After this pre season nightmare... what are your expectations for Nov?

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  1. oldmangrouch

    oldmangrouch persona non grata

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    I have been saying all along that a slow start was a possibility.

    When you integrate new players into the rotation, you are trading short-term disruption for long-term improvement. Personally, I am willing to trade a few defeats in November for more success in the play-offs.
     
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    food for thought....

    perhaps the karma from our awful summer has carried over into the season?

    should this year turn out to be a disaster... we will know the turning point. fucking hedo rejected us and everything fell apart.
     
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  3. andalusian

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    I do not think you understand how karma works. If the team sulked, talked trash about others - karma would invoke. If anything, and if the summer was really so awful (which I do not think it was, we basically screwed Utah and Toronto screwed themselves and saved us, 3 years from now, from ourselves) - the gods of statistics are bound to throw a bone our way.
     
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    Name one.
     
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    I think we'll be fine. Maybe we'll start a little slower than I originally envisioned, but we'll be fine. This team has far too much talent to have too many problems.
     
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  6. RoyIsClutch07

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    98-99. Lockout shortened season. started out 6-8 before the clicked.
     
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    I think we've had some turmoil, so the question's legit.

    I think most of that turmoil (who's the FA pickup? Are Roy and LMA getting extended? How do we incorporate Miller and Oden?) is relatively resolved, since it looks like Oden will start and be productive and the extensions got worked out. That said, I'd like to think we'd be 15-4, but I have a hunch we still won't get over the "good teams on the road" hump yet and go 13-6.
     
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    Their play tonight is prob more indicative of what we will see early on.
     
    RoyIsClutch07, Oct 22, 2009
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  9. Nikolokolus

    Nikolokolus There's always next year

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    Actually I think some good karma got rubbed off on us and not being tied down with Hedo for five years at an exorbitant rate for what will likely be three unproductive years out of the entire term.

    Personally I think fate intervened and gave us the guy we should have been going after from the jump in Miller.
     
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  10. KingSpeed

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    I know I asked for just one but were there "plenty," as you said?
     
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    I see something like 13-6 as a start to the season. I would rather have Miller start than Blake, but even with Blake we are stronger than anyone but LA and San Antonio in the west. Our big three is looking pretty good. Perimeter defense will be weak, but Oden, Pryzbilla and Aldridge should be pretty good in the middle. Rebounding will be good as will our offense.
     
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  12. Blazer_Hippie

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    You ended up close. What's irritating is the way we've ended up at our record. Rough patch, gimmick win streak, rough patch... I'm not a panic type, but I do hope to see some fairly substantial moves to try and shake things up if the weak play continues past a couple more games.
     
    Blazer_Hippie, Dec 1, 2009
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