i tend not to look game-by-game but rather look at groups of games.
cle, was - the only way they lose anything here is if they're rusty from all the time off.
@lal - highly unlikely we sweep the lakers on the season. plus, they're all healthy now.
ind, hou, noh, por- i would guess they lose one in this week-long homestand, either ind/hou.
@por - on the back half of a home-and-home overnight set, we probably drop this one
sac, mil, chi - once again, i'd say they are likely to lose one of the three.
@sac - i'll give them this one, mostly on the inverse of the LAL logic - SAC doesn't take the season series from us.
okc, @min - i might give us minny w/ love out, but for a couple straight years now we've mailed it in before the break, so 0-2 is poss.
gsw, @lac, bos, atl, cha - they def lose one, possibly 2 in this stretch.
so that's either 13-7 or 12-8.
meanwhile, denver (#6) has a cake schedule. GSW (#5) has 16 of their next 23 games over the same stretch on the road (and the home games are lac, okc, dal, phx, hou, phx, sas), but have a 3 1/2 game lead on us going in.
i think a 12-8 stretch will help to keep teams 8 through 11 off our backs, but not sure it'll move us up a ton.