Project The Wins!

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seriously, though, 35. the west is just too stacked for a team with this little talent to compete night in and night out. i'll be pleasantly (and quite) surprised if the lakers even break even.

am I the low one so far?

 

30+ wins at most, can't be optimistic at all even with Kobe playing superball given how the injuries are stacking again...

 

35 wins at most

i'm expecting another injury filled season as well

 

i gotta see how many games against the east we have

 

it's always 30. there are enough bad teams that the lakers can beat at home there to push my estimate up to where it was (35). if all their games were vs. the west...*shudders*

 

Ran a season sim on 2k and it had us at 31 wins. I'm predicting 31 wins as well

 

This is tough. I think we actually finish the season a lot better than we start. Scott is still working out our line up, the team needs to gel, its going to take a lot of work to get us playing well on the defensive end, etc.

I am thinking 35 wins but we may make the playoff race interesting after the all star break.

 

i don't think that scenario is plausible, simply because i'm guessing the last team in the playoffs in the west will have close to 50 wins again.

 

To clarify, I think we will win around 35 games. But, I could see this team clicking, winning more games than that, and making a serious run for the playoffs after the All Star break.

 

So much depends on Kobe's health, how well our young guys play, etc. We are a better team than last year, but its hard to say how that will translate on the court.

 

yeah, folks were claiming that the warriors were just worldbeaters (they're not), but that's kind of out the window now. say what you want about injuries, but Jeremy lin wasn't closing that gap against one of the league's obvious bottom feeders last night. I don't think prime kobe was closing that gap.

mike brown's preseason was better than this.

 

Same here. I said 42 wins... now i wouldn't go past 33

 

its hard for me to even see 30 at this point..this team has a 23-28 win feel to it

 

47 Definitely seems like a lot now (my first prediction). We've got 53 games before the All-star break (last game Feb 11), and 29 after (first game Feb 20). I think that before the all-star break we'll start to pick up some momentum, with Randle finally playing consistent/maybe even starting, and the team as a whole gelling. I'm thinking about 20-33 before the break, and maybe 20-9 after. 40 total wins?

 

Last few preseason games have been ugly, no way around that. I stick with my 35 game prediction, but still think we will be a lot better team by the end of the season.

Unfortunately, I am also thinking we will struggle so much in the beginning of the season there will be no way to climb out of the hole and get into the playoff hunt.

 

33-35 if Kobe stays healthy

 

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