The Jazz have 10 games left in the regular season and are in the middle of stretch run to fight for home court in at least the first round of the NBA Playoffs. Here is a break down of the games left for the teams fighting for home court.
Notes to Understand break down.
- By each team I have listed the number of games left, then in parenthesis the number of home then road games. I'm also counting Denver as a playoff team.
- The asterisk at the end of games nots that the game is a part of a back to back.
- Highlighted games represent predicted losses.
Utah Jazz - 10 Games (6/4), 6 playoff teams, 7 winning records, 1 back 2 back
LA Clippers
@ Minnesota T-Wolves*
Washington Wizards*
Minnesota T-Wolves
San Antonio Spurs
@ New Orleans Hornets
@ Dallas Mavericks
Denver Nuggets
Houston Rockets (2nd game of Rockets back 2 back)
@ San Antonio Spurs
(Prediciton 8 - 2) - I'm not sure where the second loss comes, but there are a couple of different possibilities (@ Dallas, @ New Orleans, or playing down to 1 of the "easy wins".)
Phoenix Suns - 11 Games (5/6), 7 playoff teams, 8 winning records, 3 b2b's
@ Philadelphia 76ers*
@ New Jersey Nets*
Denver Nuggets**
@ Denver Nuggets**
Minnesota T-Wolves
Dallas Mavericks
@ Memphis Grizzlies***
@ San Antonio Spurs***
@ Houston Rockets
Golden State Warriors
Portland Trailblazers
(Prediciton - 8 - 3)
San Antonio Spurs - 10 Games (6/4), 6 playoff teams, 7 winning records, 1 b2b
Minnesota T-Wolves
Houston Rockets
Golden State Warriors
@ Utah Jazz
@ Portland Trailblazers
Phoenix Suns
Seattle Sonics
@ LA Lakers*
@ Sacramento Kings*
Utah Jazz
(Prediciton 8 - 2)
Houston Rockets - 10 Games (3/7), 4 playoff teams, 5 winning records, 2 b2b's
@ San Antonio Spurs
@ Sacramento Kings
@ Portland Trailblazers*
@ Seattle Sonics*
@ LA Clippers
Seattle Sonics
Phoenix Suns
@ Denver Nuggets**
@ Utah Jazz**
LA Clippers
(Prediciton 6 - 4)
LA Lakers - 10 Games (7/3), 4 playoff teams, 5 winning records, 1 b2b
Memphis Grizzlies
Washington Wizards
Portland Trailblazers
Dallas Mavericks
@ Sacramento Kings
@ Portland Trailblazers
@ LA Clippers*
New Orleans Hornets*
San Antonio Spurs
Sacramento Kings
(Prediciton 9 - 1) - I'm not sure I see a loss here. I guess it could be me hoping, but I don't see them going 10 -0.
New Orleans Hornets - 12 Games (4/8), 7 playoff teams, 7 winning records, 4 b2b's
@ Boston Celtics
@ Toronto Raptors
@ Orlando Magic*
@ Miami Heat*
New York Knicks
Golden State Warriors
Utah Jazz**
@ Minnesota T-Wolves**
@ LA Lakers ***
@ Sacramento Kings***
LA Clippers ****
@ Dallas Mavericks****
(Prediciton 8 - 4)
If (and it won't, but if) all goes as I have mapped out the final standing would be as follows;
LA Lakers - 58 - 24 (A nice cake walk for the Lakers in the final 10.)
NO Hornets - 57 - 25 (The toughest schedule in my opinion.)
San Antonio Spurs - 57 - 25
UTAH JAZZ - 55 - 27
Houston Rockets - 55 - 27
Phoenix Suns - 55 - 27
This would give the Jazz home court due to tie breakers over both Houston (given Utah beats them on the 14th), and the Suns. But this is if it goes as mapped out. If the Jazz don't go 8 - 2, or the Rockets/Suns win 1 more game than predicted, it's to the road for the Jazz.
What do you think? Post Comments in the comment section below.
Didn't they just lose home games to Golden State and Charlotte?
Just goes to show, predicting the west, even the last 10 games is nearly impossible.
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