W  L  GB
1 Detroit       25 4  -
2 New Jersey    17 12 8.0
3 Miami         19 14 8.0
4 Cleveland     19 10 6.0
5 Milwaukee     17 12 8.0
6 Indiana       16 13 9.0
7 Philadelphia  16 16 10.5
8 Boston        13 18 13.0
  Washington    12 17 13.0
  Orlando       12 17 13.0
  Chicago       12 19 14.0
  Charlotte     10 22 16.5
  Toronto       10 22 16.5
  New York       8 21 17.0  (4.0 games out of the #8 seed)
  Atlanta        7 22 18.0

Posted by martin:

oh man, we would get CRUSHED with the 8th seed vs Detroit, but boy would that make some fodder for the papers.

Posted by JohnWallace44:

if we make it back to the playoffs our second half will have to be so good that any team other than Detroit will not want to play us. Detroit will beat anyone. I hope we get into that position.

Posted by Bonn1997:

Man you make 33-20 sound ordinary! I drool over the thought of that kind of stretch.

Posted by McK1:

We're not better than Philly and Orlando owns us.

its not really all that great of a stretch, in other terms we would have to be about as good as the phoenix suns are now, they're pretty good but not all that good.

Posted by oohah:

its not really all that great of a stretch, in other terms we would have to be about as good as the phoenix suns are now, they're pretty good but not all that good.

That would be a hell of a stretch.

The Suns are way better than than the Knicks. They have 2 players (Nash and Marion) who are better than our best player, and they will have Stoudamire a top 5 talent back in a few months (Though I think he would be smarter to sit out the season.), making that 3 players better than our best player.

We are 8/21 in the weakest conference in basketball, they are 19/11 playing in a better conference without their best player (In my opinion).

oohah

i said "as the phoenix suns are NOW" or in other words without stoudamire, the 19-11 suns, not the 22-4 or whatever they were last season at this point suns, and phoenix right NOW isnt really all that much better than us, they didnt win by very much the last time we played them, and the second time they played us they lost altogether. although on paper they are alot better than us.





[Edited by - slimpack on 01-04-2006 01:26 AM]

i said "as the phoenix suns are NOW" or in other words without stoudamire, the 19-11 suns, not the 22-4 or whatever they were last season at this point suns, and phoenix isnt really all that much better than us, they didnt win by very much the last time we played them, and the second time they played us they lost altogether. although on paper they are alot better than us.

Posted by oohah:

its not really all that great of a stretch, in other terms we would have to be about as good as the phoenix suns are now, they're pretty good but not all that good.

That would be a hell of a stretch.

The Suns are way better than than the Knicks. They have 2 players (Nash and Marion) who are better than our best player, and they will have Stoudamire a top 5 talent back in a few months (Though I think he would be smarter to sit out the season.), making that 3 players better than our best player.

We are 8/21 in the weakest conference in basketball, they are 19/11 playing in a better conference without their best player (In my opinion).

oohah

but we have a better record against the (stronger west) than against the east.
The problem with us going on a consistant run is we have too many incosistant players. Add to that the fact that we would have to rely so heavily on our rookies. The one glimer of hope we have is the teams directly ahead of us (Wash, Chic, Bos, Char) are all struggling almost as bad as we are.