Worst start to ever make the playoffs?
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Worst start to ever make the playoffs?
If the raps do come back to make the playoffs, would there be a team that started worse than 4-19 (e.g. more than 15 games below .500) and did the same in NBA history?
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Didn't Miami once start out like 0-8 or something and make the playoffs?
Surprisingly, this doesn't seem like the easiest thing to figure out via a cursory google search.
Surprisingly, this doesn't seem like the easiest thing to figure out via a cursory google search.
Thanks, TZ!
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If you want inspiration, just remember what the 02-03 Raptors did after Vince got hurt.
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dagger wrote:If you want inspiration, just remember what the 02-03 Raptors did after Vince got hurt.
01-02!
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I was thinking we weren't as bad as the Suns team that started 0-13 in '96 and went on to make the playoffs with 40 wins but they were 7-16 after 23 games.
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I too am too lazy to look this up but want to know the answer...
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As far as I know the worst teams to make the playoffs were:
1952-53 Baltimore Bullets (16-54)
1985-86 Chicago Bulls (30-52)
1952-53 Baltimore Bullets (16-54)
1985-86 Chicago Bulls (30-52)
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Dont know if this counts since 4 out of 6 teams in the conference made the playoffs.. but the 1967-68 Chicago Bulls made the Playoffs after starting the season 3-16 http://www.basketball-reference.com/tea ... games.html
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InBCItrust wrote:As far as I know the worst teams to make the playoffs were:
1952-53 Baltimore Bullets (16-54)
1985-86 Chicago Bulls (30-52)
Bullets started season 5-14
Bulls started season 7-12
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dagger wrote:If you want inspiration, just remember what the 02-03 Raptors did after Vince got hurt.
01-02 was amazing. The forgotten playoff run - we almost took out the #1 seed.
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I thought I heard somewhere that it would be the second worst after some Utah team...that's all I know.
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Duke3D wrote:dagger wrote:If you want inspiration, just remember what the 02-03 Raptors did after Vince got hurt.
01-02 was amazing. The forgotten playoff run - we almost took out the #1 seed.
#2 seed but yes that was a nice little 5 week stretch of basketball, which was right after the worst 5 week stretch in franchise history. lost 17 of 18 and then won 12 of the last 14 games in the season to make the playoffs and push the pistons to 5 games. the bucks completely collapsing helped too.
galacticos2 wrote:MLB needs to introduce an Amnesty clause. Bautista would be my first victim.
Bautista outplays his contract by more than $70 million over the next four seasons (2013-2016).
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s e n s i wrote:#2 seed but yes that was a nice little 5 week stretch of basketball, which was right after the worst 5 week stretch in franchise history. lost 17 of 18 and then won 12 of the last 14 games in the season to make the playoffs and push the pistons to 5 games. the bucks completely collapsing helped too.
If the Raptors had lost 1 more game, they would have missed the playoffs. It was that close.
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could've won that series too....if it wasn't for our man chris childs
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Jinx thread if I ever saw one.
But I just remember that year Chris Childs cost us game 5 against the Pistons with that questionable heave to get that three point foul. AD put us on his back those last 14 games of the regular season, went like 9 straight and 12 of 14 to qualify.
But I just remember that year Chris Childs cost us game 5 against the Pistons with that questionable heave to get that three point foul. AD put us on his back those last 14 games of the regular season, went like 9 straight and 12 of 14 to qualify.
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxeyuEwIgeU[/youtube]
Not the clip where Childs throws the heave, but Dell Curry shoots us back in it. LOL look at all the familiar faces, Micah, Jim, Jermaine Jackson, Yogi, Corliss Williamson on DET (former Rap who killed us in that series).
Not the clip where Childs throws the heave, but Dell Curry shoots us back in it. LOL look at all the familiar faces, Micah, Jim, Jermaine Jackson, Yogi, Corliss Williamson on DET (former Rap who killed us in that series).
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InBCItrust wrote:As far as I know the worst teams to make the playoffs were:
1952-53 Baltimore Bullets (16-54)
1985-86 Chicago Bulls (30-52)
Dear god, how did that Bulls team qualify for the playoffs at 30-52???
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That 01-02 rally into the playoffs and taking the Pistons to the brink was epic still boggles
my mind that so many fans and media members thought Lenny Wilkens was a bad coach here.
my mind that so many fans and media members thought Lenny Wilkens was a bad coach here.
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In terms of starts..
Miami takes the cake in the past 18 years, going 5-15, and finishing the season at 42-40 to make the playoffs.
In terms of late season surge from lottery to NBA playoff
Boston Celtics takes this one being 23-36 at one point and making it to the playoffs at 36-46 in where the disparity between West and East was at its biggest
As for the Raptors, we were once 30-38 to make an amazing final push and finish the season 42-40 with the 7th seed, and took the pistons to their final possession to beat us, but never have the franchise been this much down from the playoff hunt to make it.
Thus..miracles can happen..just that it happens every 3-4 years, NBA is actually due for another cinderella story.
Miami takes the cake in the past 18 years, going 5-15, and finishing the season at 42-40 to make the playoffs.
In terms of late season surge from lottery to NBA playoff
Boston Celtics takes this one being 23-36 at one point and making it to the playoffs at 36-46 in where the disparity between West and East was at its biggest
As for the Raptors, we were once 30-38 to make an amazing final push and finish the season 42-40 with the 7th seed, and took the pistons to their final possession to beat us, but never have the franchise been this much down from the playoff hunt to make it.
Thus..miracles can happen..just that it happens every 3-4 years, NBA is actually due for another cinderella story.