via David Aldridge's NBA Summer Rankings: Ranked them right above the Clippers and right below the Timberwolves (??!?!) Portland is positioning themselves nicely for a "came out of nowhere" run.
Oh, I thought that was a team ranking. It's just an offseason ranking, of moves done in the offseason.
More like getting pigenholed. It's like the media has this Josef Goebbels mentality of "If we hype major media markets big enough and long enough, they will dominate on the court. And if we repress or under report small media markets enough they will be destroyed regardless of their talent."
The media loves Pritchard, but Whitsitt did the same thing, in fact more. He quit at the start of May 2003, but hung around to 1) hold the fort together until Allen hired a president, 2) while waiting, strongly decided to turn down Cheeks, who was being offered his dream job, 76ers Head Coach, and 3) get the new guy Patterson through the draft (Outlaw) in late June, almost 2 months later. Pritchard, who had no choice anyway because he was under contract and is still collecting his money to this day for doing nothing, only stayed a few hours beyond his termination. Big deal.
He's picking a team that won 50 games despite losing 300+ games to injury as the 21st best in the league? Did he gather his hunch from Stephen A. Smith? oh well, whatever...a sports writer's projections have nothing to do with what actually happens. Besides that I've come to expect the yearly meh predictions STOMP
ahhhh... I stand corrected btw, the Warriors being sold to what seems like a decent ownership group would land them in my top 5... Cohan was awful STOMP
