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Early predictions for Wins next year?

Cyrone Torbin said:
I will wait till most of FA is done with and we know who has who.

The Suns should drop way down.
Possibly the Mavs too.
One would think the Spurs would be a bit less dominant next year, but who knows, they might be better.
Portland and Minnesota should both improve.
If New Orleans can keep Gordon healthy they will be competitive.
Golden State if healthy should be more competitive.

I expect a typically stacked Western Conference and if Hayward, Burks, Kanter, and Favors don't improve significantly, we might miss the playoffs. I expect them to improve though.
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We getting closer to your prediction? (You too Enes)

/pinsandneedles
 
We always seemed to win 49-53 with Deron and I don't think we're too far off that pace and that this core could win 3 or 4 out of 10 games against that core. So if we make no more moves, I'll say 47 games.
 
Wes Mantooth said:
We always seemed to win 49-53 with Deron and I don't think we're too far off that pace and that this core could win 3 or 4 out of 10 games against that core. So if we make no more moves, I'll say 47 games.
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I'm just way perplexed as to whether we'll be better next year. On paper, I see an upgrade in talent (though fairly slight) and I would have to have hope that the young core is noticeably better year over year ... and that Ty and company can coach and develop players.

So .. 44.

EDIT: Ooops, just noticed I already predicted 45 a month or so ago .. so I'll stick with the original number.
 
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Last year's pace was 44.7 wins. I see Favors playing a much, much larger (and more positive) role on this team. I see Al being slightly better. Millsap always seems to improve a bit. I think Hayward will sort of be the best of both worlds this year; we'll see overall improvement in his game but also more consistency, especially in his shooting. I'm not a huge fan but Marvin Williams really is a solid upgrade as well. Add in more experience for Burks, Kanter and such and I come to 48 games. I think we'll see about 6-8 games too come year end that were close that we lost in the closing minutes due to just falling short, not having that closer and/or mistakes in coaching by Ty.
 
PKM said:
45
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PKM said:
I'm just way perplexed as to whether we'll be better next year. On paper, I see an upgrade in talent (though fairly slight) and I would have to have hope that the young core is noticeably better year over year ... and that Ty and company can coach and develop players.

So .. 44.

EDIT: Ooops, just noticed I already predicted 45 a month or so ago .. so I'll stick with the original number.
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I also predicted 45 about 4 minutes after you did when the thread was first started. I promise I wasn't just copying. I too will stick with 45.
 
44
+1 for burks in and bell out.
+2 for marvin in and cj out.
0 for harris out and mo in.
-2 for jefferson or millsap out and x in.

Total = 45 wins. 47 if we dont move a big for future assets.
 
50 wins.

I went there.

I grossly underestimated this last season, so I'm going to go ahead and be optimistic.
 
PKM said:
We getting closer to your prediction? (You too Enes)

/pinsandneedles
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I will make a safe bid here and say 47. We didn't change the team entirely or break the core but the team changed saliently. It's not easy to predict what we can do with a new pg. Our additional shooting power will help us but I just don't see Ty Corbin will make the best of what he's got in his hands.
 
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