Next month is our easiest stretch of the year.

[theBigLip]

@ BOS - W
v CHA - W
v HOU - L
@ CLE - W
@ORL - W
@ WAS - L
v WAS - W
v MEM - W
@ NY - W
@TOR - W
@PHI - W
v PHX - L
v UTH - W
@ WAS - L

I'm such a homer - 10-4!

[wire28]

pistons will go 3-11 in this stretch. largest defeat by 32

looks like i should have stuck with my gut looking at our play tonight lol

[Q00]

Hopefully we don't pull a Lions and lose the majority of our easiest stretch of games.

That's why you never look at the schedule to predict wins/losses.

People who thought Pittsburgh and Baltimore would be easy wins just because they got off to slow starts were being foolish. We're talking about the defending SB champs and a team with a 2x SB winning QB.

And of course you can't predict 8 inches of snow in the Philly game by looking at the schedule either.lol

The Tampa game should've been a win, but these other teams are good teams. Even next week, the Giants are having a bad year, but its not like Manning (2x SB champ as well) isn't capable of winning on any given sunday still.

So the Lions' record should probably be better than it is, and they are good enough to have beaten some of these teams, but this second half schedule was no cakewalk either like fans/media made it out to be. Nor should people have ever said the Lions should've had the division wrapped up already. When you haven't won a division in 20 years, I don't know why anyone would all of a sudden say they should have it wrapped up by week 14 lol. Especially when most of those people predicted they wouldn't even make the playoffs before the year.

They still have a good chance though, in my opinion, because I don't think its any guarantee that the Bears got into Philly and beat the Eagles, or GB beats a hot Pittsburgh team without Rodgers. very possible both teams lose, and if we beat the Giants, its like this whole past weekend never happened and we are back in first place.

I don't think anyone expected any of DET/CHI/GB would win out the remaining 3 games. So just because we lost the first game and they won, doesn't mean Chicago or Green Bay is automatically going to win their remaining two games as well, and we are automatically going to lose both of ours. Still games left to be played.

football is a way more random sport than basketball. In basketball there's so many possessions and only 5 players on the court at a time. Usually the team with the best talent and strategy execution wins. Football one big play can change a game, and bad execution can make superior talent useless.

yeah, but the hyper condensed NBA schedule tends to even out those odds into the same situation, where any team can win on any given night in the NBA too. Like tonight for example.

[wire28]

OP jinxed us or this wasnt as easy as the schedule said lol

guess you dont look at paper and this is why they play the games

[wire28]

yeesh i guess it wasnt such an easy month after all

[DBC10]

It's certainly easy to lose so far.

[need4detroit]

Hopefully we don't pull a Lions and lose the majority of our easiest stretch of games.

Exactly what happened.

[wire28]

another L in our "easiest stretch of the year"

[DetroitPistons]

This thread has taken on a whole other meaning for me. I now look at this easy stretch of games as games we need to lose. If we can tank well through this stretch we may be in play to retain our lottery pick.

[pistontr]

@ BOS - W
v CHA - W
v HOU - L
@ CLE - W
@ORL - W
@ WAS - L
v WAS - W
v MEM - W
@ NY - W
@TOR - W
@PHI - W
v PHX - L
v UTH - W
@ WAS - L

I'm such a homer - 10-4!

[Phobo_Phile]

Even if we go 1-2 in our next three games we pretty much plummet in the standings. Though, knowing our luck and history... we'll all but give up on making the play-offs, win meaningless games in April, get bumped to 7th best odds in the lottery AND THEN have two teams jump ahead of us in aforementioned lottery placing us at 9th and therefore giving our pick to the Bobnets/Horcats.

[theBigLip]

@ BOS - W
v CHA - W
v HOU - L
@ CLE - W
@ORL - W
@ WAS - L
v WAS - W
v MEM - W
@ NY - W
@TOR - W
@PHI - W
v PHX - L
v UTH - W
@ WAS - L

I'm such a homer - 10-4!

Busted! We had just started playing good, and then, wtf, we can't close out a game to save our life. At least I admitted my homerism. I'm now predicting we only win 10 more games the rest of the year, win the lottery, and finally get us a star player

[wire28]

our easiest stretch of the season comes to a close tomorrow. let us pray for the rest of the season lol