Dang it, Mavs lose...

[2cammer97]

:(

Time to accept the 4th seed and get geared up for the playoffs.

Marc, where was our official thread for tonight? j/k

GO MAVS!

Marcus

[SVTVenom]

Yeah, they got whipped big time tonight. I don't know what it is about GS, but they have the Mav's # right now. There is still hope for the #1 seed. Anything can happen. Thats why they play the games. ;)

[TRAXX]

Strange indeed. Oh well, last I checked, GS is not in the playoffs :cool: Yup 4th seed it is.

[mustang_marc]

I was watching the game until about 2 mins to go before halftime, but I couldnt stay awake any longer. Guess I'm glad I didn't. Just watched Sports Center and it looks like the Mavs got it taken to them in the 4th period. Can't believe the Mavs weren't focused enough to do the D lockdown in the 4th. I hope that isn't an issue in the playoffs. Don't think it will be though...kind of hard not to get up for a playoff game. Don't worry about the official Mavs thread for Phoenix...I'm starting it now! :D

[46Tbird]

I'd play like shit too if my body thinks it's midnight...

[mustang_marc]

Oh, and not that it matters now (this season), but mark this down for the future. There has been a LOT of confusion over playoff tiebreakers. I saw this on Dallas News this morning.

MAVERICKS Q&A

Q: I've searched the Internet, trying to find the official order of division and playoff tiebreakers. I've seen some where conference record comes before division record and others where division record comes before conference record. And both were on NBA.com. Do you know the actual order that is used by the league? It could come down to conference and divisional records.

Jim Christie, Bossier City, La.

MOORE: You're right. Look in two different places and you're likely to get two different answers. Even when you tell someone the right answer, it's listed incorrectly in so many places it makes the person question the information.

So here we go again, and I assure you this is correct: The tiebreaker after head-to-head between the Mavericks and Spurs is division record. If the two teams are tied after each of those tiebreakers, the third is conference record. San Antonio owns the edge in that category.

The confusion comes from the fact that conference record was the second tiebreaker after head-to-head for a long time. But when Charlotte entered the league for the 2004-05 season and the league finally had a balanced division schedule – with five teams in each of the six divisions – the league decided to move division record ahead of conference record. The problem is the change wasn't reflected on its own Web site.

It is now.