CrushAlot wrote:Last year was the Pacers year to come out of the East if I remember correctly. A lot can happen over the next 74 games.

Ahhh the ole typical borrowing of time on the schedule

The Pacers almost did come out of the East

Yeah a lot can happen like the Bucks becoming a Top 4 team

jrodmc wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:Wow. Remember how much people bashed ESPN for predicting 37 wins this year?!

Wow. Remember the year every ESPN analyst picked Boston to win the Division when the Knicks actually did?

Yeah Remember how accurate ESPN has been overall

The past 6-7yrs concerning our team, okay they got 1 yr wrong

It happens, this won't be this yr they're wildly off

The picked the Raptors to win it along with Brooklyn receiving token love

Splat wrote:

F500ONE wrote:

TripleThreat wrote:Knicks won a lot of games at the end last year.

Tanking teams and teams resting their core for the playoffs will be ripe pickings. Tanking teams will literally be giving wins away. ( Though Boston looks tougher than most people probably thought and might not be able to give away wins too easily)

Knicks will likely make up some wins on the back end, but it will be ugly before then. I still think they are a 30-35 win team but a lot of those wins will be other teams giving up/doing poorly, and not the Knicks ripping them apart.

Teams with strong front courts are going to hurt the Knicks badly this season though.

And back courts, we haven't even got into

The thick of strong back courts yet

And pirate ships with surly deckhands

And mobile grooming units with rabid poodles

And VW Buses full of drunk rodeo clowns

.... it is going to be brutal

I am not looking forward to seeing these back courts

First time or again

GSW, Phx, Washington(healthy Beal), Portland,

Grizzlies, Bulls(healthy Butler and Rose), Raptors, Nets,

Clippers, Bobcats, Bucks, Celtics

Bonn1997 wrote:

jrodmc wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:Wow. Remember how much people bashed ESPN for predicting 37 wins this year?!

Wow. Remember the year every ESPN analyst picked Boston to win the Division when the Knicks actually did?

That wasn't ESPN's statistical analysis (the Schoene system). It was just a bunch of writers. They're still probably off by less than Knicks' fans here though.

Schoene got lucky- look at how some of it's other predictions panned out. Someone or something that can get some predictions right but also a lot wrong is pretty useless- any fool can do that, it doesn't make them Nostradamus

smackeddog wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:

jrodmc wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:Wow. Remember how much people bashed ESPN for predicting 37 wins this year?!

Wow. Remember the year every ESPN analyst picked Boston to win the Division when the Knicks actually did?

That wasn't ESPN's statistical analysis (the Schoene system). It was just a bunch of writers. They're still probably off by less than Knicks' fans here though.

Schoene got lucky- look at how some of it's other predictions panned out. Someone or something that can get some predictions right but also a lot wrong is pretty useless- any fool can do that, it doesn't make them Nostradamus

Schoene was almost always within 6 wins. Compare that to here where people are regularly off by 20.

F500ONE wrote:

F500ONE wrote:

knicks1248 wrote:

F500ONE wrote:Nope the Raptors will win Division

We'll be fighting Boston and Brooklyn

We have too many negatives working against us

and so many positives as well, so you sit there and dwell on the negatives..

J.R. Smith, Amar'e, Bargnani

2 guard inconsistency, no center depth

Triangle system learning curve

Tough schedule out the gate

Yikes did a quick check in the Eastern Conference Standings

Didn't realize we are 18gms back of Toronto

Now I was right to this point Brooklyn has the 8th seed Boston the 9th

Where I completely whiffed were the teams we'd be battling

It was Philly and Detroit for the Bottoms Out

Cellar Dwelling So Hard

Is Toronto really 18gms better than us

I never would have imagine 30 different starting line ups. This guy fisher changes his starters at the half, where the hell have you ever seen that before, much less anybody that had any success doing it. Some of you think this is a TANK job, but it's far from it, and thats the scary part

This is the exact same thing that happen to Rambis in minny, i could only imagine the ineptness come draft time.

I just want to see when the garden is going to start yelling for fishers HEAD, then what the hell will phil do.

Splat wrote:When you see a thread like this again it is what is known in professional posting circles as a Cruel Bump

nixluva wrote:Glad others are joining me in saying this team can win the Atlantic. This team hasn't even scratched the surface of how good they can be. It may look shaky now but they will come together. This team has major upside when everything is clicking. We haven't even seen this team rolling yet.

17 wins later ...