Will Morey's prediction be proven right, or proven wrong?

definately over 50 wins. i donot see them winning less than 50 games, they have 3 franchise players in the same team, no matter who they end up with to support them. they will be more likely to outplay most of the teams.

 

Haralabos Voulgaris makes a living betting professionally on NBA games.

http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/po...nal-gambler-s-take-on-the-tim-donaghy-scandal

He's predicting Miami wins ~64 games with Wade, Bosh, James and 9 scrubs.

With the addition of Mike Miller, he's saying that it's over for the rest of the league.

http://aloneinthecorner.com/

 

People had the same doubt when the big 3 teamed up in Boston. Miami is gonna win 60+ games.

 

Miller makes them significantly better. What's important with a team like that is you have players who can score when your three stars need a rest. Let's not forget that Tmac, Yao, Battier with scrubs like Juwon Howard and Rafer Alston got the 4rth seed in the west.

 

60 wins for sure.

 

The big 3 Celtics has one of the best defenses in the league lead by one of the best defensive assistant coaches in the league.

Miami doesn't have a KG nor do they have any coaches who can handle their egoes.

Bosh has pretty much always been a loser, LBJ chokes in the playoffs, Wade is injury prone.

I doubt they will be better than the Celtics.

They got 1 thing going, The Awe factor

 

There's something missing with this team that I don't think will allow it to be a 60+win team-interior defense. This is the most significant difference between this trio and the Boston ones. 45+ ...sure, but not 60+.

 

This team will win 70 games if those guys are healthy. They didn't sign max contracts, so they should have room to add some guys. This is like the shaq kobe lakers. I mean other than shaq and kobe how many good players were there?

 

If they luck out with some rookies ala Celtics with Rondo and Perkins coming out big, they might have something.

But other than lucking out with some unproven players, who else in the market is there that can still play significant minutes?

Just take a look.
http://www.nba.com/freeagents/2010/

Rafer playing at point with Shaq in the middle?

 

regression analysis is a great measure of where you've been... but I'll side with Mr Stat IF he's shooting straight about his numbers..

B

 

hyperbole

 

The team will win 57-63 games.

Morey didn't anticipate that Wade, Bosh, and Lebron are all willing to take less money to help fill out the roster.

 

Morey's numbers were based on max contracts, which would leave no room for roleplayers other than vet minimums.

I am sure if Morey did calculations on the big 3 taking a discount($14 mil instad of $16.5 mil), it would show more wins.