we had this unit at the beginning of the season. I think with last couple of games, chemistry is getting better and Lowry and Ariza are getting back into their groove. We had a nice and exciting win against Denver which is a top tier team in the West and outscore the Nets, which is the worse team in the NBA. We push the ball lot harder now and have 3 capable 20+ points scorer a game. However our defense is suffering a bit because of more possessions for opponents, and just the fact, we don't have a shot blocker. How many wins do you think we would have had this season with this current roster?
Probably around 53-55 wins. With this current roster we could beat the Thunder and Blazers in a 7 game series ,I think.
bottom four we still dont have enough height/size to contend with utah, la, dallas and denver over a course of the season another IF to the rockets season but i would place them around the 47-49 win mark
40-44 at best. I still don't think we'd be good enough to be a fifty win team. We'd be in the 7th or 8th spot, no doubt.
Hmmm..., I'd say about 5 more then I think we're going end with, so maybe around 47, possibly 50, which isn't bad considering our starting center was out.
Landry was a big part of our early season success. If you take his 4th quarter production out of the equation, I think we're going to end up with less wins than we'd have otherwise. Barely making 40 if balls bounce our way.
I totally agree. Landry came up big in the 4th of a lot of games early on before teams started throwing double teams his way. I think the Rox win totaly would be about the same or slightly worse with this post-trade team.
Yeah, the team would have lost that early onslaught by Landry but Martin would probably be shooting better with a full season of comfort and Hill would probably be better since Adelman would have played him sooner and more often than D'Antoni (maybe he becomes part of the regular rotation 20 or so games in?). That would have the potential to improve the D slightly since he is at least tall enough to pretend to block a shot. Overall, though, i doubt there would be much of a difference and think it would be 40-45 wins. Of course, pre season I thought this group would top out at about 35. With only one more win needed to match that, it seems I predict poorly.
I would guess around 40, and for me, thats optimistic. I think IF Yao comes back next year we could contend for 58-61 wins next season
true, but martin would definitely offset that, as well as scola's improved play since the trade. i say 48 or 49.
Didn't DM say that Yao was worth 10 wins by himself? If Yao played this year, we'd be a 50-plus-win team easily.
