Hm raptors are ranked too low. Do you guys really see us loosing more games than the bucks? Clips and hell even Utah? IMO we should be either 20 or 21 http://www.nba.com/features/power_rankings_sept05.html
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting PlaTsanity:</div><div class="quote_post">Do you guys really see us loosing more games than the bucks? Clips and hell even Utah?</div> Yes...... yes I do. We had a tough time beating the Bucks last season and now they added Bogut, Simmons, and a healthy Ford. The Clippers have Brand, Maggette, Livingston and now have added Cassell and Mobley..... we also had a tough time beating them last season. Don't sleep on Utah either. They were a disappointment last season but a team consisting of Deron Williams, a healthy Kirilenko, and Boozer is still a pretty good one. I'd say the ranking is fair, in fact, I wouldn't be too surprised if we end up even lower. With the addition of Joe Johnson and Marvin Williams, I think the Hawks could surprise some teams this coming up season.
^ If their swingmen experiment works. But yes, the power rankings are within reasonable range, unless either of Graham or Villanueva turn into something special relatively early in the season that is.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting dunksworth:</div><div class="quote_post">Yes...... yes I do. We had a tough time beating the Bucks last season and now they added Bogut, Simmons, and a healthy Ford. The Clippers have Brand, Maggette, Livingston and now have added Cassell and Mobley..... we also had a tough time beating them last season. Don't sleep on Utah either. They were a disappointment last season but a team consisting of Deron Williams, a healthy Kirilenko, and Boozer is still a pretty good one. I'd say the ranking is fair, in fact, I wouldn't be too surprised if we end up even lower. With the addition of Joe Johnson and Marvin Williams, I think the Hawks could surprise some teams this coming up season.</div> I agree with what you said. The rankings are fair and if Toronto places lower than projected, I wouldn't be too surprised.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting PlaTsanity:</div><div class="quote_post">Hm raptors are ranked too low. Do you guys really see us loosing more games than the bucks? Clips and hell even Utah? IMO we should be either 20 or 21 http://www.nba.com/features/power_rankings_sept05.html</div> Well considering that baring injury, the Clippers and Utah are both better teams than us, then yes. The Clippers won more games than us in the West last season, and had their PG's injured for a lot of the year, no Kittles, and Maggette out every other 3 games. They were at .500 till Maggette went out [while the PG's were out too], and they lost 8 in a row. They added Cassell, Mobley, could possibly stay healthy, and Livingston will be better. The Jazz were injured all yea, both Boozer and AK. They won 7 less games than us [in the West], and their 2 best players played 51 and 41 games, out of all their PG's, only Eisley played up to 60 games, and Raja only played 63 games. I think it's reasonable to say they're better. The only teams I personally can say we're for sure better than are: Atlanta Hawks Charlotte Bobcats New Orleans Hornets Portland Trailblazers is questionable, they're in a similar situation except with a lot more talent/youth, but less experience overall, we should be better. I'm really interested to know what some people's expectations for the team next season are?
I see us finishing about 23-24 in the league. Even though there aren't many teams worst then us on paper, there are always teams that don't live up to expectations or have a ton of injury problems. A lot of the teams at the bottom are basically interchangeable, especially if their one and only star goes down to injury.
This team we have right now is better than the team we had at the end of last year, but I don't know if we're going to have more wins than we did last year (33). Many teams in the East have improved so much this season and are just in a better posistion to win, so the Power Rankings don't come as a surprise. We're at right around where we should be in the rankings.
I can see us doing really badly, or if Joey Graham and CV31 work hard and mesh well with the team, then we can go somewhere.
Other than the Hawks and Cats, who are we really better than in the east?? We're ranked about right, although I'm cautiously optimistic about this season.
