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While 16 teams are headed to the playoffs, the rest are going back to the drawing board.

A couple teams that missed out on the postseason can be branded monumental failures (that would be you, Knicks and Timberwolves), while others did pretty much as expected (take a bow, Bobcats and Raptors) and a few more can be slotted as major underachievers (yes, that's you Golden State, Seattle, Philadelphia) though not out-and-out disasters.

With the regular season wrapping up tonight, it's time for a closer look at each of the non-playoff teams, what went wrong and why, how it can be fixed, and what ways and means each team has to fix its problems. We'll start from the bottom of the standings in each conference, meaning the worst go first:

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