Predict the Wizards Record '13-'14 season.

TwentyOne920 · Post #81 » by **TwentyOne920** » Sun Jul 14, 2013 4:35 am

47-35, 6th in Eastern Conference
SRS: 1.8
Off Rtg: 105.9 (18th of 30)
Def Rtg: 104.0 (9th of 30)

I like your squad.

Earth2Ted · Post #82 » by **Earth2Ted** » Sun Jul 14, 2013 1:08 pm

37-45

Nene will be healthier and better than he was last year but will still miss 15-20 games, and never again be the beast that was physically feared by his opponents in his younger days. Too bad, because we could really use that guy.

Wall will continue to improve incrementally but not enough to make the all star team or be a no brainer max contract player.

Porter will struggle early and often and there will be much hand wringing about whether we picked the wrong guy. He will take baby steps over the season like Beal did and finish with about 9 pts 5 rb and 1.5 assists per game.

The record above will leave us at 9th seed and get us a 2nd tier big man in the 2014 draft. Maybe McGary, maybe not.

Emeka Okafor will be resigned to a lucrative deal in the offseason, and Ernie Grunfeld and Ted Leonsis will pat themselves on the back and say, these are your Washington Wizards for the rest of the decade.

dckingsfan · Post #83 » by **dckingsfan** » Sun Jul 14, 2013 1:21 pm

OK, I think we will stick with Wins, Eastern conference rank, Off Rating, Defensive Rating, will Wall make the All-Star Squad, Will Porter win ROY.

Silvie Lysandra · Post #84 » by **Silvie Lysandra** » Sun Jul 14, 2013 10:46 pm

52-30.

Wizards are 16th in ORTG and 2nd in DRTG (106.0 ORTG, 101.5 DRTG). I'm actually fairly optimistic, because I'm really hoping we get MVP-caliber Wall all year.

John Wall averages 22 points per game, 10.5 assists, 5 rebounds, 2 steals and a block per game, and is in the MVP discussion.
Beal takes a step forward despite injury, Porter makes the all-rookie team, Rice doesn't make the team despite early season buzz filling in for Beal.
Nene stays healthy for most of the year.
Seraphin becomes a decent rotation-level big, and Booker stays reasonably healthy.

gwizz · Post #85 » by **gwizz** » Sun Jul 14, 2013 11:54 pm

somehow I dont think Okafor and Nene will be healthy, and Porter wont help much, hes a rotation guy @ best mark my words; your looking @ Beal/Wall trying to do it all... Im hoping for a crap season, we need Otto to stink it up along with the bad season to FINALLY fire EG..

Next year lottery pick here we go!

hands11 · Post #86 » by **hands11** » Mon Jul 15, 2013 4:47 am

Chaos Revenant wrote:52-30.

Wizards are 16th in ORTG and 2nd in DRTG (106.0 ORTG, 101.5 DRTG). I'm actually fairly optimistic, because I'm really hoping we get MVP-caliber Wall all year.

John Wall averages 22 points per game, 10.5 assists, 5 rebounds, 2 steals and a block per game, and is in the MVP discussion.
Beal takes a step forward despite injury, Porter makes the all-rookie team, Rice doesn't make the team despite early season buzz filling in for Beal.
Nene stays healthy for most of the year.
Seraphin becomes a decent rotation-level big, and Booker stays reasonably healthy.

Pretty close to what I project.

Wall is going to beast this year. Same with Beal but Wall really goes off. Nene healthy. Gets some of his jumping ability back and starts to hit the mid range again. Webster picking up where he left off and actually take it a little farther. He will drive more. Trevor A looking good if he isn't traded. Specially going into a contract year. Booker healthy for the first time and provides nice energy and rebounding off the bench. I think he has learned what to do to stay healthy. Wall and Beal will get AS talk and maybe make it. Okafor just solid Okafor. Maynor will looks better as the back up PG then Price did. Temple matures a little more and people are happy we kept him. Kevin makes another step forward. He shots less from outside and bangs more inside. He starts to show he has discover he is a load and is learning to use it. Ves and Singleton have moments, but neither takes off. Singleton drives more and uses his increasing strong body. Glen Rice... I have no idea. He makes some 3. Not a huge factor. His just C Martins replacement.

What Otto does isn't really all that important, as long as they keep Trevor A. Anything he adds is gravy.

closg00 · Post #87 » by **closg00** » Mon Jul 15, 2013 9:14 am

gwizz wrote:somehow I dont think Okafor and Nene will be healthy, and Porter wont help much, hes a rotation guy @ best mark my words; your looking @ Beal/Wall trying to do it all... Im hoping for a crap season, we need Otto to stink it up along with the bad season to FINALLY fire EG..

Next year lottery pick here we go!

I fear that Grunfeld will be renewed before we find out the fate of this particular roster.

dckingsfan · Post #88 » by **dckingsfan** » Mon Jul 15, 2013 1:40 pm

Wins

WizardsWorld and daSwami have 82 wins
jeffsays has 56
Chaos Revenant has 52
Wizardspride has 51
JWizmentality and nuposse04 have 50 wins
AFM has 49
DaRealHibachi and GhostsOfGil have 48 wins
The Consiglieri, TwentyOne920, zardsfan and jimij have 47 wins
Jimmy (for the) Recard has 46
Rafael122, Fischella and Deeptu McPullup have 45 wins
TGW, dangermouse, nate33, gesa2 and montestewart have 44 wins
Wallbeliever has 43
miller31time, TheBabyMaker and closg00 have 42 wins
Zonkerbl and MJG have 40 wins
DCKingsFan has 39 wins
Ruzious and hands11 have 38 wins
Earth2Ted has 37
truwizfan4evr has 36 wins
FAH1223 has 35 wins
Knighthonor has 30 wins

Off Rating

TwentyOne920 has 106 (rounding)
DCKingsFan has 101

Defensive Rating

TwentyOne920 has 104
DCKingsFan has 102

Wall Makes the AllStar Squad

DCKingsfan has NO

Porter wins ROY honors

DCKingsfan has NO

Higga · Post #89 » by **Higga** » Mon Jul 15, 2013 6:34 pm

It's early but I think we win 43 games and get the 7 seed. We could be as high as 6th, but don't see us finishing any higher as Miami, Indiana, Chicago, Brooklyn, and New York will all be better barring catastrophe. We'll be among the teams fighting for the final three spots.

Wall will make the All-Star game. Beal and Porter will both be in the Rookie Game, and Beal will be in the 3 point contest.

Benjammin · Post #90 » by **Benjammin** » Mon Jul 15, 2013 6:37 pm

I'm in no rush to give a number, realizing everyone can change theirs as well. But historically going lower than the board average is the way to go.

dckingsfan · Post #91 » by **dckingsfan** » Thu Jul 18, 2013 1:29 pm

Wins

WizardsWorld and daSwami have 82 wins
jeffsays has 56
Chaos Revenant has 52
Wizardspride has 51
JWizmentality and nuposse04 have 50 wins
AFM has 49
DaRealHibachi and GhostsOfGil have 48 wins
The Consiglieri, TwentyOne920, zardsfan and jimij have 47 wins
Jimmy (for the) Recard has 46
Rafael122, Fischella and Deeptu McPullup have 45 wins
TGW, dangermouse, nate33, gesa2 and montestewart have 44 wins
Wallbeliever and Higga have 43
miller31time, TheBabyMaker and closg00 have 42 wins
Zonkerbl and MJG have 40 wins
DCKingsFan has 39 wins
Ruzious and hands11 have 38 wins
Earth2Ted has 37
truwizfan4evr has 36 wins
FAH1223 has 35 wins
Knighthonor has 30 wins

Off Rating

TwentyOne920 has 106 (rounding)
DCKingsFan has 101

Defensive Rating

TwentyOne920 has 104
DCKingsFan has 102

Wall Makes the AllStar Squad

DCKingsfan has NO

Porter wins ROY honors

DCKingsfan has NO

Post #92 » by **nate33** » Thu Jul 18, 2013 1:46 pm

Sorry, the way that was formatted was really bugging me.

82 - WizardsWorld, daSwami
56 - jeffsays
52 - Chaos Revenant
51 - Wizardspride
50 - JWizmentality, nuposse04
49 - AFM
48 - DaRealHibachi, GhostsOfGil
47 - The Consiglieri, TwentyOne920, zardsfan, jimij
46 - Jimmy Recard
45 - Rafael122, Fischella, Deeptu McPullup
44 - TGW, dangermouse, nate33, gesa2, montestewart
43 - Wallbeliever, Higga
42 - miller31time, TheBabyMaker, closg00
40 - Zonkerbl, MJG
39 - DCKingsFan
38 - Ruzious, hands11
37 - Earth2Ted
36 - truwizfan4evr
35 - FAH1223
30 - Knighthonor

Dat2U · Post #93 » by **Dat2U** » Thu Jul 18, 2013 3:28 pm

I'm just waiting for the shoe to drop (some random injury) before I make my real prediction. Sometimes the shoe drops during the summer (Kwame's broken foot), sometimes it happens right before training camp begins (Wall's stress injury) and sometimes it happens during camp (Haywood's wrist injury).

long suffrin' boulez fan · Post #94 » by **long suffrin' boulez fan** » Thu Jul 18, 2013 4:13 pm

41-41

Wiz "crack the code" and achieve Platonic, perfect mediocrity in Uncle Ted's eyes

Ernie gets extended

Some place, some where has a parade for Wit.

Chocolate City Jordanaire · Post #95 » by **Chocolate City Jordanaire** » Thu Jul 18, 2013 4:50 pm

If I were predicting today, compared with others my pick would be extremely optimistic, right up there with AFM or maybe with JWiz and nuposse. (Nice way to tell what I'm thinking without giving the exact number).

However, I'm with Dat on this. I can't do it now. Something usually happens. Something not so good.

nuposse04 · Post #96 » by **nuposse04** » Thu Jul 18, 2013 9:46 pm

Chocolate City Jordanaire wrote:If I were predicting today, compared with others my pick would be extremely optimistic, right up there with AFM or maybe with JWiz and nuposse. (Nice way to tell what I'm thinking without giving the exact number).

However, I'm with Dat on this. I can't do it now. Something usually happens. Something not so good.

I tend to always predict optimistically. I figure one year, things should all come together. Just once. I think I'm putting my faith in a fallacy though, the probability of **** hitting the fan should be independent of each previous season in which **** hit the fan.

I think its reasonable to expect good things from Wall/Beal and at some point Porter. I think the uncertainty is with Booker and Nene's health and whether Jan and Seraphin just finally "get it."

dckingsfan · Post #97 » by **dckingsfan** » Fri Jul 19, 2013 12:52 pm

With the better format

And you should be able to pick the bonus questions without giving your Wins prediction...

Wins

82 - WizardsWorld, daSwami
56 - jeffsays
52 - Chaos Revenant
51 - Wizardspride
50 - JWizmentality, nuposse04
49 - AFM
48 - DaRealHibachi, GhostsOfGil
47 - The Consiglieri, TwentyOne920, zardsfan, jimij
46 - Jimmy Recard
45 - Rafael122, Fischella, Deeptu McPullup
44 - TGW, dangermouse, nate33, gesa2, montestewart
43 - Wallbeliever, Higga
42 - miller31time, TheBabyMaker, closg00
41 - long suffrin' boulez fan
40 - Zonkerbl, MJG
39 - DCKingsFan
38 - Ruzious, hands11
37 - Earth2Ted
36 - truwizfan4evr
35 - FAH1223
30 - Knighthonor

Off Rating

TwentyOne920 has 106 (rounding)
DCKingsFan has 101

Defensive Rating

TwentyOne920 has 104
DCKingsFan has 102

Wall Makes the AllStar Squad

Higga has Yes
DCKingsfan has NO

Porter wins ROY honors

DCKingsfan has NO

dckingsfan · Post #98 » by **dckingsfan** » Fri Jul 19, 2013 12:54 pm

nuposse04 wrote:
Chocolate City Jordanaire wrote:If I were predicting today, compared with others my pick would be extremely optimistic, right up there with AFM or maybe with JWiz and nuposse. (Nice way to tell what I'm thinking without giving the exact number).

However, I'm with Dat on this. I can't do it now. Something usually happens. Something not so good.

I tend to always predict optimistically. I figure one year, things should all come together. Just once. I think I'm putting my faith in a fallacy though, the probability of **** hitting the fan should be independent of each previous season in which **** hit the fan.

I think its reasonable to expect good things from Wall/Beal and at some point Porter. I think the uncertainty is with Booker and Nene's health and whether Jan and Seraphin just finally "get it."

I want to see if Beal is going to be healthy... still seething that they didn't sit him when the injury first occurred - duh!

sfam · Post #99 » by **sfam** » Fri Jul 19, 2013 1:16 pm

I'm going with 46 wins. Without injury, I think they will do better than that, but I think the Wizards will have to work hard to get to 46 with the injuries they are likely to incur.

Higga · Post #100 » by **Higga** » Fri Jul 19, 2013 3:43 pm

Well since I have us getting a 6 seed, I may need to up my 43 wins to about 46 or so. For now I'll stick with 43 though, and hope I end up being too low.