Some encouraging stats....

[nanoclarkology]

Frank that was great. I couldn't have put it any better. Let's just see how this east coast trip comes around.

[lilfishi22]

I'm a big supporter of our bigs being expected to grab the majority of the rebounding, but in this case, I'm fine with whatever works. People said SSOL was a gimmick and wouldn't win games, but it worked and got us to the WCF twice.

[nashrambler13]

^ I concur. Next 5 will tell us plenty about our team. we got some tough games comin up.
Tue 03 @ Miami
Wed 04 @ Orlando
Fri 06 @ Boston
Sun 08 @ Washington
Mon 09 @ Philadelphia

Our next three opponents are undefeated . FUN TIMES!

How awesome would it be if we won @MIA and @ORL? I'm just really afraid of what Wade/Beasley/J'Oneal will do to us for 48 minutes in MIA, Dwight/Jameer/Vince in ORL....and the list goes on and on when you go down our schedule.

wow, i didnt realize that. i think we will beat ORL, WSH, and PHI, but the heat (mostly dwade) and BOS will most likely give us trouble.

[nashrambler13]

also, if we go 5-0 over the next 5, we are winning the title. deal with it david stern- and yes, we will defy him too; i dont care how much he pays violet palmer.

[dantian]

I'm a big supporter of our bigs being expected to grab the majority of the rebounding, but in this case, I'm fine with whatever works. People said SSOL was a gimmick and wouldn't win games, but it worked and got us to the WCF twice.

Nobody said that. It's a gimmick that wins you a lot of games but won't get you a championship!

[WTFsunsFTW]

The only stats we need to watch the entire season are:

Rebounds
Turnovers

Every other stat line in the game is either affected by one of those, irrelevant to game outcome, or we dominate the stat.

Even if all we do is match rebounds and turnovers with our opponent, our offense will be so much more efficient that we will have the W every time.

Just gotta win by 1.

This SSOL 2.0 concept is ALL Terry Porter had to do to become coach of the year. Dont touch the offense, get some rebounds and take care of the ball.