The hosts have beaten the visitors four of the past five times, including two of the three last season but, that, one can argue, is history.
The Hawks have haemorrhaged 97 points a game this season but the Rangers pretty much cancel that out with 95.
Okay, let's shuffle the pack of cards on individuals.
The Aucklanders this week injected NZ Breaker Corey Webster to boost the potency of their offence.
The guard, returning from a dose of Greece lightning, can drop bombs from the carpark, never mind outside the arc or the driving lane.
In his last NBL outing in 2014, the wily Webster spearheaded former team Wellington Saints to a crown as the league MVP with an average of 26 points per game (ppg).
Throw in Rangers go-to man Eric Devendorf (27.9 ppg), Terrence Roberts' season-best 25 points and 13 rebounds against the Mike Pero Nelson Giants and 17 points in 15 minutes against the Saints and you realise the point statisticians are trying to make, never mind the nous of point guard Lindsay Tait and youthful exuberance of Rueben Te Rangi and Brook Ruscoe.
Okay, that's enough on the Rangers and numbers, Daly argues.
"We have played eight games out of 19 so there's 11 left to play and anything can happen."
Hey, it makes perfect mathematical sense, even in the face of Herculean probabilities, for a team that hasn't a point to show for this winter.
For the record, though, forward Kareem Johnson is their leading scorer, averaging 13.4ppg, since fellow US import Chris Porter left for home following a season-ending hamstring injury after their fifth loss.
"Look, Corey's a flat-out scorer," says Daly. "In basketball you only have five guys on the court at a time and one ball so you have to share out the minutes."
Man on man, he says, the Hawks aren't too bad in manning up against their opposites.
"Eric Devendorf, Webster, Reuben Te Rangi and the others can't split the ball in four parts."
Mmm ... an interesting application of division there for coach Kirsten Daly-Taylor and her men.
While we are on the binary operations of elementary arithmetic, there's no addition to the Hawks squad yet after Porter's subtraction while other franchise's squads multiply.
In a long weekend of three games crammed within four days, it goes without saying veteran Paora Winitana will not play against the Taranaki Augusta Airs in a 3pm tip-off on Sunday because of his religious beliefs but he will return on Monday when the Hawks reload against the Rangers at the Pettigrew-Green Arena, Taradale, from 3pm.
On another bright note, guard William Stinnett, a victim of Houston O'Riley's thuggery last weekend here, was training under scrutiny from team Dr Andy Edwards.
Daly isn't sure how far the disciplinary arm of the NBL has gone with the O'Riley case.
Forward Arthur Trousdell, who commutes from Wellington to train and play, was battling flu last week but is better now.
No doubt, he believes Daly-Taylor will be managing the minutes of players to ensure they see through the three-game stint although the Rangers will have played five in seven days this round.
The Hawks have been transparently exchanging notes with other franchises to work out opponents' idiosyncrasies.
