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Phoenix Suns, Miami Heat, Dallas Mavs [hardly], Detroit Pistons.
Looking to next year, we're going to have to deal with a more experienced Heat team (and we may well not have Elden coming off the bench), and a Pacers team with Artest (unless they get cold feet and shop him, or his head explodes again, which I don't expect to happen). I think we're going to need more bench depth to get past them.
Is there anybody in the West that worries you folks? Houston, with their three ex-Piston guards? Phoenix with a healthy Johnson? Just wonderin'...
Phoenix Suns, Miami Heat, Dallas Mavs [hardly], Detroit Pistons.
Phoenix, that's pretty much it. Getting Kurt Thomas is going to improve them immensly.
Denver scares me.
Dallas with Avery continually shaping them to give a crap about defense.
Cleveland
Indiana may get better
Miami I think will be the same.
If the Spurs can add a couple pieces, stay healthy.
We should be right back here same bat time same bat channel.
Don't forget the Rockets.
Everyone scares me. You know everyone is going to bring their A game when they play us next season. We will be the defending Champs, Baby!
I'm telling right now the team to beat out east is gonna be the pacers!!!!!!Even though the leadership of miller not being there will hurt, if onell stays healthy thery will be very good....They always give the spurs fits as well!!!!!!!!
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The Dallas Mavericks and the Indiana Pacers scare me the most. Indiana with Ron Artest and Dallas with a young and improved team with Avery as their coach scares me because all their best players can only get better.
The Pacers will need to find another good SG to fill Miller's void. He was not only a decent scorer, he was the veteran leader.
Stephen Jackson is their shooting guard and Jones is their backup. Indiana was tough for Detroit without Artest last year but with him who knows.
phoenix scares the out of me... if they resign johnson and get kurt theyr a much diff team.
Yeah they are a much slower team and can't exploit the matchups as well as with Richardson. Spurs will beat them either way.
I agree with the takes on indiana. With jackson starting at the 2 and artest at the 3 I think they are more dangerous then with miller at the 2.
In the east I don't see snaq stayin healthy so there are many if's with det. If lb comes back and if they can keep their starting 5 and some of their bench. Det is a factor.
In the west is where it will be again. dal, pho(although I'm thinking nash is gonna get hurt and their season will go to , den, sea (if they keep mcmillan and most of their core group), and possibly hou.
Sorry, but if the Pacers couldn't do it with Reggie Miller--I don't think they have a chance to do it without him. That is a big, big void to fill---and that includes the leadership, experience, and example he set for the team each season.
The only FAs we have this summer are Elden, Darvin and HoJo; everybody else will be back unless Joe starts dealing. The only question mark is the coach, which is admittedly a big one.
Actually I am curious about this. Do all of you Pistons fans believe that the Pistons can remain contenders, get far in the playoffs and/or Finals, without Larry Brown?
To be honest, each year (especially on the 3 yrs they won championships) I've been scared of west teams. Yet, the Spurs seem to always (most often than not) overcome however difficult a series is and win it.
So next year, nobody scares me much.
I believe in my Spurs and I know they're smart enough (Pop), tough and dominant enough (Timmy), energetic (Manu) and a defense powerhouse (Bowen, Timmy, Nazr, and everyone else) all enough to repeat over and over again.
Well, if the Mavs can ever get solidified, then they will be pretty worrisome, for you anyway.
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"Manu Ginobiturd".... I like it.
It's a point of concern, but I don't sweat it. Larry didn't have near as much to do with building this team as Joe Dumars did, and JoeD ain't goin' anywhere. Losing LB would be a huge hit, definitely....maybe even comparable to losing Grant Hill.
Spurs come to mind. And Houston...they impressed me in the first round even though they didn't pull out the game 7.
Phoenix is hard to say. They'll go one of two ways; Nash's crazy style of play and age catches up with him, he's dramatically LESS productive, and they go crashing downhill when Amare tries to create shots for himself....or Nash continues to play well, and they play out of their minds again. We'll just have to see.
Bolton as UN Ambassador.
Well, just talking the West, hands full. Amare Stoudemire will ALWAYS scare the living out of me, bruther.
West is tough...Dallas, Houston, Phoenix, Seattle..... Denver will be a beast next year..Minnesota could get their act back together.
It's going to be another tough road, bruther. Tougher than last on a few fronts...The repeat is no piece of cake.
I don't think Seattle and Phoenix will be as good as they were last season. Nash will turn Paytonesque next season, and Seattle will probably lose their coach and All-Star next season. Golden State will be next years Suns.
WTF? Didn't we just cakewalk the ing west?Anybody in the west worry you?
No.
The Spurs in 06 will be the best Spurs team ever.
Book it.
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