The Southeast division, Now the toughest division in the NBA?

[ziggy]

From the looks of it, I think so.

Orlando with the Howard / Nelson combo that punished us in the playoffs.
Miami with the Southbeach Superfriends and Mike Miller
Atlanta still strong with Joe Johnson, Josh Smith and Al Horford
The Wizards with the future rookie of the year along with Agent Zero

And of course The Bobcats :biggrin:

I think this is easily the toughest division, Agree or Disagree?

[Dcarnys]

I do, I thought the Southeast was the toughest divison the last two years too.

[dnbman]

It probably is. The Northwest division was the only other team last year with four playoff teams. While they had the harder Western Conference competition, they also had Minnesota who was horrible. Suffice to say, Washington should be superior to them this year. Then you could go down the line:

Miami > Utah
Orlando > Denver
Atlanta < Oklahoma City
Charlotte <?> Portland
Washington > Minnesota

This really depends on how well Denver recovers, Oklahoma City continues to build, and Portland gets its young pieces together. Even with a terrible Minnesota in the division, that top four has the potential to be fierce.

[Mustachio]

There is no question. This division is stacked now.

Which is why I wanted to make "the move" so bad. We are sitting ducks right now.

[bobcatniners09]

This is easily the toughest division and should be even tougher in years to come.

2 things that need to happen this season:

1. Bobcats return to the playoffs, 6th seed or better. I don't think we have a shot to beat Miami, Orlando, or Boston in a best of 7 series (as of right now), but any other team is a possibility.

2. Any team not named the Miami Heat needs to win the title.

[Toocool]

Absolutely. SE Division is now the toughest. Not just because of the Heat combo, but pretty much every team has gotten better...except for well...us.

But let's not loose heart yet. We have 2 months till the start of the season. In those 2 months, we have Jax, DJ, Hendo and UPS all working hard, with Crash out of the USA team, means he can rest up. Even if we don't make a trade, although we lost TC, we've got a much deeper bench as UPS+Hendo have improved alot. Hendo especially, his improvement from last year to this year has been tremendous.

[SirBobcat]

Definitely tough...last season 4 of the 5 teams made the playoffs!

[Mustachio]

Absolutely. SE Division is now the toughest. Not just because of the Heat combo, but pretty much every team has gotten better...except for well...us.

But let's not loose heart yet. We have 2 months till the start of the season. In those 2 months, we have Jax, DJ, Hendo and UPS all working hard, with Crash out of the USA team, means he can rest up. Even if we don't make a trade, although we lost TC, we've got a much deeper bench as UPS+Hendo have improved alot. Hendo especially, his improvement from last year to this year has been tremendous.


dude if we go into the season as we currently stand... we will be lucky to get 25 wins.

[ziggy]

dude if we go into the season as we currently stand... we will be lucky to get 25 wins.

Stache,

We did better than that with Jeff McInnis starting at PG and Sam Vincent calling the :airquote:plays:airquote: from the sideline.

[dvdbumpus]

From the looks of it, I think so.
The Wizards with the future rookie of the year along with Agent Zero

I have to disagree. It's going to be Demarcus Cousins! That "I drive 130 MPH" Evans and Cousins combo is going to be SICK!

Oh and Agent Zero...dunno about that guy. Oh and yes, if Sam Vincent can get us more wins with less talent, I think we'll make 40 at least.

[BlockParty]

Or Blake Griffin for ROY with an extra year to mature last season

[Toocool]

Stache,

We did better than that with Jeff McInnis starting at PG and Sam Vincent calling the :airquote:plays:airquote: from the sideline.

Quoted for the truth. Don't loose faith young child. We still have three strong core pieces in Wallace, Jackson and TT.

[spectre]

Quoted for the truth. Don't loose faith young child. We still have three strong core pieces in Wallace, Jackson and TT.

We know we have TWO. We hope we have three.

[bobcatniners09]

Arenas is not the same player, too many injuries.