timvp's Bold NBA Predictions

[phxspurfan]

No way Carmello puts up more ppg than Kobe

agreed. and amare will not even think about retirement. in fact, he will be well-coached and brought along slowly enough to make a decent year for fantasy people and contribute to the suns...

[J.T.]

Spurs will be 2nd seed in the West, but will have Finals HCA, and will beat the Mavs in a shocking 5 game conference final making Dirk and AJ look very much like the pussies they, deep down, know they are. Spurs over bulls in six. Then we get crunk all up and down that ugly, muddy piece of we call a riverwalk.

While I'm at it, Brady throws 2 INT and gets sacked 4 times and Manning throws 884 yards as the Colts beat the out of the Pats on Sunday. I only bring that up because that's just what happened in a tight ass game of Madden 07 I played.

[gospursgojas]

1. The New York Knicks will make the playoffs. Most expect them to be in the Greg Oden race. But actually, they'll be in the playoff race.




2. Rudy Gay easily coasts to Rookie of the Year honors. Brandon Roy is good and Tyrus Thomas will own SportsCenter, but Gay will put up rebounds, steals and blocks at a stunning rate.



3. Deron Williams, Sebastian Telfair and Jarrett Jack will all explode onto the scene as the NBA enters a point guard rich era. Williams and Telfair will average at least 15 and 7, while Jack goes for 17 and 5.



4. Sam Mitc will be fired and will be replaced by the NBA's first European coach. The Rockets struggle with injuries again and Jeff Van Gundy takes the fall.

Who cares?

5. Dwight Howard will average 20 points, 15 rebounds and 2 blocks and will be the best bigman in the Eastern Conference. Carlos Boozer will average 20 and 10 in the West and will make the All-Star team.


Easily

6. Amare Stoudemire will miss time on and off until he's declared out for the season, at which point he'll say he's thinking about retirement.

Still way too young.

7. LeBron James will average 33 points, 8 rebounds and 7 assists and will be the runaway winner of the MVP.



8. Carmelo Anthony will average 30 points and will put up better stats than anyone in the Western Conference, including Kobe.

Melo will be alot better, but not that good. Don't let his play against Euros get you all excited

Spurs take it down.

[Kibic]

Larry Brown as a coach >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Isaih as a coach.

That simple.

Yeah. As a coach you don't have to dribble the ball.
T Park could be a good coach. Ah, ha, ha.... Simple one .....aha, ha, ha....

[Dalhoop]

I like all the predictions ... except for the last line

[z0sa]

no way Detroit gets first seed in the east.

No way.

[Spurminator]

I actually agree with the Carmelo prediction.... The Nuggets will be running a lot this year and may score more PPG than the Suns.

[Spurminator]

I think Brandon Roy will be ROY though. Thanks to the League Pass Free Preview I got to watch him play last night, and he looked like a veteran.

[mabber]

Dwight Howard is going to blooow up this year. He's manhandling Chicago's frontline

He's gonna be awesome! He made Ben Wallace look like a rookie last night.

[Medvedenko]

Well, well, well...Melo putting up better #'s than Kobe...who cares if he does, the Lakers should still win more games. Still, I don't see it. The west is going to come down to injuries, it's that simple. Dwight Howard is great, however not many centres in the L today :see A Bynum.

[NuGGeTs-FaN]

8. Carmelo Anthony will average 30 points and will put up better stats than anyone in the Western Conference, including Kobe.

If last night was anything to go by then i think TIMVP is on a winner

Melo 36points/6boards/8dimes/3steals/1block

and it still turned into a loss

[tlongII]

1. The New York Knicks will make the playoffs. Most expect them to be in the Greg Oden race. But actually, they'll be in the playoff race.

2. Rudy Gay easily coasts to Rookie of the Year honors. Brandon Roy is good and Tyrus Thomas will own SportsCenter, but Gay will put up rebounds, steals and blocks at a stunning rate.

3. Deron Williams, Sebastian Telfair and Jarrett Jack will all explode onto the scene as the NBA enters a point guard rich era. Williams and Telfair will average at least 15 and 7, while Jack goes for 17 and 5.

4. Sam Mitc will be fired and will be replaced by the NBA's first European coach. The Rockets struggle with injuries again and Jeff Van Gundy takes the fall.

5. Dwight Howard will average 20 points, 15 rebounds and 2 blocks and will be the best bigman in the Eastern Conference. Carlos Boozer will average 20 and 10 in the West and will make the All-Star team.

6. Amare Stoudemire will miss time on and off until he's declared out for the season, at which point he'll say he's thinking about retirement.

7. LeBron James will average 33 points, 8 rebounds and 7 assists and will be the runaway winner of the MVP.

8. Carmelo Anthony will average 30 points and will put up better stats than anyone in the Western Conference, including Kobe.

9. Playoff seeding will be as followed:

EAST
1. Detroit Pistons
2. Chicago Bulls
3. New Jersey Nets
4. Miami Heat
5. Orlando Magic
6. Cleveland Cavaliers
7. New York Knicks
8. Washington Wizards

WEST
1. San Antonio Spurs
2. Dallas Mavericks
3. Phoenix Suns
4. Los Angeles Lakers
5. Los Angeles Clippers
6. Denver Nuggets
7. Utah Jazz
8. NOKC Hornets

10. The conference finals will be Spurs vs. Mavs and Bulls vs. Magic.

Spurs take it down.

Bold? Yes.

Accurate? No.

[wildbill2u]

I'm talking about scout as in scouting the draft. Name someone who has the success rate that Isaih has in the draft. Tracy McGrady, Damon Stoudemire, Channing Frye, Nate Robinson, Trevor Ariza, Marcus Camby, David Lee, Jackie Butler. The list goes on and on. He's drafted well from every spot in the draft and has done so picking from the same group of players everyone else has scouted.

I never said he was a good general manager. In fact, he's pretty horrible in mixing and matching personalities and is impulsive when it comes to free agents. And it also didn't help that LB quit on the team last year.

But as a domestic draft scout, he's the best there is.

How's Isaiah's record when picking from 29th place?

[timvp]

How's Isaiah's record when picking from 29th place?

He picked David Lee at 30 last year and all he's doing is averaging 7.6 points and 9.3 rebounds while averaging less than 24 minutes per game.

[picnroll]

fwiw At the game last night White was next to Engelland behind the bench. Engelland was pointing things out constantly and White looked pretty focused. He was pretty excited at the end.

[boutons_]

"He was pretty excited at the end."

who wasn't?

[picnroll]

wrong thread. But D'Antoni looked more pO'd than anything else.

[Zunni]

wrong thread. But D'Antoni looked more pO'd than anything else.

That's going to happen a lot when they play us. The have no real post game or post game defense.

[Solid D]

Bump

timvp may not have been so crazy about the Knicks, if they keep beating quality teams in multiple OTs. The Knicks are 1 game out of 1st place in the hapless Atlantic Division.



I still think the notion is whack because with Isaiah at the helm....like SNL's Rosanne Rosanna Danna used to say "It's always something".

If the Knicks make it, I will have to bust out with a Rosanna Danna-ism myself.
"Never-mind!"

[boutons_]

"quality teams in multiple OTs"

only @MSG. Knicks still suck in general. The OT games are great crowd pleasers for the MSG crowd, but I don't think they mean anything significant for the Knicks season.

The Knicks are still 4 GB of EC 8th playoff spot. Unless one of 6-8th playoff teams gets killed with injuries, I don't see the Knicks in the playoffs.

[timvp]

"quality teams in multiple OTs"

only @MSG. Knicks still suck in general. The OT games are great crowd pleasers for the MSG crowd, but I don't think they mean anything significant for the Knicks season.

The Knicks are still 4 GB of EC 8th playoff spot. Unless one of 6-8th playoff teams gets killed with injuries, I don't see the Knicks in the playoffs.

Uh ... all we have to do is win the Atlantic Division and we're in the playoffs.

[Solid D]

boutons, you of all people, should know the value of winning the Division le!

[Mr. Body]

"quality teams in multiple OTs"

only @MSG. Knicks still suck in general. The OT games are great crowd pleasers for the MSG crowd, but I don't think they mean anything significant for the Knicks season.

The Knicks are still 4 GB of EC 8th playoff spot. Unless one of 6-8th playoff teams gets killed with injuries, I don't see the Knicks in the playoffs.

Nets have imploded. Philly is done. Boston - yeah right. All the Knicks have to do is knock out Toronto and they're in.

The Knicks weren't winning at home early in the year, now they have the for ude to grind out OT games there. The fight vs. Denver managed to pull the team together, behind Jared Jeffries sticking up for his teammate, and knocked some players out of commission long enough to establish a rotation. Whether Isiah has the guts to bench guys to shorten the line-up remains to be seen, but this is a team with a lot more talent than people will admit, and Thomas's philosophy lately of filling the blanks between his haunted chuckers with tough, scrappy fighters like Balkman, Jeffries, and Lee, is paying off pretty well. He gets a lot of reflexive hate, but there's a pretty nice team inside the wreckage, and it's emerging at the moment.

[SequSpur]

Nets are on cruise control. They will win 10 games in a row.

[Mr. Body]

Nets are on cruise control. They will win 10 games in a row.

Without a big man? I don't think so.