I like the shorter spurt ones. Able to accurately gauge the ups and downs, instead of just blindly throwing a dart.
Half the games left would be 34, plus the 12 we have would be 46 wins, which is two under my preseason prediction. However, with how well we are playing I think adding 8 more wins above 500 from here on is about right, so I say 54 wins.
I think now being ten games over .500 that 50+ wins should be the goal, but if we hit another hot streak at some point HCA is possible. The west is so stacked this year even if we get 58 wins and a #3 seed or something we could easily lose in the first round. Spurs, Thunder, Clipps, Warriors and Rockets will all be very tough first round matchups. So I'm gonna enjoy any awesome stretches we do have this year. I hope we continue to see good ball movement with quality shots. The stretches of intense defense and rebounding this team's had have been awesome. If our shots go cold I can happily watch a number of losses; I just don't want to see a letdown in effort.
Thinking of it THAT way, I'd say no, but our schedule is real tough down the stretch. I think things will kinda' even out.
That's one of the reasons I love this win streak so early (I mean, all win streaks are nice.) It's that April schedule is brutal, so we take care of business now so we have a cushion in April just in case.
I hear people say that this or that win wasn't a "quality" win. Bullshit! My coach in HS said we'll take a W any way we can. At the end of the season they all count the same.
some of you may accuse me of being a homer predicting 80-2, but im really just trying to be more like the great analysts of espn. when we finally lose a 3rd game ill adjust my formula to 79-3 accordingly.
At the start of the season I put the over/under at 42 and figured they'd be plus or minus 4 or so. So after the hot start, weighed against the softness of the schedule (and getting lucky with opponents' injury situation) I can see them getting to the high side of that predicition. 46 wins seem reasonable.
Exactly. Funny thing that so many people seem to miss is this: an average or poor team is not going to go on a 10 game winning streak in the NBA regardless of how "soft" their opposition is. Every team has the ability to knock off another team, these are all professional players. Look at Philly and Phoenix for instance. Hot starts, over achieved many said, and sure enough they have both leveled off in a hurry. The Blazers have just gotten better and continue to win against better competition. Looking at the Heat, Spurs, Pacers schedules no one is down on them because they've been beating up on mostly inferior teams. Would the naysayers be happier if we lost to all of the bad teams and only came to play against the good teams?
