How many wins for the 2011-2012 Toronto Raptors

[Apollo]

The Rockets play well enough each year to not get a crack at a good draft position but never have the talent to truely contend. It must suck to be a Rockets fan right now. Ah well, at least they've had a day in the sun.

[Matt52]

The Rockets play well enough each year to not get a crack at a good draft position but never have the talent to truely contend. It must suck to be a Rockets fan right now. Ah well, at least they've had a day in the sun.

They have Kevin McHale coaching this year. I think we are going to get insight in to how good a coach Rick Adelman is - by what happens in Houston and Minnesota.

[stretch]

The Rockets play well enough each year to not get a crack at a good draft position but never have the talent to truely contend. It must suck to be a Rockets fan right now. Ah well, at least they've had a day in the sun.

If it sucks to be a Rockets fan now, I feel even more sympathy for Raptors fans. Hey wait a minute, I am a Raptors fan!

The Rockets have won more games than the Raptors for 9 straight seasons and counting.

[Soft Euro]

Just a couple of weeks left and everyone can reflect on their pre-season predictions.

[octothorp]

I picked the oh-so-popular 15-18 category, but it looks like they'll exceed those expectations by a few wins. But if you told me that Bargnani and Bayless would all miss significant chunks of the season and Calderon would miss a bunch too, plus Barbosa would leave at the deadline with only a draft-pick coming back, I definitely would have picked less than 14, possibly less than 10. So in other words, they've exceeded my expectations by quite a bit.

[Prime]

I picked the oh-so-popular 15-18 category, but it looks like they'll exceed those expectations by a few wins. But if you told me that Bargnani and Bayless would all miss significant chunks of the season and Calderon would miss a bunch too, plus Barbosa would leave at the deadline with only a draft-pick coming back, I definitely would have picked less than 14, possibly less than 10. So in other words, they've exceeded my expectations by quite a bit.

Nope:

Now that the roster has been finalized, it is time to make your vote on the number of wins we can expect from the Toronto Raptors.

Here is our roster:

PG: Calderon, Bayless, Carter
SG: DeRozan, Barbosa, Butler
SF: J.Johnson, Forbes, Kleiza
PF: Bargnani, Davis, Amir
C: Gray, Magloire, Alabi


Remember, we have a 66 game - not 82 - therefore (numbers rounded to whole numbers):

66 game schedule = 82 game schedule

10 wins or less = 12 wins or less
11-14 wins = 13-17 wins
15-18 wins = 18-22 wins
19-21 wins = 23-26 wins
22-24 wins = 27-30 wins
25-27 wins = 31-33 wins
28-30 wins = 34-37 wins
31-33 wins = 38-41 wins
34 or more = 42 or more

With 14 games left that'd put us at around 20-23 wins if we can win nearly a third of them.

[Puffer]

I picked this category as well. They have indeed exceeded my expectations. Wonder where they would have been if AB had been injury free?

[Jclaw]

and..we're into the 22 win category. Defying expectations.

[Puffer]

and..we're into the 22 win category. Defying expectations.

See my post above. It is only the injuries that have allowed Colangelo to bring in the D-League sleepers and dominate the play-off bound teams.