I think 6-6 is realistic. But than you never know, we can swing either way.

Sat 08 vs Indiana 7:00pm SPSO
Tue 11 vs Milwaukee 7:00pm SPSO
Wed 12 @ Toronto 7:00pm SPSO
Sat 15 vs Houston 7:00pm SPSO
Mon 17 vs Sacramento 4:00pm SPSO
Tue 18 @ Miami 7:30pm SPSO
Fri 21 vs New Orl 7:30pm SPSO
Sat 22 @ Charlotte 7:00pm
Wed 26 @ Milwaukee 8:00pm SPSO
Fri 28 vs New York 7:30pm SPSO
Sat 29 @ Dallas 8:30pm SPSO

5 or 6 means a matchup with either the bulls or magic and they're roughly the same.

FistOfOakley wrote:moving past the magic and hawks in the standings is a tall order... we've been playing well but i see no difference in playoff positioning as long as we do not finish lower than 6th with a possible boston/miami 1st round matchup...

5 or 6 means a matchup with either the bulls or magic and they're roughly the same.

Facing Chicago in the first round would be ideal.

JohnWallace44 wrote:Where's the self doubt coming from? Oh the last decade or so...

I think we can win 7 at least. I guess my concern going forward is playoff positioning. We're almost locked into the first round matchup with the Bulls. We would have to jump two teams to play the Hawks and Orlando is probably not the best matchup if we jump the Hawks.

I'll be very interested to see where we are by the trade deadline and what that pushes Donnie to do.

Last decade has nothing to do with the Now, the Moment. Krishnamurti told me so, I read him in jail.

I'm not worried about match-ups, you can't pick and choose match-ups; you go hard and wherever that lands you is where you go from. If I'm trying to manipulate seeding I'm not focused on going hard, I'm focused on seed-engineering, and that's bogus, man. That takes away from the hoops, kid. Word.

JohnWallace44 wrote:Very interesting remaining schedule in January. There are a lot of tough road games as well as well as just some tough matchups. If we can navigate our way through and end up 27-20 or better and healthy... the remaining schedule sets up really nice for a team with momentum. I think we have to be 7 games over on February 1st in order to have any hope of sprinting past the Hawks or Orlando in the remaining schedule. Its going to be too much of a gap by then if we don't win 7 out of these 13. We're already 4 wins behind the Hawks. If you can't catch the Hawks we can just assume the 6 seed and maybe MikeD uses the rest of the season to tweak and experiment with other lineups to get ready for the Bulls.

 Friday	 January, 7	 10:30 PM EST	 at Suns  	   	 		  	  	         	 
 Sunday	 January, 9	 9:30 PM EST	 at Lakers	   	 	 	  	  	         	 
 Tues	 January, 11	 10:00 PM EST	 at Trailblazers	   	 	 	  	  	         	 
 Wed	 January, 12	 9:00 PM EST	 at Jazz	   	 	 	  	  	         	 
 Friday	 January, 14	 7:30 PM EST	 vs Kings	   	 	 	  	  	         	 
 Monday	 January, 17	 1:00 PM EST	 vs Suns	   	 	 	  	  	         	 
 Wed	 January, 19	 8:30 PM EST	 at Rockets	   	 	 	  	  	         	 
 Friday	 January, 21	 8:30 PM EST	 at Spurs	   	 	 	  	  	         	 
 Sat	 January, 22	 8:00 PM EST	 at Oklahoma	   	 	 	  	  	         	 
 Monday	 January, 24	 7:30 PM EST	 vs Wizards	   	 	 	  	  	         	 
 Thurs	 January, 27	 8:00 PM EST	 vs Heat	   	 	 	  	  	         	 
 Friday	 January, 28	 7:30 PM EST	 at Hawks	   	 	 	  	  	         	 
 Sunday	 January, 30	 7:30 PM EST	 vs Pistons

After last night I'd say 7-6 is a conservative estimate.

That would look something like WINS vs @ Suns, @ Blazers, Kings, Suns, @ Rockets, Wizards & Pistons

To get to 8-5 you need to steal a game @ Jazz or @ Atlanta or Vs Heat

7 - 6 gets us to 27-20 +7
8 - 5 gets us to 28-19 +9

And god forbid if we go 10-4 -- we'd be sitting at 29-18 and +11 games over .500.

4-7 so far with 2 to go...

Rough stretch, but it gets a lot easier from here on out. If we have our stuff together we should be able to aim for the high 40's in wins.