Portland's favored in the Memphis game tomorrow. Memphis is 27-20 and we're favored at home. Atlanta is 27-19 so considering the Memphis spread, we'll be even or favored at home. Boston is 27-18, and considering they'll be on the 2nd night of a back to back, and considering the Memphis spread, we'll be even or favored at home. Sorry to use your logic against you.
The maths suggest a 5 game sample size is nearly equally meaningless. Especially relative to all the combined games those teams have played that puts Portland far behind them in the standings.
Lol. You tried to say "well because we have a .500 winning percentage against CLE in 2 games that doesnt mean we have a 50% of beating them if we played again." However, I'm saying that because we have an .800 winning percentage in those 5 games, we have a 50% chance of beating them. Yes, 5 games isn't enough to claim that 4-1 record is the rule, but it is enough to claim that those games are toss-ups.
It isn't, though. A 5 game sample out of the roughly 250 games those 6 teams (including Portland) have played is far too tiny to draw any conclusions. My point about Cleveland wasn't the literal record (.500). Even if the only game Portland had played against Cleveland was their win (1.000 winning percentage!), it still would be ridiculous to suggest that that makes the next game a toss-up. Suggesting that 5 games is a good sample size because 5 is a bigger number than 2 doesn't make sense. One sample can be larger than another and still be far too small to be meaningful.
21-27, 3 game win streak, and a win against the 27-21 Grizzlies. Next game is the Warriors. A win will be HUGE, getting us to 5 games under .500. Stotts' lineup adjustment, Turner and Vonleh in as starters, is paying off.
I forgot Charlotte. Should win: Fri, Jan 13 vs Orlando L Fri, Jan 20 @ Philadelphia L Wed, Jan 25 vs Los Angeles W Probable Loss: Sat, Jan 21 @ Boston W Toss-up: Mon, Jan 16 @ Washington L Wed, Jan 18 @ Charlotte L Fri, Jan 27 vs Memphis W Should win: Fri, Feb 3 vs Dallas Tue, Feb 7 @ Dallas Probable Loss: Sun, Jan 29 vs Golden State Toss-up: Fri, Jan 31 vs Charlotte Sun, Feb 5 @ Oklahoma City Thu, Feb 9 vs Boston Mon, Feb 13 vs Atlanta Wed, Feb 15 @ Utah If we somehow upset Golden State tomorrow we'll end up 26-30 or 27-29.
Yep. Having both Turner and Plumlee as ball handlers in the starting line up makes things so much easier for Dame & CJ. We're becoming very tough to guard. And we're getting more for our money with Turner starting.
The original post has been corrected to add the Charlotte game on Jan. 31st that was missed. As of today, the record is 7-7 for the listed games.
Dammit, @e_blazer I was going off the schedule you provided in the initial post of this thread. So with that Charlotte game added, that would make my guess 28-28...though it will probably be 27-29, but being an optimist and Im going with .500 at the break.
Thanks. I was wondering how I'd gotten the wrong number of games in my guesstimate. Not my fault. As usual.
