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Wow...that's kind of amazing...and no explanations given for the seedings...
The 2009-2010 Western Conference playoff race went down to the wire for seeding two through eight.
Expect the same this year.
E xpect a few teams to shockingly be left out of the picture.
Let’s start with the teams that will likely make it past the regular season. Although it is too early to start predicting possible seeding arrangement come playoff time… wait, no it isn’t.
Here is what the playoff seeding arrangement will likely look like come the 2011 playoffs.
1.Los Angeles Lakers
2.Oklahoma City Thunder
3.Houston Rockets
4.Dallas Mavericks
5.Portland Trail Blazers
6.Denver Nuggets
7.Utah Jazz
8.Phoenix Suns
For more on this take a look at the following slide show.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/4...s-of-2010-2011
Let’s take a good look at the teams that did not make it to that list, focusing on New Orleans, Memphis, and San Antonio.
New Orleans will have a healthy Chris Paul back next year along with arguably the same roster of last year. This team will win its share of games and like come close to a 50 win season. I n order to make the Western Conference playoffs, it will take more than that.
Chris Paul and David West will anchor the team’s offense along sop res Darren Collison and Marcus Thornton. T hey will fall just short of a playoff seed and closer to an inevitable life without Chris Paul.
The Memphis Grizzlies have the same team back after re-signing of Rudy Gay. This team gave playoff teams a run for their money with a healthy roster. Once injuries attacked the team, their mediocre bench, to say the least, showed how this team does not have much potential out of the starting five.
After making no significant upgrades to their bench, you can expect this team to once again go on promising runs. Ultimately, another .500 season and no playoff berth.
The surprise of the day, and the reason for plenty of hateful comments to come:
T he San Antonio Spurs will likely miss out on the 2011 NBA Playoffs.
Not only that, they will probably also miss a few more playoffs to come once the Duncan era is over.
It is time for San Antonio to hand the gloves, trade their veteran potential for young potential, and start executing a rebuilding plan.
But it will not happen this season.
This team will come out with a mission.
A mission that will ultimately fail.
The Spurs will go down as one of the best sports dynasties of all time.
All great things come to an end. This is the year it ends for San Antonio.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/4...ams-likely-out
I posted this so all of you can remeber this at the start of the 2011 playoffs and make this idiot eat his words. Also if anyone has account bleacher you can say something now
Wow...that's kind of amazing...and no explanations given for the seedings...
Something is rotten in the state of the Bleacher Report.
I just wrote to the editor about this idiots posting things without facts.
lol rockets, suns ahead of the spurs? let alone the mavs the spurs defeated in the playoffs...
Mavfan fail.
Despite the "dissappointments" from this offseason, I don't think that last year's team is better than this year's. A rested TP/Manu, Splitter, and hopefully less frequent injuries can surely go a long way when most Western teams had lackluster offseason's too.
Lakers, Thunder, and Mavs (since they always put up a fight against us) are the teams to watch...maybe Houston too, they're well coached. But enought to kick us outta the playoffs? Nahhhhh
haha no
Directed at more than just the OP.....please stop posting stuff from the Bleacher Report.
Pretty please?
Any homer or writer can write a blog in bleacher report, don't think over it too much.
Well, it's difficult to argue with the writer's logic. He says the Spurs will miss out on the playoffs because ... ehm, well:
LMAO at Rockets getting the 3rd seed
@ report.
Last edited by Texas_Ranger; 07-21-2010 at 05:44 AM.
ahahah Jazz & Suns...over us Really!!??
That site is a joke!.
as long as GDP are on this roster
there is no 'in way they will miss the playoffs
not to mention this is a better roster than last year
so funny the Suns without Amare over us?
Rockets @ 3rd ? This guy is a clown
We are going to the playoffs again, whether he likes it or not !!
Consider the source and... move on. Spurs will continue their 50 games won streak and playoff appearances. The team is better this year, especially with RJ back with more experience, and the arrival of Splitter.
There. This is just my opinion, or is it? Could it be a Bleacher-Report?
Replace the Rockets with the Spurs on that list, and I agree with it.
Wow, so a team that improved in it's weakest 2 areas last year--interior defense and outside shooting, has it's main players all rested for the first time in a long time coming into the season, that started to come together the last quarter of last year is going to do worse in a conference that got weaker? Great insight, eh?
The league should be hoping the Spurs make the playoffs. Spurs have done pretty damn well with their last several lottery picks (Duncan, Elliott, Willie Anderson, Admiral)
The Suns just are not good enough. Also, I think Portland and Houston are too brittle. Injuries will take them out of contention. The Spurs will not be on the playoff list only if Pop goes small too often and once again wears TD down by the end of the season.
Utah Denver and Phoenix all weaker in 2011
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