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[R Howe]

I agree on the impact of the injuries. Before they started piling up beyond Perk, Ratliff and Wally... as in: Allen, Pierce and some of West and Jefferson (did I leave anyone out?), our C's were about a game or two from 1st in the Atlantic and stringing together wins. If healthy this team only would have gotten better from there. Next year, even with Doc, and without a single move other than lotto pick (IF healthy), this team makes a quantum leap to about a 4th seed playoff spot. 

You also can save this prediction to haunt me with at this time next year. Name changed to protect the Innocent.

Go C's... err I mean.. well you know what I mean. 

Ryan W <ubiquitous_am_i at yahoo.com> wrote: Yeah, but the impact of injuries on this team CANNOT
be overstated.  People made their optimistic
projections that the C's would make the playoffs
assuming that we'd be healthy, which we were assuredly
not.  Yeah, Doc's not going to help much, and we do
have injury risks on the team (Wally and Tony), but
for the most part I think we're not going to have such
a bad injury year next year.  And if we don't? 
Playoffs for sure.  You can save this email and feel
free to bring it back up this time next year.  
--- Kestas 
wrote:

> Ryan W wrote:
> 
> >Listen, if we win the lottery and Oden comes out,
> >there is no way, except through injury, that we
> won't
> >make the playoffs.  NO WAY.  
> >
> If all the stars are aligned just right, they may
> well make the 
> playoffs. But with our (virtually nonexistent)
> defense, the declining 
> health of our few veterans, Doc's brilliant game
> coaching, high 
> likelihood of some sort injury issues affecting
> Delonte,  Al, or Perk 
> (based on their history so far), it's far from "not
> even worth 
> debating".  The odds of everything working out
> perfectly are less than 
> slim. Unless Oden (whom we have less than 1 in 5
> chance of getting IF he 
> comes out and IF Ainge chooses to take him over
> Durant ) magically turns 
> this team into defensive stalwarts,  I don't see
> this team necessarily  
> making it despite the other potential and certain
> handicaps.
> 
>  I'll remind you that most people thought  there was
> no way we wouldn't 
> make the playoffs THIS year, too. The modal
> predicted win total  on  
> Snoopy's  list for this season was 43 and the mean
> 43.5 , more than  
> enough  to make the playoffs and likely at least 15
> games above where 
> we'll end up this year.  This tells me that most
> fans are wildly 
> optimistic about this team's abilities. Even such
> naysayers as Dr. 
> Chestnutt and Egg were overly optimistic, as it
> turns out.
> Kestas
> 
> >This isn't even worth
> >debating.  We're a borderline playoff team right
> now
> >with everyone healthy.  If you want to debate
> >something, debate our seeding IN THE PLAYOFFS. 
> >Veterans our needed, that's for sure, but not to
> get
> >into the playoffs.
> >  
> >
> 
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