30 before 20

[Rgiss]

Meh. 30-20 is .600 and on pace for 49 wins. Who cares how a team gets there. Injuries might play a part. A team may catch fire later in the year (which might be better, in fact). Or there could be a key trade at the deadline.

Besides, for all this talk, the S/M teams never won jack. They often lost to lower-ranked teams in the playoffs.

As for 40-10, that equates to 65 wins. To reach that total means a team has to be at a contender level coming out of camp. 40-20 is 2/3 of the season and on pace for 55 wins. Hard to move the needle much either way in the last 20 games, unless you lose or get back a key player due to injuries.

except 30-19 (which is 30 before 20) is a 50 win pace

 

[babe]

Coaches smooches?!?!?

Don't you mean, coaches roaches? Or coaches zoches? Ooooooooo... it seems to me that babe has a crush on coaches. Oooooooo!!!

OK, so I have a spell checker/editor that rewrites my words. I fixed the comment, I think. I might agree with the coaches roaches thing,too, though.

 

[babe]

except 30-19 (which is 30 before 20) is a 50 win pace

50-32 is a good year, maybe first round playoff good. 55-27 might make me hope for two rounds. 60 says we oughta go to the championship.

 

[Rgiss]

50-32 is a good year, maybe first round playoff good. 55-27 might make me hope for two rounds. 60 says we oughta go to the championship.

I was a little skeptical, but I was shocked looking it up. West teams that ended on a 49-51 win pace in the last 6 years are 2-6 in the first round of the playoffs, and 0-2 in the second round; 6-16 since 2004-2005, and 1-5 in the second round since then. (Jazz were the only team to pass second round )

54-56 win teams were 11-5 in the first round, 7-4 in the second and 2-5 in the conference finals.

 

[akirac73]

I was a little skeptical, but I was shocked looking it up. West teams that ended on a 49-51 win pace in the last 6 years are 2-6 in the first round of the playoffs, and 0-2 in the second round; 6-16 since 2004-2005, and 1-5 in the second round since then. (Jazz were the only team to pass second round )

54-56 win teams were 11-5 in the first round, 7-4 in the second and 2-5 in the conference finals.

****...if that's the case, we need to readjust our target. I was thinking a 50-52 win season would get likely get us past the 1st round. Need to go for 54+...26-12 to finish off the season. That will be tough.