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Just out of interest, what makes you think the Lakers can go from being swept by the Mavs to beating them?
*subject till change till season officially starts. Will be more in-depth predictions as the season nears, but just the basics for now...
ECSF: Heat over Celtics, Bulls over Knicks
ECF: Heat over Bulls
WCSF: Lakers over Nuggets, Mavs over Thunder
WCF: Lakers over Mavs
NBAF: Heat over Lakers, 4-2.
FMVP: Dwyane Wade
Awards:
MVP: LeBron James (with Melo surprising as 2nd)
DPOY: Dwight Howard
6th Man: Jason Terry
COY: Doug Collins
ROY: Derrick Williams
Just out of interest, what makes you think the Lakers can go from being swept by the Mavs to beating them?
Prediction: Lakers have to get doooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooown when they see DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII IIIIIIIIIIIIIIRRRK!!!
I think the Mavs will Repeat if they stay healthy
Guesstimation
Miami over OKC in 5-6 games in the finals. LA is old and declining. The Mavs are old and declining.
MVP: Dirk
All-Star MVP: Durant
MIP: Splitter
DPOY: Howard
6MOY: someone on the nuggets
Champions: Heat
Finals MVP: Lebron
Spurs keep their 50 win season streak alive
the Heat win the NBA le
Mike Brown and Kobe Bryant lead the Lakers into the lottery
I was going to pick Thunder as the WCF winner...but then I remembered Russell Westbrook is still there.
Nah they are old. Last year was a 1 and done thing for them. Miami was 2 wins from the finals with no center, an injured Haslem/Miller, and the big 3 learning to play with one another. Now, they will have a center in Dalembert (A lock if no Nene) or Nene (very unlikely), a healthy Haslem/Miller, and the big 3 will have had a full year and another training camp playing together.
Westbrook tends to be an issue for them, but OKC has gotten better every year. OKC's bigger issue is lack of a scoring bigman. Ibaka is worthless offensively.
I'm picking the Suns to come out of the west
The Mavs are winning it again. Just the thought of Butler and Beaubois coming back to a team that won it all without those two, seems ridiculous to me. I'm sure they'll manage minutes as well with the talent they have so saying they're old is pretty stupid to me plus it's not a full 82 game season.
who said anything about getting butler back? with what cap space exactly? did something change under the new agreement where before they were saying we couldn't afford to resign everyone and now somehow we can?
I think a lot of it has to do with at ude and "hunger"--to be cliche. That Mavs team last year was full of ringless, hungry vets going all-out. Staying focused and having the same fire to defend your le isn't easy...just ask the Spurs, who are a cool 0-4 in that department. I think the West will come down to Dallas, LA, and OKC with all having a chance to make a run.
That being said, I think this is ultimately LeBron's year and I'd be very surprised to see him not win it all this year.
I can't say anything until FA is over with, but if all remains pretty much the same player wise I can't fathom the Mavs repeating. That was one of the most unconventional le runs I've ever seen and I don't think it's any where close to sustainable again. They will be a legit threat but I don't think their style can repeat.
I also don't see how the Heat don't win if they add any sort of depth up front.
Teams I can see having a legit shot as well: LA, OKC, CHI, ORL (if they add a piece)
Dallas could afford to sign everyone it was a case of do they want to. You can always sign your own players if you want.
I was under the impression that he was still under contract this upcoming year. I just checked and yep, he's a free agent. My bad, total brain fart.
Samuel Dalembert is pretty much a lock. He already made his big bucks, he is ringless, he will start, and he will be close to his home country. The full mle will be more than enough to land him.
Memphis could knock any team out in any given series.
What gives you that idea?
All they did last season was knock out a team full of 3 point chuckers; a formula that has never been successful in the playoffs
stole my thunder you bas
classic Spurfan glorifying any team/player who does well against the Spurs in the playoffs.
The 2011 Spurs were the 2007 Suns only older, beating them in the playoffs was nothing extremely heroic.
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