Schedule rest of the year does not look good

[Q12543 [enjin:6621299]]

For those of you hoping we break well into the 30s in terms of win totals, here is why I am skeptical. Below is the remaining schedule along with my prediction of a W or L:

New Orleans - W
Chicago - W
Cleveland - L
@ Denver - L
Dallas - W
@ Houston - L
@ Sacramento - W/L
@ Utah - L
@ San Antonio - L
Portland - W
Clippers - L
Warriors - L
@ Milwaukee - W/L
Washington - L
@ Boston - L
@ Miami - L
@ New Orleans - W/L
San Antonio - W
@ Lakers - W/L
@ Portland - L
@ Indiana - L
Lakers - W
Sacramento - W
@ Golden State - L
@ Portland - L
@ Utah - L
@ Lakers - W/L
OKC - L
@ Houston - L

If you assume we win 3 out of the 5 toss-ups (W/Ls), that is a total of 10 more wins. That gets us to 30 total.

That my friends is a massive disappointment and probably one that most fans sense already, as indicated by how dead this place has been lately!

[Coolbreeze44]

Yeah it's a massive disappointment. Hopefully Thayden has a good idea of what needs to happen this offseason and have a realistic plan they can execute. Might be the most critical offseason in franchise history.

[AbeVigodaLive]

17 road games.
12 home games.

[Coolbreeze44]

It will be very interesting to see how the optimism going into next season compares to how it was before this campaign.

[AbeVigodaLive]

It will be very interesting to see how the optimism going into next season compares to how it was before this campaign.

As the eternal optimist of the forum, I know my expectations will be tempered.

[khans2k5 [enjin:6608728]]

It's the NBA. Just because a team is better than us on paper doesn't equate to a loss. Almost every game is wide open for the taking.

[TAFKASP]

On the other hand the draft pick looks better all the time. Like it or not this team needs that asset in order to stop disappointing.

[Q12543 [enjin:6621299]]

It's the NBA. Just because a team is better than us on paper doesn't equate to a loss. Almost every game is wide open for the taking.

Right, but if you haven't noticed yet, some teams are better than others, which is why not everyone ends the year with a .500 record. It's not like we're flipping coins here!

[TAFKASP]

It's the NBA. Just because a team is better than us on paper doesn't equate to a loss. Almost every game is wide open for the taking.

Right, but if you haven't noticed yet, some teams are better than others, which is why not everyone ends the year with a .500 record. It's not like we're flipping coins here!

And when you're the Woofs almost every game is there to be given. At this point they're many times more likely to lose an expected win than win an expected loss.

[khans2k5 [enjin:6608728]]

It's the NBA. Just because a team is better than us on paper doesn't equate to a loss. Almost every game is wide open for the taking.

Right, but if you haven't noticed yet, some teams are better than others, which is why not everyone ends the year with a .500 record. It's not like we're flipping coins here!

And when you're the Woofs almost every game is there to be given. At this point they're many times more likely to lose an expected win than win an expected loss.

I'm just talking from a standpoint of going game to game a predicting a win or loss. We're gonna win some games we shouldn't and lose some games we shouldn't. Then you have to account for how teams will change as we get closer to the playoffs (some teams will rest guys while others will tank). There's too much variability down the closing stretch of seasons to really be all that accurate. That's why using the closing stretch of last year to predict this year's start didn't work out well.