2013-2014 NBA Season

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by RockHardTen1985

Thats not true at all. They are loaded with talent, they have more talent then a lot of teams. If everything breaks well.... Irving and Bynum healthy, #1 pick pans out... Waiters and Thompson continue to improve, they can contend. Whats your issue with them? I mean I see you still have teams like Atlanta and Memphis being competitve, I dont think either of those teams make the playoffs. We shall see.

They just aren't that good. Irving has yet to prove he can play a full season. Didn't his 1st year in college, didn't his first 2 years in the NBA. Quick name his backup?
Bynum is incredibly fat right now and cant play more than 10 mins a game. Varejao is also coming off an injury and is always hurt. Waiters is not ready for primetime. Bennett doesn't look like he is in shape either. Thompson, Gee, etc are decent role players but hardly bigtime players. Jack was a nice signing and will help. They were one of the worst defensive teams in the game last year and have hardly addressed that besides hiring Brown to coach and getting Varejao back. Listen they are certainly better than they have been but only elite teams can win 55 games and they aren't that. Maybe 44 if everything breaks right and that would be a huge 20 game improvement.

Memphis won 56 games last year and is the easily one of the top 3 teams in the NBA on the defensive end. They added Mike Miller, Koufas and Jamal Franklin who are all upgrades and didn't lose anyone of note. Cleveland is not even close to Memphis.

Atlanta isn't close to Memphis either but are a solid team.