How many games will the Rockets win in the regular season ?

56

 

I said over 67 wins. I think this team keeps rolling from last year and we win 70. People will be talking about the Bulls all year to compare us to the 72-10 team.

 

62-20

 

I anticipate a slower start, couple of mid-seasons injuries, and a good trade deadline deal.

Saying high 50's for regular season but a better, more deadly playoff team this year. Or a guy can hope.

 

I'm going with the same number. I don't know if we'll be untouchable in the playoffs, but there's one thing I would bet money on. No one will want to play us. Teams, including Oakland, will avoid us if they can. They won't be able to. We will be Oakland's nightmare. Again.

 

If they want to? 70.

If they're trying to conserve energy and just make the playoffs? 60.

I honestly don't even think HCA means much in a GSW/HOU series.

I still laugh at that series. That could easily be the highest level of basketball that's ever been played on this earth.

 

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57-60

 

82-0

 

We CAN win 60+.

I'm hoping we only exert enough effort to win 55ish (i.e. enough to secure the 2nd seed in the West). IMO it's pointless trying to wrestle #1 seed from the Warriors and Celtics. We are simply better than the Celtics even without homecourt (but they will have an easy path to 60+ wins), and we don't have the depth to beat Warriors to #1 and then also take them down in the playoffs. The team was fatigued/destroyed by the time games 4 and 5 of the WCF series arrived, and it wasn't both teams feeling that way. It was a major reason we missed however many shots in a row, imo.

I want us to take some risks with players who can give us depth during the regular season, particularly Melton, Green and Qi/Hartenstein. Give Harden and Paul easy games off 5-6 games. Harden has carried a heavy load for a long time now.

What I expect is for them to not care about it and go for 60. MDA doesn't know any other way, he's very much like Thibs in that regard. Maybe the trauma of that series loss will have changed him a bit.

 

77 wins total next year:

61 in the regular season + 16 in the playoffs

 

I do...our chances go way down in a series against GS without HCA

it basically took a miracle just to win 1 game at Oracle during last year’s WCF

HCA might not mean much for GS, but the Rockets had better get that 1st seed

 

This is where I'm at. Thinking 58.

They aren't as good defensively and its questionable how Melo's gonna work out offensively ….

I expect Ryno to be moved around the deadline significantly improving the rotation going into the stretch run and post season.

We see the team at their best at playoff time this go round rather than peaking after the allstar break.

 

64-67 RANGE, even if we rest players or have injuries. I think MDA will turn to the Spurs/Warriors/LeBron team trends of resting older players, during in back-to-backs and against inferior opponents.

 

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I'm thinking we will Win Between 57-58 Wins.. We need to trade Ryno for a Young 3&D Wing. We have backups for CP3 (MCW), the MVP (EG & Melton), TuckWagon/Melo (James Ennis) *still a need here. We still have Nene, Qi, Hartnenstein to backup Acapela.

 

If I take my homer glasses off I’m thinking between 70 and 72

 

60+ for sure

 

I think we will go 70-12 this year. Go Rockets!!!