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Looks about right for preseason.
What are yours?
Top 8 - Standings (not seedings)
1. Bulls
2. Cavs
3. Wizards
4. Raptors
5. Pacers
6. Heat
7. Hornets
8. Nets
Damn, I might just spend some time watching EC basketball through league pass. Some of these games will be good. Chicago and Cleveland will feast on all the bottom feeders and playoff hopefuls.
Looks about right for preseason.
1. Cleveland
2. Chicago
3. Indiana
4. Atlanta
5. Washington
6. Toronto
7. Miami
8. Detroit
Cleveland has too much unproven talent & James takes nights off; to finish with most regular season Wins.
Chicago has immense depth & Tommy T cares about regular season games.
Damn forgot about Atlanta.
1. Cavs
2. Bulls
3. Wizards
4. Raptors
5. Pacers
6. Hawks
7. Heat
8. Pistons
Can someone please post the Cavaliers starting 5/rotation?
1. Bulls 2. Cavs 3. Pacers 4. Heat 5. Wizards 6. Raptors 7. Knicks 8. Nets Felt a little bold with the Knicks prediction
Probably depends on whether Lebron plays the 3 or 4. Lebron plays the 4 then Wiggins starts at the 3 and Waiters at the 2. Lebron starts at sf then Thompson starts at pf. Not sure if waiters or wiggins will start at the 2. One things for sure, if waiters comes off the bench he isn't going to be happy
Doesn't sound like a cohesive team. Would not be surprised to see Cavs finish 3-4 in the Final Standings.
Bulls & Pacers at Top. Wizards & Raptors battling Cavs
As a reference point, Bulls won 48 games last season. 8 behind Pacers
I really don't see wizards and raptors ahead of heat. It's possible depending on health, though. I honestly wouldn't be that surprised if the heat finished ahead of the Cavs. It's doubtful, but definitely possible
I'm not gonna put them in definitive order, but i'll put the best teams toward the tops and the worse ones towards the bottom of the top 8
Cavs
Bulls
Pacers
Heat
Hawks
Raps
Wiz
Knicks
If Detroit plays up to expectations and doesn't start Smith Monroe Drummond together they will definitely be a candidate to make the playoffs too
East will be, as always, weak, but interesting. I can see 13 teams, which could be in playoffs. Cavs, Bulls, Wizards will be there. Bucks, Magic, Celtics wont be.
Bulls
Pacers
Cavs
Wizards
Nets
Raptors
Hawks
Hornets
Cleveland replaces Miami, Bulls do a bit better w Rose and Gasol, Indiana bounces back, Nets have a better year even without Pierce thanks to Hollins and Lopez, coach Bud and Clifford overachieve with their teams again. Hornets go in under .500
1. Cavs/2. Bulls/3. Wizards/4. Pacers/5. Raptures/6. Nyets/7. Hornets/8. Hawks
Cavs had a worst roster in 08-09 and they won 66.
Was supposed to quote @Infinite Limit
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1. Pacers
2. Cavs
3. Hawks
4. Heat
5. Bulls
6. Raptors
7. Wizards
8. Hornets
IMO, the East is worse than last season. You basically splintered a fairly stacked team into two good teams.
Bulls fall in the standings after adding Rose, Gasol, Mirotic, & McDermott?
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On your mommas ties
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He's always been known as the exact opposite. It wasn't until this year that he started slacking in the regular season. (and pretty much just on D) I wouldn't be surprised to see him take it easy this year given that he went to 4 straight finals and verbally expectations low in Cleveland, but unless the "takes nights off" is a prediction--it's pretty much wrong.
08-09/09-10 Cavs, two 60 win teams with Lebron and peanuts
10-11 Heat- They were legitimately trying to win games, they just didn't have the chemistry/depth
11-12 Heat - Lockout :yawn: but I guess everyone looks bad next to the Spurs from that year in the regular season
12-13 Heat - One of the greatest individual regular seasons of all time + the 27 game winstreak. Had they not ed up early on, they'd have won 70. (Started 24-12 , ended the season 42-4)
IMO
1. Cavs
2. Bulls
3. Wizards
4. Pacers
5. Hawks
6. Heat
7. Raptors
8. Pistons
But I thought WesternConferenceFan was all aboutdepth
The East is a fair amount deeper than they were last year. They still only have two le contenders, and their top le contender is probably worse--but overall the conference has more talent.
Gasol will need to rest after playing over the summer. Thibs will have to rest him and I think they're too thin upfront (they were already thin last season with Boozer)
McDermott is a rook, Mirotic is also an NBA rook (and euros normally take a season or two to adapt to the NBA anyways).
Rose is the big question mark. The question right now isn't if he can be the old Rose, but can he play a full season without mailing it in?
I basically expect the Bulls to produce about the same wins as last season. I just think the Heat will be better than them (but not as good as they were with Lebron), and I also have Atlanta building on their playoff run (which they did without Al Horford).
1. Cavs
2. Wizards
3. Bulls
4. Hawks
5. Raptors
6. Pacers
7. Heat
8. Knicks
I'm kind of tempted to put Pistons in the 8 seed because of Drummond's projected improvement though.
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