Figured it's trickier to do this before we see the team play in preseason, but also more fun. O/U from Vegas came in at 28.5. I'll start. (Do wins and our place in the conference.) 28-54, 13th in the west.
30-52. Any number above 30 wins that still guarantees the 5th best odds at #1 is a successful season imo. We don’t have the talent to out-tank the Rockets or Spurs, but the Rockets did sign FVV and Brooks presumably to push for the playoffs. We have more talent than probably 5 teams in the east and a few of them will settle around 35 wins, but we aren’t going to be bad enough to out-tank those 2 bottom-feeders in the east. Little chance of getting the 4th best odds unless Ant and Grant are traded, major injury to the bigs, or something like that.
Rockets are good FVV Jalen Green Brooks Smith Jr Tari Eason Cam Whitmore Amen Thompson They got promising squad
Rockets 2024 pick is top 4 protected, or it goes to OKC. I think they'll try to tank. Same with SA. I'm good with tanking as long as we don't affect Scoot's ROY chances.
I’m predicting 36 wins but I can see a missive swing depending on Scoot. If Scoot plays well on offense but not great and gets burned on D, 34-38 wins seems on target. But, Scoot has the tools to be excellent on D. If he can bee we a plus defender, then I could see as high as 45 wins very doable.
I honestly can't call it, and I don't think I really care. What do we need to get a top 3 pick? 25 wins?
23 wins, as much as I’d love for us to win and make playoffs reality is most young teams don’t win a lot.
But if you're really trying to figure out a win total, the team is almost completely new. We have no worldly idea what this team is capable of
same record as last year, 33-49, only without the deliberate tank in a +/-5 mode, better odds for 28 wins than 38 13th seed
