If Boston and Minnesota played in different conferences

[salamander]

Out of curiosity I'd like some insight from some of our more savvy NBA minds.

Seems like the Western Conference is just a better conference. If Minnesota were in the East and Boston were in the West this year would MN have over 60 wins right and Boston have mid 50's wins right now? (Basically mirror the records of the other team)

Seems like Boston has a scheduling advantage just based on their conference.

[HeHateMe]

Out of curiosity I'd like some insight from some of our more savvy NBA minds.

Seems like the Western Conference is just a better conference. If Minnesota were in the East and Boston were in the West this year would MN have over 60 wins right and Boston have mid 50's wins right now? (Basically mirror the records of the other team)

Seems like Boston has a scheduling advantage just based on their conference.

I think Boston is better overall than Minnesota but yes the Wolves would be at 60 now and Boston would probably be in the mid 50s. The difference in the conferences isn't even close.

[flexbuffchest]

I think Boston would be just as good. Their line up is legitimately stacked. They are the real deal

[twolves31]

If Boston had to play Denver 4 times, OKC 4 times, instead of Washington, Detroit, and Charlotte they would win a few less games. I still think Boston would be around 60 wins. The Wolves would have a good chance at 60+ wins in the east as long as they didn't take too many days off with lower effort.

[shoteh]

East sucks as usual. Do you know how many times Wolves would have made it into the playoffs if we simply change conferences?

[boxter432]

Wolves are 37-13 against the west, 74% winning percentage
Wolves are 17-11 against the east, 60.7% wp
so you could potentially project us to be worse if we went to the east, bc we can't handle Chicago for some reason lol

Celtics 62-16 overall (79.5% wp)
vs East - 39-9 81.3 %
vs west - 23-7 - 76.7% wp

they'd likely still win 60-65 games, maybe a but more beat up having to play all the west teams, but who knows.
east would be harder if Cle was healthy all year, Embiid played 70 games, or Milwaukee doesn't hire Doc

[HeHateMe]

Records against the other conference teams:

Celtics 23-7
Bucks 15-14
Magic 15-14
Knicks 15-15
Cavs 16-13
Pacers 15-15
76ers 16-14
Heat 14-15
Bulls 17-14
Hawks 14-15
Nets 8-18
Raptors 7-23
Hornets 7-22
Wizards 4-25
Pistons 3-26

Total: 189 - 250

Wolves 17-11
Nuggets 24-6
Thunder 20-9
Clippers 20-9
Mavericks 17-10
Suns 20-10
Pelicans 19-11
Kings 16-14
Lakers 20-10
Warriors 20-10
Rockets 12-17
Jazz 15-15
Grizzlies 13-17
Blazers 13-17
Spurs 7-23

253 - 176

[weimy froob]

for some reason the wolves have left some games on the table against the east. a terrible loss against charlotte. two against the bulls. the first game of the year in toronto. a second half collapse against atlanta. a loss at home against orlando. played boston tough--and could've won that game. could be an epic series if they met up in the finals.

[SHAFA]

for some reason the wolves have left some games on the table against the east. a terrible loss against charlotte. two against the bulls. the first game of the year in toronto. a second half collapse against atlanta. a loss at home against orlando. played boston tough--and could've won that game. could be an epic series if they met up in the finals.

As bad as the Orlando loss was, they could end up the 2nd seed. Milwaukee’s reeling and they play each other twice this week.

[salamander]

Great info. Thanks everyone.

[salamander]

Records against the other conference teams:

Celtics 23-7
Bucks 15-14
Magic 15-14
Knicks 15-15
Cavs 16-13
Pacers 15-15
76ers 16-14
Heat 14-15
Bulls 17-14
Hawks 14-15
Nets 8-18
Raptors 7-23
Hornets 7-22
Wizards 4-25
Pistons 3-26

Total: 189 - 250

Wolves 17-11
Nuggets 24-6
Thunder 20-9
Clippers 20-9
Mavericks 17-10
Suns 20-10
Pelicans 19-11
Kings 16-14
Lakers 20-10
Warriors 20-10
Rockets 12-17
Jazz 15-15
Grizzlies 13-17
Blazers 13-17
Spurs 7-23

253 - 176

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