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Natebishop3 said:
So let's see:

Losses
Utah 7-4 - beat us by 20.
Clippers 8-4 beat us by 23
Warriors 6-6 beat us 15
Chicago 4-7 we gave up a 20 point lead and lost by 3.
Indiana 8-4 beat us by 24.

Wins
Houston 4-6
Lakers 10-3
Warriors 6-6
Minnesota 3-8
Sacramento 5-7
Toronto 3-8
Sacramento 5-7

So we have two actually decent wins against teams without losing records. Meanwhile we have been absolutely obliterated by the Jazz, the Clippers, and Indiana. We have trailed by 20+ against the Jazz, the Clips, the Pacers, the Kings and the Raptors. This team is trash.
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So winning streaks against the cannon fodder of the NBA doesn't mean much?
How many games in a row is this team going to get down 20 points?
 
Natebishop3 said:
So let's see:

Losses
Utah 7-4 - beat us by 20.
Clippers 8-4 beat us by 23
Warriors 6-6 beat us 15
Chicago 4-7 we gave up a 20 point lead and lost by 3.
Indiana 8-4 beat us by 24.

Wins
Houston 4-6
Lakers 10-3
Warriors 6-6
Minnesota 3-8
Sacramento 5-7
Toronto 3-8
Sacramento 5-7

So we have two actually decent wins against teams without losing records. Meanwhile we have been absolutely obliterated by the Jazz, the Clippers, and Indiana. We have trailed by 20+ against the Jazz, the Clips, the Pacers, the Kings and the Raptors. This team is trash.
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We’ve also led by 30 three times this season. I read only the Bucks and Clippers have done the same.
 
Look we know stotts stinks. But loosing Nurkic is a blessing as of now. Giles is hungry and kid is talanted and stotts refuses to play him....not anymore. Also kanter is averaging more points more rebounds and especially OFF rebounds, in less playing time.......ive had it with Nurkic he has been trash since the bubble. Please move on from him
 
We are at .615 winning percentage right now.....I'm no math guru and might be wrong, but isn't that about a 50 win team in a normal season?
 
THE HCP said:
We are at .615 winning percentage right now.....I'm no math guru and might be wrong, but isn't that about a 50 win team in a normal season?
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49 at least. The math gets fuzzy when you get into 10ths of a percent.
 
THE HCP said:
We are at .615 winning percentage right now.....I'm no math guru and might be wrong, but isn't that about a 50 win team in a normal season?
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Once again, I wasn't talking about wins and losses.

Honest question, in the several games where we have played against playoff caliber teams and gotten blown away, did that make you feel confident that we have any kind of shot in the playoffs?
 
Natebishop3 said:
Once again, I wasn't talking about wins and losses.

Honest question, in the several games where we have played against playoff caliber teams and gotten blown away, did that make you feel confident that we have any kind of shot in the playoffs?
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Yes. Because there is parity in the league this season like we haven’t seen in awhile. “Shitty” teams are beating “good” teams. We will be right where we are supposed to be 4th-6th or 7th.
 
THE HCP said:
Yes. Because there is parity in the league this season like we haven’t seen in awhile. “Shitty” teams are beating “good” teams. We will be right where we are supposed to be 4th-6th or 7th.
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There is parity right now because teams didn't get much of a training camp or preseason, but that rust will wear off come playoff time.
 
THE HCP said:
Yes. Because there is parity in the league this season like we haven’t seen in awhile. “Shitty” teams are beating “good” teams. We will be right where we are supposed to be 4th-6th or 7th.
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I really don't think we'll be lower than 6th and have to be in that play-in tourney. That is if Nurk comes back right around the second half. I do think that this team will likely get beat badly in the first round though.
 
RoseCityRebel said:
Could they make it more complicated? Why not have the two higher seeds have to win one game at home or the lower seed has to win two games on the road.
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The current system has three games, total, in each conference. Your system has between two and four games in each conference. While the current system has more travel involved, it also has certainty in terms of the number of games that will be played.

It's also more fair because a 7th or 8th seed is less likely to get knocked out of the playoffs given there might be a really strong/hot lower seed that could beat them twice in your system (but 7th and 8th only need to be able to win one of two to get in under the current system).
 
THE HCP said:
We are at .615 winning percentage right now.....I'm no math guru and might be wrong, but isn't that about a 50 win team in a normal season?
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close. But only 1 of the 8 wins have come against a team with a winning record and that was 3 weeks ago. In fact, Portland has only played 4 teams with winning records. They beat the Lakers, but the other 3 times they lost by an average of 22 points

of course, this season is pretty wacky right now and blowouts are the norm; there are five 6-6 teams in the West, and one of them is Denver
 
So we are a 50 win team basically in a normal season then?
 
THE HCP said:
So we are a 50 win team basically in a normal season then?
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As long as we keep playing scrub teams. At least, that is how it has gone so far. Now dealing with injuries will make it even tougher against the teams you would play in the Playoffs.
 
kjironman1 said:
I never really understand them? If a bad team has a good stretch the whole thing can change or if a good team trades for another great player the whole thing changes again. How about Injuries?
SOS is a really tough thing to try and judge. Even more so this year.
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All great points!

Most SOS uses the assumption that rosters and production are constant, which we know is not true. Over a large sample size (which we don't have yet), there is an assumption good/bad scretches should even out to the mean of a teams ability.

Having said that, SOS advantage is it's lack of bias humans have, who usually over value teams based off really short term or multi-season results.
 
Tince said:
All great points!

Most SOS uses the assumption that rosters and production are constant, which we know is not true. Over a large sample size (which we don't have yet), there is an assumption good/bad scretches should even out to the mean of a teams ability.

Having said that, SOS advantage is it's lack of bias humans have, who usually over value teams based off really short term or multi-season results.
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Another issue is conferences. Over the last few years it seems the west has been a little tougher. (Now we all know there is a stat out there that will prove me wrong here) Teams play more games against teams in their own conference.
 
THE HCP said:
We are at .615 winning percentage right now.....I'm no math guru and might be wrong, but isn't that about a 50 win team in a normal season?
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This season has been completely weird. But it was expected because of corona and the health protocol. Anyone can beat anyone this year on any given night, except for the Lakers probably, they are stil very good
 
BonesJones said:
We have the best player in our 50 year history and it's "Well, only 5 teams have made it and it's hard so Stotts cant be doing a bad job no matter what he does since this team has gotten kinda close a couple times".
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I disagree, Walton was our best player in the last 51 seasons. I'd place Lucas second, Lillard third, Roy fourth and Drexler fifth, I suppose Petrie would be sixth. Somewhere in there I'd put Lloyd Neal, maybe seventh.
 
Lanny said:
I disagree, Walton was our best player in the last 51 seasons. I'd place Lucas second, Lillard third, Roy fourth and Drexler fifth, I suppose Petrie would be sixth. Somewhere in there I'd put Lloyd Neal, maybe seventh.
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Walton did everything, crazy d, Score inside out, best outlet passer the game has ever seen, blocking machine and most importantly made players around him so much better!
He beat two super teams on the way to a championship too.
 
Labinot41 said:
This season has been completely weird. But it was expected because of corona and the health protocol. Anyone can beat anyone this year on any given night, except for the Lakers probably, they are stil very good
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San Antonio, the Clippers and Portland have beat the Lakers this season. All three of those losses occurred on the Lakers' home court. Also, the Lakers barely beat Chicago and Memphis. They are not that invincible.
 
Hoopguru said:
Walton did everything, crazy d, Score inside out, best outlet passer the game has ever seen, blocking machine and most importantly made players around him so much better!
He beat two super teams on the way to a championship too.
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Took the words out of my mouth, especially the parts about how he was the best outlet passer the game has ever seen and how he dragged mediocre players into the spotlight. He was also an incredible rebounder.
 
Add one more to the “team with winning record blows us out by 20+” column.
 
It wouldn't be this bad if the greatest player in franchise history wasn't in the middle of his prime
 
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