Our Schedule Thus Far Not That Kind

[Karma]

Looking at the records of the teams we have played thus far.

11-3 Spurs
9-5 Indiana
10-5 Memphis
10-5 Memphis
10-5 Clippers
7-6 Minny
8-8 Philly
7-7 Washington
7-7 Olando
7-7 Orlando
7-7 Hornets
6-8 Boston
5-8 Seattle
1-15 Toronto

Thats a combined record of 105-96. 11 of the 14 teams are .500 or better.

Now we might not have played all the elite teams, but we have hardly had a walk in the park schedule.

 

[cavincali]

wow. i had no idea. this makes me feel way better about the team. its not that i didnt like how the team was playing, but you just expected the opponents record to be a lot easier.

once we get that soft spot on the schedule we could be looking at 10+ wins in a row.

 

[cdt]

Nice job on that karma nothing like a shot of optimism to brighten the faces Unlike Detroit we haven't been playing all teams below .500

 

[Karma]

Yeah I got this info from another site. Although our schedule hasn't been bruising, it has been against teams that had been performing quite well in general.

 

[RuanuLaw]

Although our schedule hasn't been bruising,

If our schedule was any tougher, it would be ridiculous.

 

[bob2the2nd]

one thing that needs to be kept in mind, you take out the 2 teams that completely blew out the cavs, the teams go from having a combined 105-96 record to a 85-88 record. Im not tryin got be pesimistic just a realist. While it looks great the cavs have played teams with an overall winning record, the reality is they have beaten the teams they are suppose to. The combine record of the teams they have beat is 68-77. This team is far from where it needs to be to advance into the playoffs, and that after all is the goal, this team needs to gel, and really needs ira and AV back.

 

[Dirk Gently]

Yeah, but their 10 wins against those teams is going to drop down their win %. Those teams are a combined 85-78 against teams not named the cavs. Even the teams they beat would have an overall winning record if they didn't play the cavs, having a record of 68-67.
We can arrange the stats any way we want, but the fact remains, they are playing good basketball. They have a ways to go to become elite, but that doesn't happen overnight. With all the player additions, a new coach with new schemes, it's going to take a while for everything to gel. They are 10-4 now, and haven't even hit their stride. It's all uphill from here.

 

[Dungong]

I'd like to think that the Toronto and San Antonio games kind of balance out each other. And as someone said, yes, we are beating the teams we are supposed to beat, but thats a step in the right direction. Any team at or below .500 should be a win for the Cavs, that wasn't always the case last year and this year we'll wait and see. But, if you beat all the .500 and below teams 90% of the time and then win 50% of the time against the better teams, you get a .700 record (roughly) This would be a 56 win season, and I think anyone here would be able to live with that.

 

[joma]

You can also look at it like this, since the cavs are handing out all these losses

If you take away our record from it...


101-86

 

[KI4MVP]

you consider the top teams in the west San Antonio, Dallas, Memphis and the Clippers while in the east(other than us) Detroit, Indy, Miami and Philly. We play those teams a combined 24 times over 82 games. After 14 games, we've played 6 of those games, going 2-0 at home and 1-3 on the road, or 3-3 overall.

If you look at the Pistons, they've only played 2 games out of that group. Winning at home vs Philly, losing on the road at Dallas.

If you look at the spurs, the only other team with a better record than us, they beat us and dallas at home, lost to dallas on the road. They haven't played anyone else in that list.

I'd say we've been tested more than either of those teams and we're hanging right there with them in the standings. Even the great teams struggle on the road against other great teams.

 

[ootbttnlagitnbasf]

we probably have had the toughest schedule in the nba. i'd expect that no one else has their opponents 9 whole games over .500 and six of our fourteen games have been on the road and half of our games have been against the west. that's a brutal start that will get easier when we start playing the patsies in the east.

 

[ootbttnlagitnbasf]

losing to the sonics and clippers makes our schedule so far to be even more difficult, adding another couple of games to the opponents w-l record. at this rate, our schedule will be extremely difficult by the time we get back home.

 

[ootbttnlagitnbasf]

and since no one had come up with another team that has had a tougher schedule, i will assume that i was right and that we have the toughest schedule in the league. i knew it but was holding out in case someone else came up with a another team that had played tough games.