A tale as old as time.
Hit the 40/20 rule
2.
Are a top 3 seed
3.
Sitting in the 10th seed, you are also not looking at a top 3 seed.
In terms of their SRS?
With only 27 games left, that’s a challenge.
Here’s the good news.
The Clippers have the 5th toughest schedule remaining out of all 30 teams in the NBA.
That’s a window that potentially could be opened should a team like the Warriors handle their business.
That’s still not getting them to 50 wins (48 to be exact).
Is that going to get you top 6?
The same way GS could go out and launch the Play In table.
One random dude goes 6-9 from 3P and your season is over before you could even process what happened.
One cold shooting start and you’re cooked.
Say the Warriors make it out of the top 6 and their reward is Nikola Jokic?
Or, say they win the 7 seed and their reward is still Jokic?
It’s just not something that has ever happened in NBA history.
But that’s the beauty of Steph Curry.
That’s the appeal of the unknown with this group.
They checked off all the boxes.
Draymond thinks that’s what this current team is capable of.
If he’s right, then his proclamation isn’t out of the realm of possibility.
If they aren’t, then NBA history says better luck next year.
