Oh man, what a complete farce these last few days have been.

The NBA has to do something about this.

I realized that having teams picked their playoff opponents could have its own set of unattended consequences.

But man, we had seven of the eight playoff matchups were not determined as of today.

You'd think, wow, what an awesome day a game this would be.

And we had precisely one game in which both teams tried,

was Orlando and Charlotte and Charlotte halfway through had no reason to try

because Detroit was beating the next by 30.

And you had things like Milwaukee playing basically none of their stars

other than Chris Middleton for 15 minutes and then falling to get out of the game

and guys playing 48 minutes in that game.

They played zone the entire game to spare everyone.

Okay, see one that one relatively easily.

You had Portland not play any of their guys.

They played six guys.

Amphanysiam's Gary Trent and Jake Lament all played 48 minutes.

Sacramento, apparently not getting the mo, actually played all of their guys in the first half

led by 25 after an 87 point first half decided that that was enough set their stars in the second half.

And we're outscored by 30 points in the second half as Simon's had 37 points

and Scaliner of Endgame had 29 points.

Meanwhile, Denver trailed by double digits with three minutes left in the game

and came back using a 14-0 run against Minnesota

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