Is a ring this year possible?

[buzzdog]

Possible? Absolutely, hell yes.

Likely? It's a very long season. Health is the biggest factor. This group has the mentality and disposition that they're going to figure out how to mesh better and better as the season progresses. We just need to have all our key players healthy and available come spring.

 

[Dr. Gymbo]

 

[-Akronite-]

Doesn't everyone who scores 41 in a game go from 1 to 41 in the same game?

Scoring 41 followed by scoring 1, not 1 to 41. I'm referencing Love's explosion against the Blazers where he put up 34 in the first and finished with 40.

 

[The Wizard of Moz]

Yes. This isn’t the 2015-2019 NBA. Teams are much worse now (thankfully) and there isn’t an obvious heavy favorite like those dumb Durant Warriors years

Nba is more balanced than it has been in a long, long time. I don’t see why the Cavs are worse off than the Celtics who are an obvious title contender

 

[Peacedog]

Giannis is the best player in the game. Show some respect.

Hmm. So how is it disrespectful to point out how weak their opponents have been so far? I'm not getting your logic here, help me out, ok?

 

[The Wizard of Moz]

Not really sure why there’s so much fear of the deer in this thread. I think the Celtics are the better team (they kinda showed that last year). Does a 7-0 start against a pretty mediocre group of opponents really mean a leap to you guys?

 

[JMoneyYourHoney]

Hmm. So how is it disrespectful to point out how weak their opponents have been so far? I'm not getting your logic here, help me out, ok?

Because the quality of their opponents this year thus far is irrelevant when they've won at the highest level.

 

[zDawg45]

Not really sure why there’s so much fear of the deer in this thread. I think the Celtics are the better team (they kinda showed that last year). Does a 7-0 start against a pretty mediocre group of opponents really mean a leap to you guys?

did you mean Bucks?

 

[bobbyh]

If they somehow get to the Finals I'd say they have a better chance than their first Finals appearance against the Spurs with lebron.

 

[The Wizard of Moz]

did you mean Bucks?

Yes their slogan is “fear the deer”

I don’t really fear them. They are no juggernaut. The 2016 Cavs or warriors team would gentlemen sweep this Bucks team at worst

 

[zDawg45]

Yes I think we can. Health is key but another big thing I think is who do we bring in at trade deadline? one key vet can take us to another level.

 

[MJTampa]

Not really sure why there’s so much fear of the deer in this thread. I think the Celtics are the better team (they kinda showed that last year). Does a 7-0 start against a pretty mediocre group of opponents really mean a leap to you guys?

The Celtics showed they were better by going 7 games against a Milwaukee team with no Middleton? Not seeing that. Feel like the Bucks would be back-to-back champs right now if Middleton was healthy.

 

[FrontPageNews]

Not really sure why there’s so much fear of the deer in this thread. I think the Celtics are the better team (they kinda showed that last year). Does a 7-0 start against a pretty mediocre group of opponents really mean a leap to you guys?

Because we have no answer for Giannis. He’d get our bigs in foul trouble within the first quarter if we tried to put them on him.

 

[Peacedog]

Because the quality of their opponents this year thus far is irrelevant when they've won at the highest level.

Nah, that's not logical. You can think the Bucks and Giannis are formidable AND recognize they've feasted on chumps through their first 7 games this season. Both statements are FACTS, and in no way conflict with one another.

Gonna say there may be only one poster on this board who predicted BEFORE the season that the Cavs would be the top seed, their two biggest threats in the East would be Boston and Milwaukee, AND that the 76ers were highly overrated. Can you guess which poster said all these things? So far, all of those predictions are looking solid.

 

[JMoneyYourHoney]

Nah, that's not logical. You can think the Bucks and Giannis are formidable AND recognize they've feasted on chumps through their first 7 games this season. Both statements are FACTS, and in no way conflict with one another.

Gonna say there may be only one poster on this board who predicted BEFORE the season that the Cavs would be the top seed, their two biggest threats in the East would be Boston and Milwaukee, AND that the 76ers were highly overrated. Can you guess which poster said all these things? So far, all of those predictions are looking solid.

Is this dude tooting his horn about end-of-year predictions SEVEN GAMES into the season? You can deride the Bucks' recent competition all you want, their core has made several deep playoff runs, won an NBA title and feature the best player on the planet in his prime. We on the other hand are a young, untested team coming off our first season of over-.500 basketball post-LeBron in which we failed to even win a play-in game.

People who have been around know that the NBA season is a long won and champions aren't crowned the first week of November. But keep pounding your chest about being right so far...peace, dog!