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I don’t see how or why the top seed is out of reach.We are only 4 games back of first and 2 of 2nd.Of course there are plenty of games in the schedule, but we can personally hang plenty of L’s in the team’s currently in front of us.I like that we are starting to smash the scrub teams, something we weren’t really doing before recently. We can get up for the big games, but we sometimes come out with oddly poor quarters/halves against bad teams. We’ve outscored the opposition by 96 points over the last 6 games (5-1), so I think we are beginning to ball.Once we start rolling, we may rattle off something like 19 of 20 and be atop the entire league.
Too often, we judge other groups by their worst examples while judging ourselves by our best intentions.
Quote from: GreenEnvy on December 08, 2018, 03:05:28 AMI don’t see how or why the top seed is out of reach.We are only 4 games back of first and 2 of 2nd.Of course there are plenty of games in the schedule, but we can personally hang plenty of L’s in the team’s currently in front of us.I like that we are starting to smash the scrub teams, something we weren’t really doing before recently. We can get up for the big games, but we sometimes come out with oddly poor quarters/halves against bad teams. We’ve outscored the opposition by 96 points over the last 6 games (5-1), so I think we are beginning to ball.Once we start rolling, we may rattle off something like 19 of 20 and be atop the entire league.I love how we went from slitting our wrists 2 weeks ago because the world was ending to expecting them to rattle off 19 of 20 That's the optimism I like!
Last season, we were 5 up on the Raptors at this juncture. They took 1st by 4 games by the end. It's unlikely, but certainly possible to catch them.
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I find it pretty comical that I’m reading “still very reachable” and “not impossible” in this thread.If this was April 1, I’d agree. But it’s early December and we have over 50 games still to play.I mean reality is we could be first in the East by the end of the calendar year. We can hang losses on Milwaukee and Philadelphia and Toronto is getting into the tougher part of their schedule.
Next 5 games for us: NOP, @WAS, ATL, @DET, PHOI don't see why we can't go 4-1 in that stretch to go to 19-11 for the year so far. And so by the middle of next week, it's a possibility we jump to the 3, or maybe even 2 seed in the East. We're just 1.5 games behind MIL and 2 games behind PHI at the moment.