dean456 wrote:1) How many wins will the Heat have in the 2021-2022 season? (back to a 82 game season)
53 wins
2) Will we make the playoffs this year? If yes - what seed will we be?
Yes, 3 seed
3) Who will be our top 5 leading scorers, and what will their PPG be?
Bam 23ppg, Butler 19ppg, Herro 18ppg, Lowry 15ppg and Robinson 13ppg (Could change if Oladipo comes back healthy)
I think Herro will start hot and as our leading scorer but teams will start giving him more attention as the year goes on and things will get tougher for him.
4) Who will be our best overall new addition (new to the rotation)?
Lowry
5) Who will be our best overall young/inexperienced player? (Herro/Strus/Omer/KZ/Vincent/2 way guys like Garret/Deeky)?
Herro
6) Which player will make the biggest improvement from last year?
Herro/Bam
7) Who will be the biggest disappointment?
Likely Morris or Robinson, not so much a disappointment but getting paid 15mil and staying relatively the same player might disappoint some.
8) What trades will we end up doing during the year (or even before the season starts)?
Not sure we will make a trade but likely pickup another backup PG or PF in the buyout market.
9) What will be the biggest surprise of the season? (positive or negative or both)
The fanbase will stop hating on Herro and We will be a really good offensive team.
10) What will our board posters write about Spo once this season is over?
4 time championship coach Spo
11) Predict a nice/interesting statistical nugget you can see happening with the team or a player.
Strus may average 10+ppg
12) Predict the weirdest moment of the season.
I have no idea? This question? Players still believing Covid conspiracies after 2 years?
13) Predict a RealGM Heat-board development you expect to see with a long time poster/s.
Nothing gonna change, we will continue to over react to everything say guys are trash and should be traded then say they are untradeable once they eventually develop and become serviceable/great players.
14) What will you consider a success/failure this year?
Failure - Not getting back to the ECF.
Success - Making the finals again.
15) What will be the biggest factor to impact our success or failure this year?
Oladipo coming back healthy and fitting in seamlessly, Bam staying aggressive and Herro to continue progressing offensively. But most of all staying healthy.
16) What are your picks for Eastern champions, Western champions - and finally NBA Champions?
Miami and LAL. Miami Heat 2022 World Champs.
17) Bonus playoff question - How far will we get in the playoffs and how will our season end?
NBA champions (Revenge season, Not bubble frauds)
Feeling pretty good about my predictions so far. Just want to point out my original prediction had us finishing with 53 wins not 52 wins.
- Had Herro making the most improvement
- Lowry being best addition
- 53 wins
- Strus averaging 10+ppg
- Fanbase no longer hating Herro
- Us making no big moves at the deadline.
- Robinson/Morris being the biggest disappointments
- We'll see about the playoff predictions.
Disappointed Bam didn't make the jump I thought he would. I thought Lowry would be more aggressive creating more opportunities for Bam to score throughout the season.
Also thought the Bucks and Nets would be ahead of us at the end of the year. Lopez being out for the season and No Vax Kyrie and Harden trade happening derailed things.