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Better than our record shows? Well, lately we have been.

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On the whole of the season, as far as total points scored vs total points allowed, we have been one of the worst teams in the league.  However, we are the only team in this group that is actually on an upward trend.  I have included all of the worst teams in each division (except I picked 2 from Pacific and 0 from Southwest, because they are way better than our division is).  I have also included Orlando, just to show a team trending the other way lately, putting our situation in perspective a bit.  

                    SCORED      ALLOWED      +/-

LAC

Preseason      776            837                 -61

Oct                 262            306                  -44

Nov                1496          1586                 -90

Dec                837            843                    -6  

Total (excl pre)      2595           2735                 -140

MIN

Preseason     881           841                     40

Oct                301           311                     -10

Nov               1417        1562                   -145

Dec              1047         1089                    -42

Total (excl pre)      2765         2962                   -197

WAS

Preseason   667            662                       5

Oct              178            211                     -33

Nov            1384          1465                     -81

Dec             771             863                     -92

Total (excl pre)    2333          2539                    -206

CLE

Preseason  654            593                       61

Oct             280            295                      -15

Nov           1328          1404                     -76

Dec            823           979                      -156

Total (excl pre)   2431          2678                    -247

NJN

Preseason  654            691                       -37

Oct             285            299                       -14

Nov           1394           1448                      -54

Dec            827             900                       -73

Total (excl pre)   2506           2647                     -141

SAC

Preseason  661             681                      -20

Oct             324             326                        -2

Nov           1185           1287                     -102

Dec            756             825                       -69

Total (excl pre)   2265           2438                     -173

ORL

Preseason  719             544                       175

Oct             182             179                          3

Nov            1494           1383                      111

Dec             746             755                        -9

Total (excl pre)    2422           2317                     105

So as you can see, we really shot ourselves in the foot with our no-show against Golden State in October, and we were pretty below-average (in this sample) in November.  However, so far in this first half of December, we've been by far the best team of these weaker teams, and even better than the slumping Orlando.  I mean, we still suck because we lose more than we win, but we're not completely hopeless.  

Make what you will of the rest of the information, keeping in mind that +/- as a statistic can be misleading since blowouts can either expand into ridiculousness (like that Golden State game) or it can get pulled into single digits, simply because Team 1's C-squad is better than Team 2's C-squad.

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