I'm surprised people are voting for the Warriors. Why? They have no big men other than Duncan, and Hedo is the starting PF. He's a wingman. A SG/SF. Not even a combo forward.
Didn't J_Ray argue against Hawes in one of the first draft vote threads? Sac has no one that can be trusted with the ball to get clutch baskets and can be zoned out of a game because they lack shooting threats. Jack is a horrible penetrator and more likely to dribble the ball off of his foot than make a good decision. Now playing LWill the majority of the time will give the team someone that can get into the lane, but the lane will already be crowded. Marvin and Bosh operate in the same offensive space so playing them together is problematic. If Golden State had a legitimate 3rd big man, I'd see them as a real threat in the playoffs. My team obviously depends a lot upon Nene and I doubt there are many fans of his here.
I've got experience going for me. All of my players outside of the two rookies have playoff experience and I'm not 100% sure here but I can't recall anyone in the Kings roster having any playoff experience past the first round. My centerpiece, Tim Duncan, has never been eliminated in the first round and has a host of hardware to evidence this. Jason Kidd, while yes rather washed up, still has led a team into 10 Finals games. Those are two of the greatest leaders of their era. Stack, too has some Finals experience in that veteran head of his. We've got reliable crunch-time performers in Jason, Timmy, Turk and Stackhouse. The killer instinct and hunger's right there. Defensively, Timmy's obviously our main man holding the fort down low. Noc should be able to help out on the perimeter well enough and Kidd, though he has without question lost a step or two, should be able to hold his own against most large guards in the league. This may have come too late but I might as well have done it. This is a playoff team. EDIT: CJ Miles is the lone exception to the bolded statement.
It's regular season, old teams usually save some of their stuff for the playoffs Also even though they have experience, your team still has a glaring weakness the Spurs didn't have, you have Hedo next to Duncan, not a complimentary scrapper big. Then your post depth is horrible with two rookies, one that's an extremely big project. You expecting Duncan to log 40+ minutes a game for a whole season?
its the warriors by a mile, if we are just talking about right now. dont know if im allowed to vote though.
