The Playoff Seeding is Bullshit

[Lamrock]

Tonight, the Portland Trailblazers blew out the Denver Nuggets, to get a 54-28 record, tying the San Antonio Spurs. They won the season series 3-1, but though they would get homecourt advantage if the two teams met, San Antonio for some reason gets the higher seed.

Now the Blazers go from the Mavs in the first round, and a pretty likely path to the conference finals, to a hard series with Houston, and a guaranteed loss at the hands of the Lakers (if they make it that far).

Two perfectly terrible polls down the drain.

[buzzy]

It's because San An won their Division.. But I think we've had those discussions about the seeding before

[Fcuk Orlando]

You should be happy about that, Dallas swept Portland this season

[Lamrock]

Nevermind, I'm an idiot. I didn't notice that they were in a three-way tie with the Nuggets. Taking a closer look, Houston is a more favorable opponent than Dallas, but they also go from a very good chance of winning in the conference semis to almost certainly losing in 5 or 6 to the Lakers.