Today, after the Warriors were finally killed by the Mavericks, considering that there are only five games left in the regular season, the Warriors basically stay in the tenth position in the West and cannot go any further.
The NBA gives statistical logic, and in the next game, the Warriors only need to win one game or the Rockets only need to lose one game, and the Warriors lock up 10th place in the West.
At the moment, the Warriors need to focus on who will face the first-round play-offs, which is the Lakers, Kings or Pelicans in the final Western Conference No. 9?
Now the Pelicans lead the Lakers by 1 win, and the Lakers and Kings have 0 wins, but the Kings have a head-to-head advantage in the regular season and are temporarily in 8th place in the West.
If the Lakers win against the Cavaliers tomorrow, the Lakers will move up to 8th place in the West.
And the Pelicans' record has been inconsistent since Ingram's injury.
The team has just experienced a four-game losing streak, and in the remaining five regular season games, in addition to the Trail Blazers, a weak team, needs to play the Suns, Kings, Lakers and Warriors.
The Pelicans are likely to continue to slide down to No. 8 in the West, and the Lakers will eventually move up to No. 7 in the West, just like last year's counterattack.
For the Warriors, the ideal opponent must be the King. The Warriors have an experience advantage in playing the Kings, not to mention that the Kings are missing Monk.
So, the Warriors' next strategy is this:
1. Win against the Jazz tomorrow, don't wait for the Rockets to lose, and lock in the play-in qualification!
2. Considering that the play-offs will be played in two life-or-death games, the Warriors will choose to take a large number of rounds to rest Curry, Thompson and Green in preparation for a win-win play-off game.
3. In order to ensure that the Kings fall to the 9th place in the West, the Warriors will definitely release the water when they play the Lakers on April 10, and of course they may not be able to win steadily.
Of course, the Warriors need to qualify for the playoffs and may need to win against the Kings before winning against the Lakers or Pelicans.
If the opponent in the second round of the play-offs is the Lakers, it is exactly what you say, you can hide from the first year of junior high school, but you can't avoid the fifteenth!