Only 6 Games vs Top-5 Teams remaining (3 Games vs Curry-less Warriors)

 
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 03, 2023 9:01 pm    Post subject: Only 6 Games vs Top-5 Teams remaining (3 Games vs Curry-less Warriors)

I think the top 5 in the west will be
Nuggets
Grizz
Kings
Clippers
Suns(once D.Book returns)

the top 6 spot is up for grabs, lakers still has a chance to get this.

I am hoping that these 5 teams help the lakers by beating teams lower than them.

lakers only have 5 games versus these teams. Add bucks to that they have actually 6 games that are very tough to win.

2x Grizz
2x Suns
1x Cippers
1x Bucks

So they have 23 games against teams not in the top 5 of both West and East. They have a very high chance to win those games.

I will assume they are 0-6 against those tough teams.

Then they should at least be 16-7 versus the non top-5 teams for them to be at least .500 at the end of the season.

16 wins are the key.

Everytime they will lose vs those 23 teams, the road will get tougher. They can only afford to lose 7 games to non top-5 teams.


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PostPosted: Fri Feb 03, 2023 9:14 pm    Post subject:

You think 3 games against the warriors will be easy?
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 03, 2023 9:18 pm    Post subject:

mad55557777 wrote:
You think 3 games against the warriors will be easy?


Did I said easy? I said winnable. Current Warriors is not as tough as those top-5 teams. And it is a fact that Curry everytime against the Lakers, he had a bad shooting night. Meanwhile Clips and Suns had Lakers numbers.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 03, 2023 9:43 pm    Post subject:

Booker will already return by tuesday next week, expecting the suns to make a run.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 03, 2023 9:47 pm    Post subject:

https://www.tankathon.com/remaining_schedule_strength

Lakers has the 4th easiest remaining schedule in the west. Again nothing is easy for the Lakers though. This is just base on SOS. But again if they will get their act together, they will still have a chance to enter the play-in at least. But I might not be surprise if they snatch the 6th spot, especially if they dispose brick and stop that 3-guard combo sheeet..
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 05, 2023 3:59 pm    Post subject:

Lost to Pelicans, can afford to lose just 6 games vs non-top 5 team.

Good thing is looks like they gonna play with the Warriors without Curry for 3 games. If they will not capitalize on it, I don't think they will qualified even the play-in.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 05, 2023 4:06 pm    Post subject:

Hopefully suns don’t get kd.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 05, 2023 4:15 pm    Post subject:

I love seeing these type of optimistic posts. It gives me a flicker of hope. It helps me “believe” in my Lakers just a few more games.

But I tend to be much more pessimistic when I watch them play. So infuriating with their tendency to waste possessions on both ends of the court.

Either playing half-assed defense and giving up easy or uncontested shots. Or wasting offensive possessions by taking bad shots or turning the ball over. This team just makes too many mistakes to win consistently. I think most teams look at the Lakers as a “win” on most nights. Don’t see that changing.

I hope you are right about the SOS and they make a run for the play-in. Unfortunately this team is just a bad roster and I could see them fade down the stretch more then picking it up and winning games. Hope I’m wrong.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 05, 2023 11:56 pm    Post subject:

Dallas might have moved into at least top 6. We are playin bound. Best not stress 7-10, and just be glad to get in.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 07, 2023 9:53 pm    Post subject:

As these last 2 losses show, the lakers aren’t good enough to worry about only the top 5 teams.

With the exception of the rockets, every team remaining on the schedule can easily play on the level of NOP/OKC at any given night.
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