<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">How excited will a team be to find itself slotted in the playoffs against the Wizards, missing injured standouts Caron Butler and Gilbert Arenas? They'd be thrilled. You can't tell me coaches don't think about their seeding. And do you really want to finish sixth in the East? You might end up playing the Raptors. You'd probably rather draw Cleveland, which is up and down, or Chicago, which has a big-time hole in its inside game. Toronto is a more complete team than those two. Even in West, if the Nuggets stay ahead of the Lakers -- you really want to play San Antonio? The best you can do is just play it out. Whether it's a 2-7 or 3-6 matchup, drawing the Nets would permit Toronto up to four chances to lustily boo Vince Carter. How about that? That would add some flavor to the series. Toronto is the rising team in the Eastern Conference, with GM Bryan Colangelo, coach Sam Mitchell and star Chris Bosh. I think they're timing their ascension well. Detroit's only going to go backwards the next few years, Miami is aging. Meanwhile, Toronto is making the steady climb, and if it adds some more pieces in the offseason, this will be a team that has chance to get to the finals. As opposed to the Nets, another team going in the wrong direction. </div> ESPN Daily Dime Take it for what its worth.
<div class="quote_poster">Drunkballer Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">ESPN Daily Dime Take it for what its worth.</div> It's called "Daily Dime" hence it is worth 10 cents.
<div class="quote_poster">AirJordan Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">It's called "Daily Dime" hence it is worth 10 cents.</div> Meh I think his argument is fair. Chicago lacks low post scoring and Cleveland is woefully erratic. All im saying is I think we really have modest predictions for how this team will fare but NBA analysts are taking notice as to our balance and depth.
I would say we're more balanced and consistent than Cleveland, but not Chicago. Aside from their lack of low post scoring, they really don't have too many weaknesses. And they do a good job of covering that up. Anybody notice how much coverage we've gotten today? ESPN had an article, this daily dime, and a podcast, CBS had a couple articles, and we've been real high on most power rankings. Feels cool.
Chutney <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">I would say we're more balanced and consistent than Cleveland, but not Chicago. Aside from their lack of low post scoring, they really don't have too many weaknesses. And they do a good job of covering that up. Anybody notice how much coverage we've gotten today? ESPN had an article, this daily dime, and a podcast, CBS had a couple articles, and we've been real high on most power rankings. Feels cool.</div> Winning is the Formula the scientist ordered. Winning cures everything. Call me crazy or over ambitious, but I truly believe that this team is good enough to make it to the Eastern conference finals this year if we stay healthy.
The only team right now that could beat the Raps in 7 games is the Pistons. Every other team in the East are questionable. But then there are the Heat and question marks around them. Though if the standings are the way they are now, the Raps could play either one of them, thats if they make it that far. I say at least make it to the second round in the playoffs. From that point on, as the season(s) go on, they can make it all the way to the Finals or win it all.
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Anybody notice how much coverage we've gotten today? ESPN had an article, this daily dime, and a podcast, CBS had a couple articles, and we've been real high on most power rankings. Feels cool.</div> That's what happens when you're a good team. We've complained in some poor seasons about lack of coevrage, but bad teams shouldn't really expect much coverage unless they have something else to make up for it.
We were spoiled when we were playing well and Vince was near his peak. We were in the media spotlight pretty consistently. Even when we weren't playing well, we were still getting a lot of attention because of the whole Vince situation.
