Early Offseasons in Review 2016 Edition

[HartfordWhalers]

Last year's edition of this thread can be found here -- http://forums.realgm.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=1402501
As always, feel free to go through and see how right or wrong some of us were.

This year's edition will be headlined by bondom34m dbrandon and Hartfordwhalers. And Slava!

We will start next week with the Southeasten Division and I will be adding links in here where the placeholders are now:
Miami
Atlanta
Charlotte
Washington
Orlando
San Antonio
Dallas
Memphis
Houston
New Orleans
Golden State
LA Clippers
Sacramento
Phoenix
Lakers
OKC
Portland
Utah
Denver
Minnesota
Indiana
Detroit
Chicago
Milwaukee
Toronto
NYK
Brooklyn
Boston
Cleveland
Philly

If anyone is interested in having an early offseason review added to the OP of a thread, just send me a PM and I will send you the template we are adding our analysis to.

And thanks again to the great work of Chuck and PMOTT3 (now Hawk Eye) for doing such a great version of this last year that we had to follow in your footprints!

[Hawk Eye]

Just wanted to say thanks to HW for reaching out to me about this. Chuck and I had a lot of fun doing this last year. I would love to be a part of this again, as it was a lot of fun, but right now I'm juggling too many things in the real world to really have the time to do this. I definitely look forward to being a spectator this time around and seeing what you all have to say!

[Texas Chuck]

Just wanted to say thanks to HW for reaching out to me about this.

What!?!?!? He told me, and I quote, my services were no longer required and good luck with all my future endeavors.


In all seriousness tho I really look forward to these three guys putting these together and I'm excited about some of the guests we have coming in to do individual teams as well. Should be some great reading and I can't wait to tell them all how wrong they get everything.

[HartfordWhalers]

Just wanted to say thanks to HW for reaching out to me about this. Chuck and I had a lot of fun doing this last year. I would love to be a part of this again, as it was a lot of fun, but right now I'm juggling too many things in the real world to really have the time to do this. I definitely look forward to being a spectator this time around and seeing what you all have to say!

Atlanta is tomorrow.

Just wanted to say thanks to HW for reaching out to me about this.

What!?!?!? He told me, and I quote, my services were no longer required and good luck with all my future endeavors.


In all seriousness tho I really look forward to these three guys putting these together and I'm excited about some of the guests we have coming in to do individual teams as well. Should be some great reading and I can't wait to tell them all how wrong they get everything.

You can throw tomatoes at Miami today.

[HartfordWhalers]

Charlotte is up.

Keep having some great fans of the team's fill in and give their insights, and if you are interested in being one of those for an upcoming team just let me know.

[HartfordWhalers]

Dallas is up.

[HartfordWhalers]

Memphis is up.

[HartfordWhalers]

GS is up.

Next week should be fascinating with the Clippers, Sacramento and Phoenix.

[gom]

You guys are doing an amazing job! I'm very impressed. Keep it up! Pretty please.

[Statlanta]

I'm with gom in that I like the reviews you guys give and the fair option of getting a fan to judge the offseason. It looks like a cool project that I somewhat wish got the traffic of the team/general boards just to have pertinent conversations.

[HartfordWhalers]

Phoenix is up.

Next week is Sac/LAL/OKC.
After that we finish the West with Utah/Den/Minn.

(I still have no idea how Portland jumped up in order)

If anyone is interested in doing a review for one of the remaining above West teams, or one of the 10 East teams we haven't gotten to let me know. I already have a great submission for Indiana!

[HartfordWhalers]

Utah is up, and I have organized all our win totals into a spreadsheet for making fun of us later. =D

[tmorgan]

Really enjoying these. Thanks!

[HartfordWhalers]

Just 5 left.

[HartfordWhalers]

Wins predicted through 25 teams:

Hfw 1060
bondom34 1081
dbrandon 1149
Slava 1120

Looks for these totals to get adjusted when we finish all 30 and need only 1230 wins.

{dbrandon would need 16 wins a piece for the Sixers, Nets, Knicks, Celtics, and Cavs to be on pace.}

[HartfordWhalers]

Final Grades:

A+ GS

A Miami, Dallas, Utah

A- Charlotte, Denver, Minnesota

B+ Boston, San Antonio, Memphis, OKC, Portland, Detroit, Toronto

B LA Clippers

B- Phoenix

C+ Atlanta, Orlando, New Orleans

C Washington

C- Chicago, Cleveland, Houston, Philly

D+ Sacramento

D Brooklyn, Indiana, NYK

F Lakers, Milwaukee

[HartfordWhalers]

Final Grades:

A+ GS

A Miami, Dallas, Utah

A- Charlotte, Denver, Minnesota

B+ Boston, San Antonio, Memphis, OKC, Portland, Detroit, Toronto

B LA Clippers

B- Phoenix

C+ Atlanta, Orlando, New Orleans

C Washington

C- Chicago, Cleveland, Houston, Philly

D+ Sacramento

D Brooklyn, Indiana, NYK

F Lakers, Milwaukee

Updated with all 30 teams. And my win totals are in the prediction thread

[HartfordWhalers]

Letting this unsticky.

[HartfordWhalers]

Okay, links are all in the OP. Any besides OKC worth bumping to discuss something last second new before the season starts?

[HartfordWhalers]

Philadelphia just got a quarter pole update.

If anyone is interested in updating for a team, feel more than free to grab a thread and post a 20 games in update.