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Playoffs Around the Corner
We only have 1 game left in the season and looks like we�ll finish 8th place in the Western Conference (16th in the league). This is two slots lower than we finished last season although I feel like we have a better team this year. I just didn�t care much about regular season. All I really cared about was that we made it into the playoffs. I don�t think our team has a chance against Portland or San Antonio, and we been stuck behind Minnesota and Memphis as well for the past year or two. I still wanted to make playoffs and see if injuries play in my favor, but I wasn�t planning on making moves this year in order to make a championship push as I am still waiting for my players to evolve.
Still Waiting on Maxey and Haliburton
Both Tyrese Maxey and Tyrese Haliburton made major jumps this year. Their tendencies have jumped up a bit as well to where they can put up 20 point games now. But they just don�t have winning DNA yet. When going against championship caliber teams, they just fall short. Against bad teams though, they can really pad up the stats.
Team Stat Rankings
PTS � 7th (102.3 PTS)
REB � 17th (49.8 REB)
OREB � 9th (11.6 OREB)
DREB � 22nd (38.3 DREB)
AST � 4th (24.1 AST)
FG% - 13th (0.430 FG%)
3P% - 15th (0.350 3P%)
3PM � 14th (8.2 3PM)
When I first looked at this, I didn�t understand why I was 7th in scoring and still 16th in the league. But I see now, that my team was hurting in defensive rebounds. I think this will fix now that Paul Reed�s rebounding skill has evolved. But it might still be hard justifying keeping him in the starting lineup because he doesn�t score much.
Playoffs
Now that playoffs are about to started, I�m actually paying attention to my team to see what adjustments I need to make. I�ll say that over the past week, I still haven�t figured out my team yet. We play the LA Clippers in the first game of the play-in tournament, and I don�t feel quite confident about matching up against them yet. The team is very young and although I have Joker, they can just play me off the court by being more athletic.