NBA Eastern Conference: Who Will Make the Play-In?

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00:00now the play-in tournament examination out east during the all-star break here around the

00:05association donny unlike the western conference where all four teams currently seven through ten

00:11have a winning record in the play-in tournament positions in the eastern conference all four

00:18teams seven through ten are at least two games sub 500 or worse the magic the hawks the heat

00:26and the bulls and there's some pretty large distinctions between these four teams just a

00:32half game separates the magic and the hawks in the 7-8 split the heat and the hawks same overall

00:41three games below 500 different amount of games played so they're good there the bulls are backed

00:46by four games of both the magic and the hawks and the heat rather in terms of making up that

00:5310th and final spot and notice the philadelphia 76ers who entered the season with the third

01:00best price to win the eastern conference a game and a half out of the play-in tournament and it

01:05should be noted you will see the detroit pistons in the sixth spot in the eastern conference three

01:11games above 500 that's a two and a half game advantage for detroit in front of orlando donny

01:17as you look at those numbers for the eastern conference play in tournament and the teams

01:22battling for those spots at the moment what stands out most a lot of junk it really is a lot

01:27of junk in their magic decent ball club under 500 atlanta decent ball club under the list goes on

01:32and on we just talked about how that western conference where you're looking at hey you know

01:36if this team can make a play they got superstar players we're not finding that here but the most

01:40interesting one probably by far is a team just on the cut line the philadelphia 76ers in the 11 spot

01:46because you see the record 30 excuse me 20 and 34 disastrous here have they messed around with a

01:52lot of injuries in the first step yes they have but also understand this recognize what your season

01:57has actually become if you tell me right now for the remaining parts of the season and be it paul

02:02george and tyrese maxey other than load management games will be healthy and available on a night to

02:06night basis there's no reason to believe that they won't wind up at least in the play-in round

02:10anywhere between seven to ten but when you look at that price point where it's minus 270 to play

02:15like yeah they just need to win a few games they'll get in there they're talented enough to

02:18do that but when there's a time that daryl moore he says you know what this season is lost we're

02:23expected to look longer term here didn't work this year with paul george maybe he was banged up a

02:27little bit too much a full off season being in the city will help him enjoy the bead to get a full

02:32knee surgery where he can come back completely healthy by training camp no olympics in the summer

02:37no extra wear and tear and no joyland bead needs knee surgery we're going to wait until hopefully

02:42get into the play-in round and get knocked out quickly because if they don't make that decision

02:46it's healthy enough reason to believe they could make it into the playoffs because they can win a

02:50play-in game there may be two against the magic hawk heat or bulls we're not talking about the

02:55bucks fully gassed up with giannis anthony cupo who they'd have to knock out before they got to

02:59the playoffs here so that does make sense but it's just too much of the unknown because what

03:04are the six are showing us this year ben they're a bad basketball team with or without joel and

03:08hoping that he actually got rested and ready on the all-star break to take on the second

03:12half sprint at this point the miami heat somewhat talented hawks there's not a lot to love so i

03:17would just be hunting probably been the best price points and just let them sit where they fall