[Grantland] Bill Simmons/Jalen Rose Analysis of NBA Teams ('13-'14)

You mean as good as Durant, don't you?

 

He thinks the Hawks will be worse than the Bucks? Not sure I agree with that

 

The Gold Club, NBA's 31st team :grin:

 

They need to just release them all at once. Everyone is doing it. It's not like it will affect the view counts.

 

Did you even watch the video? He's predicting the Hawks will have a slow start and Al Horford will end up getting traded.

 

Nope they should do one of the Rio Grande Valley Vipers.

Best DLeague team of the last 3 seasons. Could be better than the 76ers if Stern allows Morey to lend our 11th to 13th players to them as well, and allows Morey to sign a couple more vet minimum players there.

For $10M per season (excluding Rockets secondments), Morey could probably field a team at the Vipers better than the 76ers, which is probably by Hinkie's design anyway.

 

Clairvoyant Bill was horribly unfunny at the start and inexplicably keeps getting funnier every new time he comes on screen.

 

Oh. Well no I didn't watch the video yet because I was in class. If that's what he thinks, then that makes more sense.

 

Bill Simmons is a gossip writer. No way he has any credibility on anything basketball related

 

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I love Bill Simmons, but I have no clue how he can put a team with a legitimate star player behind a team like Milwaukee.

 

predict Lakers will be next

 

Why? They had the same star player last year. Yes, he will be even better than he was last year, but the talent around him is not much different. Waiters will also be improved, Thompson's ceiling is not very high, who knows with Bennett, and every other valuable player on that team has a history of injuries. Do you expect Bynum or Varejao will play half of the season? Sure, they have the potential to be better than a team like Milwaukee, but it's a safer bet that Milwaukee will continue being an 8th or 9th seed in the west than for Cleveland to rise from the bottom to near-bottom that they've been since Lebron left.

 

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Blazers were a great team last year until their starters got burned out from playing so many minutes. Now they have a deep bench and have a good shot at the 8th seed