Let's Make the Playoffs! & The State of the Opposition

I ran some more numbers on how we can make up the gap with Houston by April 13th.

Here's our remaining schedule:
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1) If all we manage to do is beat teams with a worse record than ours as of today (.417) we would go 9-12 and our record on April 13th would be 34-47. Yes our remaining schedule is that easy. That would mean Houston has to go 4-16 over that stretch to arrive at the same record. Pretty unlikely.

2) Let's add in teams that are slightly better than us but still under .500 who would be playing in Sacramento. That would be Orlando (.443), Utah (.459), and Washington (.492). Still pretty plausible even without drastic improvement. Orlando and Utah we've beaten already on the road but we lost to Washington on the road. Those three wins would push our record up to 12-9 in the last 21 games and we'd be at 37-44 overall meaning Houston would have to go 7-13. They are 4 and 6 over their last 10 games so this is at least entering the realm of possibility. We can't expect more help from Houston than that and probably we have to do a little bit more.

3) Now let's add wins against Portland (.524) and Dallas (.532) at home. We played Dallas once at home already and won. We played Portland at home once already and lost by 4 -- Rondo had 8 TOs, Rudy went 2 for 12, DeMarcus shot 7 threes (I was at that one so I remember it vividly :() Anyway... if we win those two games that bumps us up to 14-7 with an overall record of 39-42. Realistically this is probably what we need to do to give ourselves a chance. Houston would have to finish out just under .500 at 9-11 to tie us going into the final game. Since they essentially own the tiebreaker though, they could go 8-12 and we'd still need to win the last game.

I feel slightly more optimistic after running through our remaining schedule and Houston's, I count only 4 or 5 easy wins for them there.
 
in other words, things will have to go perfectly. Stranger things have happened, though

especially in the damn NBA
 
time to tank

um...no

We'll know within 2 weeks whether a late rush is viable though. This team absolutely has the talent to beat almost everybody remaining on our schedule. Just over the course of the year for whatever reason we have not. Constantly distracted and underachieving. But if the chance to make the playoffs gets everybody focused we could make it close and still be posting in this thread until the very last week of the season, which would be a welcome and novel change.
 
Jazz won.
Rockets lost.
We can't keep depending on teams to lose out.... at some point, the Kings have to actually start winning games... smh. Lose to the Spurs without Duncan, Aldridge, and Green. Let a 38yearold Ginoboli coming off his balls sack surgery light us up..How can we continue to push for the playoffs when we can't even get these necessary wins?

Like I said, the Kings need to actually start winning games to even be in the playoff conversation. They've gone 1-4 for their last 5 games.
 
We can't keep depending on teams to lose out.... at some point, the Kings have to actually start winning games... smh. Lose to the Spurs without Duncan, Aldridge, and Green. Let a 38yearold Ginoboli coming off his balls sack surgery light us up..How can we continue to push for the playoffs when we can't even get these necessary wins?

Like I said, the Kings need to actually start winning games to even be in the playoff conversation. They've gone 1-4 for their last 5 games.
It would have been nice to steal a win, but I don't think anyone in any of the scenarios above had the Kings winning this one.
 
... smh. Lose to the Spurs without Duncan, Aldridge, and Green. Let a 38yearold Ginoboli coming off his balls sack surgery light us up. How can we continue to push for the playoffs when we can't even get these necessary wins?

Like I said, the Kings need to actually start winning games to even be in the playoff conversation. They've gone 1-4 for their last 5 games.

Seriously?

A NECESSARY win?


Playing the ONE team in the NBA that never lost a home game this season, AT THEIR HOME?

Playing one of the NBA's BEST FRANCHISES ever, in arguably its BEST SEASON ever?

Playing the BEST COACH in our era, and one of the best ever?

Playing a team that may well be THE BEST TEAM in the league's history?
(Note that I highlight the team aspect, since unlike other legendary teams in the past and future, the Spurs' strength is not based mainly on the individual greatness of certain players. Hence, missing some of the pieces does not hurt their game that much).

Yes, we might have shocked everyone and snatched a surprise W somehow...
but that's not my definition of a NECESSARY win. ;)
 
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Seriously?

A NECESSARY win?


Playing the ONE team in the NBA that never lost a home game this season, AT THEIR HOME?

Playing one of the NBA's BEST FRANCHISES ever, in arguably its BEST SEASON ever?

Playing the BEST COACH in our era, and one of the best ever?

Playing a team that may well be THE BEST TEAM in the league's history?
(Note that I highlight the team aspect, since unlike other legendary teams in the past and future, the Spurs' strength it is not based mainly on the individual greatness of certain players. Hence, missing some of the pieces does not hurt their game that much).

Yes, we might have shocked everyone and snatched a surprise W somehow...
but that's not my definition of a NECESSARY win. ;)
It was a necessary win because they had 3/5 starters out... How in the hell do the Kings let a 38yearold Manu Ginoboli coming off testicular surgery score his season high of 22pts on 8-11 shooting in 15minutes?

This was a necessary win if the Kings are any type of serious about the playoffs. If you can't beat a depleted Spurs team, nor could you beat a Grizzlies team that just lost 3/5 of their starters, what does that tell you about this squad? Seems like the coaches suck and the players just don't want it badly enough.

Kings need to start winning these games. So is our only goal to win against under .500 teams that have 4/5 of their starting lineup out?
 
It was a necessary win because they had 3/5 starters out... How in the hell do the Kings let a 38yearold Manu Ginoboli coming off testicular surgery score his season high of 22pts on 8-11 shooting in 15minutes?

This was a necessary win if the Kings are any type of serious about the playoffs. If you can't beat a depleted Spurs team, nor could you beat a Grizzlies team that just lost 3/5 of their starters, what does that tell you about this squad? Seems like the coaches suck and the players just don't want it badly enough.

Kings need to start winning these games. So is our only goal to win against under .500 teams that have 4/5 of their starting lineup out?

Bro, we're not making the playoffs
 
Seriously?

A NECESSARY win?


Playing the ONE team in the NBA that never lost a home game this season, AT THEIR HOME?

Playing one of the NBA's BEST FRANCHISES ever, in arguably its BEST SEASON ever?

Playing the BEST COACH in our era, and one of the best ever?

Playing a team that may well be THE BEST TEAM in the league's history?
(Note that I highlight the team aspect, since unlike other legendary teams in the past and future, the Spurs' strength it is not based mainly on the individual greatness of certain players. Hence, missing some of the pieces does not hurt their game that much).

Yes, we might have shocked everyone and snatched a surprise W somehow...
but that's not my definition of a NECESSARY win. ;)

No, it was a neccessary win.

We had a real opportunity to steal a win that was going to be an automatic loss. And we absolutely need those kind of wins if we wanted to fight back into this thing. Spurs or not, you should beat a team that's missing 3 out 5 of its starters, including their second best player and rim protector.
 
It was a necessary win because they had 3/5 starters out... How in the hell do the Kings let a 38yearold Manu Ginoboli coming off testicular surgery score his season high of 22pts on 8-11 shooting in 15minutes?

This was a necessary win if the Kings are any type of serious about the playoffs. If you can't beat a depleted Spurs team, nor could you beat a Grizzlies team that just lost 3/5 of their starters, what does that tell you about this squad? Seems like the coaches suck and the players just don't want it badly enough.

Kings need to start winning these games. So is our only goal to win against under .500 teams that have 4/5 of their starting lineup out?
My point was that this year's SAS, on home court, even minus 3 starters, would win against 26 or 27 of the remaining 29 NBA teams (only GSW & 1 or 2 others excluded).

Your post implies that you disagree with that claim, and that's OK.
 
I'm waiting for everyone to hop on that ship so we can stop attacking each other and start talking about off season needs.
I hope that you remain on that ship's deck quite lonely, waiting in vain for a long time... :)

Post season action is far more fun than off season action.
Heck, even the false hopes on a race towards the post season beat the long, boring wait for off season moves.

I'd be happier the longer we stay in the race, with the least of theoretical chances.
I'll take that. It's been a while since we had even that, so late in March...
I actually believe that with our remaining schedule we will not be totally out of the race even come April!
(And I truly hope we can even sustain that till the final match with HOU)
 
People still are letting all sorts of outside influences mess with their logic. Nothing happened last night that wasn't always supposed to happen. Its fine.

Pop doing his sneaky little rest them thing doesn't change the fact this was always a loss. Was a loss last week, 2 days ago, and as it turned out, last night. Always anticipated as such. The math for making the playoff run never depended on winning on the homecourt of a team 30-0 there. Would have just been the ultimate unexpected gift, otherwise, shrug and go on. Only two more schedule losses on the season, and both of them (CLE and OKC on our home floor) are a lot less assured than the Spurs at their place.

Now the New Orleans game is critical. Now is when we have to start winning all the ones we should, from here right on out if there is going to be any noise made.
 
People still are letting all sorts of outside influences mess with their logic. Nothing happened last night that wasn't always supposed to happen. Its fine.

Pop doing his sneaky little rest them thing doesn't change the fact this was always a loss. Was a loss last week, 2 days ago, and as it turned out, last night. Always anticipated as such. The math for making the playoff run never depended on winning on the homecourt of a team 30-0 there. Would have just been the ultimate unexpected gift, otherwise, shrug and go on. Only two more schedule losses on the season, and both of them (CLE and OKC on our home floor) are a lot less assured than the Spurs at their place.

Now the New Orleans game is critical. Now is when we have to start winning all the ones we should, from here right on out if there is going to be any noise made.
The CLE game is predicted as a W in my book. Seriously.
 
The CLE game is predicted as a W in my book. Seriously.

I don't think its impossible, but it would certainly qualify as another unexpected gift.

The OKC one late in the season is interesting because if we are still alive then we could be desperate to win it, and its possible OKC will have its spot sewn up by then...or not, if they keep on playing like ass.
 
We can't keep depending on teams to lose out.... at some point, the Kings have to actually start winning games... smh. Lose to the Spurs without Duncan, Aldridge, and Green. Let a 38yearold Ginoboli coming off his balls sack surgery light us up..How can we continue to push for the playoffs when we can't even get these necessary wins?

Like I said, the Kings need to actually start winning games to even be in the playoff conversation. They've gone 1-4 for their last 5 games.

time for the warriors to break up their team. They lost to the Lakers.
 
time for the warriors to break up their team. They lost to the Lakers.
lol this is funny. The kings are 25-36 11 GAMES AWAY FROM .500. What are the Warriors? 31 games ABOVE .500. We're talking about the Kings making the playoffs and the Warriors have nothing to do with the Kings.

The Kings need to actually start winning their games in order to make the playoffs. Hell, the Warriors can lose out and still make the playoffs.


So I guess you're saying it's ok for the Kings to lose 4/5 of their last games few games because it's ok. We'll just pray Houston, Portland, and Utah lose out. OK
 
lol this is funny. The kings are 25-36 11 GAMES AWAY FROM .500. What are the Warriors? 31 games ABOVE .500. We're talking about the Kings making the playoffs and the Warriors have nothing to do with the Kings.

The Kings need to actually start winning their games in order to make the playoffs. Hell, the Warriors can lose out and still make the playoffs.


So I guess you're saying it's ok for the Kings to lose 4/5 of their last games few games because it's ok. We'll just pray Houston, Portland, and Utah lose out. OK

Lol you need to chill. He was joking
 
lol this is funny. The kings are 25-36 11 GAMES AWAY FROM .500. What are the Warriors? 31 games ABOVE .500. We're talking about the Kings making the playoffs and the Warriors have nothing to do with the Kings.

The Kings need to actually start winning their games in order to make the playoffs. Hell, the Warriors can lose out and still make the playoffs.


So I guess you're saying it's ok for the Kings to lose 4/5 of their last games few games because it's ok. We'll just pray Houston, Portland, and Utah lose out. OK
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