How many games will TOR win this season?

Laimbeer · Post #1 » by **Laimbeer** » Sun Jul 19, 2015 1:12 am

Polling each fan forum to get their take on the upcoming season

refshateRaps · Post #2 » by **refshateRaps** » Sun Jul 19, 2015 1:17 am

It's how many playoff series we will win that should matter. We are in the garbage East and there's no excuse for a first round exit again

vini_vidi_vici · Post #3 » by **vini_vidi_vici** » Sun Jul 19, 2015 1:20 am

Difficult to say, I think somewhere in the 40s, but its tough to delineate between 40-44 and 45-49. It will be interesting to see the O/U on betting sites/Vegas when its released, they seem to be fairly accurate.

49.5 Ws last year.

Inevitable · Post #4 » by **Inevitable** » Sun Jul 19, 2015 1:26 am

45, 5th seed. Losing in the first round to Washington again.

C_Money · Post #5 » by **C_Money** » Sun Jul 19, 2015 1:28 am

7th in the east. We got better at SF but worse at PF and on the bench.

Post #6 » by **DG88** » Sun Jul 19, 2015 1:40 am

I think this team can still win 50 games. We brought in players who will help the defense and I can see us running a more team oriented offense since we traded away iso players for more system players. We still have and All Star backcourt so winning around 50 doesn't seem impossible.

bigmandinky · Post #7 » by **bigmandinky** » Sun Jul 19, 2015 1:42 am

This team filed its biggest needs (Perimeter Defense, Rebounding, Starting 3) and has another season for its younger players to grow. Dunno why everyone is so pessimistic lol.

nickr91 · Post #8 » by **nickr91** » Sun Jul 19, 2015 1:42 am

First 50 win season

Hero · Post #9 » by **Hero** » Sun Jul 19, 2015 1:46 am

43-46 wins seems about right.

Mack11 · Post #10 » by **Mack11** » Sun Jul 19, 2015 1:49 am

gonna try and not be biased but 63 wins

load management · Post #11 » by **load management** » Sun Jul 19, 2015 1:52 am

66 wins, thanks to our frontcourt. Patterson, Scola, Biyombo and 20 minutes from JV is unstoppable.

teamLeiweke · Post #12 » by **teamLeiweke** » Sun Jul 19, 2015 1:56 am

Mack11 wrote:gonna try and not be biased but 63 wins

LOL!!

artsncrafts · Post #13 » by **artsncrafts** » Sun Jul 19, 2015 1:56 am

bigmandinky wrote:This team filed its biggest needs (Perimeter Defense, Rebounding, Starting 3) and has another season for its younger players to grow. Dunno why everyone is so pessimistic lol.

But it opened up 3 new ones. (Starting 4, Bench, interior D (amir was our best defender by far))

yodude · Post #14 » by **yodude** » Sun Jul 19, 2015 1:57 am

Class Act wrote:66 wins, thanks to our frontcourt. Patterson, Scola, Biyombo and 20 minutes from JV is unstoppable.

We are not going to win 66 games with 20 minutes of JV. We will win 66 games with 0 minutes of JV.

:banghead:

Asif16 · Post #15 » by **Asif16** » Sun Jul 19, 2015 1:57 am

yodude · Post #16 » by **yodude** » Sun Jul 19, 2015 2:00 am

artsncrafts wrote:
bigmandinky wrote:This team filed its biggest needs (Perimeter Defense, Rebounding, Starting 3) and has another season for its younger players to grow. Dunno why everyone is so pessimistic lol.

But it opened up 3 new ones. (Starting 4, Bench, interior D (amir was our best defender by far))

To be fair, the starting 4 was a problem since last season, since Amir's ankles were sniped.

Yes, the bench lost alot of power, but I feel like we will play more team ball, which will help both our bench and starting lineup.

Our interior D took a hit, but it wasn't that great at the beginning since Casey used a s*** defensive scheme and our players kept on gambling.

vini_vidi_vici · Post #17 » by **vini_vidi_vici** » Sun Jul 19, 2015 2:01 am

artsncrafts wrote:
bigmandinky wrote:This team filed its biggest needs (Perimeter Defense, Rebounding, Starting 3) and has another season for its younger players to grow. Dunno why everyone is so pessimistic lol.

But it opened up 2 new ones. (Starting 4, Bench)

I hate using cliches, but we robbed Peter to pay Paul.

In a macro sense we traded O for D. And depleted a great bench by getting younger. Its tough for me to advocate this team is better, it should be much different. The more I look into it, and think about it, this could be a high variance team. Injuries to DD or KL (which we had last year) could hurt alot more this year, and even if healthy I could see a high 30 Ws team, to a borderline 50 W team, dependent on alot of factors. This might be the toughest Raps squad to predict (going into the season) in the last few yrs IMO.

bigmandinky · Post #18 » by **bigmandinky** » Sun Jul 19, 2015 2:06 am

artsncrafts wrote:
bigmandinky wrote:This team filed its biggest needs (Perimeter Defense, Rebounding, Starting 3) and has another season for its younger players to grow. Dunno why everyone is so pessimistic lol.

But it opened up 2 new ones. (Starting 4, Bench)

I would agree with you on the 4 if Amir was actually healthy when it mattered (when Kyle wasn't playing out of his mind). And I guess we'll agree to disagree on the bench since IMO Cojo/Scola/Biyombo/Powell/Wright/Ross>>>>Lou/Vas//Hands/Hayes.

I pray to the Masaiah every night and thank him that we'll no longer have to watch Hands play significant minutes and that we actually have a really backup center for once. Getting killed on the glass should no longer be a frustration we have to deal with. Amir being forced against all those bigger centers wasn't gonna help him heal up any quicker

C_Money · Post #19 » by **C_Money** » Sun Jul 19, 2015 2:06 am

vini_vidi_vici wrote:
artsncrafts wrote:
bigmandinky wrote:This team filed its biggest needs (Perimeter Defense, Rebounding, Starting 3) and has another season for its younger players to grow. Dunno why everyone is so pessimistic lol.

But it opened up 2 new ones. (Starting 4, Bench)

I hate using cliches, but we robbed Peter to pay Paul.

In a macro sense we traded O for D. And depleted a great bench by getting younger. Its tough for me to advocate this team is better, it should be much different. The more I look into it, and think about it, this could be a high variance team. Injuries to DD or KL (which we had last year) could hurt alot more this year, and even if healthy I could see a high 30 Ws team, to a borderline 50 W team, dependent on alot of factors. This might be the toughest Raps squad to predict (going into the season) in the last few yrs IMO.

Yeah if we have 2 injuries to any of Lowry, Demar or Carroll I don't think we're beating anybody.

James Takote · Post #20 » by **James Takote** » Sun Jul 19, 2015 2:07 am