Re: [Celtics' Stuff HOOPSWORLD - Atlantic Predictions

[Celtic4Hire@xxxxxxx]

This guy really shows why he is a Not-ready-for-prime-time performer. A true 
cop-out is to derate a team by predicting one of their stars are going to be 
injuried. By that way of thinking, why not predict Shaq won't recover from 
his injured toe and derate the Lakers? Of course he wouldn't do that to the 
world champion Lakers. I don't mind derating a team for players that are 
recovering from injuries as a correctly did last year with the Heat. But this 
just shows he couldn't come up with anything legitimate. If anything, having 
three stars gives you a much better chance of overcoming an injury to one of 
your stars. But he also declares that we won't get anything out of Vin.

 We are just an easy dog to kick right now. Everyone thinks it was a fluke 
last year and we got by from some other team's injuries. That's just fine 
because this young team needs to keep playing hungry....

DJessen33

> 1) New Jersey Nets - too much firepower for anyone in the East allows them 
> to repeat as Eastern Conference champs. 
> 2) Washington Wizards - Stackhouse plays nice and gets reigned in by the 
> master of all players, MJ. The big men on this team help it compete against 
> any team in the league. 
> 3) Philadelphia 76ers - Larry Brown and Allen Iverson both have someone 
> else to complain about other than each other as Keith Van Horn turns into 
> the legitimate second scoring option but is a true liability in Brown's 
> defensive minded schemes. 
> 4) Orlando Magic - Kemp drops thirty pounds and plays with a fire not seen 
> since his days in Seattle, Grant Hill spends the first half of the season 
> shaking off the rust and then actually turns out to be that coveted second 
> option to T-Mac which the franchise always hoped for during the 2nd half of 
> the season. 
> 5) Miami Heat - Heat ride two amazing rookies - Caron and Rasual Butler - 
> and amazingly climb the fence in the Division. Brian Grant excels at the 5 
> spot in replace of Mourning and Eddie Jones finally shows up to earn his 
> multimillion dollar contract. 
> 6) Boston Celtics - The Vin Baker experiment fails miserably while the team 
> also searches for some consistency at the point guard. Either Pierce or 
> Walker get hurt and the C's end up staring at the lottery a year after 
> pushing the Nets to the brink of elimination. 
> 7) New York Knicks -No one to play center. No one to play point guard. No 
> one to stop Allan Houston from throwing up bricks. No one to stop Spree 
> from choking Don Chaney. No one to stop the fans from continuing to chant 
> for Scott Layden's firing. No hope for the Knicks despite the second 
> highest payroll in the league.