No it's really not.
People continue to ignore that these first two months are the toughest two months of the season for us (I would say easily, but Jan is rough too -- the whole thing is frontloaded). By New Years we'll be at 14 home games and 19 road games, with our home games largely composed of Spurs, Clippers, Rockets, Raptors etc. In completely ridiculous scheduling fashion, we don't actually have a SINGLE homestand for the entire month of December -- no more than 1 game in a row at home for the whole month. I don't know if that is the NBA's schedule maker at work, or if Vivek was just so eager to schedule random crap in his new building he threw his basketball team out on the road to make room for more Celine Dion concerts, but whoever it is can go **** themselves.
Regardless, we are not playing at all like a bad team. Everything is close. And the schedule is finally going to release us after the All Star break. If we're still breathing by that point, 8 of our first 10 games after the break are at home, and one of the 2 road games (Denver) is winnable. And our final 9 games of the season go MEM, UTH, @NOH, @MIN, DAL, @LAL, HOU, PHX, @LAC (who may be resting their main guys in their final game before the playoffs).
In other words all the crap we endure early finally results in us getting a sweet cushy ride in the last two months. If we are still breathing and fighting at that point we will absolutely have a chance to make a move against that kind of schedule. If we're within half a dozen games coming out of the break, we'll have a legit chance to scare some folks.