Players are starting to seep into the public eye again as training camp approaches, giving us a small reprieve from the torture that is AUG-SEPT in terms of NBA material.
While it’s too early to begin our official season preview (go read last year’s if you really need something), but we’re willing to go ahead and take small peeks into our brain’s thoughts on the 2006-07 season.
Also looking at what might happen is Charlotte 2nd-year PG Raymond Felton, who’s going out and dropping some serious predictions on the media.
“It’s playoffs. Definitely,” Felton said during a news conference to promote the Bobcats’ Oct. 17 exhibition with the Washington Wizards at North Carolina, where he played in college. “We have that type of talent. And I have that much confidence in my team.”
“I think so,” Felton said. “I know so.”
Allow us to remind you, we wrote a version of this post (aww…before we knew Photoshop, too!) when RF said this last year. Our point still stands 12 months later: ain’t no way.
Here’s your Eastern Conference Playoff line-up, and this is just off the top of our head, so excuse any factual and/or spelling errors:
Chicago, Detroit, New Jersey, Orlando, Washington, Milwaukee, Chicago, Cleveland.
Those are in order of how over-rated everyone will have them, the Bulls being the team granted the most unrealistically lofty status by far. (Ben Wallace isn’t adding 10 wins to a team that was already great defensively. CHI was 41-41 last year, if you care to recall.)
Anyway, if you’ll note, Indiana is out of the mix there, and assuming they’re battling with PHI, BOS, and maybe even NYK for that 8 spot, it simply doesn’t leave room for Felton’s band of merry collegians.
One thing we can definitely guarantee is that if he switched around his first/last names and became Felton Raymond, not only would nobody blink, but it’d be good for 4 or 5 wins, bringing the grand total to 32.
(The other obvious candidate to do this among not-quite-famous point guards is Chris Paul, who could then morph “Paul Chris” into “Polcris”, thus cementing his residence here in “the futureworld of 2007″ and starting the trend Nene couldn’t pull off.)
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I’ll bet that the kittens make it. Don’t sleep on Okafor, he’s due to break out this year and Gerald Wallace can ball. The Bobs are going to be good.
Who do you knock out from the 8 I named though? Orlando maybe, but you know Indy is probably gonna be in there instead of them, anyway.
Philly will blow, but should at least hold the course a little under .500.
It will probably be a battle between Charlotte, Milwaukee, and Orlando. I’d say Milwaukee misses out.
milwaukee??? wheres the heat in all this?
I think he meant to have the heat on the list…if you look again, you’ll notice he wrote chicago twice. Obviously one of those spots belongs to the heat…
The Heat are obviously lottery bound.
chicago’s there twice and miami isn’t there at all.
I always said that all Jordan needed was a great center and they totally would make the playoffs two times in the same year. Everyone thought I was “stupid” and “not smart” and “smelly”; but the Bulls get a noteworthy center, and look who’s smelly now! NOT ME.
Yeah that’s why I made that disclaimer about accuracy, etc.
The funny thing is I really meant to do it right and I still didn’t.
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