That's not a prediction, its detailing my reaction to an extraordinarily unlikely event
But, nobody else predicted those numbers. One poster went as high as 18 and 12. Everyone else had lower numbers.
You may find 17 and 11 or 16 and 10 to be outlandish, but don't start exaggerating our exaggerated expectations.
Edit:
OK, I see you changed to 18 and 12. That does seem awfully high, but let me remind you that so far only one poster has predicted those lofty numbers.
Before you know it, though, unless someone is there to rein in your hyperbole, you'll go around posting about all us "nonsensically, outlandish homers predicting that Jared Sullinger is going to put up 25 and 14 this season and win league MVP."
I see this kind of thing on these forums all the time. For example, last year when some of us were optimistically predicting that we could win 35 games or so and be in the hunt for the playoffs (we were wrong, so be it), other posters were mocking us saying that we were predicting that the Celtics were going to win the 2014 NBA title.
Of course, no one was saying that.
It may seem like I'm being nit-picky and childish about all this, but, this tendency to over-exagerrate others' opinion and then mock them is something of a pet peeve of mine.