1st half, 2nd half OVER UNDER theory - all tourney long

sometimes I check and they are not in there ... did not see one from you so added you as friend on here 

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That's an interesting question.  Well, looking at it there are only six teams that realistically have a chance at a top lottery pick this season:

76ers

Lakers

Nets

Suns

Timberwolves

Pelicans

Out of those, the Nets don't have a pick as they traded it to Boston, so they have no incentive at all to tank.  That leaves the other five teams, which do. 

It bears watching, particularly after the 60th game of the season, which is the unoffical beginning of tank season historically.  

Yes every year. The motivation and strategy is very team specific during that time. They stop playing by "every team tries its best". Motivation for getting into playoff, or resting players, or home court. Smart teams like Spurs may lose a game at the end to LAL/Suns/Sixers if they could engineer a specific opponent for 1st round and gain advantage. Spurs even do this during season and try out new defense team ups etc. They dont care if they lose to GSW or Cavs by 30 points even during the regular season. All they want is to study their opponent to beat them when it matters.

New rules for playoffs were put in (Sept 18, 2015) for this season though. Automatically top 8 teams qualify for playoff and bracketed for 1st round as (1st seed plays 8th seed)..and so on. Also since 2014 the playoffs were changed to 2-2-1-1-1 instead of 2-3-2, so stats and results of previous years are a bit dubious in comparison.

So we will see how the teams behave this time around.

I just sent you a friend request and also access to the Google Docs.

 Thanks

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was just wondering how do i get your picks? sent you a request too. 

Thanks!!!

Do you play CBB totals?

Good luck tonight Gianfranco