Would the Celtics have a few extra wins and be on pace for 50 wins if they hadn't experimented with David Lee early in the season because they wanted a scorer who could take some pressure off of Thomas?
There's probably a 20-30% chance of 50 wins. Anyone who says it is close to 0% or 100% is engaging in some Stephen A. Smith level of foolishness.
It's extremely close to 100%.
PHI, LAL, MIA sitting Wade/Bosh in final game. Those should be automatic wins. Really just need 16-10.
14 games are vs. .500 or below teams (already 2-0 vs CHA, 2-1 vs NY, 1-0 vs DEN by 8, 1-0 vs MIL by 16, 1-0 vs MIN by 14, 1-0 vs NOH by 18, 1-0 vs PHO by 14).
7 games are vs. playoff teams better than us (already 1-0 vs OKC by 15 in their building, extremely close loss to GS).
5 games are vs. playoff teams worse than us (already 1-0 vs MIA by 10, 1-0 vs HOU by 16, extremely close loss to MEM in their building).
Only games we should have trouble with are: 2 TOR games, OKC, @GSW, @CLE, @ATL, @IND. And we're probably owed wins vs. a couple of those teams. Maybe trouble @LAC, but I think we'll match up well vs LAC. Not scared at all of Utah or Portland either, and I think those are the only 3 teams we haven't played yet. We owe ORL another beating so not worried about them coming to the Garden either.
Please, tell me who we should be scared of?