Post#22 » by 165bows » Sun Sep 7, 2014 1:34 pm
One prediction I will make that I think people are sleeping on:
Toronto will have a higher seed than Washington.
I feel like Washington is being assumed the third seed when they only won 44 games last year in one of the worst conferences ever. They should have some internal improvement from their young back court, but they have big injury risks at the forward spots in Nene, Pierce and Martell Webster.
Toronto won 48 games last year after starting out 6-12 before the Rudy Gay trade. So the team they are returning was significantly better than last year's Washington squad. The team didn't change much but they don't have any older guys that are declining, and could see improvements out of Ross/Valanciunas.
For me they are the third seed until shown otherwise.