In the East, my vote would be Brooklyn or Atlanta.
Brooklyn is deep at just about every position. Mikal Bridges is a very good scorer. Cam Johnson a very talented 2-way player. Dinwiddie a solid 2-guard. Claxton is one of the more impressive young centers in the league. A lot rides on Simmons and if he can be 75 percent of what he once was. At the very least, he looks to be in shape entering the season. Brooklyn looks to have a plethora of two-way players. The question is if Bridges can be the main scorer on a contending title team.
Atlanta has Trae Young, who is now flying under the radar as one of the best scoring guards in the NBA, and many solid defensive pieces surrounding him in Murray, Hunter, Capela. If Trae can get a hot in a playoff series, you never know.
In the West, I think it’s Minnesota. On paper, they are loaded with talent. Ant, KAT, McDaniels, Gobert, Reid, Conley and Anderson might be as good of a first 7 you will find in the league today. Of course, the main question is — can Chris Finch make Towns and Gobert work offensively? We saw how tough Minnesota can be in the Denver series last year. With most everyone on their roster now having multiple years of playoff experience in addition to having continuity among their depth chart and coaching staff, they are my sneaky pick to make the West finals this year.
Who is your sneaky pick in each conference to make a deep playoff run? Or do you believe there’s no logical selection?
Carolina panthers. We could start winning and stop losing, end 12-5, and beat all the other teams in the playoffs on our way to winning the Super Bowl
all you need to do is buy off the refs like the Browns.
Two weeks in a row smh
The Browns?? Are you trolling? The most losing franchise in the history of all professional sports with the most qb’s started since their inception back in Cleveland.
If they had one or two calls go their way this year, they are approximately 20 years overdue.
Kudos for taking a joke response to a joke post too seriously.
But for what it’s worth, the Browns were just gifted two consecutive wins by epic ref ball.
Hell yeah, Pats vs Panthers super bowl rematch
Please do this! We need your help!
The hard part is the start winning games part but if you can do that then sure.
I don’t think 12-5 will get you into the playoffs, most playoff teams have at least 30 wins