Hold on you knee jerkers & whiners.... We ARE the FAVORITES.... If Lakers don't get Kawhi.

Just have to rebound....that’s all

 

BetOnline title odds Western Conference

LA +300
HOU +1000
GS +1000
DEN +1600
LAC +1600
UTA +2000
POR +2500
OKC +2800
DAL +4000
NO +4000

It’s not just clutchfans homers

 

i still dont think lakers are gonna be as good as people think. they got no depth. that was one of the biggest things that made GS so great while their stars rested.

 

LOL we own them? Based off of what? Regular season games? So you are saying they owned us last year? So they were better than us the year BEFORE THEY TRADED FOR KAWHI? The east is not the "leastern conference" anymore at least not as far as the top teams are concerned. Raptors, bucks and sixers are at the minmimum as good as us. If not harden would have won the mvp last year.

 

yea remember how we were betting favorites to win game 6

 

We are nowhere near close to favorites no matter what Kawhi does

 

all those teams are younger and have made changes to improve but yea go ahead

 

OP must be a Rockets employee as he is following their modus operandi

Slef proclaimed favorites to win teh Western Conference next season
Self proclaimed favorites to land Jim Butler

 

I am not an MDA fan...
He is the Marty Schottenheimer of the NBA...
Unfortunately, MDA (and many on here) consider reg season stats and efficiencies as some kind of accomplishment - as opposed to realizing reg season is just training for the post season...

 

at least we don't have to deal with melo drama earlier in the season this time. i like our chances if CP can stay healthy..

 

What depth? We only resigned Rivers and Gerald so far. and have lost the rest of our bench. Hartenstein will for sure be elevated to a pivotal bench role, so let's hope he's ready for it!

You're really under-estimating the moves that Utah made
Utah:
Added starting PG Conley
Added Jeff Green who has shown he is a good bench role player on a contender.
Added Bojan Bogdanonic.. not bad
Added Mudiay... okay he is just a reclamation project but there is potential there as he is a minimum salary.

What really hurts is seeing some of thesep layers sign for 2.5m one year deals. Why couldn't the Rockets sign these guys like Jeff Green, or Dudley, or Finney-Smith?

I'm not too worried about Portland. they lost a lot of good pieces in picking up what looks really good in a vacuum.

Portland:
Added Hassan Whiteside but lost Kanter
Added Bazemore but lost Evan Turner
Lost Aminu
Lost Seth Curry

 

We are 4th in the West at best.

 

I blame him for too much ish already. Time to differ blame.

 

I'm definitely more confident with this roster going in to the season than the one we had to start last year. Obviously we're not done making moves so the deficiencies that people are pointing out are likely to be addressed.

It's just funny that any move a West team makes is instantly viewed as an improvement by some posters on here.

 

I agree with you. You may think we're the favorites, but we aren't. These other teams are building their rosters to, regardless of where Kawhi ends up. You can't count on that. We still will have to play hard and be able to execute our game plan moving forward, and that's if we'll have a game plan. We need to change up a lot of things including the way we play. This is not checkers, this is chess.

 

If Kawhi decides to join the Lakers I think he’s making a HUGE mistake. He’s already won two championships and has two finals MVPs...he may (probably IMO) end up winning more titles than Lebron. IMO he’s the best player in the league now that Lebron is finally starting to show signs of aging. He doesn’t need Lebron and AD to win a title...that’s clear by just looking at the rosters of the two teams he’s won with.

Further, I don’t think him and Lebron will get along. Everything that I’ve read/seen about it doesn’t make me think he’s the type of guy who will be bossed around by Lebron...IMO he should be telling Lebron what to do anyway. Just my two cents, I could be totally off base but just don’t see it being a good decision for him.

 

Exactly! The Jazz added Conley. The Blazers were playing without their starting center in the playoffs and they just added Whiteside, a 7’ shot blocker and rebounder to go along with a SF/PF rookie that could be the steal of the draft. The Lakers added AD to pair with Lebron and Kuzma. Today they added an energy guy, Dudley, and they still have max cap space to add another impact player, whether it’s KL or not. The Clippers added Harkless and could possibly add Kawhi. Then there’s Denver. They’re young and getting better.

To suggest we’re the favorites is way off base. He’ll we couldn’t beat the Warriors without KD and they just added D Russell. When Klay returns they’ll have a 3-headed monster to go along with one of the best PF’s in the NBA, Green. Nope, Houston is NOT the favorite to win the west.