Initial views of a favorable schedule, or is it?

[CruzDude]

The NBA has given again a nice starting gift to the Kings for the month of November: 10 home games and only 4 away games, and two of them are at Lakers and at Jazz. Another chance to get the home crowd to stimulate the "kids".

December sobers up a bit with 7 hm 8 away and not one back-to-back game the whole month. In fact the Kings will have less than 15 back-to-back games the whole year and a handful of them are home-away or away-home back-to-backs with western conference teams.

January has 7 hm 10 away
February has 3 hm and 9 away and an All-Star break
March has 9 hm and 6 away
April has 5 hm and 3 away

They have one 6-game road trip and one 5-game trip. All the rest are 4/3/2 game trips.

Overall the NBA is giving the team every chance to establish itself with the home crowd to start the season. Something good in any case.

 

[Kings Faithful]

The NBA has given again a nice starting gift to the Kings for the month of November: 10 home games and only 4 away games, and two of them are at Lakers and at Jazz. Another chance to get the home crowd to stimulate the "kids".

December sobers up a bit with 7 hm 8 away and not one back-to-back game the whole month. In fact the Kings will have less than 15 back-to-back games the whole year and a handful of them are home-away or away-home back-to-backs with western conference teams.

January has 7 hm 10 away
February has 3 hm and 9 away and an All-Star break
March has 9 hm and 6 away
April has 5 hm and 3 away

They have one 6-game road trip and one 5-game trip. All the rest are 4/3/2 game trips.

Overall the NBA is giving the team every chance to establish itself with the home crowd to start the season. Something good in any case.

I looked at the numbers last year but can't remember them exactly. From what I do remember the Kings have only started the season at home 3 or 4 times in the last 20 years, while the Lakers have started the season at home around 16 times. It isn't that big of a deal but its still kind of Bull Crap.

 

[Bricklayer]

I think this is favorable for us as well. We aren;t good enough that we are going to be able to make a run wif we get 10 games under .500 early in the season. but if you start fast, get a little momentum, confidence, a little national attention, then even if you begin to fade you've still made a mark, and who klnows, maybe you fight harder to hang on than you would if you were out of it by the All Star break.

That said, we've largely squandered these sorts of opportunities in recent years, so we will see. Obviously if you come out of the gate a mess, as was true with Westphal's idiocy, then you blow the soft part of your schedule and can never recover during the hard parts.

Also note, with 14 of the last 20 at home, if we can somehow be within shouting distance at that All Star break, we'll have a favorable schedule to at least make a little noise and not be completely invisible as we have been in recent years.