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~lw3

its a lower number than I expected- I figured it would be 38.5. Honestly it comes down to 2 things- Bibby and health. If Bibby has gotten worse each of the past 3 years- if he continues to decline then the hawks are going to have problems (unless Speedy is healthy- ha). And if any hawks starter other than Marvin goes out for significant time the team is in deep trouble.

Closer to 40 wins is realistic, so I'm going with the over, but it's still difficult to gauge right now.

Arrrrghhh. I hate to argue with Vegas....











But I've gotta go with OVER.

That looks like a good number to me. I'll go with 35 wins.

35 wins is a bit low... That's probably the worst case scenario. The best being 48 wins. I'll go with the middle of the pack and say they'll win 40. But Woody could surprise me and they'll win 42 games.

Pretty close to what Hollinger predicted.

I'd imagine that its low right now because a lot of people are betting low after losing Childress. Most predictions I read have us being worse that last year almost exclusively because we lost Chil.

Since I have been saying for a long time that we would be better off replacing Childress with a 3pt shooter/defender and we needed a scorer off the bench (Flip, even if he isn't a "good" player), I'm sticking to my guns and taking the over.

Depth is still a concern and we were lucky with injuries last season but we might just have a fairly durable core. Smith is a quick healer and Joe has only had one season where he missed any time. Actually, I think Joe was injured (or at least severely fatigued) for most of last season which would explain his abyssmal splits.

I look at 37 wins as a baseline if we are as healthy as last season. Considering that I think Joe will be better and Mo is going to be as effective as Chil because of his skillset, I think thats fair. If any of our backup frontcourt players can step up, I think that number takes a nice little bump. If Smith/Horford/Williams can stop up their games, I think we jump to a +.500 team.

Some teams will be better and some will be worse, every year you hear about how much the other teams in the conference improved but teams at the very top get a little easier to beat, teams at the very bottom get a little harder to beat, and teams in the middle move around some.

Taking the OVER and not thinking twice.