Most Exciting Season in a While

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Lats year at the sixth seed the Bucks were 46-36… Toronto finished 40-42 last year and did not make the playoffs.

With the east FAR better almost across the board this year (think of the dramatic improvements coming for the Heat, Bulls, Nets, Knicks, Wiz, Philly etc) and the West looking worse than usual (think Amare-less Suns, aging Spurs, Denver in disarray etc) it will take 43+ wins to make the playoffs in the East just to grab an 8th spot IMO. Remember in the West last year it took 50 wins to make the playoffs (OKC 8th seed at 50-32.)

  We have 28 games against the East from Oct to Jan 31. 15 games are home with 2 games against Orlando . 1 game each against Boston/Miami I hope we can win 10 games in our home against the East . Then we also have 13 games “away” against East. Only Detroit will not play us. Let’s say another 5 games win
   Against WEST we have 13 away and 6 homes only up to Jan31. At least 3 wins at home are possible. There will be a total of 47 games. Home games will be around 13 W 8 L Away there will be 26 games. My worst prediction is 8 wins. That will give us at least a record of 21W/47 games by All star break.
              From Feb to April we will have 18 homes ( 9 vs East(no Miami); 9 vs West (no Lakers)), 2 international (Toronto) and 15 away (13 vs East) . Here if we are really good enough another 17 wins/35 games. So my total is 38 wins. good luck to NETS

I rate Miami, Boston and Orlando as top 3. (50-60 wins)
From 4th to 6th place I think Atlanta, Chicago,Milwaukee are next.(39-45 wins)
 Indiana, Philadelphia, Charlotte, and Washington will be evenly matched. (about 30-35 wins)
Bottoms re New york, Toronto, Cleveland, Detroit (20 -35 wins)
I think if NETS win 40 games 6th spot is very possible only if NETS can win 28 game against EAST specialy against Atlanta, Milwaukee and Chicago.

 Three teams will dominate Miami, Boston and Orlando. If they dominate at least 12 losses for the other teams. That leaves them 40 games to play against one another. Most of them will be 50% efficient and that will total to about 20 wins only. The rest of the games will be agains the West which total to 30 games. And again I expect they split their games which is another 15 wins. So that means 35 wins will be a high goal already for the other East teams. I rate Atlanta and Chicago to be more competetive than the other East teams by 60% efficient which could add another 8 to 10 wins. So 45 wins and make the other teams make 35 wins a high goal to achieve. Between 6th to 8th place, 40 wins seems to be the magic number.base on the imbalance created by Miami and Boston. The rest of the East team seems to be equally match and that will make the win and losses a little on the 50% chance side. Cleveland, Toronto, Indiana and Detroit will be inconsistent. Nets ,Knicks, Philadelphia and Washington , I expect them to be competetive most of the time specially at home. Milwaukee and Charlotte are a little above the rest cause they still have their main core.

I am pretty amped for this season. After striking out in free agency I was upset, but after cooling off I realized we have a nice team. I am eager to watch B-Lo keep improving, I want to see Anthony Morrow launch three’s and actually make, (we haven’t had a shooter like this in years), Twill will keep getting better, Harris should return to his All-Star form, and let’s see what Favors and James can do! Granted some of these guys might be dealt, but if it brings up Carmelo i’ll deal with it.