Quasi-Vegas Poll: The Clipper's Start

A good start is a good thing.  Horse jockeys and pick-up artists will tell you so.  Musicians will as well. Long ago, Beethoven's Fifth set the standard for great beginnings.  

On the flip slide, a bad start can be awful.  Think of a high-diver who falls off a 10 meter board.  Or that time you spilled coffee during a job interview.  Egad, or how about that clumsy first half the Clips had in the last Warrior game.  Talk about distressing. 

But then the Clips had their second half comeback, which felt unusually important.  BD looked to be setting a tone: "This season, when need be, we'll be the team coming from behind, rather than losing from ahead."  

More important than a pre-season Warrior game, of course, is the start of the real season.  In case you haven't checked, our first ten games are against the Lakers (away), Pheonix, Utah (away), Dallas, Minnesota, Warriors (away), Memphis, New Orleans, Oklahoma City, and Toronto.

Man, I'd love to get off to a good start.  On the flip side, I dread having a bad one.  I started out to create a poll, then, that asked "how many of these early games do you think we'll win."  But I was weary of too much optimism.  "Ten out of ten, of course!" Or from some of you, the poll might even indulge an unwelcome pessimism. To avoid such extremes, I came up with an interesting twist.  

Suppose you're hanging out with your annoying 2nd cousin, and he starts laughing about how the Clippers stink and that they'll be lucky to win more than 1 of their first 10 games.  You happen to have a wad of cash in your pocket, so you ask if he'd care to place a wager.  "I bet you $___ that the Clippers will win __ out of their first 10."  

What numbers do you put in the blanks? 

In the survey below, I ask just for your number of wins.  I should point out: you don't want to pick a number that's too low (losing face to your cousin) or too high (throwing your money away).  So how many wins is risky but within your sense of reality?

As for your proposed dollar amount, let's see it in the comments (include your # of wins, if you dare).  I take $1 to mean that you are VERY UNSURE... you really don't have a good feel for the team yet.  On the other hand, $100 (or more) shows that you REALLY THINK you have this team figured out.  But be forewarned, we'll all be able to look back and see who the biggest losers are.  On the other hand, I might invite the biggest winners to Vegas for games 11 thru 20.