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How many games will Kyrie play this year?

45-50
1 (2.9%)
51-56
0 (0%)
57-62
2 (5.9%)
63-69
16 (47.1%)
70-75
15 (44.1%)

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Re: How many games will Kyrie play in '17-18?
« Reply #15 on: September 08, 2017, 03:04:50 PM »

Offline tarheelsxxiii

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So the majority of posters thus far believe Kyrie's going to play somewhere between 7 and 12 games more than his 6-year season average.  Seems like every other year he plays 50-55 games, so why are we assuming the best?  Or is it more that we're hoping for the best?

I don't think it is unreasonable to assume that a relatively healthy basketball player will play more than 70 games in a season. Of course injuries do happen - Horford only played a total of 68 games after that ghastly hit on the head from Zeller - but the expectation here is that Kyrie will be our starting PG for the vast majority of games.

Frankly, I probably would have voted 76-82 if the option was there.

I hope you're right, but that projection seems overly-optimistic.  76-82 games contradicts 6 years of evenly-distributed data (3 years in the 50s, 3 years in the low 70s).  What factors do you think will attribute to him having his healthiest season in 7 years (incl. college)?

I went with 63-69.  Doubt that would compromise our standings, and would prefer he rest as much as necessary to ensure he's at his best for the playoffs.
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Re: How many games will Kyrie play in '17-18?
« Reply #16 on: September 08, 2017, 04:17:45 PM »

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Re: How many games will Kyrie play in '17-18?
« Reply #17 on: September 08, 2017, 04:34:19 PM »

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So the majority of posters thus far believe Kyrie's going to play somewhere between 7 and 12 games more than his 6-year season average.  Seems like every other year he plays 50-55 games, so why are we assuming the best?  Or is it more that we're hoping for the best?

I don't think it is unreasonable to assume that a relatively healthy basketball player will play more than 70 games in a season. Of course injuries do happen - Horford only played a total of 68 games after that ghastly hit on the head from Zeller - but the expectation here is that Kyrie will be our starting PG for the vast majority of games.

Frankly, I probably would have voted 76-82 if the option was there.

Kyrie isn't a relatively healthy basketball player, though.

He consistently almost always has some type of injury. I'm not sure why you would have confidence to vote between 78-82 games when he has never played that many games before. There's nothing about his injury history that should make anyone comfortable with believing that.

One of the oddest things (to me) throughout the Kyrie-IT trade talk was Celtics fans overlooking Kyrie's injury history like it gives no indication that he might have injury issues here.

Re: How many games will Kyrie play in '17-18?
« Reply #18 on: September 08, 2017, 04:42:47 PM »

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So the majority of posters thus far believe Kyrie's going to play somewhere between 7 and 12 games more than his 6-year season average.  Seems like every other year he plays 50-55 games, so why are we assuming the best?  Or is it more that we're hoping for the best?

I don't think it is unreasonable to assume that a relatively healthy basketball player will play more than 70 games in a season. Of course injuries do happen - Horford only played a total of 68 games after that ghastly hit on the head from Zeller - but the expectation here is that Kyrie will be our starting PG for the vast majority of games.

Frankly, I probably would have voted 76-82 if the option was there.

I hope you're right, but that projection seems overly-optimistic.  76-82 games contradicts 6 years of evenly-distributed data (3 years in the 50s, 3 years in the low 70s).  What factors do you think will attribute to him having his healthiest season in 7 years (incl. college)?

I went with 63-69.  Doubt that would compromise our standings, and would prefer he rest as much as necessary to ensure he's at his best for the playoffs.

63-69 is probably right, and 76-82 doesn't seem reasonable, but I'd point out two things.

1) His 51-game season was in the lockout year, so it should be looked at in the context of a condensed 66-game season.

2) In one of his other shortened seasons, he started off the year injured (having been hurt in the prior post-season).  Since he's currently healthy (we assume), one could argue it shouldn't be included in the sample.  In his five seasons in which he has started the season healthy, he's played in 71-75 games three times, 51 games in a shortened season in which there were few off-days, and 59 games. 

If there were a 68-74 option, that would be my choice.
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Re: How many games will Kyrie play in '17-18?
« Reply #19 on: September 08, 2017, 08:32:15 PM »

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So the majority of posters thus far believe Kyrie's going to play somewhere between 7 and 12 games more than his 6-year season average.  Seems like every other year he plays 50-55 games, so why are we assuming the best?  Or is it more that we're hoping for the best?



Why do I feel some are hoping for Kyrie to flop so they can say I told you so?

The old, "cutting off your nose to spite your face."
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Re: How many games will Kyrie play in '17-18?
« Reply #20 on: September 08, 2017, 08:43:00 PM »

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None of those other injuries occurred under Brad Stevens, so I'm not worried about them.

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Re: How many games will Kyrie play in '17-18?
« Reply #21 on: April 12, 2018, 11:19:05 PM »

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In the spirit of revisiting this season's prediction threads, it looks like I actually overestimated at 63-69 games.  He's definitely an injury-prone guy, and our luck was awful this year.  But a healthy 2018-19team should be an exciting one.
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Re: How many games will Kyrie play in '17-18?
« Reply #22 on: April 12, 2018, 11:52:41 PM »

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In the spirit of revisiting this season's prediction threads, it looks like I actually overestimated at 63-69 games.  He's definitely an injury-prone guy, and our luck was awful this year.  But a healthy 2018-19team should be an exciting one.
You can say that again (and like, 10 more times).

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Re: How many games will Kyrie play in '17-18?
« Reply #23 on: April 13, 2018, 02:26:43 AM »

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Re: How many games will Kyrie play in '17-18?
« Reply #24 on: April 13, 2018, 03:08:06 AM »

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I bet he plays 70 next year.
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Re: How many games will Kyrie play in '17-18?
« Reply #25 on: April 13, 2018, 07:24:56 AM »

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I bet he plays 70 next year.

thats a good guess.  With A full healthy team.   He won't have to play Lebron type minutes for most of the season.  Save his extreme minutes for the Wizards , Raptors , heat , 76 s .  I bet CBS protects him much as possible and rest him alot before the seasons end.   

Irving will be in his prime .  Should be fun.

Re: How many games will Kyrie play in '17-18?
« Reply #26 on: April 13, 2018, 08:37:20 AM »

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Yeah, it's a shame a previous injury came back to knock him out for the season as I think we were led to believe that it could be controlled until the summer. He had played in all but about 6 games before that occurred so hopefully the issue is officially fixed - and it should be since he didn't actually re-injure his knee - and we will have a mostly healthy line-up next year.

I am still willing to say he will play over 70 games...as long as there aren't lingering issues from the knee.

Re: How many games will Kyrie play in '17-18?
« Reply #27 on: April 13, 2018, 08:50:54 AM »

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He’s missed on average 19 games per year, plus some playoff runs.  Hopefully he reverses that trend.


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