With two games to do in the regular season, the ultimate place of the Warriors in the Western Conference classification is remarkably in the air.
They could finish in fourth place in the West and have a home advantage in an eliminatory series. They could also finish the eighth, forcing them to win one of the two game games to guarantee a place in the playoffs.
If they win Friday in Portland and Sunday on the clippers at home, they will escape the game tournament. They lost control of their destiny on Wednesday evening when they blew a 14 -point lead in a defeat against the spurs at home, then found it when the grizzly greeks lost the Timberwolves on Thursday.
At 47-33, they are currently sixth in the West, just a match behind the n ° 4 Denver (with the clippers between) and equally with Memphis n ° 7 and the Minnesota n ° 8.
Here is their probability of finishing in each seeded between n ° 4 and n ° 8 Thursday evening, according to the basketball reference:
N ° 4: 2.9%
N ° 5: 12.3%
N ° 6: 27.5%
N ° 7: 27.4%
N ° 8: 18.4%
If the Warriors find themselves in double-meaning equality, they have equality break across the grizzly greeks (record of 3-1 this season) and Timberwolves (3-1). They lose the break in equality in head to the Nuggets (2-1) and the Clippers (3-0, a match to play). They also lose the break in equality against the Lakers, the locks of the seed n ° 3.
Equality involving three or more teams is broken by comparing the records of the teams against each other. We will not dive into each of the three and four teams in this group of five, but here is the result: if the Warriors win the two remaining games, they are guaranteed a place among the first six. Their equality breaks on the Timberwolves and the Grizzlies mean equality involving these three teams (even if others are also involved) locks Memphis and the Minnesota below Golden State.
The division and conference records are the next on the list of equality breaks, although the Clippers are the only other team from the group’s Pacific, and they won the tie equality on-one on Golden State.
You will find below some key information on each of the five teams of the mixture with the Warriors until Thursday evening:
N ° 4: Denver Nuggets (48-32)
Stay games: VS Grizzlies (Friday), in Rockets (Sunday)
Tête-à-tête gained: Warriors (2-1)
Lost tête: Timberwolves (0-4)
Indecisive tête: Clippers (2-2), Grizzlies (1-1, play Friday evening)
Conference record: 30-20
N ° 5: La Clippers (48-32)
Stay games: in Kings (Friday), at Warriors (Sunday)
Tête-à-tête gained: Warriors (3-0, playing Sunday), Grizzlies (3-0)
Lost tête: Timberwolves (0-3)
Indecisive tête: Nuggets (2-2)
Conference record: 27-23
N ° 6 Golden State Warriors (47-33, 1 return match)
Stay games: In Trail Blazers (Friday), against Clippers (Sunday)
Tête-à-tête gained: Timberwolves (3-1), Grizzlies (3-1)
Lost tête: Nuggets (1-2), Clippers (0-3, playing Sunday)
Indecisive tête: None
Conference record: 28-22
N ° 7 Memphis Grizzlies (47-33, 1 back match)
Stay games: In Nuggets (Friday), against Mavericks (Sunday)
Tête-à-tête gained: Timberwolves (2-1)
Lost tête: Clippers (0-3), Warriors (1-3)
Indecisive tête: Nuggets (1-1, play Friday)
Conference record: 26-23
N ° 8 minnesota Timberwolves (47-33, 1 game back)
Stay games: Vs. Nets (Friday), against Jazz (Sunday)
Tête-à-tête gained: Nuggets (4-0), Clippers (3-1)
Lost tête: Warriors (1-3), Grizzlies (1-2, play Thursday)
Indecisive tête: None
Conference record: 32-19
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