Philly Front Office

Are you ready?
You think you can tell us how to lose?
You think you can tell us when to care?
You think that we’re better?
Well, you better get ready
Bow to the masters…

The OKC Thunder invited us over to their house and insulted us by trying to rest their starters? Please. They thought they could taunt us into beating them so they could keep the draft pick we owe them? Get the f*** outta here. The Sixers have shown their toughness and mental fortitude recently by avoiding missteps like this, not getting lured into traps other teams set begging us to beat them. It would have been all too easy for our boys to put in some effort against one of the top teams in the league without their best players. We are too smart for that.

That’s the breaks little man.

Lottery Odds

The Thunder really thought they could get us out of the 5th seed? The 5th seed is ours! Well, and the Nets, but still.

1 – 9.8%

2 – 9.9%

3 – 10.0%

4 – 10.1%

5 – 2.2%

6 – 20.1% (Odds split due to tiebreaker)

Total – 62.1 % chance to keep the pick

Playoff Odds

Miami and Chicago are now tied as the foe we are racing for elimination. That number is down to 8 with the loss last night.

(Note: If the Sixers qualify for the play-in but don’t end up making the playoffs, they still have a chance to win the lottery)

Per Basketball Reference, our current odds to finish in each place are:

10 or better – 1.3%

11 or worse – 98.7%

Odds of winning the play-in and making the playoffs – .1%

For those who just want to watch the world burn:

37.8% chance of missing the playoffs AND not keeping a draft pick

Games to Follow Coming Up

Numbers in parenthesis is the number of games ahead and behind the Sixers in the standings. Sixers record is 23-46 with 13 games to play.

March 20

• Brooklyn (EVEN) at Indiana – Brooklyn keeps fighting. This is a winnable game
• Toronto (+1) at Golden State – Toronto is not fighting at all. This is not a winnable game. They are the posterchildren for completely overhauling the lottery.

March 21

• Sixers at San Antonio – If Sandro Mamukelashvili can score 34 points in 19 minutes, he should be able to score double that in half the time against our revolutionary center-less defense.