L - @ Minnesota
W - Boston
W - Philadelphia
L - L.A. Clippers
L - @ Indiana
L - @ San Antonio
L - @ Houston
L - @ Dallas
W - Cleveland
W - Atlanta

It s a tough first 10 games...so 4-6 would be a decent start. The Cleveland game could go either way...so 3-7 is a real possibility.

I hope they can at least win 1 game on that 4 game road trip...if they do that i think they can do no worse than 5-5

3-7, 4-6 is likely.

Its a new team and can have early chemistry problems. depends on Allan's starting the season.

I think the first 10 games will say little about this team. IF they get off better than I state, then its because they got the chemistry thing early. Its the last 10 games thats gonna tell me some thing, and by that I mean in the playoffs, cuz thats where the charactor is on the line.

Think about it, TT showed his. I expect a much better prepared team and maturity from all, especially 'Gazy.

Well, think about it. By the numbers, our schedule isn't too bad. We have 5 home games against teams that were below .500 last season!

The winning formula around the league is win your home games, and split your road games. It's the old mantra of "not in my house!"

Yes, the road games will be tough--- but hey, they're on the road. Our front-court will be tested on the road.

5-5 will be a great start to the season. Anything better would practically mean a ticket to the finals. :)

dude you forgot about the rockets! They got Tmac, Yao, and our dikembe mutombo

I think Indiana/San Antonio(we have no answer for Duncan OR Ginobili--- and Bowen and Parker always kill us) are going to be the toughest of the bunch. Both have air-tight defensive systems in place.

Minnesota always seems to play down to us (we went 1-1 against them last year). Houston is great on paper, but they'll be making huge adjustments with T-Mac on board and losing their starting backcourt last season, thus could be vulnerable early on-- also they're very weak in frontcourt depth (they played 'Spoon big minutes last year!). Same goes for Dallas, who lost their leader (Nash) and added a bunch of new components while losing last year's big acquisitions (Walker/Jamison).

I think its better that this road trip is early in the season... it will be a good test for us and also i'd rather get it out of the way early in the season than play it in march or april

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Posted by knicks1248:

On the MSG boards I made a Thread stating that were not much better then last year, and every single poster disagreed with me.

Now i'm over here readind this and can't believe what im reading.

I say were 7-3 in the first 10 games, and thats being realistic.
Last season when we had a brutal first 20 games, people thought i was crazy, because of all of the talanted the shifted west. I said we would be 6 games under 500. And a bunch of people responed Hell no!!. Those same people pick the magic to battle the NETS for the Atlantic.

Boston, Phili, Mini, clipers, dallas, cleveland, atlanta, and even houston, are all winable games.


any team can beat any other team on a given night. it's much tougher to win on the road as % say and if you add in the % of good teams losing at home, we will lose some game liley also including atleast 1 los at home oursleves. If we go 5-5 during this stretch it's a sucess--if were better than that--it bodes very well--worse is not terrible-3-7 and worse would be distressing.

by the way, were not in the same stratosphere as Dallas Minnesota and Houston--we beat Minnesota last year because dikembe mutumbo had 18 points 17 rebounds and shut off the lane on D. We dont have a player like that.
Cleveland had our number how many times last year+ even games like Boston and Philly wont be give me's. I feel reasonable good that we will get by LAC at home and ATL quite easily. All the other games are either battles or hard to win

Posted by BRIGGS:

[quote]
Posted by knicks1248:

On the MSG boards I made a Thread stating that were not much better then last year, and every single poster disagreed with me.

Now i'm over here readind this and can't believe what im reading.

I say were 7-3 in the first 10 games, and thats being realistic.
Last season when we had a brutal first 20 games, people thought i was crazy, because of all of the talanted the shifted west. I said we would be 6 games under 500. And a bunch of people responed Hell no!!. Those same people pick the magic to battle the NETS for the Atlantic.

Boston, Phili, Mini, clipers, dallas, cleveland, atlanta, and even houston, are all winable games.


any team can beat any other team on a given night. it's much tougher to win on the road as % say and if you add in the % of good teams losing at home, we will lose some game liley also including atleast 1 los at home oursleves. If we go 5-5 during this stretch it's a sucess--if were better than that--it bodes very well--worse is not terrible-3-7 and worse would be distressing.

by the way, were not in the same stratosphere as Dallas Minnesota and Houston--we beat Minnesota last year because dikembe mutumbo had 18 points 17 rebounds and shut off the lane on D. We dont have a player like that.
Cleveland had our number how many times last year+ even games like Boston and Philly wont be give me's. I feel reasonable good that we will get by LAC at home and ATL quite easily. All the other games are either battles or hard to win

I agree 7-3 in the first ten games, and we get 50 wins this season!