it is same with 66 games. 30-36 is 6 games below the .500 mark. If we are 30-30, we are at .500. If we lose 6 games in a row, we are not only 3 games below 500, we are those 6 we just lost to get us 6 below.
Yeah, I like them to win 20 - 25 games, tops. They won only 17 of 82 games last season. I don't see them winning more than a handful of more games with the shortened 66 game schedule. Although they aren't a lock, I would not be surprised to see them end up with the worst record in the league. The only thing I like about them is that they are in our division. They have an inexperienced starting PG, who has looked flat out awful, even against weak competition recently. Or, they can start Barea. For all the offensive spark he provided off the bench in Dallas, he can't guard anyone bigger or better than the average 7th grader. They have no starting center and their two best players play the same position. Wesley Johnson sucks and NOBODY on that team plays defense. Anthony Randolph is Chris Johnson skinny and not starting center material. Their best starting line-up is actually: PG - JJ Barea SG - Martell Webster SF - Michael Beasley PF - Kevin Love C - Kosta Koufos (they still have him, don't they?) Yep, 20 - 25 wins, tops (sorry Rick, but you knew what you were getting when you took this job). BNM
no, "under 500" means how many games you'd have to win to get a .500 record. If you're 0-6, it doesn't mean you're 3 games under .500, just as it doesn't mean you're 3 games above .500. It's not based on some mythical "if they had won X number of games instead of losing them" math. Because that's not based in reality. Reality says they are 6 games from a .500 record. Winning 3 straight games (putting them at 33-36) still would mean they're 3 games under .500 It's the same with being eliminated from the playoffs. If team X has 34 losses, it means they CANNOT win 49 games that year. You don't take the number of wins needed that would make your team .500 and say that's how many games you'd be under/over .500. Plus, even if you DO take it the way you think it is, it doesn't take away from what I said. Nor does it mean that going from 17 wins to 41 wins isn't an improvement of 24 wins. Each win counts as 2 games (one loss and one win).
I like their coach better ... my guess is that Rick is going to let them play small and try to run people off the floor most nights with all of those youngsters he's got. I doubt they'll play much defense, but if they can get rolling offensively they're going to be extremely tough for teams with lesser athletes and older players to consistently matchup with, particularly other teams that have short rotations. Just think about all of those back-to-back-to-backs and short recovery times as these guys burn through 66 games in 120 days. Buhhh-ruhhh-tal.
This roster screams "fluke season were we get above .500 because we go on a giant tear right before the all-star break and then beat up on the aging teams who's legs didn't hold up at the end of the season". With all that youth i think its possible.
That's almost exactly what I think is going to happen. I mean it's entirely possible that they suck dogs balls and wind up one of the worst teams in the league (again) but I think most of their woes last season had as much to do with inept coaching as it did the composition of their roster.
Woj: "Source: Deal is dead for now" It'll be a neverending media circus with this CP3 stuff until they find a buyer for the Hornets. Also, any teams who want to make a pitch for CP3 (cough Portland? cough) will have to send it directly to the League front-office.
Pau has been the most consistent Laker the past two years. He's hardly the problem and you're probably better with him short-term, than with Chris. The Lakers are old that's their only problem. But they could have still made a title run easily with a couple of tweaks to your depth and PG. Trading Odom did look dumb, but they might be setting themselves up for major cap relief later. Or some major blockbuster move.
Minny better hope they do decent. Because its going to be depressing if their losing season is compounded by the fact that the Clippers own their first round pick in 2012. Which is supposed to be a great draft.
David Aldridge @daldridgetnt For now, Clippers "moving on" from Chris Paul, says source. Check out the Hang Time Blog.
Dallas may be looking to buyout Rudy Fernandez and he then would remain with Real Madrid. Who woulda' thunk that Rudy and Roy would be out of the NBA in the same year?
First they give DeAndre Jordan that ill-advised offersheet and now this? Have they seen him shoot FT's?
Greg Oden is happy to hear the news. No matter how crappy or injured he is this next season he'll be a better prospect then Kwame Brown.
Yikes, Kwame to Warriors for 1 yr at 7 mil, seems really high to me but bigs are gettin overpaid all over
A one-year $7 million contract with Golden State boosts Kwame Brown's career earnings to $58,477,908!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
