The Trades – Then The Slide?

The Grizzlies are standing high in the RPI but that is almost the only one.  I wonder why so many rankings dropped Memphis down.  Because of the trade, the loss to OKC?

John Schuhmann @NBA says because Coach Hollins criticized the Gay trade, "it’s hard to imagine him on the Memphis bench beyond this season."  If he isn’t it would be a BIG mistake.  Most of these guys think the Gay trade was a good move but wonder how much it will help the Grizzlies this year.

Looking ahead to the possible playoff matchups, Matt Moore @CBSSports writes, "The Spurs want to avoid the Grizzlies, who want to avoid the Clippers, who want to avoid the Thunder, who want to avoid the Warriors, who want to avoid the Nuggets, who want to avoid the Spurs. The Thunder and Spurs are the best teams in their conference but both have suffered the pain of unfavorable matchups in recent years."

The table below shows the Grizzlies have the easiest remaining strength of schedule, but have the most away games, but play the fewest over 500 teams (except for the Clippers), but play almost the most division and conference games of the 9 teams.

	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th
	SAS	OKC	LAC	MEM	GSW	Den	Utah	HOU	Port
Record	38-11	36-12	34-16	30-16	30-17	30-18	27-22	26-23	25-23
GB	0.0	1.5	4.5	6.5	7.0	7.5	11.0	12.0	12.5
Home	22-2	21-3	20-5	18-7	16-6	20-3	18-5	16-8	8-15
Away	16-9	15-9	14-11	12-9	14-11	10-15	9-17	10-15	5-4
Div.	11-2	5-2	7-4	4-5	5-5	5-5	3-4	4-7	16-13
Conf.	21-8	24-6	24-9	16-12	15-12	22-11	15-17	9-18	5-5
Last 10	10-0	6-4	3-7	6-4	7-3	8-2	7-3	5-5	5-5
				GAMES	LEFT TO	PLAY
Total	33	34	32	36	35	34	33	33	34
Home	17	17	16	16	19	18	18	17	16
Away	16	17	16	20	16	16	15	16	18
> 500	18	22	17	18	20	20	22	18	22
≤ 500	15	12	15	18	15	14	11	15	12
Div.	3	9	3	7	4	6	9	5	7
Conf.	23	22	17	24	23	19	20	25	23
SOS	0.506	0.516	0.506	0.476	0.511	0.506	0.538	0.502	0.536

Average ranking for the week is 7.15, a big drop from Last Week (LW) of 5.62. (Actual not included in average.)

2012-13 Power Rankings for week of 4 February
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	Actual	NBA	SI	Stein	FOX	CBS	Yahoo	Sagarin	Hollin.	ProBB	H’psWd	SBNat.	Bleach.	RPI
on	02-05	02-04	02-01	02-04	02-05	02-05	02-05	02-05	02-05	02-04	02-04	01-29	02-04	01-29
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