Deleterious

Duke lost so I hope he had cashed it out.

Before today's games. The WCF 3-8 seeds were separated by 1 1/2 games. With one week left in the season, you could go from a 3 seed hosting a first round playoff game to the play in. Crazy.

The tiebreakers against Milwaukee in order: Head to head - Currently 0-2 in favor of Milwaukee. Best we can do here is make it 2-2 and move to the 2nd tiebreaker. Milwaukee obviously can still win this tiebreaker. Division leader - Useless since we are in the same division and would be tied. Division win-loss percentage - Neither team plays another division game except the 2 against each other. Current records are Detroit 5-9 and Milwaukee 7-7. Best we can do again is tie it and move to the 4th tiebreaker. Milwaukee can still win this tiebreaker. Conference won-loss percentage - Including the 2 against Milwaukee, we have 1 more conference game (NYK). Milwaukee just has the 2 against us. Current records are Detroit: 28-21. Milwaukee 29-20. Both teams can still win this. Milwaukee has an extra conference game because they played Atlanta in the semi-finals of the in season tournament. I don't know if that game counts or not for determining tiebreakers. If yes, they can't tie and no other tiebreakers are needed. Better win% against playoff teams in own conference - No clue what the numbers are here. Better win% against playoff teams in the western conference - No clue what the numbers are here.

It didn't limit their ability run at all. They average 45 defensive rebounds per game and had 44 last night, plus Memphis committed 15 TO's and that is what teams usually commit against Detroit. They had every opportunity to run last night. Being out rebounded hurt them by giving up 2nd chance points. 23 is high since Detroit usually gives up just over 14 second chance points per game. But even giving up all of those 2nd chance points they only lost by 6. If they shoot their normal averages of 47/36 on the same amount of shots as last night, they score an extra 18 points and win by 12.

The rebounding was an issue. But they lost this game with poor shooting. You lose a lot of games shooting 38% from the field and 26% from three. Shoot your averages and this is a win.

Ferrari and Mercedes have a lot of work to do. Pretty boring race. Other than the pit exit dust up with Max and Lando I can't think of much else happening.

Milwaukee won.

Bucks-Heat going to OT.

Yep.

Two games against NO, ugh. Free wins.

Luke Kennard seems like 30 years ago.

Knicks have been up 30 most of the game. 9 minutes left in the 4th and they have gone 8 deep. Starters are still in for the most part.

What did Atlanta do to offend the Knicks?

Cade is listed as probable. Harris is questionable.

Wouldn't shock me if he goes tonight. Injury report comes out at 1PM.

If I had to pick one or the other. I shut down Haliburton and let those other guys do what they want, and Detroit wins in 6. Haliburton really struggled the first two months of the season and Indiana struggled at 16-18. He started to turn things around about new years and since then they are 30-13. Those guys (minus Carlisle) you mention are good at playing their role, but they need Haliburton to set the table for them. They become very average if you can slow Haliburton down.

Oh yeah. We knew it was going to happen. But officially clinching a playoff berth means we now convey our 1st round pick this season to Minnesota.

I like Ausar guarding Hali a lot more than him guarding a healthy Brunson. He only played in 3 of the Indiana games, and all 3 he still had minute restrictions. He played 19, 21, and 11 minutes. They will be a healthy underdog to both teams.

This game and Monday's are on NBATV.

Like Alonso said last night. There isn't another driver at the moment who could put that car on pole like Max did.

He has until May 28th to decide on the NBA or college. The two best draft guys in the media have him at 28 and 62. So some disagreement on how well he translates to the NBA.

Zach Lowe is back. He recently joined The Ringer and will do a podcast there. I think it might have already started.