20 Home Games Left
13 Road Games Left
The Kings are playing 20 of the last 33 games at home. They need to take care of business at home to have any chance at the playoffs.
So far, they are only 8-13 at home, which is not good. They actually have a slightly better winning percentage on the road so far this year at 11-17.
They really need to pull out at least a 15-5 record at home the rest of the way to have any chance at the playoffs.
Home Sour Home
It really is all about finally establishing homecourt for us now. We have the road record of a low level playoff team (actually we have a better road record than 4 of the 8 Eastern Conference playoff teams, including the #4 seed 28-20 Wizards). We have the home record of a 20 win team. here is how our home/road record compares in the Conference:
Road Records, By Percentage:
1) GSW .833 20-4
2) SAS .800 20-5
3) HOU .621 18-11
4) UTH .565 13-10
5) LAC .542 13-11
6) MEM .520 13-12
7) OKC .444 12-15
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SAC .393 11-17
9) DEN .375 9-15
10) MIN .318 7-15
11) POR .308 8-18
12) DAL .280 7-18
13) PHX .280 7-18
14) NOH .272 6-16
15) LAL .192 5-21
Home Records, By Percentage:
1) GSW .875 21-3
2) HOU .782 18-5
3) SAS .739 17-6
4) OKC .727 16-6
5) LAC .708 17-7
6) UTH .654 17-9
7) MEM .640 16-9
8) POR .583 14-10
9) DEN .522 12-11
10) NOH .481 13-14
11) LAL .480 12-13
12) DAL .478 11-12
13) MIN .462 12-14
14) SAC .381 8-13
15) PHX .345 8-15
You can see all our competitors are right around .500, for POR and DEN, a bit above. With our superior road work, if we could reach that level at home, we are in a good spot. And now that sweet spot is here. We don't leave California for a solid month. We are home and home and home, and take just a few little jaunts around the state. Unfortunately we do it now without our #2, and who knows how long without our best defender.