Who Will Be The Western Conference Sleeper?

[davi78239]

Any guesses?

[Walton Buys Off Me]

The Lakers

[T_MONEY_TX]

Houston Rockets a healty T Mac and Yao.

[mardigan]

The Hornets, although I dont know if you could call them sleepers.

[Quadzilla99]

Rockets if they stay healthy.

[Mavs_man_41]

Golden State, they were off to a good start last year and appeared to be on track to make the playoffs, before they were slowed by injuries.

[Lebowski Brickowski]

Houston.

[RogerIsEatingASandwich]

Houston. (if all players remain healthy)

[awmyplace]

The Rockets if T-Mac and Yao is still healthy.

[2Cleva]

Has to be LA.

The key they were missing is more offense to take the pressure off Kobe and experience (as a group, with the tri, pressure situations).

Phil will have the boys ready to go this year.

[awmyplace]

The Hornets, although I dont know if you could call them sleepers.

The Hornets will not make the playoffs next year.

[pache100]

Golden State.

I think our nightmare will, again, be the dallas Mavericks.

[awmyplace]

The Clippers and The Nuggets

[pache100]

The Hornets will not make the playoffs next year.

Well, then...God has spoken. They might as well not bother to play the season. :rolleyes

[JamStone]

Minnesota Timberwolves.

Now that's going out on a limb.

[awmyplace]

Well, then...God has spoken. They might as well not bother to play the season. :rolleyes

They are kinda of a pretty good team.

[1Parker1]

Nuggets, Lakers, or Rockets.

[pache100]

They are kinda of a pretty good team.

Yes. They are. That is why your out of hand remark puzzled me. I thought maybe you did not know that (that "they are kinda of (sic) a pretty good team"). The scoreboard and season stats did not show the true picture of the Hornets last season. I will reserve judgment about the playoffs next season until at least after the allstar break...but they may surprise.

[awmyplace]

Yes. They are. That is why your out of hand remark puzzled me. I thought maybe you did not know that (that "they are kinda of (sic) a pretty good team"). The scoreboard and season stats did not show the true picture of the Hornets last season. I will reserve judgment about the playoffs next season until at least after the allstar break...but they may surprise.

They might shock us if they make the playoffs next season.

[Mr.Bottomtooth]

T'Wolves

[pache100]

They might shock us if they make the playoffs next season.

:bang

[T Park]

The Lakers will be divison champions next year.

Radmonovic, Bynum getting moretime, Odom, Kobe and others together more.

[awmyplace]

The Lakers will be divison champions next year.

Radmonovic, Bynum getting moretime, Odom, Kobe and others together more.

Ok!Are you saying that they will be divison champions and will go to the finals next year?

[awmyplace]

I can't wait for a Miami and Lakers Finals seiers yet. :lol

[DFW Spurs]

The Spurs of course. You know no one's going to give them thier props. They'll fly under the radar again. :flag:

[V-2]

The Rockets, no big signings, got younger a bit, and Spanoulis may be huge for them.

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

I was high on the Rockets last year...and the year before that.

They seem destined to under-achieve.

[awmyplace]

The Clippers

[strangeweather]

The Clippers
Can you be a sleeper if you got to the conference semis the year before?

[awmyplace]

Can you be a sleeper if you got to the conference semis the year before?

Nope!!!

[awmyplace]

The Nuggets or Grillziles

[jman3000]

Lakers will be fighting for that 8th seed since they have, as GiG pointed out, the Kings, Suns, and Clippers in their own division. Not to mention the Spurs, Mavs, rejuvenated (supposedly) Rockets, Memphis, and the division winner from the northwest conference (no matter how shitty their record is)

[Brutalis]

The Spurs

[NuGGeTs-FaN]

Nuggets :smokin :lol

If they are healthy, which they wont be coz they will have a starter go down for the season in only the first game. Its bound to happen for the 3rd year in a row.

I think it will actually be the Hornets who suprise people

[TheSanityAnnex]

The Lakers will be divison champions next year.

Radmonovic, Bynum getting moretime, Odom, Kobe and others together more.
Lay off the second helpings dough boy. The hotdog pack on the back of your neck is affecting your brain's ability to function properly.

Odom- wrong system. dude can't play within the triangle.
Radmon- as good as he will ever be.
Bynum- future allstar, just not in Kobe's prime
Kobe- Phil loves Kobe, Kobe loves Colorado
PG- ????
Others together more- exactly.

[awmyplace]

The Timberwolves

[yavozerb]

The Lakers will be divison champions next year.

Radmonovic, Bynum getting moretime, Odom, Kobe and others together more.

If the kings keep bonzi they going to win their division hands down with the clippers in 2nd!! My sleeper will be the T-wolves

[Slinkyman]

The Lakers

[Pistons < Spurs]

TWolves. They will be much better this year.

Mike James
Randy Foye
Ricky Davis
KG
Blount

[East Coast Babe]

The Lakers

I don't think it will be the Lakers, although they may be better, but a Finals with Kobe against Flash might be interesting!!

I think it will be the Hornets or Memphis that surprise. Memphis is due for some game winning in the play-offs. Too long without!

[PaceMonster]

If the Rockets had kept Rudy Gay....i would of gone for them but now they're just another team in the West....T'Wolves will do it for me

[CharlieMac]

I'd say the Hornets too.

[big3bigD]

Hornets for sure. Chris Paul and David west are two of the best young players in the league. They will have a nice, high scoring team that cannot defend anything. I think that they will definately make the playoffs....

The Grizzlies are in the process of making a pretty sick team, but I think that they will need a year of two to develop Gay and swift before being too much of a threat.

[TDMVPDPOY]

jazz sleeper to make playoffs, but they will fall like the memphis grizz in every playoffs, first round exit

um another team could be the kings who i see can advance to second round

[GrandeDavid]

The Spurs. The Mavs or Phoenix will get some love as the playoffs approach, but the sleeping giant Spurs will awaken in time to take their fourth title.