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What is Your Win Total Prediction as of Today November 19?
« on: November 19, 2019, 02:14:27 PM »

Offline footey

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I'd be curious, based upon how well the team has performed to date, what your revised win total projection is for the season.

Preseason I predicted either 50 or 51, I can't remember. 

As of today, I'm predicting 58.  I think this team will play hard every game, and try its best to get a top two seed in the East. It will probably take that many wins to accomplish that. We can't continue to win at this clip, as our schedule gets tougher.  But I feel real good coming off that relatively easy win last night against a very good Suns team.

How about you? What was your preseason prediction in regular season win total, and what is it now?

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« Reply #1 on: November 19, 2019, 02:28:28 PM »

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I think 50 is about right, things will get tougher and we are dealing with injuries. 

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« Reply #2 on: November 19, 2019, 02:45:05 PM »

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I think 50 is about right, things will get tougher and we are dealing with injuries.

So you think this team will go 39-30 the rest of the way?

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I think 50 is about right, things will get tougher and we are dealing with injuries.
If you think 50 is about right that means you think they'll play like a 46 win team the rest of the year.

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« Reply #4 on: November 19, 2019, 02:50:51 PM »

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They're playing at a 69 win pace by raw wins and losses, that obviously isn't going to happen.

Their net rating is indicative of a 63 win pace, I think they'll fall short of that as I don't think they'll keep playing quite this well. So I'd say high 50s, 58 is a solid number I will say 56 myself.

So 56 wins, though they have a real shot at 60 if things continue to roll.

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I'm gonna say 55 wins based on the hot start.
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I'll say 57 wins. That's about 7-8 games higher than I expected earlier in the season.

Yes, there will be tough stretches coming up and we're dealing with injuries. But this team just fights hard every night regardless the circumstances and the chemistry is 1000x better than last season. I'm having fun watching this team again and you can tell our players are also having more fun out there.
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« Reply #7 on: November 19, 2019, 03:15:39 PM »

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I'll go with 55.

60 is a possibility and I think only injuries could keep them below 50.

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July 12th someone posted a win total thread and I predicted 57 wins.

Weeks later I posted 55 wins on another thread.

I dropped the two "extra wins" because I thought I looked stupid.

At this rate, I'm going to look stupid for not guessing 62 wins.

Anyway, The east looks good, but not spectacular. The west isn't amazing either and the Celtics don't play them much.

Celtics have something that very few NBA teams can offer.

The Celtics have a defensive tradition.

Add the above to Kemba - Tatum - Brown - Stevens in a regular season game? There just aren't that many losses on the schedule.

Hayward returns and the 20 or so "non elite" NBA teams are just going to get beat up by the Celtics at both ends pretty much every night and the top group will split home and homes.

Barring more injuries, 57 wins looks conservative. They will have to lose 25 out of the next 70 to make me look smart.


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« Reply #9 on: November 19, 2019, 04:19:46 PM »

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Re injuries: every team will have to deal with injuries.

Also on the schedule, we've played a fairly tough schedule thusfar. We have 1/2 of our west coast games behind us in the next few days, and we've already played the top East teams.

IMO, our advantage is we have more good players than anyone in the east, excepting possibly Philly. We don't have a Freak or Kawhi, but we can probably deal with guys getting routine small injuries better than any other team.

I would say 55 wins. Going 44-25 from here seems a bit of a letdown, but Brad doesn't manage his roster to win a ton of regular season games. It's a rarity for one of our guys to play 35 min+.

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50. Believe there could be a few more injuries and a bad stretch or two.

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55 - perhaps 58-60 if we're getting our injuries out of the way. Had previously thought around upper 40s.

I'm proud of this team thus far - they've exceeded my expectations on how fast I thought they'd gel.

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I think I said 54 preseason so I'll just stick with that and hope it's an underestimate.

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Not sure what I said preseason but i think it was 55-56.  I'll stick with that prediction.

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I'll go with 56.  That feels about right
I'm bitter.