Adam Matas

I think four is tough because you almost certainly have not, there's going to be a tough first round matchup, no matter who you, what seed you are.

But I think there's a very tough one if you're in the four or five, because that's almost certainly going to be, in my opinion, Houston or Minnesota.

And so one of those right out of the gate is tough as opposed to even the Lakers or possibly even the Suns.

It's like, yeah, but I still think Denver should win that one.

Whereas the other one feels more 55, 45.

So I think that it's actually a big deal that Denver gets the three seed.

It would be great, man, if Phoenix could climb up to that six and you get Denver at the 3-6 against Phoenix.

Because like you, I have respect for how hard they play, but I just think the things they win, those margins go away in the regular season.

And as I always say, if you don't have somebody to guard Jokic, I just can't pick against Denver if Jokic has an easy matchup.

And he would have an easy matchup in that series, I think.

um so how many games do you think they will win now here's the thing they are currently at uh 63.6 win rate that would put them at 52 wins if they were out in the current pace that they're at so if you were to guess what do you think they finish so 52 is the pace they're at they're on 52 pace i'm gonna say 55. let's say they pick ground up here in the back half of the year

If not this year, which feels almost impossible at this point, they'd have to really be on fire out of the gate.

I'm going to go 54, one lower than you.

I think coming into the year, I said 56.

And I don't think I've ever been more than two games off of the preseason over under.

This one will maybe test that one a little bit if they do just keep the status quo.

But I think 54.

And I think it's a large part because of the very end of the year.

54 wins.

Coming into the year, what was their over under?