I'm in my morning class doing scholarly things -- obviously. Anyway, I took a quick break to look at the Sixers remaining schedule, and I wandered over to the Hawks schedule and something caught my eye. First look at this.
GB
Forgot the five seed! Let's set our sights on the fourth seed. And yes, you can blame me if I jinx it, but look at the Hawks next five games.
Eastern Conference
Team
4.
x-Atlanta
16.5
5.
Miami
20.0
6.
Philadelphia
20.5
BOS
LAL
@PHI
@BOS
ORL
And the Sixers next five games...
CHA
@DET
ATL
MIL
DET
With 12 games remaining, a four game deficit seems difficult to make up, but look at the upcoming five-game stretches for each team and tell me it isn't possible. You can't!
Let the race to the four seed begin.