The Raptors’ have the 5th hardest remaining strength of schedule in the NBA. 9 of their 23 games left are against top-4 seeds, 13 of 23 are on the road & they’ll play 3 sets of back-to-backs.
The Raptors' have the 5th hardest remaining strength of schedule in the NBA.
9 of their 23 games left are against top-4 seeds, 13 of 23 are on the road & they'll play 3 sets of back-to-backs.
— Keerthika Uthayakumar (@keerthikau) February 22, 2023
by The_Living_L
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[They’ll need to go ~17-6 over their final 23 games to catch the Knicks (at their current pace) for 6th place.](https://twitter.com/jlew1050/status/1628427938566635526?s=46&t=YR6JYKhunX0MZazJdCRPaQ)
Depends on how well Nick can get everyone to play together.
No doubt in my mind this team can go like 18-5 but if Fred and Pascal still have those selfish tendencies and we’re ball stopping again I could easily see is go 10-13 or 11-12
I could have sworn they had the easiest strength of schedule just a couple months back…
I keep hearing conflicting reports of our remaining strength of schedule. I’ve heard numerous times its one of the easiest and numerous times that it’s one of the hardest. So I wanted to look into it myself;
https://preview.redd.it/onmkklngetja1.png?width=299&format=png&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=dabfde630e98ed170ff5eafac294755528a3e33b
**The highlighted dates are our back to backs, the highlighted teams are +500.**
Yes, we have three back to backs, but they’re pretty evenly spread over the remainder of the season. We also have a few 2-3 day off breaks too – so I’m not so sure that we need to weigh this as heavily into our strength of schedule metric here. Additionally, a few of these “*+500 teams*” are hovering at the line, which I would say are in the mid-tier along with us ( +500: Minny, Pels, Heat | -500: Bulls, Thunder, Wiz, Pacers). That being said, it looks to be a pretty evenly fought schedule. A few teams at the top, a few teams at the bottom, but mostly teams around the middle. I wouldn’t say we’re a shoe-in, but I wouldn’t count us out either. We’re 8-4 in our last 12 against a pretty even schedule, so 17-6 isn’t out of the question for the rest of the season.
Edit: grammar
Great!
most good team will rest their best player for load management to avoid injury when against heavy physical style team like us
Don’t care… give us all the smoke, we got yak back baby!!!! raps in 38
Easiest schedule remaining. No wait! Hardest! No wait! easiest!… I dunno man they’re definitely playing some teams though
Last 3 games of the year are Boston, Boston, Bucks. You can call those hard games based on their record but at least 1 Celtics game and very likely that bucks game will be mailed in by the opponent so it’s misleading.
Celtics Celtics Bucks to close the season.
Likely, these teams will rest their starters, and ours will play 42 minutes with a must-win mentality.
So they are actually “easy” games.
I don’t think selling or buying at the deadline was really based on what our strength of schedule was.
I think it was based on the value, or lack therefore we could get for our players. Being fleeced at the deadline because you want to tank, but not getting a high draft pick is how you ruin Scotty’s career.
I’m good with that, if they expect to progress pass the play-in and compete in the first round they need to raise their level of play and compete with good teams to close out the season.
It was always gonna be the play-in
Went from easiest schedule in the league to the 5th hardest with only 1 game played and 4 days off.
Any update on OG return?
Putting the boys to the test!