Nets about to win again. Lakers still a threat to steal worst record. They will lose all their remaining games. Nets playing better, could see them finishing .500 over schedule balance.
Sure wish Isaiah was playing tomorrow.
I'm trying to reconcile my natural pessimism with the laws of math. I don't want to be too confident that the Nets have this thing locked up but, with the recognition that jinxes don't actually exist, I took a look at their remaining schedule. I can find seven or eight games where they have a reasonable chance of winning (Your definition of reasonable may be different from mine.), but that's still going to be tough and would have to be combined with the Lakers losing every game between here and the end of the year.
Naturally, the Lakers are likely going to be the underdogs in every one of those games, but that's different than
actually losing every one of them. Assuming that the Lakers have only a 10% chance of winning in each of those games (almost ludicrously low), there would still only be a 23% chance that they would actually do so. If the Lakers have a 20% chance of winning in each of those games, the likelihood that they lose all of them is 4%.
I think that there's going to be more sweating over the next month than we would have anticipated a few weeks ago, but ultimately, the Nets should have the worst record. Which, needless to say, is also not equivalent to having the first draft pick.
Mike
Topic: The Official 2016-2017 Brooklyn Nets Season Watch Thread (20-62, #1) (Read 404949 times)