So, tonight we were officially eliminated from the race for 70 wins. If we win every game from here on out, we'll make it to 69-13.
Funny. I saw the title and thought, how could people have waited until now for a thread like this? The light bulb goes on.
What happened? Is it all the KG injury? Was it a completely unrealistic goal in the first place? Is this team massively under-achieving? Did the team start buying its own hype?
I think it's a combo of the KG injury and Paul's injury and Rondo's. We've gotten out of sync.
At the beginning of the season, Hollinger predicted 54 wins, and I believe the Vegas line was around 56. I thought those were massive under-estimates of our potential, but at this point, it looks like the "experts" were a lot closer to the truth than I could have imagined.
After losing 8 of 12 we're still on pace to meet that win total, and we have just over half a season left. If KG stays in the lineup and nothing bad happens we shouldn't have too much trouble hitting 60 wins.
I guess the good thing is that neither the Cavs nor the Lakers are going to approach 70 wins, either. In fact, no team may win 65 games. Still, that doesn't make me feel all that much better when the Celts are dropping games like tonight.
Good mainly in the sense that there are no teams that are head and shoulders above us.
