Predict Win Total 2014/15

[kupman]

Well, this isn't depressing... thanks for the bump

Be happy. At this rate we will be a 50 win team again in just 21 short years.

 

[gunks]

I picked 36-40. Can't help but think I would have been right on the money if Vivek didn't have **** for brains.

 

[Spike]

We improved by one and I predicted we would improve by 5-7. So all our problems along the way only cost us 4-6 losses. Could have been worse.

Many of us predicted 40 wins. It was worse.

 

[Sac.1989]

we did fine and everything was on course for that quarter way through the season. What can you do hey

 

[whozit]

Many of us predicted 40 wins. It was worse.

Yup. 36-40 but was calling it at 40. Thought they would come up a little short for .500. I way underestimated the short part.

 

[kingjatt]

I had them at 27 due to the lack of talent at the time, but it was the Malone circus that made my prediction almost spot on.

 

[mcsluggo]

yeah... i was 26-30 .... and my prize for being right should be a kick in the junk

(actually---it already was)

 

[Warhawk]

Without Boogie getting sick, who knows where we would have ended up?

The assumptions playing into this were generally (on my behalf anyways) that Malone was the coach and the season would not have any significant injuries (or illnesses, which are rare) to our major players. We had one that allowed the other to take place, unfortunately. I think if Boogie was healthy Malone would likely have been the coach all year.

 

[randymoss1881]

Without Boogie getting sick, who knows where we would have ended up?

The assumptions playing into this were generally (on my behalf anyways) that Malone was the coach and the season would not have any significant injuries (or illnesses, which are rare) to our major players. We had one that allowed the other to take place, unfortunately. I think if Boogie was healthy Malone would likely have been the coach all year.

We'd be getting swept by GS but also putting the fear of god in teams as we would be the team of the future. Set up by have a franchise player and coach for the next 10years.

Sickening how we all thought 50 games was the 8th seed and it took 46 games.

 

[One and Done]

Nice retrospective...I was very skeptical about the roster and actually saw it weaker going into the season w/ IT gone and DC in. Thus predicted 21-25 wins due to an improved and competitive western conference.

Malone more than had this roster outperforming expectations, Karl slightly above, but I still think we fielded a 25 win team.

We have very limited assets going into this offseason, and the league knows it. Well, we might be able to fool Billy King or Ernie Grunfield. Regardless, it's going to take miracles to improve this team into being competitive (35+ wins) unless we draft extremely well and get decent return on our current set of assets (SGs, JT/TopHat, DC looking at you). As I always have been as a masochistic Kings fan, I'm hopeful and believe in miracles.

 

[VF21]

...Sickening how we all thought 50 games was the 8th seed and it took 46 games.

I think it just shows how injuries can bring good teams down a few notches.

 

[CruzDude]

If Boogie stays healthy and plays 72+ games (Rudy, Ben and Nik too) AND Kings draft Willy Cauley-Stein AND he lives up to his abilities as the Rim Protector and rebounder, then my pick is 45 games. Karl has most of the pieces, a few FA's and team buying into his style of play and WHAM!!!

 

[hrdboild]

I had them at 27 due to the lack of talent at the time, but it was the Malone circus that made my prediction almost spot on.

Same here. If you'd told me at the start of the season that Cousins would have the kind of season he did (MVP in every way except wins), Rudy Gay would not regress but in fact play even better than he did in his first stint here, and Collison would outshine even the most optimistic predictions in his third go-round as a starter... and we still finish the season with 29 wins I would have said that's impossible. I thought we'd already seen every possible way that you can finish a season with less than 30 wins and still feel (mistakenly?) optimistic about the future and yet here we are again. So , uh, 7th times a charm I guess?

 

[VF21]

If Boogie stays healthy and plays 72+ games (Rudy, Ben and Nik too) AND Kings draft Willy Cauley-Stein AND he lives up to his abilities as the Rim Protector and rebounder, then my pick is 45 games. Karl has most of the pieces, a few FA's and team buying into his style of play and WHAM!!!

Um CD? This thread is about last year's predictions.

 

[kennadog]

I think it just shows how injuries can bring good teams down a few notches.

Which just proves what some don't want to believe, that luck is a big part of winning a championship.