Haha, neither confirm nor deny. I agree that it'll be hard for them, and never suggested otherwise. I was just adding another useful piece of data (the Nuggets' significantly weaker opponents) to the topic. Hence, "on the other hand."Is this supposed to confirm my only point in that it will be difficult for the Nuggets to surpass the Spurs?
As is using an anomalously high home/road split from samples of ~30 games as a baseline for a prediction. Obviously I wasn't suggesting that their nearly even split from last season is totally predictive either — just threw that out as another anecdote supporting the larger fact that a generic .500 home team in the NBA tends will tend to win on the order of 55% of games.Using the Spurs road success last season WITH Kawhi to attempt to justify that their road struggles this season without him is a terrible position to get behind imo
Missing Kawhi obviously lowers their overall level, but logically, why would it significantly alter their home-road split? As with most splits, for prediction purposes you're better off using a more generic split based on giant samples amassed by many teams over many seasons than assuming you're picking up more signal than noise from incomplete samples as small as 30 games.
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