Top five disappointing teams and top five suprises

Where are the Golden State Warriors for surprise team?

 

top 5 disappointing teams for me:

1. Houston: hmmm.

2. Atlanta: I thought they would do a lot more with what they have on their roster this year.

3. Utah: they played good, that annoys me.

4. Clippers: didn't think they'd fall apart so early.

5. Washington: after they got Stack, I thought they'd be a lock for the playoffs. But everyone outside of MJ and stack are just sucking ass. No improvement from them since last year.

Surprises:

1. Phoenix: Marbury playing to his potential, even while starting out the season injured. Amare coming out strong. Didn't think those 2 factors would have been enough to lead them to a strong playoff chase.

2. Jay Williams: didn't think he would be the immediate stud the media dubbed him as, but i did think he would have more big games than he did.

3. Jerry West making a really ****ty trade.

4. NY becomming competitive, even in the EC.

5. that big run that Portland had.


oh, and Denver has 17 wins, not 27.

 

Phoenix shouldn't be a surprise, they have about the same talent level as the Rockets. If one's a disappointment, the other is too.

The Lakers are the biggest disappointment by far. It's really not close. Golden State is really the only surprise in the West.

In the East, even though it's not a real conference, you have to go with Boston, Milwaukee, New York, and Toronto as disappointments, and Indiana as a surprise.

I don't think any objective person can pick the Rockets as a disappointment this year. Certainly no one outside of Houston would think that.

 

They're the Rockets that were picked by prognosticators to be a bubble playoff team, and are trying to make the playoffs right now.

 

Nice level-headed analysis.

 

Actually Freak, Phoenix is a surprise to me because of the reasons I listed. Amare came out of nowhere, and I thought Marbury would struggle with his ankle injury, maybe even miss significant time because of it. Their centers suck, but their bench is pretty decent. If it wasn't for Amare, they would have no one creating shots in the post.

I wouldn't say the Lakers are a dissappointment, considering they don't give a **** about the regular season and Shaq was not himself for most of it.

GS didn't surprise me cuz they are loaded with talent, tho a lot of people might not notice.

And Boston isn't really a disappointment either imo, cuz the management surrounded Walker and Pierce with absolute crap.

The rox are a dissappointment for me, but not necessarily because of the possiblity of not making the playoffs, but because of their style of play(aside, I don't care what the prognosticators say, I think most of them are full of ****). Offense, defense, clock management, the break just hasn't progressed where I think it should be at this point in the season, let alone after having SF and Mobes for a few years. Yea, it is more of the same, but that's precisely the point. It just seems like they keep bumping their heads into the wall over and over. Not that there aren't any bright spots, but the negatives way outweigh the positives this year.

They have a LOT of work to do in the offseason.

Again, that's just my 2 cents, and I understand your take, but I would like to think I'm a lil level headed.

 

Nugz shouldn't be in the dissapointment list. Yeah, they don't have the worst record so they could pick up Lebron, but when was the last time the team with the worst record actually picked the 1st slot? We weren't even in the top 5 worst records for Ming if memory serves.

Besides, if the Rockets had the same attitude that the Nugz have, the Rockets would be a 4 or 5 seed right now.

 

Ugh remember preseason? You guys were talking finals or winning the west and that the Suns would be one of the worst teams in the league and all that BS.
Rockets can watch TV early.

 

Disappointing:

1. Clippers
2. Rockets
3. Wizards
4. Atlanta
5. Orlando

Surprising:

1. Utah
2. Minnesota
3. Golden State
4. Detroit
5. Pheonix

 

I agree with CK. Saying GS is surprising is like saying the Rockets would have been surprising as a sub-500 team last year.

GS sucked last year, and now they are where their talent should have had them all along. So, the are no longer underachieving, but they certainly aren't overachieving like Detroit. Hell, I'd but San Antonio in the surprise category, too. Dallas, too...way before considering any sub-500 teams with loads of talent (like Clippers) to be a surprise.

personally, I'm surprised that GS sucked so bad last year.

 

I don't see how anyone can possibly say GS isn't a surprise team. How many of you were seeing Arenas as the impact player he's been and showing this much progres? How many of you figured Murphy over the summer would totally rework his body and develop his game? Christ these are two candidates for MIP and you foresaw that and Arenas is probably their best player.

By reading the CC board before the season and the predictions made for the Rockets, the development expected of some players, I'd say most would have to put the Rockets in the top five disappointments. But top spot to me goes to the Clips. I really thought Miller would solidify that team and bring out the talen. Wrong.