Remaining Games and Playoff Possibilities

[Raps Insider 12]

Update: As of 2/24/13

Raptors current record: 23-33 (26games left)
Home current record: 15-14 (12games left)
Road current record: 8-19 (14 games left)

Remaining Schedule
Denver - home ---- WIN
New York - road ---- WIN
Washington - road ---- WIN
Memphis - home(end of the back of the back) ---- Loss
NY - home ---- WIN
Washington - home
Cleveland - road
Indiana - home
Milwaukee - road (end of the back to back)
GS - road
Phoenix - road
Lakers - road
Cleveland - home
Boston - road
Charlotte - home
Miami - home
Charlotte - road
NY - home
NY - road (home and home back to back)
Atlanta - home
Detroit - road
Washington - road
Detroit - home (end of the back to back)
Washington - home
Minny - road
Milwaukee - road (end of the back to back)
Chicago - road
Chicago - home
BKN - home
Atlanta - road
Boston - home (end of the back to back)


Other teams in the running for the last two spots

Celtics current record: 29-26 (27 games left)
Celtics home record: 20-9 (12 games left)
Celtics road record: 9-17 (15 games left)

Bucks current record: 26-28 (28 games left)
Bucks home record: 14-14 (13 games left)
Bucks road record: 12-14 (15 games left)

Sixers current record: 22-31 (29 games left)
Sixers home record: 16-14 (11 games left)
Sixers road record: 6-17 (18 games left)

Pistons current record: 22-36 (24 games left)
Pistons home record: 15-17 (9 games left)
Pistons road record: 7-19 (15 games left)


Currently Raptors are sitting 4 games behind the 8th spot and 6.5 games out of the 7th spot.

[Tmath]

I aren't making the playoffs.

[Tmath]

The only way we make it, is if the Bucks & Philly completely flop.

I think we are a better team then both of them, I think we can surpass Philly, but we dug our selves in too big of a hole to catch Milwaukee. Its a shame that we lost so many close games (one being to the Bucks) we should have one, we would have been right there.

[Nick O]

were screwed simple as that..but im seeing hope for next year

[Wax_da_workman]

bucks seem as though they have their stuff together so i see thm staying put because thier offence in monta and Jennings can carry them into the playoffs. philly is young and injured and j rich is out for the season and bynum is down (supposedly coming back) who knows how that works out. celts keep getting injured and realistically how good can they really be when now barbosa sullenger and rondo out. i just dont see them continuing the winning mentality when after all star break games start to really matter. can garnet and pierce stay healthy because unlike other years Garnet nd pierce had"injuries " right close to playoffs to rest up. they dont have that luxury now. i see them coming down and crashing real soon. with tje raps gelling and hopefully bargs accepting his role can find the pre injury bargz last year. loyal rap fan from when we had zan tabak and carlos rogers. i crave playoffs i need playoffs and with this team Rudy can prove all the people who talked **** abour him wrong. Rudy plays d rudy steals blocks shoots the three rips the rimdown, derozan improving everygame our only real weakness is our bench if any trades need to be done one or two of Anderson/kleiza/pietrus/fields has to go net us a decent back up. in summation imo without bargz we don't make it cuz any big man coming here is gonna want touches and plays amd inevitably the "gelling" phase. then playoffs are shot. IMO

[Tmath]

The Bucks are actually starting to come back to reality.

They have lost 4 in a row and are 3-7 in their last 10 games. If this trend continues, we have a small chance, but the Raptors have to play some damn good basketball the rest of the way.

[Tmath]

Edit: Double post

[gwrighter]

We play the bucks twice, pistons twice & Boston twice. All of these games are must wins and IMO attainable. If we win all 6 of those games we've made up 6 games on our opposition if every team stays par for the course.

[Jamiecballer]

We play the bucks twice, pistons twice & Boston twice. All of these games are must wins and IMO attainable. If we win all 6 of those games we've made up 6 games on our opposition if every team stays par for the course.

that all sounds good but we need to gain 6 games on one team not 2 games on 3 teams.

[mvb815]

they have to go 22-9 to hit .500, i'd say let's just go for that, if it doesn't make the playoffs then we have optimism for next year

[WoodsyRaps]

that all sounds good but we need to gain 6 games on one team not 2 games on 3 teams.

This.

For instance, beating the bucks in 2 games does not mean we gain any games on the Celtics per say. Although we would have 6 more wins on the year, worst case scenario with this happening would be us only gaining 2 games on 3 different opponents.

[Vdot]

Bucks are not the same team without Sanders. I can see them go on a 5-6 losing streak at any point in the season without him. They're currently on a 3 game losing streak since he went down.

The Raptors on the other hand, I can see them going on a 5-6 game winning streak. That streak, combined with a Bucks losing streak alone, is enough for us to be within 1.5 games of them.

[Vdot]

Remaining Schedule:

Denver - home - W
New York - road - L
Washington - road - W
Memphis - home(end of the back of the back) - W
NY - home - L
Washington - home - W
Cleveland - road - W
Indiana - home - W
Milwaukee - road (end of the back to back) - L
GS - road - L
Phoenix - road - W
Lakers - road - L
Cleveland - home - W
Boston - road - L
Charlotte - home - W
Miami - home - L
Charlotte - road - W
NY - home - W
NY - road (home and home back to back) - L
Atlanta - home - W
Detroit - road - W
Washington - road - L
Detroit - home (end of the back to back) - W
Washington - home - W
Minny - road - W
Milwaukee - road (end of the back to back) - L
Chicago - road - L
Chicago - home - W
BKN - home - W
Atlanta - road - W
Boston - home (end of the back to back) - W

I might be slightly biased here, but I can see us doing something like this for the remaining 31 games. 20-11. That'll put us at 39-43. It's a longshot, but with that record its quite possible to make the playoffs. If Milwaukee goes 4 games under 500. for the rest of the season, then we get the 8th seed with this record. Again, longshot, but something i'm willing to cheer for. And if we don't make it? I'll be proud, because I know we fought hard and we tried our best.

[Sanyo]

When you look at that schedule the Raps can go 22-9 with Gay in the lineup. The only toughies will be Miami (at home, I think the Raps are due for a win against Miami have played them tough the last two games), four more games against NY (I think the Raps can get atleast one, if not split the series), Golden State (Road), two against Boston (can split them).

The other games are attainable if the Raps really play hard.

22-9 is optimistic. I think 18-13 is more realistic and thats still four games under .500 -- hmm let's see...

[bamms27]

When you look at that schedule the Raps can go 22-9 with Gay in the lineup. The only toughies will be Miami (at home, I think the Raps are due for a win against Miami have played them tough the last two games), four more games against NY (I think the Raps can get atleast one, if not split the series), Golden State (Road), two against Boston (can split them).

The other games are attainable if the Raps really play hard.

22-9 is optimistic. I think 18-13 is more realistic and thats still four games under .500 -- hmm let's see...

If we go 18-13 that would put us at 37-45, 8 games under five hundred not 4.