alext42083

They'll be tough, but I think we're still a better team even with them having Baron.

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Kaman/Brand/Davis are not durable stars.......

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the mavs were coasting this season. after what happened the previous season in the finals, it was pretty clear that their number of regular season wins meant nothing. management just panicked and made a terrible trade for kidd severely hurting their future and present and putting them in a bad spot.

as long as the lakers aren't considering doing something similar, i'd expect them to still be around the top of the standings.

and really, i don't expect the clippers to be in the playoffs. baron and brand is nice, but they still have to replace maggette. and don't expect kaman to be putting up 15 and 12 sharing the frontcourt with brand. they are a fringe playoff team at best just like the warriors would have been(and will be if they sign arenas).

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Either are Roy/Aldridge/Oden

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Gosh, I forgot about Maggette too. They'll be very tough. No use denying it. They were going to be better this year, just with Brand being healthy. But now with Baron... uh oh.

alext42083

Maggette opted out of his contract, and I doubt the Clips can re-sign both him and Brand, and even Brand is iffy.

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I never said they weren't.....

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Correctly. They had to renounce Maggette to free up the cap room for Davis and Brand.

I don't see the Clippers as a playoff team, let alone a surefire one. Brand and Davis make a good duo, and Kaman is a fine supporting player, but beyond that they have very little. I don't expect Gordon to be an impact player in his rookie season.

They have a nice tandem, but little to support it. And Davis is likely to miss significant time to injury. It might be enough in the East, but not in the ultra-competitive West.

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I don't think this makes the Clippers significantly better, if they lose Maggette.

Plus, the Clippers will eventually screw something up.

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It makes the clippers better because last year they NO PG at all. Thorton can replace Maggette and they get Brand back. However I doubt Davis will be as effective in Dunleavey's offense as he was in a more wide open style in oakland.

mediocre man

Kaman is a damn good player, not a supporting one. If the Clippers stay relatively healthy they should easily make the playoffs.

The west is going to be tougher than last year.

Lakers
Clippers
Spurs
Mavericks
Suns
Rockets
Utah
Denver


All of those teams are as good if not better than Portland.

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The Professional Fan

This doesn't keep the Blazers from winning at least 50 games, and if winning 50 games in the West isn't good enough to make the playoffs (again), then it wasn't meant to be. I'd laugh my *** off if Portland won 50 games next season and found themselves in the lottery again. Hahaha.....

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I'd say Portland is better than Dallas, Denver and Phoenix. We will finish second in the NW Division.

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