After the third best team the clippers, Everyone else is a coin flip. Hard to make a read on OKC since they lost both Durant and Ibaka...Memphis might potentially be the the 4th best team and that's sad.
The real battle next year is for the second seed between LA and San Antonio..although I suppose, the Warriors can possibly lose a few morw games sonce they might have to fix some chemistry issues...
hoping next reg season turnout like 2011 East...Spurs top seed/ Kawhi getting MVP a la Rose while a superteam struggles with chemistry and lack of depth as the Heatles did .
I don't care if we lose in WCF, but it should still count as successful post-TD era first season...
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Golden State will be most beateable in their first rodeo like Miami in 2011, IMO...i wish we had Rick Carlisle as Spurs coach..Pop is past it as far as being the best coach at bridging talent deficit..Give this Spurs roster to RC, and I'm cnofident he would find a gimmicky muck-up design to fluster GS and maybe even upset them in 2017..
Don't put your hopes up, an Aldridge/Kawhi/Gasoline trio will never make the Finals if we're being honest here...
The spurs will have to figure out a way to intergrate Gasol too. I'm expecting a decline in touches for Aldridge since the team needs balance between the perimter and inside offensively...I could easily see them losing more games next year and by a significant margin. I'm thinking 55-58 wins.
The Saving Grace for San Antonio is that all the other teams suck...
Kawhi has a strong chance of winning MVP next year thanks to Durant being a beta cuckload...Lebron would be heavy favourite though since I expect a make up season by voters next year for claiming curry as the best player in the world.
Also, Spurs need to fight for that first seed really hard...You dont want to go through LA and then GSW...
We already saw what the West looked like when OKC wasn't a contender in 2014-15. This is basically the Cripples & Choke-P3's best chance to get to the WCF.
The only team that won't have to experience growing pains are the Cripples since they are essentially bringing back the same roster for the 3rd season in a row.The real battle next year is for the second seed between LA and San Antonio..although I suppose, the Warriors can possibly lose a few morw games sonce they might have to fix some chemistry issues...
I don't know. Griffin has a player option next year, right? He's not going to resign and I am 100% sure. They need to trade him. They already showed interest in trading him last year, i dont think it would be any different next year.We already saw what the West looked like when OKC wasn't a contender in 2014-15. This is basically the Cripples & Choke-P3's best chance to get to the WCF.
The only team that won't have to experience growing pains are the Cripples since they are essentially bringing back the same roster for the 3rd season in a row.
It's not like he Spurs don't have depth issues:
Fatty/Manure/Fat Head/Simmons/Dedmon isn't better than Livingstons/Clark/Iggy/Looney/D-Worst.
Kawhi could still win the MVP if the Spurs finish w/ a top 3 record since LeBron cruises in the regular season & Dominos/Curry will steal votes from each other.
Folks forget the 2011 Heat didn't have either Battier nor Ray Allen. If the '12 & 13 Heat didn't have either of those two then they wouldn't have won a le.
The Duds only really have to integrate Dominos who can just stand in the corner & make their "Death" line-up SIGNIFICANTLY better than last year's version without even accounting for Wardell's injury.
The only way to beat them is if they play too y & turn the ball over trying to make highlight plays which is something Curry has been prone to his ENTIRE career. I hope they sign Jarret Jack since dude is worse than WestBrick during crunch-time.
If they are rolling by the trade deadline then I doubt they trade him since Doc the GM isn't going to put Doc the Coach in a rebuilding situation when they have a puncher's chance at winning the le.
It might get interesting if they can somehow land Rudy Gay.
I wonder if paul regresses next year...really hoping so. Going through LA-GSW-CLE pretty much makes winning next year close to impossible.
Only one team is coming out of the west boys, just let it go.
Nah. Injuries can happen. See this year champions...The spurs needs to push.
So basically no different than last season.
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