the Hawks incredibly strong against Phoenix, a very good omen ten days from the gong

The 2020-21 Playoffs will begin in about twenty days and it is therefore time to accelerate the movement for franchises likely to go down in the spring. For whom the great deal of the night? Who is in the red? Who is playing tonight? We take stock … every morning.

The results of the night

Rankings after the night’s matches

The little homemade explanation about the play-in tournament

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Video explanations, in 90 seconds flat! ✌️❤️ pic.twitter.com/YKiNCMif35

– TrashTalk (@TrashTalk_fr) April 15, 2021

Good operation of the day – Pacers and Spurs: the Celtics, the Sixers, the Blazers and Jazz calmly managed a very weak adversity, the Grizzlies got out of a wolf trap and slipped this morning in eighth place, but the most beautiful impression, coupled with an operation interesting in the standings, so comes to us this morning from Atlanta. A masterpiece of a match against the terrible Suns, a demo of skill at first and management thereafter, an incredibly efficient bench, an Onyeka Okongwu who asserts himself, a Trae Young who plays fair and n ‘don’t need to be heroes, in short a 20/20 tonight for Nate McMillan’s men. There are nights like this where everything goes like clockwork, tonight was one, and in the end the Hawks put pressure on the Knicks in the fight for fourth place in the East, which is shaping up to be hot until the very last second. Solid Hawks in any case, not a guarantee for the Playoffs because the group is young, but let’s say that today we would prefer to coach the Hawks than the Pacers, transition transition.

Bad operation of the day – Pacers and Spurs: we can also mention the Wizards and the Knicks, the first having narrowly missed the opportunity to take ninth place and thus always hope a little more to grill spot 8 at the Hornets while the Knicks for their part see their put pressure, we can also note the day without the Suns in Atlanta and therefore the loss of first place in the West, but rather put this on the table: the Pacers and Spurs are in great danger. Two cushy franchises, far from the rhinestones, but which could therefore end up, above all, far from the Playoffs this season because the Texans have taken a huge cap from the Jazz and are now under the threat of another kind of cap, ” à la Williamson ”as they say, while on the Pacers side we almost came to blows on the bench since assistant coach Greg Foster had to be retained by his players so as not to stick one to… Goga Bitadze. In the field ? It’s worse, since the Indiana Rural managed to lose to the sparkling Kings of an equally sparkling Marvin Bagley III / Delon Wright duo, and looking a bit ahead we wouldn’t even be surprised to see the players from Nate Bjorkgrend getting kicked out of the play-in by a semi-team like the Bulls or the Raptors. The cup is full and as one of your poets of the moment would say: that’s a lot there, isn’t it?

Next night posters

• 1h : Hornets – Bulls
• 1h30 : Mavericks – Nets
• 1h30 : Raptors – Wizards
• 2h : Pacers – Hawks
• 4h : Clippers – Lakers

If the Playoffs started tonight:

• Sixers – Heat, Hornets, Pacers ou Wizards
• Nets – Heat ou Hornets
• Bucks – Celtics
• Knicks – Hawks

Play-in tournament : Heat – Hornets et Pacers – Wizards

• Suns – Blazers, Grizzlies, Warriors ou Spurs
• Jazz – Blazers ou Grizzlies
• Nuggets – Lakers
• Clippers – Mavericks

Play-in tournament : Blazers – Grizzlies et Warriors-Spurs

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