I went through and marked which games I think the team can win and which games I expect them to lose. This is absolutely a best case scenario. Where do you think I’m wrong?
Fragrant-Astronaut57
That nice little win streak starting on Feb 15 looks tough to achieve. Nugs, knicks, lakers, and Utah goin down? I sure hope you’re right
AgainstAllOddsYo
I think we loose at least the Phoenix, Denver, Minnesota and at least one of the Knicks games. I need to see way way more to believe we have any chance of getting above 45 wins
RdeRuiter
I think 41-45 wins is more realistic. Some of these W’s are going to be L’s, and a couple of the L’s might be W’s. We have an easy remaining strength of schedule and should be getting a lot of guys back from injury soon, but a good amount of these teams are battling for playoff positioning too.
Nothing easy.
lastinglovehandles
You’re an optimist
slavicmaelstroms
If we trade for a competent big…..we can turn our season around.
gr8aanand
It can happen. But only if we get our full squad back and no injuries after all star break
lurk_channell
Anything is possibleeeeeeee
kimchitacoman
As long as we can sneak in.
Spaghettiisgoddog
I think we make a playoff run via the play in tournament. West is too strong in the regular reason
anonkebab
We are winning the Ship.
Bay_Burner
We’ve been under .500 most of the season and currently 3 games under. You think we are only going to lose 9 games the rest of the year?! Crazy
Top5hottest
Well that was depressing to go over. Half of the wins I thought were off. That is a lot of w’s.
Daconvix
Yup lmao. At best we win 45 and even that’s a reach
Ok-Roof-978
Yup have 10-12 games as Ws that are very hard to predict. You have us being Utah every time. That’s unlikely. Beating Lakers is hard. Not a good matchup for us. Beating the knicks… idk about that.
erosionDonut26
Lol
Creepy-Present-2562
All im seeing is random W and L’s. You think we are beating utah 4 times? NY twice Etc
blumieplume
Depends on which refs we’re playing against
lguodala
Read in another thread we’re 8-21 against above .500 teams, here we’re going about 11-9 vs above .500 (or 16-9 if you include the jazz+houston to expand to playin contenders), and undefeated vs below .500 when we’re 12-3 on the season. I think the most optimistic I would get given that is 1 more loss to a bad team and 3 more losses to good teams, pick any, bringing us down to 45 wins.
Desperate-Ganache195
You slipped up on that lakers W.. Optimistic, let’s keep in mind that steph has been on a slump for basically half a season, nonstop injuries/suspension(gp2, cp, Green), more slumps(Wiggs, Klay) and tough schedule. Now incoming, in-form chef, old Wiggs possibly, joku breakout, in-form dray, hopefully cp3 and gp2 coming back right and an easier schedule..
otherBrandon
One thing I know about this team is that they’ll lose to the worst record teams, injury riddled teams, and straight up less than g-league bums, and then beat the fully healthy top seeded teams. They always keep it close. Always. It’s fascinating really.
des2130
No you’re not too optimistic. We gon be championship. (I may be a little delusional but I still have a lot of faith in this team despite everything.)
sloppymcgee
OP believes
beryka
HOPIUM
wheeno
It can’t happen if they decide to be indecisive and not make a couple trades to fix some holes in the team. Doesn’t have to be a big trade. Just a couple minor trades. I think keeping cp3 will all but ensure a big run is impossible. It seems like Kerr considers him essential and is pushing to keep him.
Banned3rdTimesaCharm
>Where am I too optimistic?
Literally everywhere lol.
LawProfessional6513
If we can start to close out close games we could go on a stretch of wins but we need to really ramp up at home like we did last year, we have a ton of away games on the remaining schedule which isn’t going to help. Let’s say we go 10-3 at home 12-12 away from home that puts us at 43 wins for the season which I think is doable. Would likely be a play in team in that scenario.
Nessmuk58
We have won 20/44 (0.455) so far. Winning 49/82 (0.598) means going 29/38 (0.763) the rest of the way, which is insanely optimistic.
Our remaining schedule is a BIT easier than our schedule so far, and we have guys like Klay and Wiggs coming around and JK playing great. But we still have some guys hurt, and we have to work a pair of make-up games into the rest of the season.
I’d be willing to say we could go 0.600 the rest of the year (if nothing else goes wrong), which is 23 more wins for a total of 43. More than that is hard for me to rationalize on any objective basis.
Saephy
That 7 game win streak had me like 👀
couchtomato62
I sorta stopped early. I don’t have that sorta hope just yet.
redvett
Unless we go on a miraculous win streak it’s feeling like play in territory with how much we have to put out just to scrape the bottom of the west
TheBubbaDave
We’re not beating the Lakers and their whistles 3 straight games.
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I went through and marked which games I think the team can win and which games I expect them to lose. This is absolutely a best case scenario. Where do you think I’m wrong?
That nice little win streak starting on Feb 15 looks tough to achieve. Nugs, knicks, lakers, and Utah goin down? I sure hope you’re right
I think we loose at least the Phoenix, Denver, Minnesota and at least one of the Knicks games. I need to see way way more to believe we have any chance of getting above 45 wins
I think 41-45 wins is more realistic. Some of these W’s are going to be L’s, and a couple of the L’s might be W’s. We have an easy remaining strength of schedule and should be getting a lot of guys back from injury soon, but a good amount of these teams are battling for playoff positioning too.
Nothing easy.
You’re an optimist
If we trade for a competent big…..we can turn our season around.
It can happen. But only if we get our full squad back and no injuries after all star break
Anything is possibleeeeeeee
As long as we can sneak in.
I think we make a playoff run via the play in tournament. West is too strong in the regular reason
We are winning the Ship.
We’ve been under .500 most of the season and currently 3 games under. You think we are only going to lose 9 games the rest of the year?!
Crazy
Well that was depressing to go over. Half of the wins I thought were off. That is a lot of w’s.
Yup lmao. At best we win 45 and even that’s a reach
Yup have 10-12 games as Ws that are very hard to predict.
You have us being Utah every time. That’s unlikely.
Beating Lakers is hard. Not a good matchup for us.
Beating the knicks… idk about that.
Lol
All im seeing is random W and L’s.
You think we are beating utah 4 times?
NY twice
Etc
Depends on which refs we’re playing against
Read in another thread we’re 8-21 against above .500 teams, here we’re going about 11-9 vs above .500 (or 16-9 if you include the jazz+houston to expand to playin contenders), and undefeated vs below .500 when we’re 12-3 on the season. I think the most optimistic I would get given that is 1 more loss to a bad team and 3 more losses to good teams, pick any, bringing us down to 45 wins.
You slipped up on that lakers W.. Optimistic, let’s keep in mind that steph has been on a slump for basically half a season, nonstop injuries/suspension(gp2, cp, Green), more slumps(Wiggs, Klay) and tough schedule. Now incoming, in-form chef, old Wiggs possibly, joku breakout, in-form dray, hopefully cp3 and gp2 coming back right and an easier schedule..
One thing I know about this team is that they’ll lose to the worst record teams, injury riddled teams, and straight up less than g-league bums, and then beat the fully healthy top seeded teams. They always keep it close. Always. It’s fascinating really.
No you’re not too optimistic. We gon be championship. (I may be a little delusional but I still have a lot of faith in this team despite everything.)
OP believes
HOPIUM
It can’t happen if they decide to be indecisive and not make a couple trades to fix some holes in the team. Doesn’t have to be a big trade. Just a couple minor trades. I think keeping cp3 will all but ensure a big run is impossible. It seems like Kerr considers him essential and is pushing to keep him.
>Where am I too optimistic?
Literally everywhere lol.
If we can start to close out close games we could go on a stretch of wins but we need to really ramp up at home like we did last year, we have a ton of away games on the remaining schedule which isn’t going to help. Let’s say we go 10-3 at home 12-12 away from home that puts us at 43 wins for the season which I think is doable. Would likely be a play in team in that scenario.
We have won 20/44 (0.455) so far. Winning 49/82 (0.598) means going 29/38 (0.763) the rest of the way, which is insanely optimistic.
Our remaining schedule is a BIT easier than our schedule so far, and we have guys like Klay and Wiggs coming around and JK playing great. But we still have some guys hurt, and we have to work a pair of make-up games into the rest of the season.
I’d be willing to say we could go 0.600 the rest of the year (if nothing else goes wrong), which is 23 more wins for a total of 43. More than that is hard for me to rationalize on any objective basis.
That 7 game win streak had me like 👀
I sorta stopped early. I don’t have that sorta hope just yet.
Unless we go on a miraculous win streak it’s feeling like play in territory with how much we have to put out just to scrape the bottom of the west
We’re not beating the Lakers and their whistles 3 straight games.