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So everyone can attempt to get familiar with what each team will be putting out on the floor every night I thought it would be useful to have fans of each teams post what the projected startling lineups and key reserves will be for next season.

With Marbury (Doubtful)
Marbury/Duhon/Robinson/Collins/Roberson
Crawford/Richardson/Robinson
Chandler/Gallinari/Richardson/Jeffries
Randolph/Lee/Gallinari/Jeffries/Rose
Curry/Lee/Randolph
Bold = Starters
Italics = Others in the rotation
Others - Jared Jeffries, Mardy Collins, Malik Rose, Anthony Roberson, Jerome James

Without Marbury
Duhon/Robinson
Crawford/Richardson
Chandler/Gallinari
Randolph/Gallinari/Lee
Curry/Lee

I think its a possibility that Richardson starts opening night instead of Chandler but we will see. I aslo think the team would be better off starting Lee over Curry and having Curry come off the bench to beat on the second units and keep the offense afloat while some of our starters rest. D'Antoni has shown in that he will play players out of their natural position if it makes the team better (Marion at PF, and Amare at C). The Knicks still need to make at least one move, either moving one of Curry, Lee, Randolph to give more of a role to Gallinari for next season, moving Marbury to make room for new free agent Duhon to share the point guard role with Roberson, Robinson, Crawford and Collins. D'Antoni ran 7 and 8 man rotations with the Suns but with the Knicks there is more depth so who knows if he makes changes or continues to play 7 or 8 men and not play some guys that are used to getting minutes.

What are other teams depth charts and rotation conflicts?

should definitely send Mardy Collins to Orlando

Orlando Magic
PG: Jameer Nelson/Anthony Johnson
SG: Mikael Pietrus/JJ Redick/Keith Bogans/Courtney Lee
SF: Hedo Turkoglu
PF: Rashard Lewis/Tony Battie/Brian Cook
C: Dwight Howard/Marcin Gortat/Adonal Foyle

Portland Trailblazers

PG: Blake, Bayless, Rodriguez
SG: Roy, Rudy
SF: Webster, Outlaw, Batum
PF: Aldridge, Frye, Diogu
C: Oden, Przybilla, LaFrentz

Full Team

5) Andrew Bynum/Chris Mihm/
4) Pau Gasol/Josh Powell/Vladimir Radmanovic
3) Lamar Odom/Trevor Ariza/Luke Walton
2) Kobe Bryant/Sasha Vujacic/Coby Karl/Joe Crawford
1) Derek Fisher/Jordan Farmar/Sun Yue

In Game Rotation

5) Andrew Bynum/Pau Gasol/Chris Mihm
4) Pau Gasol/Lamar Odom/Josh Powell/
3) Lamar Odom/Kobe Bryant/Trevor Ariza/Luke Walton
2) Kobe Bryant/Sasha Vujacic/
1) Derek Fisher/Jordan Farmar/

Miami Heat

Mario Chalmers/Marcus Banks
Dwyane Wade/ Daequan Cook
Shawn Marion/James Jones/Dorell Wright/ Diawarra
Michael Beasley/Udonis Haslem
Mark Blount/Magloire/Joel Anthony/Zo*


* hopefully January '09

Timberwolves

C Al Jefferson
PF Kevin Love
SF Mike Miller
SG Rashad McCants
PG Randy Foye
6 Ryan Gomes
7 Craig Smith
8 Corey Brewer
9 Sebastian Telfair
10 Rodney Carney
11 Jason Collins
12 Chris Richard
Brian Cardinal
Mark Madsen

Sixers

C - Dalembert/Ratliff/Smith (injured)
PF - Brand/Evans/Speights
SF - Young/Iguodala
SG - Iguodala/Williams/Green/Rush
PG - Miller/Williams/Ivey

Raptors

Bigmen
Starters
C/PF- Jermaine O'neal
PF/C - Chris Bosh

First and probably only big off the bench
C/PF Andrea Bragnani

Deep depth and injury
PF -Kris Humphries
C -Nathan Jawai


Swings
Starters
SF - Jamario Moon (possible Kapono, to be determined at camp)
SG- Anthony Parker
First Swing of the bench
SF- Jason Kapono
Deep depth and injury
SG - Hassan Adam
SF - Joey Graham
SG? Roko Ukic has the size to play SG

Point
Starter
PG - Jose Calderon
Backup
PG- Roko Ukic or PG- Willie Solomon (to be determined at camp)

Analysis
We have a very good, very skilled big man rotation. We could go to stunningly good if Bragnani goes back to his (runner up for the Rookie of the Year award) form of his first year or actually improves on that and shows why he was the number one overall pick, and O'neal stays healthy.

Our SF rotation is not the huge weak link most people including many members of the Raps board make it out to be. Kapono and Moon have their different strengths and weaknesses and compliment each other nicely. Not a strength but not an exceptional weakness.

Our SG is very weak. Parker is a good glue SG, but we have literally no proven or even very decent backup. When you need backup minutes from Hassan Adams or play out of position players like Ukic, Solomon, or Kapono then you are in trouble. We can just pray Parker stays healthy. (the fact that I just typed that sentence in all seriousness shows how weak we are)

Our PG spot is solid provided Calderon stays healthy.
Ukic and Solomon competing for the backup are talented enough if unproven to provide decent minutes off the bench.

Devilzsidewalk wrote:Timberwolves

C Al Jefferson
PF Kevin Love
SF Mike Miller
SG Rashad McCants
PG Randy Foye
6 Ryan Gomes
7 Craig Smith
8 Corey Brewer
9 Sebastian Telfair
10 Rodney Carney
11 Jason Collins
12 Chris Richard
Brian Cardinal
Mark Madsen

Geez thanks!

INDIANA PACERS

PG Terrance Jerrod Ford aka The Quickest Man in the NBA
SG Mike Thugleavy, II
SF Danny "Power Ranger" Granger
PF T-Murda
C RASHO

6th Double J, Jarrett Jack
7th Oden's Daddy
8th Feisty Foster
9th B-Rush
10th Quisy for Threesy
11th "Sugar" Shawne Williams
12th Maceo Baston, aka The Journeyman
13th Ballboy Diener
14th Joshua McBob
15th Joey's Graham's more talented identical twin brother

No room for Mel Mel the Abuser.

Detroit:
PG: Billups(33)/Stuckey(15)/Bynum/Hunter
SG: Hamilton(33)/Stuckey(10)/Afflalo(5)
SF: Prince(35)/Hermann(10)/Afflalo(3)/Sharpe
PF: Mcdyess(15)/Maxiell(20)/Amir(13)
C: Sheed(28)/Brown(15)/McDyess(5)/Samb

Sacramento, a.k.a. Land of the Midget PF

PG: Beno Udrih/Bobby Jackson/Bobby Brown
SG: Kevin Martin/Quincy Douby/Francisco Garcia
SF: John Salmons/Francisco Garcia/Donte Greene
PF: Mikki Moore/Jason Thompson/Shelden Williams/Shareef Abdur-Rahim/Kenny Thomas
C: Brad Miller/Spencer Hawes

A few notes:
1. Brad Miller is suspended for the first five games, and Hawes will be starting. If Hawes shows that he's ready and produces well, it's possible Miller is traded for expirings/picks/youth.

2. Mikki Moore is the starting PF for now, but Thompson is 1932589712498234 times more talented, so it's probable that he becomes the starter sometime during the year.

3. Anyone need an undersized PF?

Houston Rockets

PG - Rafer Alston / Steve Francis / Aaron Brooks
SG - Tracy McGrady / Brent Barry* / Luther Head
SF - Ron Artest* / Shane Battier / Patrick Ewing Jr.*
PF - Luis Scola / Carl Landry(FA) / Chuck Hayes / Joey Dorsey* / Mike Harris
C - Yao Ming / Dikembe Mutumbo(FA)

* - new additions

Cleveland Cavaliers

PG's: Mo Williams-Delonte West-Daniel Gibson-Eric Snow

Wings: LeBron James-Wally Szcerbiak-Sasha Pavlovic-Tarence Kinsey

Bigs: Zydrunas Ilgauskas-Ben Wallace-Anderson Varejao-JJ Hickson-Darnell Jackson

14th and 15th guys: Lance Allred(C), Billy Thomas(SG)

expirings: Eric Snow, Wally, Varejao- At least 2 of these guys will be dumped in trades

Boston Celtics

Rondo/House/Pruitt
R. Allen/ Tony Allen/ Giddens
Pierce/Miles/Walker
Garnett/Powe/Scalabrine
Perkins/Davis/ O'Bryant

Los Angeles Clippers

PG - Baron Davis/Jason Williams/Jason Hart/Mike Taylor
SG - Cuttino Mobley/Eric Gordon
SF - Al Thornton/Ricky Davis
PF - Marcus Camby/Tim Thomas/Paul Davis/Steve Novak
C - Chris Kaman/Brian Skinner/DeAndre Jordan

That Clippers lineup looks pretty good actually, a very good defensive team with plenty of offensive weapons. Camby has a decent mid range game now so he and Kaman should be pretty good together with Camby playing off ball defense getting alot of blocks. They will be competitive.

prekazi wrote:Cleveland Cavaliers

PG's: Mo Williams-Delonte West-Daniel Gibson-Eric Snow

Wings: LeBron James-Wally Szcerbiak-Sasha Pavlovic-Tarence Kinsey

Bigs: Zydrunas Ilgauskas-Ben Wallace-Anderson Varejao-JJ Hickson-Darnell Jackson

14th and 15th guys: Lance Allred(C), Billy Thomas(SG)

expirings: Eric Snow, Wally, Varejao- At least 2 of these guys will be dumped in trades

If i was the cavs, i would have

pg - Mo williams
sg - Delonte West
sf - LBJ
pf - Ben Wallace
C - Big Z

Delonte plays very good with LBJ in my opinion.

C Mehmet Okur / Jarron Collins / Kosta Koufos / Kryrlo Fesenko
PF Carlos Boozer / Paul Milsap
SF Andre Kirilenko / Matt Harpring / CJ Miles
SG Ronnie Brewer / Kyle Korver / Morris Almond
PG Deron Williams / Brevin Knight / Ronnie Price

have the cavs officially signed Delonte West yet or may he still bolt to Europe or even another team (they were looking at sign and trade options last i heard).