GT charlotte vs boston 12/23 6PM EST

[Hornet Mania]

If this teams ceiling is .500 basketball, does that mean that they've been playing to their max potential and pulling out every win they possibly can?

I'm struggling to see how .500 isn't closer to the floor. Very few of their wins haven't been convincing and they've lost virtually every close game and are still .500. The team is a few small breaks and good whistles away from being 19-13 and is still top 10 in net rating.

This team makes it really hard sometimes.

[Braggins]

We are 9-10 against teams that are currently within one game of .500 or better and the only top team we've dodged is Golden State. We have wins against four of the teams in the top eight of the overall league standings (2nd/3rd/5th/8th) and would very likely have wins against five if the refs called Embiid for that travel.

The schedule has been weak overall, but it isn't like they are beating up on the bottom feeders and getting smoked by all the decent teams. The biggest issue so far has been blowing a bunch of random games against awful teams and losing close games in general.

It isn't the most talented roster, but the overall talent level isn't bad and there is room for growth with Miles/Monk/WHG. The roster is definitely imbalanced and geared towards Cliffords style (in a bad way). We don't have enough good wings and have like five centers when our coach wants to be doing things like playing MKG at center. The backup PG situation is still awful.

I think this teams floor is probably in the 36-40 win range with good health and the ceiling is probably 44-46 wins. They've already blown too many games that needed to be wins, so i'll predict they finish closer to the floor. They've been lucky with injuries so far and I think they'll struggle to deal with even an average amount of injuries when the the schedule gets tougher because most of the end of bench depth is just more bigs that aren't going to matter if we need to replace guys in the guard/wing rotation.