Well as the dust settles and guys are now signed some stayed
the same, some are new fresh faces in much needed places. Now there are a few teams I believe need to
be pointed out for their efforts Good or Bad.
The Pistons this offseason I am pretty
sure they wanted to make a big splash in the free agency pool. I don’t know if
I would call getting Josh Smith is a big splash. Well the one thing I can say is that they got
their man, also this is probably the best move they have made in a long time,
it should help. How much? Only time will tell with that. They also add Chauncey Billups (who should
have never been sent away) back to the team to help out this time in mentoring
the young guards, so he will come off the bench. They could have probably done
more. Pistons have a long road back to
the championship. Josh Smith and Chauncey Billups is a good step in that
direction.
For the Brooklyn Nets in the east they are
now top contenders, to a team who showed last season that they are for
real. A new coach and 3 three new
players later. The Nets look like they are really for real in the East
now. They wont be in the middle of the
pack I can tell you that. While adding
KG, Paul Pierce, and Jason Terry to fold, with the trade also brought a power
struggle to the New York area. Which in
my book as it stands the Nets are in the lead.
What these three veterans bring to the table is wonderful but, can they
win and win quick they all won’t be around for long. But it will be interesting none the least.
The Houston Rockets got their man. That’s what is great for the
organization. Dwight Howard made his
decision to move on to Houston mainly because they would change coaches and
they would move on from the Kobe era. So
he felt as if he would be better off with another team. The Rockets put all their eggs in this one
basket to make their team look awesome to get Howard this year; well it worked
like a charm. Now Houston has jumped
from the last position in the playoffs to fighting for West supremacy. I don’t think they will it all right off the
back it will be next season, then a again they may not win it all. We will see.
The Clippers is the team that has
created the most buzz this offseason quietly, but quickly. They have made the most strides to get their
team over that pesky middle of the road hump, and have now become a top
contender in the West. They keep their
main focus and that is Chris Paul. They
hold on to Matt Barnes and Ryan Hollins as well. But what is so amazing is that the Clippers
not only hold on to guys who helped them win last season, but they bring on
Darren Collison, Jared Dudley, and JJ Redick to improve the shooting overall
the for the team. This team is scary,
scary good can’t wait to see a new and improved lob city get down.
New York has been a big disappointment in these recent seasons.
They have not lived up to the hype. Melo
and Amare cannot play together (not that they don’t like each other) the
chemistry just isn’t there between the two of them. But it seems they are committed to winning
though. They have made some improvements
this offseason, like the arrival of World Peace and Andrea Bargnani so I think
they will compete but they will lose the battle of New York in my opinion.
Dallas Mavericks I am going to just come out and say it, what
is going on down in Dallas. Ever sense
the championship they won they gone down hill, and it is all given the fact
that Mark Cuban has let go of everyone who helped put them over the top there
in Dallas. So where do they go from
another disappointing offseason well from the Middle to the bottom at this
point. Now I won’t say that they didn’t acquire
some talent this offseason, but also will not say that the talent they did
bring on will help them get back to the Championship level they were once at. The talent they gathered up this offseason Monta
Ellis and Jose Calderon, but that won’t be enough. It will remain to be seen if it works out at
all.
The Lakers well what can we say about
them, they are in a state of emergency.
The Howard era has come and gone. Thank Goodness! But one era that should come to an end seems like it will never
come to an end, and that is the coaching era of Mike D’Antoni. But despite that
they are making strides to improve on a team that has lost the main person they
wanted to bring back. In light of
that, they have signed some solid guys to go along with the group they have
there. Like Wesley Johnson, Chris Kaman, and Jordan Farmar. But with that coach nothing is for sure. He is just not a proven winner.
Miami Heat in ways is still the team to beat. But they have not made any type of moves to
improve that front court. Without a
tougher front court the Heat just may get derailed. Now that is hard to say since the fact they
have won two straight with the same problems up front. Three will be hard to get without a good
solid big man up front. And not only
that you waive arguably your best shooter on the team, and you keep people like
Rashard Lewis, James Jones who barely get any time or really produce anything
at all. Starting to think they don’t
want to go for three in a row.
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