That's how it is when you're a good team though, you look at the schedule and you think every game is a win. This is how I've pretty much felt since the '07-'08 season.
Of course you got to stay out of that trap, I mean you look at the schedule, we probably play the Lakers, Mavs, and Spurs twice, and the Heat and Magic four times (that's 14 games). You try to stay conservative and say even with we split those games against them, that puts us at 7-7. Throw in a few extra losses for the good teams like OKC, New Orleans, and Utah that might catch us on an off night or they'll just play a great game, and we're at 10 losses. Now everybody else should be a definite win, so we should go 72-10, and that's a conservative estimate since we'll probably do better than 7-7 against the top teams.
Unfortunately, it just doesn't work this way.
On the flip side though, I remember hearing Kenny Smith say something like "you know how you know when you're a bad team? When you can't look at the schedule and point to any upcoming game and say that's a win." Man I remember those days back in '07 and '97 (and to a lesser extent a lot of other years over the last 15 or so). Definitely like being on this side a whole lot better.
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