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Thought I'd get it started with Stein's initially power rankings

http://espn.go.com/nba/powerrankings


1. Miami
2. Clippers
3. San Antonio
4. Chicago

5. Houston
The sense I get from most well-wired observers is that the new Rockets, as well as they seem to be meshing already, aren't going to be ready to contend for a title in Year 1 of the Dwight/Harden tag team. But Jeff Van Gundy, for one, is adamant that they can. Which has us re-evaluating.

6. Indiana
7. Brooklyn
8. Golden State
9. Memphis
10. Oklahoma City
11. New York
12. Minnesota
13. Dallas
14. Washington
15. New Orleans
16. Portland
17. Denver
18. Detroit
19. Toronto
20. Lakers
21. Atlanta
22. Cleveland
23. Sacramento
24. Charlotte
25. Boston
26. Milwaukee
27. Utah
28. Orlando
29. Phoenix
30. Philadelphia

I'd like to start off with a hearty "those pundits are idiots" putting Chicago ahead of us behind a who-knows Derrick Rose and oft injured Noah?
Deng, Boozer, Gibson, Butler, Hinrich, Dunleavy is better than our top 8?

San Antonio I can see being listed ahead of us, but I still think we'll be better than them.

I need to find time to sit down and calculate my predictions... The last year's just been nuts when it comes to time budgeting.

Gersson Rosas has been fired by the Mavericks less than three months after being hired.

My guess is that Cuban expected a "yes man," and wanted to keep control over day-to-day operations.

Does Morey rehire? I remember he quoted Gersson as being critical to his operations once..

On the other hand, you can never go home again.

Bring him back!

moofs wrote:Does Morey rehire? I remember he quoted Gersson as being critical to his operations once..

On the other hand, you can never go home again.

He brought back Brooks and Camby

Mark Cuban really is a dick

moofs wrote:I'd like to start off with a hearty "those pundits are idiots" putting Chicago ahead of us behind a who-knows Derrick Rose and oft injured Noah?
Deng, Boozer, Gibson, Butler, Hinrich, Dunleavy is better than our top 8?

San Antonio I can see being listed ahead of us, but I still think we'll be better than them.

I need to find time to sit down and calculate my predictions... The last year's just been nuts when it comes to time budgeting.

To be fair, every team listed in a the top 10 have legit chance of winning their division and maybe their conference. The talent gap is thin, at best.

I'm not sure if Chicago is better than we are, since we match up very well with them, but we don't match up well with the Heat, where as Chicago matches up very, very well with the Heat, as does Indiana (whom incidently, we will do okay against).

*EDIT* Welp, I guess Chicago doesn't match up very well with the Heat. Dangit.

lakers suck!

i forgot, FREE LEAGUE PASS PREVIEW. they best have broadband

Charles Barkley is cracking me up tonight!

"That team from New Orleans...I will not say that name."

And he has the Rockets in the top four in the West? Praise from Sir Chuckles?

Xavier Henry is looking nice as hell after he improved his handles.

spolgar wrote:Xavier Henry is looking nice as hell after he improved his handles.

i always claimed give any decent player free hands to shoot and hell have the same stats kobe has...

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NamelessHero wrote:

spolgar wrote:Xavier Henry is looking nice as hell after he improved his handles.

i always claimed give any decent player free hands to shoot and hell have the same stats kobe has...

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That's a bit mean

Henry honestly was a spot up shooter. Now he drives and leads face breaks. He had a good stroke in Kansas, had an NBA ready body, but never really developed his game until it was literally make or break with him this year with the Lakers.

Mr. E wrote:Gersson Rosas has been fired by the Mavericks less than three months after being hired.

My guess is that Cuban expected a "yes man," and wanted to keep control over day-to-day operations.

He wasn't fired....i was listening to 790am radio this morning and he resigned and Cuban wanted him to reconsider, but he felt it wasn't a fit for him...so Cuban really wanted him to stay.

My guess is that he did not have enough say then. Well whatever just bring him back.

Pacers are tough.


Man I'm glad the games are back

Root for the Lakers tonight against the Warriors...glad they beat the Clips last nite

Game is not even over and KD has gone to the line 16 times

Klay is beating the Lakers


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Heat lost to Philly. MCW fscked around and almost got a quadruple double.

Nets lose to Cavs...

Mavericks get the hawks in STYLE... Monta, Dirk and VC had big nights...

And the Spurs Grizzly game was over by the first half. Don't let the score fool you.

MCW had an insane game. I saw pretty much most of that game before our game. He's got terrific length. I'll be honest, based on what I had seen before, he looked like a high turnover prone inefficient sort chucker. But he can be disruptive defensively, and definitely has talent. Only one game, but that's a pretty remarkable game. How many rookies almost drop a 20 pt NEAR quad-double on a team that's expected to be the worst-in-NBA-history sort bad to beat the defending champs in the first game of their career? Good stuff.

I saw a little bit (the ending primarily, and start of first) of the Brooklyn game. Deron was definitely rusty. Cleveland has got some nice talent, Tristan Thompson has looked great in pre-season, and looked good again today, too. I'm real surprised Bynum got some burn...

I was intrigued to see the Detroit team. TBH, thinking of a team with Jennings and Smoove as your leading shot takers is a scary though. Monroe was good, and Smoove has admittedly been knocking down perimeter shots (today and preseason). I think Billups was a real underrated acquisition though, he's a really stabilizing force for them.

Love is a beast. Hit the three to send it to OT. Was able to tune it right at that moment. KMart reunited with Adelman is gonna put up points. He struggled tonight, and still had 20.

Anthony Davis lookin good. Paul George taking his game to the superstar level? Dude had 24/6/5 in the first game, and 30/5/5 in this one. Durant could average 35+ PPG without Westbrook these first couple weeks of the season. 9-24 but had 42 points. Cousins also looked real good from what I saw in that 4th, nearly unstoppable. Lakers defense is horrible. And the Dragic/Bledsoe backcourt looked good...Dragic with 26/6/9, and Bledsoe with 22/7/6 or something along those lines. Miles Plumlee could be kinda underrated, he had a very good TRB% in his very limited minutes w/ the Pacers last season. If any advanced stat carries, IMO it's that one.

God I missed these NBA filled days.