January - Proving Time

Post #1 » by **NuggetsWY** » Mon Jan 1, 2018 11:38 pm

January 1st - 19-17 for 6th place in the West - 5-5 in the last ten games

January - 15 games - only 5 games against teams with a better record - this is the time for the Nuggets to prove themselves

What record do we end up with at the end of January?

5th place? 6th? 7th?

25 wins? 28 wins? 30 wins?

skywalker33 · Post #2 » by **skywalker33** » Tue Jan 2, 2018 3:18 am

I looked at the schedule too, we have a lot of lottery teams in Jan, I'm thinking 10-5 or 11-4 if Malone doesn't screw this up. Millsap should be close to returning by the ASG, having a 28-30 win team would be a nice welcome back present.

MidMountain · Post #3 » by **MidMountain** » Tue Jan 2, 2018 3:58 pm

I'm guessing 9 wins. I predicted 50 total wins before we lost Millsap. This is really only a 45 win team without him, winning approx 55% of their games.

Nuggets_Talk · Post #4 » by **Nuggets_Talk** » Wed Jan 3, 2018 1:17 am

weve also got, according to espn, the most scheduled losses in the the month of january. 3 of them. january is not going to be easy.

to put that in perspective, no other team has more than 1. I think there were only about 15 in total the entire month in the NBA

Mickey8 · Post #5 » by **Mickey8** » Wed Jan 3, 2018 1:31 am

So espn basically admitting that NBA is rigged :wink:

Post #6 » by **NuggetsWY** » Wed Jan 3, 2018 3:06 am

Mickey8 wrote:So espn basically admitting that NBA is rigged

You got it right! (With the wink.)

ESPN can say whatever they want. Claiming the NBA is rigged makes sense to conspiracy theorists just like they claim NASA's moon landing was a hoax. Keeping something that big a secret requires so many people to keep their mouths shut it is ridiculous. Human nature says, "I've got a secret and you've got to promise not to tell anyone" and that person will tell their best friend the same thing and so on and so on and so on.

Lala870 · Post #7 » by **Lala870** » Wed Jan 3, 2018 6:32 am

NuggetsWY wrote:
Mickey8 wrote:So espn basically admitting that NBA is rigged

You got it right! (With the wink.)

ESPN can say whatever they want. Claiming the NBA is rigged makes sense to conspiracy theorists just like they claim NASA's moon landing was a hoax. Keeping something that big a secret requires so many people to keep their mouths shut it is ridiculous. Human nature says, "I've got a secret and you've got to promise not to tell anyone" and that person will tell their best friend the same thing and so on and so on and so on.

(assuming your serious here)

You highly underestimate the ability to compartmentalize projects (conspiracy related). i can make you do something without you knowing the true intentions or purpose of said task. Money is also a powerful motivator. its people that never believe "conspiracies" that make it all the more feasible it happens.

Its also just as ludicrous to say conspiracies are as simple and black/white as "im gonna tell sally you did something bad". Not how the world works.