2013 Record Prediction/Team Expectations

[adiedanny]

Still standing behind my prediction of Champs but maybe go first in the west now. This team looks better each game and with two-four sixth man of the year candidates. Prob Bledsoe will get it and him and DJ will be up for most improved. I have very high expectations this year.

[mkwest]

I watched that Simmons clip in disgust the other day. Blake and DJ don't like playing with Paul because he's too slow for them? I think they care more about winning than running. Blake doesn't even like the name Lob City. DJ wears number 6 in honor of Bill Russell, the greatest winner of them all. That was just a foolish comment. I'm sure they'd like to go back to playing undisciplined basketball and only winning 20-30 games.

With the bench, I could see how some people (critics, non-Clipper fans, etc.) would be skeptical of it's make-up. Odom and Crawford both had less than stellar 2011-12 campaigns. Barnes did not show up in the playoffs after dealing with injuries. Grant Hill is 40. Chauncey is coming off of Achilles surgery. Bledsoe is still erratic and prone to turnovers. Turiaf and Hollins are Turiaf and Hollins. Some people feel that not re-signing K-Mart or Reggie will be a big blow. Preseason is preseason, but it left me with a lot of confidence.

Guys are used to getting a lot of minutes or having a lot of opportunities to make plays. Vinny will have to manage the minutes and it will be tricky, but everybody knows what the goal is. Everybody that signed onto this team this offseason knows the quality of depth of the roster and especially at their own positions. Sacrifice will be the key. There's not a championship team that does not sacrifice in some way or another. I think that some of the older guys will appreciate not having to put in as much work (i.e. heavy minutes and b2b's) every single night. For some, they'll probably be satisfied to finally be on a winning roster that has high aspirations. As long as we're winning, then there's probably less to be said. Winning can cure all.

[Sofia]

I listened to the part 1 and disagreed with a few, but I had to turn off part 2 in disgust.

The reasoning behind the Clippers winning <45 is the same for why his Celtics will win >55.

[Neddy]

i would like to say 60+ wins and the championship but judging by how my dodgers' season have gone so far and how my raiders have started off, I'm gonna lowball this and second #2's post.

50+ wins and play at least 6 games in second round of playoffs. hope we can save the fakers for the WCF and not before... 7 game series at staples against them is pretty much all 7 games away from home.

funny...im raiders, dodgers clippers too.

sick

hey it took me more than a month to see this post, glad there is another clipper-raider-dodger combo fan!!! there aren't too many of us, you know

[mttwlsn16]

West champs. Lake show have no bench. We took 3/4 from okc last year and now they're 6thmanless

[adiedanny]

I'm totally optimistic about this season. 2nd in the west behind okc, 1st pacific and nba champs.

So far pretty close

[Angel strike1]

so glad odom is out of nba . those 3 month were worth it.

LOL

who are this 2 idiots?

[azncorruptedo17]

so far, most of us have def undercut except for neddy lol

i too am a raiders-dodgers-clippers fan =X

[adiedanny]

so far, most of us have def undercut except for neddy lol

i too am a raiders-dodgers-clippers fan =X

Lol how did I undercut? Just barely by second in the west.

[azncorruptedo17]

so far, most of us have def undercut except for neddy lol

i too am a raiders-dodgers-clippers fan =X

Lol how did I undercut? Just barely by second in the west.

well, more in the lines of # of wins,

[madmaxmedia]

Dang I missed this before the season started. I could have swore I posted, but maybe that was last year's thread. LOL. Pretty sure I would have picked low/mid 50's like most people here- extrapolating from last year would be 50 on the dot.

[madmaxmedia]

I watched that Simmons clip in disgust the other day. Blake and DJ don't like playing with Paul because he's too slow for them? I think they care more about winning than running. Blake doesn't even like the name Lob City. DJ wears number 6 in honor of Bill Russell, the greatest winner of them all. That was just a foolish comment. I'm sure they'd like to go back to playing undisciplined basketball and only winning 20-30 games.

Simmons is an interesting case, not only is he not a former player but he took a roundabout way to becoming even an analyst with his sports/comedy/movie references schtick.

I think he's basically as good as any super-fan, but because that's what he was before, he also has his limits. Generally good things come out of his mouth, but it's still weird to see him on TV discussing NBA with the 'big boys'.

I wasn't going to bother watching the clip since it was going to be 20/20 hindsight, but the comments interested me. Most of it was fine I guess, pretty generically reasonable concerns about the roster, Odom, etc. But he totally went off the deep end on Paul and Blake/DJ. That was totally out of left field. And from a guy who pretty sure has Clipper season tix.

[mkwest]

Bump!

A lot of people were close, but I don't think I saw anyone with exactly 56 wins.

I was 1 off with a prediction of a 55-27 record. That could have been true tonight, but I'm so thankful to be wrong.

I also thought that we would be 3rd in the west, but also thought that San Antonio would be in the 3-5 range. Close. A couple people have predicted a Pacific Division Championship.

Who would have thought that there would be 5 teams in the west with 56+ wins? That's just insane. The Western conference had 6 teams with 54+ wins in 2008 (Lakers - 57, Hornets & Spurs - 56, Suns & Rockets - 55, Jazz - 54). You have to go back to the 1998 season to see 5 teams with 56+ wins in a conference (Jazz - 62, Sonics & Lakers - 61, Spurs & Suns - 56).

[Quake Griffin]

i honestly think the Clips are gonna win 55-60 games and finish first or 2nd in the west.

dunno what that'll mean for the playoffs but I think this team is gonna kill it in the regular season.

all is good here.
but i guess no real points for not having an exact record posted


not even mad about saying we could get to 60.
you never can predict when JJ s gonna bump knees with a CP.

[mj_shoefanatic]

I predicted 50+ and we ended up with that and then some

[thanumba2clippersfan]

I'm just going to be very general. 50 plus wins and a spot in the playoffs. I'd be very satisfied with that

LOL look at my general prediction

[og15]

I'd say the West ends up:
1) San Antonio (60-62 wins)
2) LA Lakers (58-60 wins)
3) OKC (57-59 wins)
4) LAC (53-55 wins)

So much for the Lakers, but I was close. At least I got the Seeding right. Denver is OKC, OKC is SA, and SA is LAL.