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Final Month of the Season



We are entering the final month of the season, and if you believe Matt Steinmetz, there is a sizable camp that wants the Warriors to tank the season. I'm not usually in favor of tanking, but we aren't going anywhere this season, Steph will most likely not come back for the rest of the season. What are the chances we can finish 7th or higher? Good question.

These are just me looking at the upcoming schedules for the teams involved in the race to the bottom.

Warriors are currently at 20-30 with 16 games to go. 3 back-to-backs and one back-to-back-to-bac. Six home games left only one of which is against a sub-.500 team(NOH). In total 4 games left against sub-.500: 1 against Portland, 2 against Minnesota (1 on the end of a back-to-back, and the other on the end of the back-to-back-to-back), and then the NOH game. Chances are we lose to the above .500 teams regardless of if we want to tank or not, and the Minnesota games will be tough on the road after playing games the day before. Ideally we go 0-16, but I think 2-14 is more realistic.

Final record: 22-44

Our competition:

Sacremento - Our closest rival and currently playing against the Nets who we are also in arm's reach of. Sitting at 18-33, they could be 19-33 by the end of the night, but their schedule is pretty bad: 2 against the Clips, 1 against the Lakers and 3 against OKC. But they have 5 games against sub.-500 teams: Minnesota and Phoenix at home back to back, Portland at home, and NOH, and Charlotte away. Minnesota will be coming in on the end of a back-to-back so they might get a win there. They might be able to go 3-11 in April but still lose tonight.

Final record: 21-45 (Or 22-44 if they beat NJ tonight)

New Jersey - I think they win the SAC game tonight so I'm putting them at 19-35 just so I can write this now. 4 teams sub-.500: Portland, Washington, Cleveland, and Toronto. Porbably won't win Portland back end of b2b against the Lakers probably win the other three though.

Final record 22-44

Detroit - Currently 19-33 after beating Charlotte today, they have a good chance of pulling ahead of us. 5 games against sub-.500 teams: Wash, Char, Cleveland, Minn, and Toronto. I think they have the best chance to go 4-10 . (Minnesota on the end of a b2b2b would be a tough win).

Final record: 23-43

Cleveland - I already have them losing against New Jersey and Detroit, though that may change depending what kind of shape Verajao is in if he does indeed return to action this week and Kyrie isn't out because of his shoulder. I think they have a chance to win 4 this month against Toronto, Charlotte, and 2 against Washington still not good enough to do better than us though.

Final record: 21-45

Toronto is basically the team everyone kicks around in this scenario so I don't have them with any chance to finish better than us.

This also doesn't take into consideration any potential upsets, but in this case I have everyone losing the games against better opponents (plus .500 teams). Not sure how the tiebreakers work, just hoping that we "lose" and end up with the 7th pick. I think the players have too much pride to go 0-16 to end the season they'll pull a couple wins out and that may be just enough to screw up our lottery chances.

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