This is why I was curious about your thought process as these don't seem like great examples or analogies for the rationale with these Clippers. The 93-94 Rockets were 22-1 after 23 games. The 94-95 Rockets started out 9-0 and finished the season 12-13 over the last 15 games. That team had a lot of ups and downs and of course the huge trade to bring in Drexler. For 2017-2018 this might hold a little but most of the early losses were in games CP3 didn't play and beyond that working in a new player and changing your system a bit seems like it would be a bigger reason that a team would improve over the course of season than old guys taking time to ramp up. I think that team lost like 3 games the entire season when CP3, Harden, and Capela all played. Also, look at the even older 96-97 team that started the season 21-2 and tailed off quite a bit after that.
Thanks for the correction, but you get the point that anecdotal evidence doesn't really matter right? Using random check points won't do the trick (after 23 games, then after 9 games, then only healthy starters as markers). That's why I declined to do the proper research, because you'd have to do that for every team forever and have some consistency.
