Raptors Tracking: Race to the Playoffs (Thanks Heir_Canada!)

Morena R · Post #101 » by **Morena R** » Thu Dec 31, 2009 4:19 am

Hope you have a Happy New Year Heir Canada.

Thanks for the updates, appreciated as always.

99 Problems · Post #102 » by **99 Problems** » Thu Dec 31, 2009 4:24 am

Did you guys see Miami's upcoming schedule? 5th seed is gonna be ours pretty soon...

Thu 31 @ San Antonio
Sat 02 vs Charlotte
Mon 04 vs Atlanta
Wed 06 vs Boston
Fri 08 @ Phoenix
Sun 10 @ LA Clippers
Mon 11 @ Utah
Wed 13 @ Golden State
Fri 15 @ Houston
Sat 16 @ Oklahoma City

Dr Positivity · Post #103 » by **Dr Positivity** » Thu Dec 31, 2009 6:32 am

Yea the Heat play 20 of the next 28 on the road. And 3 of those home games are vs Boston, Atlanta, and Cleveland. But we better get a lead on them by the end of that because they have the easiest March-April in the league, it's ridiculous

bena2005 · Post #104 » by **bena2005** » Fri Jan 1, 2010 2:01 am

heat fail again.

zilby · Post #105 » by **zilby** » Fri Jan 1, 2010 5:28 am

happpy new year!

i think we are in the 5th seed now.

Indeed · Post #106 » by **Indeed** » Fri Jan 1, 2010 5:04 pm

Heir_Canada wrote:

Are we having an identical record as our 47 win year?
19-21 seems to be achievable (could be better as well?).

Lionel Messi · Post #107 » by **Lionel Messi** » Fri Jan 1, 2010 10:58 pm

well that's what i was comparing this season to...

9 new faces, lots of talent, rough start, tough schedule to start but then relatively easyschedule to finish.

In our 47 win season i predicted that we'd start rolling like crazy in early/mid january (which we did)...
this year i predicted the same for mid/late january.

I also predicted 52 wins on the season...so i could be wrong, loll.

Indeed · Post #108 » by **Indeed** » Sat Jan 2, 2010 1:10 am

Lionel Messi wrote:well that's what i was comparing this season to...

9 new faces, lots of talent, rough start, tough schedule to start but then relatively easyschedule to finish.

In our 47 win season i predicted that we'd start rolling like crazy in early/mid january (which we did)...
this year i predicted the same for mid/late january.

I also predicted 52 wins on the season...so i could be wrong, loll.

This could happen.
Looking back at the above table, they are 9-1 between 70-80 games span.
If we can run 9-1 the in 50-60 games span and 8-2 in 70-80 games span, then we should be around 52 wins by the end of the season. The 50-60 games span will be the key.

Post #109 » by **bryant08** » Sat Jan 2, 2010 11:20 pm

Wow, if we pull off a win tonight we're just 0.5 games back of the Heat and they've got Atlanta next.

TimoCruz · Post #110 » by **TimoCruz** » Sun Jan 3, 2010 1:58 am

A good idea for this thread would be to put a person in charge of updating this everyday. For eg. the original poster on monday, volunteer 1 on tuesday etc.

Heir_Canada · Post #111 » by **Heir_Canada** » Sun Jan 3, 2010 6:39 am

updated

xAIRNESSx · Post #112 » by **xAIRNESSx** » Sun Jan 3, 2010 7:34 pm

Wow, I just had a dream today that the Raptors won the NBA championship in 6 games! lmao

Heir_Canada · Post #113 » by **Heir_Canada** » Sun Jan 3, 2010 10:32 pm

TimoCruz wrote:A good idea for this thread would be to put a person in charge of updating this everyday. For eg. the original poster on monday, volunteer 1 on tuesday etc.

why do you need a person to update this thread?

Upgrayedd · Post #114 » by **Upgrayedd** » Mon Jan 4, 2010 3:07 am

xAIRNESSx wrote:Wow, I just had a dream today that the Raptors won the NBA championship in 4 games! lmao

Fixed that for you. :lol:

Heir_Canada · Post #115 » by **Heir_Canada** » Tue Jan 5, 2010 4:30 am

making upgrade to software.. so no updates till tomorrow evening

99 Problems · Post #116 » by **99 Problems** » Tue Jan 5, 2010 8:24 am

Damn, good job..

Heir_Canada · Post #117 » by **Heir_Canada** » Wed Jan 6, 2010 12:22 am

updated

Eazy · Post #118 » by **Eazy** » Wed Jan 6, 2010 1:48 am

this is sickk

223red · Post #119 » by **223red** » Wed Jan 6, 2010 4:58 pm

Indeed wrote:Are we having an identical record as our 47 win year?
19-21 seems to be achievable (could be better as well?).

The 2007 team from this point averaged 6-4, with two extra wins gained somewhere. Can the 2010 Raps do the same? Let's analyze...
Games 31-40
Pistons (w)
Pistons (w)
Charlotte (w)
Boston (l)
Spurs (w)
@Orlando
@Philly
Boston (early Sunday game)
@Indy (btb)
@NYC
Analysis: 7-3. Losses to Magic and Pacers, pull out a tough one vs. Celtics (mostly b/c I'm attending).

Games 41 to 50
Dallas
@Cavs
@Bucks(btb)
Bucks
@LAL
Heat
@NYC (btb)
Indy
@Indy
Nets (btb)
Analysis: 5-5. Tough stretch. Losses to Dallas, Cavs, Bucks, Lakers and one of Heat or NYC.

Games 51-60
Kings (4 days rest, early Sunday game)
Philly
Memphis (7 days rest)
@Nets
Wizards (btb)
Blazers (4 days rest)
Cavs
@OKC
@ Houston
NYC (4 days rest)
Analysis: A more friendly stretch, every game winnable and mostly at home, with some extra days of rest. Time for a winning streak - maybe 7-3 (losses to Cavs and two of Houston, Miami and Blazers)

tbc...

223red · Post #120 » by **223red** » Wed Jan 6, 2010 5:16 pm

Games 61-70
Philly (Sunday early game)
@ Lakers
@ Kings (btb)
@ Warriors
@ Blazers (btb)
Hawks
OKC
@ Nets (btb)
@ Wolves
Utah
Analysis: 5-5. Tough west road trip. Losses to LAL, Blazers, Hawks, Warriors and Utah or Minnesota.

Games 71-80
Denver
@ Heat
@ Charlotte (btb)
Clippers
@ Philly
Warriors
@ Cavs
Boston (btb)
@ Hawks
Bulls
Analysis: 6-4. Losses to Miami, Charlotte, Atlanta, Boston. I'm hopeful they beat Boston though b/c I hate that team.

Games 81 and 82
@ Pistons (btb)
NYC
Analysis: I'm a homer, so I'm going with 2-0 b/c the Raps are peaking for the playoffs...

That makes 51 wins, so my prediction skills may be a little off. Or maybe not, which would be a good thing. Even if I'm off by 6 wins, Raps get 45 and probably 5th place. If I'm right, they'll likely be 4th or 5th. Either way, we play Atlanta in the first round, Bosh misses a last-second jumper from the corner in game 7 after flying to Georgia to get his degree and then demands to be signed-and-traded.