This is exactly what we should hope for. I doubt SA or OKC will fall that far but passing POR and LAC for the 3rd spot seems more realistic. Hoping Chris Paul sits out a couple more weeks and POR keeps losing games.
We won't catch the Spurs because even though their record against good teams is pretty mediocre, they win the games the are supposed to win and don't play down to their opponents. The Rockets do, meaning we will lose games we shouldn't.
Agreed. We can catch the Blazers(not saying we will, but we can). The Spurs are a longshot though. Remember, they had Parker out for some games last season and kept winning, so they can do just fine without Leonard.
I'm more worried about GSW passing us. They have had a road heavy stretch early on. Now it's about to be a home heavy schedule.
I just think getting the 2nd or 3rd seed in the playoffs will be huge for this team if we are aspiring to get to the WFC. Frankly, I don't see anyone, except the Spurs, beating OKC as the number 1 seed (as if the Spurs care enough to get the 1st seed) so getting the 4 or 5 seed pretty much guarantees a second round match up against the Thunder, given that we beat the our matchup in the first round who looks to be the Clippers most likely. If y'all think the Clippers have our number, OKC is on a whole new level of owning us. I'm not saying we will definitely catch the Spurs, just saying that if we wanted to catch the Spurs, now is a better time as any to do it. Our schedule lightens up a little in the coming weeks as well. Then couple that with us already having the series edge with 2 games to go on our home court and us playing very well in the 2 previous games. Big game against the Spurs at Toyota Center next week though. If we can go 3-0 against them and continue to string together wins, while hopefully getting everybody back from injury or something in return for some trades to make the team better and I feel it's extremely plausible.
According to the strength of schedule, the Warriors will have a tougher schedule than the Rockets in latter half of the season. In fact, it seems their schedule has been significantly easier than the Rockets so far. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>NBA strength of schedule ranks. Sorry Portland, the free ride's over. <a href="http://t.co/OBTWyAbIhN">pic.twitter.com/OBTWyAbIhN</a></p>— Ed Kupfer (@EdKupfer) <a href="https://twitter.com/EdKupfer/statuses/423615444834992128">January 16, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
I don't see it happening, even with Leonard out. We haven't shown we can give consistent efforts night in and night out. Our team is still inexperienced and so is our coach.
I see us in a 4/5 matchup w POR but having home court; I wanna say we can catch the spurs but ain't ready to go there yet w the crap losses earlier--we caught a break tonight w Gay Cousins going out early.
This is my thought. How can anyone talk about passing anyone until we get consistent. I don't care who we pass as long as we can win at least 70% of the rest of our games. If we do that then let the chips fall where they may. We will be ready for the playoffs.
Thats a deep team. Can I request a comparison of minute totals between Houston and Spurs? That would be an interesting thing to see
1. Get everybody back healthy: Jones, Asik, Smith, even Garcia. 2. Show that we can beat good teams on the road. So far we've only beat Portland, GSW, and Spurs.
I'm just hoping rockets continue to play great basketball. Spurs will find a way to continue competing. West is no joke.
That would mean we only lose 5 more games all season and I doubt we can do that with our inconsistency.
