Its pretty nice knowing your Team is at least good without your superstars. So how many games you think we could win without yao for a season?
Our Team could win 40 games, remember Tracy would also have some time off , due to injury. So I doubt we could make the playoffs. Without Yao and Tracy we could win 35 games.
The first option should read less than 40. I guess if tmac is out for a while as well we might be in trouble, but I think we could win 46-47 games w/o yao which shows we have a good team.
We would crumble so fast. I hope the day never comes where you have to witness how bad we eventually become without Yao for a whole season. It would be a nasty downward spiral.
Given that McGrady has missed at least 11 games in 4 of the past 5 seasons, and we have significant size issues (as it stands) when Yao is out, I'm going to guess that we'd fight out and get right at 0.500 for the year. Can't be any worse than the doomsday 05-06 season - we've got a much more able supporting cast now, especially with our rotation of forwards. That said, I would make backup center and SG the two main priorities for this offseason. We need a plan for Mutombo's eventual exit, and we need backup 2-guards that are taller than 6-3 in shoes. Evan
Definitely around .500 we have always performed decently without Yao. The problem comes when tmac is injured but with our "rookies" we dominated the Sonics. I say we finish a little above .500 if tmac doesn't go down for long. I'd say about 43 games. You have to remember that even though we'll lose to bigger teams (which there aren't that many of anymore), we'll steal a few against the fast teams that we have trouble with when Yao is playing.
We have a 72% winning percentage since he went out for good this year. That would translate to 63 or so wins next year.
I think 40-45, taking into account the 20 or so games McGrady would be projected to miss as well. And that first poll option should be < 40, not >40.
What's childish about it? It's a relevant basketball question. What if Yao gets injured again in the Olympics and misses next season? These things can happen.
At the start of this season people were complaining that McGrady was slowing down the offense too much and wasn't buying into Adelman's system. Scola was drawing fouls a ton and wasn't as effective. Deke wouldn't be well rested like he was when Yao got injured. The backcourt PG tandem would have still been a mess, and we still wouldn't have gotten looks at Brooks at the PG position. Rafer was highly inconsistent earlier this season despite having a great preseason. Landry wasn't getting any playing time because he was still raw, and the Rockets wouldn't have faired as well as they did in the early part of that tough NBA schedule. They'd be a below .500 team in my opinion.
there will be changes in other teams next year. there will be injuries to other teams next year. or we could have our own injuries to our role players. this is complete rubbish!
how many games are we going to win if our coach this season was jeff? how many games are we going to win if our coach this season was rudy? how many games are we going to win if our coach this season was larry brown? how many games are we going to win this season if Brent Barry signed with us last Feb? how many candies are you going to get this halloween?
My estimation: WC win % .20 vs Spurs, Hornets, Lakers, Jazz, Mavs, Suns (total 24 games) = 5 wins win % .50 vs Nuggets, Warriors (total 8 games) = 4 wins win % .75 vs the rest WC (total 20 games) = 15 wins. EC win % .20 vs Celtics, Pistons (4 games) = 1 win win % .75 vs the rest EC (total 26 games) = 19 wins TOTAL ~44 WINS
