11 or 12?

[Charman212002]

Just a quick question.

Indy is currently 1 game ahead of Phily in the standings (i.e. in the draft it's 11-Phily 12-Indy/Hawks) with each playing tonight.

Phily plays at Toronto and Indy is home aganist a banged up Washington team.

So what happens if Phily wins and Indy loses? By my math they would have identical records. Does deciding 11 or 12 come down to a coin toss or does it go by conference record or something.

Either way, 4 and 11/12 is something to be optomistic about heading into the lottery and draft.

Thanks in advance.

[AHF]

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Just a quick question.

Indy is currently 1 game ahead of Phily in the standings (i.e. in the draft it's 11-Phily 12-Indy/Hawks) with each playing tonight.

Phily plays at Toronto and Indy is home aganist a banged up Washington team.

So what happens if Phily wins and Indy loses? By my math they would have identical records. Does deciding 11 or 12 come down to a coin toss or does it go by conference record or something.

Either way, 4 and 11/12 is something to be optomistic about heading into the lottery and draft.

Thanks in advance.

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Coin flip is how it would be decided like when we tied the Clippers a few years ago (and lost the flip).

[Lascar78]

There is a coin flip. They basically split their odds to move up in the lottery. But if neither moves up (and they shouldn't), the winner of the coin flip picks first.

[Lascar78]

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Coin flip is how it would be decided like when we tied the Clippers a few years ago (and lost the flip).

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And the bobcats too.

[exodus]

It really doesn't matter whether we pick before or after Philly. They won't be looking to draft a pg or a center.

[capstone21]

There are no gurentees. They may not want to pass on a talent like Conely and end up trading Miller in the offseason or have him backup Miller for a season to prepare him (like Williams in NJ).

[Packfill]

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There are no gurentees. They may not want to pass on a talent like Conely and end up trading Miller in the offseason or have him backup Miller for a season to prepare him (like Williams in NJ).

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If they did draft Conley then the Hawks should do whatever it takes to get Miller. I don't think it is a coincidence that Philly has been so good since the all-star break.

[Johnnybravo4]

You know of course that BK is not picking Conley. He will end up drafting Acie Law because of his size.

[AtLaS]

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It really doesn't matter whether we pick before or after Philly. They won't be looking to draft a pg or a center.

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Don't be so sure, Philly already has Iggy, Carney and Korver..

[CBAreject]

I don't remember if I posted about it on here, but after Denver made that trade, I said to my roommate "Andre Miller is a very good PG. Denver got worse with this trade...and Philly did pretty well."

That said, I think I also said Denver was stagnant, so they were right to gamble on AI and try to shoot for a title. I guess I fully hedged my bets there, eh?

[CBAreject]

I have nightmares about coinflips. We can't win them in the lottery, and I can't win them in poker. Isn't QQ favored over AK? Why do I always lose it all in?

[exodus]

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It really doesn't matter whether we pick before or after Philly. They won't be looking to draft a pg or a center.

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Don't be so sure, Philly already has Iggy, Carney and Korver..

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They have nobody at the 4 unless you consider Joe Smith a long term option there. And i think Iggy is more of a 2 anyway. Korver is probably better as a scorer off the bench.

[Lascar78]

Trades happen though.

[TheDude]

i'm confusing myself on one thing...if indy has the 11th spot..is that 11th spot in the lottery so that if they get a higher pick than 10 from the lottery we lose that pick also?

[Lascar78]

yes but that only happens if they get EXTRAORDINARILY LUCKY and get in the top 3

[VarsitySlacker]

I may be wrong, but isn't the first tiebreaker divisional record? Because that would drop Indiana below Philadelphia for sure as of right now. That might be for playoff, or I may have just made it up.