After a really bad loss to Phoenix and a 3 game losing streak at 34-24, we have gone: @GSW vs LAL - W LAL vs SAC - W LAL VS NOP - W @DEN vs LAL - L LAL vs IND - W LAL vs NYK - W LAL vs MIN - W LAL vs CHI - W LAL vs DEN - W @HOU vs LAL - W @HOU vs LAL - W @MIA vs LAL - W @ORL vs LAL - W We've won 12 of 13 and are undoubtedly look the best we've looked all season. We're sitting at 46-25 and we have the following 11 games left of the season: @DET vs LAL @IND vs LAL LAL VS BKN LAL VS WAS LAL vs CLE (B2B) @OKC vs LAL @DAL vs LAL LAL vs OKC @GSW vs LAL LAL vs PHX (B2B) LAL vs UTA What do we go? The Detroit game is kind of a coin flip with Luka and Cade both missing out. Let's call that a scheduled loss. 0/1 I'm thinking we should then pick up wins against Indiana, Brooklyn, Washington as they're all tanking hard. Cleveland should be a loss on a back to back. 3/5 I think we then lose to OKC away, beat Dallas away (they're tanking) and then beat OKC at home in a confidence booster. 5/8 I think we'll go hard for the win against GSW and at that point if we've already locked in the 3rd seed, we probably rest our guys against Phoenix and Utah in the last 2 games. So maybe 6 or 7/11 depending on if our second stringers beat Utah? Let's call it 7 wins and 4 losses to finish the season 53 - 29 as the 3rd seed.
Bizarro season - it now would look like a flameout not to get the 3rd. They own all the tiebreakers Ind/BKN/Was/DAl/UTA are all tanking so that should be 5 of the easiest wins of the year
that loss to phx was rock bottom, i guess. definitely felt like it--felt like we were going to finish 7th behind phx, tbh. trying to enjoy the current version of the team without being continually annoyed by the version that preceded it, lol. i agree that i expect 6 or 7 wins. i think we'll get the 7th if it means holding the 3 seed, but if we lock it up before that, we'll be resting people.
