[2017] The After-Loss Ventilate and Ameliorate Thread

This is very true. The goal should be 45-50 wins with maybe a first round upset. That's about it.

That doesn't excuse last night's Raptors game from being one of the more pathetic performances in recent memory.

 

Well, we finally won a game when Harden shot poorly.

Well, actually, Knicks and Jazz are .500 teams. Also you said "we haven't been able to hang with the good teams." We took both Cleveland and OKC down to the wire ... we blew the OKC game. And both of those were away games. That's "hanging with the good team" surely.

What's impressive is we are 6-4 on the Road, and +3.6 pt differential. Both of those are good indicators of W/L success. Also, by the end of this weekend, we will have played twice as many Road games and Home games -- having played two 5-game road trips.

Considering the brutal road schedule and Bev being out, I think we are doing much better than expected ... 10-6

bottomline:

What we are describing here is a 50 Win team. A team that "beats the teams we ought to beat", can win on the road, has a good pt differential and can hang with the good teams.​

 

Your bottomline is fair enough.

And I agree that Bev's injury may have some impact. With that, we may still improve. I'm just looking at what we have done so far, not taking into consideration of possible improvement. Besides, many of our core players have had some injury histories.

I am still holding my breath about being able to hang with the good teams. Except the Spurs, all the road wins are against weak teams. And we lost at home to two good teams. We may or may not win 50 games in the regular season. But not being able to beat the good teams at home and on the road does not bode well in the playoffs.

Yeah, I'm a glass-half-empty kind of guy.

 

It is. But that's fine, we expect that. The Denver game on a back to back is gonna be very tough, but win that to get to 3-2 on the road trip and you take that. I'm not sure we will win that game given our recent Denver performances, but we'll see.

 

Had DMo played we'd have won by 50

 

Every single favored team LOST tonight to the WORST teams in the NBA. The league isn't going to collapse or anything. Bad night for all

The Jazz are a different team with George Hill. They actually have the 5st best score differential in NBA so they're not an easy team

 

You mean had DMo played for the Jazz?

 

Maybe this can help you feel better.

In the history of the NBA, no one has ever beaten a team who shot 50-50-85 with <= 8 TOs (and at least 11 3s made)

The league is now 15-0

Spoiler

Shockingly (imo) the league is 34-2 when you remove the number of 3s made qualifier. I would have thought there would be 100s and 100s of those games, when you allow for any number of 3s made.

 

Damn it we could've made history, now I'm more depressed

 

we still made history, 5 for 38 for 3s, lowest percentage when shooting that many 3s, Sas actually had more turnovers than us, 19 vs our 16, we played good defense before harden came back in the 4th quarter, Coach MD should have kept the same lineup which started the fourth quarter to finish the game, we win for sure

 

I'll tell you one thing......I wouldn't want to be Phoenix right now. The Rockets might drop 30 3's on their head. I have a feeling guys like Harden, Gordon, and Anderson were pissed after last night.

 

The way the game was called down the stretch was atrocious

But our play was also atrocious.

This team is really struggling with physical play which is what we feared as a preview to the playoffs. We need more muscle inside, and not have Corey Brewer trying to lead us back into the game single handedly.

 

I like the calm down thread much better.

 

I wish the Grizzlies didn't own us.

 

Well it was a good season guys...there's always next year!

 

Only thing I can think of is if we just hit 4 more of our OPEN threes to reach 37% for the evening we win 117-110. But. We didn't.