Our major wildcard for improvement is Mitch with Yabu and Clarkson possibly adding a little more (mostly Yabu).

As of now, I’m in the under 53 1/2 camp, but not enough to make a wager. Tell me Mitch is going to miss a lot of games and I’m betting under.

Whatever extra wins Thibs squeezed with his minutes trick should be more than offset if Brown is successful in unlocking the offense. Combine that with the deterioration of competition (we shouldn’t go 0-8 against BOS & CLE again), and it’s hard not to see a rise to at least 55 wins, with 60 realistically in play.

You are forgetting about all the teams we dominated as a group last year that are younger with more upside, that drafted in the lottery this year or were injured badly last year and will likely improve more than us etc… We are still going to beat them more often than not, but as a group they are likely to come away with more wins this year than last.

Teams like like Orlando, Atlanta, Toronto, 76ers and Detroit will clearly be better all the way down to a lowly team like the Wizards are going to win more games against us “as a group”. If you look out west it’s a similar story.

Our major wildcard for improvement is Mitch with Yabu and Clarkson possibly adding a little more (mostly Yabu).

starters: brunson (34) bridges (30) anunoby (32) towns (34) robinson (24)
dynamic bench: mcbride (20) hart (18) yabusele (16) clarkson (12) hukporti (12) dadiet (8)
the rest: mccullar kolek beauchamp diawara

pg: brunson 34, mcbride 14
sg: bridges 24, clarkson 12, mcbride 6, dadiet 6
sf: anunoby 32, hart 8, bridges 6, dadiet 2
pf: towns 22, yabusele 16, hart 10
c: robinson 24, towns 12, hukporti 12

have two of anunoby robinson mcbride on the floor at all times except for of course blowout minutes thats where mccullar kolek beauchamp diawara come into play

Gobert averaged 33 last year. Bam played 34. Lopez averaged 31. Why are we limiting Mitch to 24 right of the gate?

Because Mitch has played 59, 31, and 17 games the past 3 seasons.

But then I wonder, wait, does it do that for everyone, or has it studied me and determined that I need that validation whenever I ask a question?

that’s a really good question and shows just how smart you are for asking.

Gobert averaged 33 last year. Bam played 34. Lopez averaged 31. Why are we limiting Mitch to 24 right of the gate?

I think better comps for Mitch right now are Alex Caruso and Jonathan Isaac, i.e. second unit defensive destroyers who wreck shit for 20 mpg.

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