ESPN Projects Lakers to Have Fewest Wins in NBA

[AFireInside619]

I'm sure ESPN is factor conferences, strength of schedule, traveling, altitude, back to back games. We don't play Philly, Brooklyn, and the other scrubby East teams more than twice. So I see what they are getting at. Plus they are preaching the narrative of our front office dysfunction and, the extra baggage DLO is to us, and all that other nonsense.

With that said, they are dead wrong about this team. We won't make the playoffs, but we won't be the worst 3 teams in the league either. I suspect they'll be several teams looking to tank the year away. Plus we aren't as bad as ESPN would like everyone to think we are.

[RI Laker]

This team is lacking in talent and to think otherwise is setting yourself up for disappointment. Do we have some nice young pieces...yes. Should we be excited about having a good young head coach....yes (although Luke is not a magician and can not turn crap into ice cream). The only thing we should hope for is that we do not waste another year in regards to developing our kids. I think BS's biggest failure was turning his back on our pups and not developing them. I think the development of the kids will be Luke's best attribute.

[justsomelakerfan]

[iimarshon]

buncha (bleep) hacks..

were going to get 30 wins this year.
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[justsomelakerfan]

ESPN has never been right about the Lakers. We're always much worse than their projections these past couple of years

[999]

I don't think there is anyone on the laker team that is capable of proving them wrong

[_#1_]

Not that 24 wins is so hard to buy, I would like to think higher, but teams like the Nets or cursed Philly do better, hmm, don't take that bet... some of these teams will blow up and tank hard so 24 seems well above the bottom. But there can always be a silver lining.

So we have trouble coming together in the beginning, a few not so bad injuries hold us back, by the all-star break we are the worst with 9 wins. Then, Ingram starts to get it, team goes 18-6 after the break, second best record in the league and plays top 5 defense. We end up with the number 2 lotto slot, according to ESPN predictions here, and the ball bounces us to the number 1 pick in the 2017 draft, further devaluing the pass along to Philly. We keep this pick, are red hot, playing defense, and Ingram is ballin. I'll take it.

[MJST]

IF we went 3-6 across the entire season every 9 games.

Then we would be

27-54

Before the last game of the season, which if we won we'd go

28-54

Which is one win better than the D'antoni season.

that's not unreasonable.

However if we went 4-5 across the entire season every 9 games

36 - 45

and if we win the last game

37-45

THAT would be a fantastic turnaround.

The answer may be in the middle

33 - 49


is about as far as I'd go.

If we're fully healthy and EVERYTHING goes right we could possibly see 37 wins, but I'd say 33 is a solid maximum to set your expectations at.

[venturalakersfan]

A 10+ win increase from last season would be wonderful.
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[yinoma2001]

Of course we shoot for as many wins, but if we got to 30, I would give that an A season (relatively speaking of course).
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[Fracture]

ESPN is probably right tbh, doubt we get to 30 with the talent we have.

[ReaListik]

ESPN has been dead on the past few years. Will be lucky to get beyond 20 wins.
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[PayasoLoco]

if we get the ball movement offense down i can see 30 wins but if we play that pre season ball 24 is being generous

[Scoffs]

Antawn Jamison says the Lakers can be a 0.500 team on last week's Access Sportsnet. I think that's possible if Zubac becomes Kareem-lite and Russell becomes Curry-lite but the most likely scenario is low to mid 30s.

[yinoma2001]

[Goldenwest]

I wonder what the lakers themselves consider a successful season. Realistically speaking. I would guess marked improvement from last year. A 7 win increase (the ESPN guess) is not a marked improvement. It would be more like doubling last year's win count.

[AY2043]

24 wins probably isn't a bad guess. But I really don't see us being worse than Philly.

They were the 2nd worst team of all time last year, and made no significant improvements to their roster this off-season. Simmons projects to be out for a long time, Noel is already out for a month with an injury, and who knows how long Embiid lasts. In addition to that, their guards are still probably the worst in the league.

[Ziggy]

[AY2043]

[tox]

[lakersken80]

Lakers may be better than some eastern conference teams but they only play each team twice...while teams in the east play each other up to 4 times a season. Meanwhile the west is stacked as usual so a bad team like the Lakers will look even worse.

[venturalakersfan]

[Math]

[venturalakersfan]