and Milwaukee Bucks have secured their playoff spots. Mobley joins frontcourt mate and All Star Jarrett Allen as inactive. But unlike the Bulls they are adding to thei injury pile: Evan Mobley is the latest, and likely most critical, Cavalier to now be missing significant time, as the Rookie of the Year favorite is out at least the next two games with an ankle sprain. Like the Bulls have, Cleveland’s gone 4-6 in their last 10 games. The Bulls now win any tiebreaker against them and also any tiebreaker with the Toronto Raptors, which is convenient as with their win on Wednesday night those Raptors are now indeed tied with the Bulls.īut while it’s a bit of bummer that the Bulls may fall behind the Raptors in the standings in the season’s stretch run, they are extremely unlikely to fall beyond that to play-in land.īecause the Cavs, who lost their game on Wednesday to fall two games behind the Bulls, are really down bad. So in all actuality, while the team doesn’t look good on the court to where the first round is worrisome, it’s not a worst-case scenario.īecause, no matter how bad the Bulls have been, they can’t compete in a race down the standings with the Cleveland Cavaliers.įor one thing, that win against the Cavs last weekend simply meant more than any ‘bad’ loss.
beat the teams they’re directly competing with in the standings.And the loss to the Knicks was worse.wait, no, nothing is worse than losing to the Kings.īut they rebounded a bit in beating a (nominal) NBA team like the Wizards, and have done a couple very important things this year: And sure, that loss to the Kings was bad.
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