09/10 NBA Predictions |
09/10 NBA Predictions |
Aug 10 2009, 12:41 PM
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I know it's a little early, but the off-season is winding down and there's nothing else to talk about before football starts anyways.
What teams do you think are going to be legit threats? Who are your sleepers? Who is going to underachieve? What players are due for a breakout? |
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Aug 11 2009, 02:15 PM
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McGrady wouldn't solve anything for the Pistons, especially with the dreaded "no timetable for return" tag from his knee surgery. They don't need another low-percentage/high volume jumpshooter with inconsistent defensive effort, they need a Boozer-type player that can get them 18-10 with a good shooting percentage. Actually, ideally they need someone a bit better defensively than that. The only real benefit from that would be cap relief going into next year.
Villanueva is going to kill them between his lackluster defense and rebounding and his low efficiency jumper-happy offensive game, especially since that's the bread and butter for Gordon, Hamilton and Prince as well. Every decent scorer they have will probably shoot 45% at best, only one of them hits 3's at a good clip and none of them draw a high number of free throws. That will likely make it hard for them to finish over .500 without some amazing D (which seems equally unlikely). |
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