Players About to blow up

[SourGrapes]

Which players will improve a ton next year?

Jrue holiday- playing with the ball in his hands more with ai traded, with Andrew Bynum on the team, all while in a contract year

Tyreke Evans- finally healthy and working on his jumper

Klay Thompson- was good last year during steph curry's absence

[The Choken One]

Kobe Bryant

[crisoner]

I think Klay Thompson, Andrew Bogut, and Step Curry are going to have big years.

Watch the Warriors get the 7 or 8 seed next year.

[LamarOdom]

John Wall - finally Wizards got rid of all idiots and it's his third year I expect at least 20/9/5 on 46%ish

[lilgodfather1]

Kyrie!!!!

[Levity]

DeMarcus Cousins
John Wall
Derrick Favors has potential, but that log jam of starting caliber big men on the jazz may defer that for a little longer.

[Rubio2Gasol]

Alec Burks .

Pek.

[SilkyJohnson]

A player who is about to blow up?

C.4. Watson

[fsvr54]

I say it in all these threads, Jeff mofukkin Teague

[Ikill]

think about it Kyrie was coming off major foot injury that only allowed him to play 11 games there was pretty no training camp and he was 19 years old. Despite all this he was amazing last year he's going to be a absolute superstar next year.

[Ikill]

Tyreke Evans too

[PacerRaptor]

Paul George

[outbreak]

Klay Thompson and Rondo will win over all the haters that don't rate him high enough.

[Rnbizzle]

Can't believe people still have so much faith in Wall.

[Levity]

Can't believe people still have so much faith in Wall.

He was playing a lot better post all star break and with the removal of Blatche and the implementation of a more cohesive unit, its not too farfetched to think this will finally be the season where he reaches his potential

[CelticBaller]

Avery Bradley

[KyrieTheFuture]

LeBron

[#number6ix#]

Javale McGee 14 and 12 with 3 blks book it

[Fudge]

DeMar De... Nah i give up waiting on this fool.

I see Bynum being a 20/12 big man next season, if you consider that blowing up.

Brandon Knights gonna have a good year imo. His stats werent too bad as a rookie. His FG% wasn't good though. But he shot the 3 very well.

[qrich]

Eric Gordon will make sure that no one forgets about him when talking about the top 5 2guards in the league. At least 24/5/5 for him.

Greg Monroe will earn a ton of respect with his all around play.

DeAndre Jordan will utilize his athleticism and tools to be one of the best defenders at the five.

Kawhi Leonard will be in discussions for the defensive player of theyear while still averaging a nice 14-18 points per outing.

Kyrie Irving will take the next step and be arguable top 5 at the point.

[IGotACoolStory]

Ty Lawson
Goran Dragic
Evan Turner
Kawhi Leonard
Derrick Favors

[NBA4EVER]

Isaiah Thomas

[BuffaloBill]

Ty Lawson
Goran Dragic
Evan Turner
Kawhi Leonard
Derrick Favors


This.

[Money 23]

If one more person mentiones Paul George I'm going to smack someone. Beyond length and athleticism, he has shown NOTHING skill wise to indicate he will be better than he already is as a player. People talk like he's the next T-Mac.

I wish my Bulls could've snagged Reke.

I think he would be a good two guard, put a nice replacement for Rose until he gets back.

And unlike the rest on the team, he can create off the dribble. With an improved

[ralph_i_el]

john wall is going to have a monster season. 19-10-5 on 45% and a whole lot of free throws

[kurple]

mcgee

[FreezingTsmoove]

Lebron

Wall

Antoine Jamison

[The Ownage]

McGee
Irving
Monroe
Leonard
Biyombo

[Mr. I'm So Rad]

Damian Lillard. Gonna be ROY with 16/4/7 on 43/36/84

[Mr. Incredible]

LeBron James......

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[noosaman]

OJ Mayo
Goran Dragic

[ManlyStanley69]

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-k9HcAwPolpw/T1dZElWbLDI/AAAAAAAABpk/2c5-wXh-0X0/s1600/Ben+Gordon+1+Detroit+Pistons.jpg

The real Ben Gordon is back, baby!

[kurple]

who is the fake ben gordon?

[noosaman]

who is the fake ben gordon?

I would like to know as well.

[DuMa]

Raymond Felton.

[ManlyStanley69]

who is the fake ben gordon?

The guy that played for the Pistons while the real manly big ben gordon was letting some other players have some shine.

[bd#1pguard]

Mirza Teletovic

[MiseryCityTexas]

Patrick Patterson unless he plays like he did last season.

[d.bball.guy]

Luke Walton. He'll blow up, literally.

[StroShow4]

Three pages and no one has mentioned Pekovic?

[LongLiveTheKing]

Mario MuthaFu**in Chamlers.

[tmacattack33]

Kyrie
Jrue Holiday
Chris Paul...he was good last year, but i think he can do better. He's been with his team for a year now so he can finally get comfortable with the system and take it to the next level.

[livingby3's]

I believe there will be more blow up as a duo.
Curry and Bogut
Dragic and Beasley
Bynum and Turner
Iguodala and Mcgee

as for individual
Wall
Pekovic

[RazorBaLade]

we need a muslim named player in the nba ......... perfect joke here going unused

[d.bball.guy]

we need a muslim named player in the nba ......... perfect joke here going unused
Hamed Haddadi? Or is he jew?

[DStebb716]

kemba walker


for the most part names that come to mind for me are second year guys. generally, in today's nba, guys don't "blow up" after like four or five years in the league. most stars are pretty great from the get go or within a year or two. can't really think of any stars that took a while to break out (talking about younger superstars).


so what i'm saying is if they're going into year five and they're haven't broke out yet, they're not going to.

[kNicKz]

Michael Beasley
Demarcus Cousins
Avery Bradley
Kemba Walker

edit: jason kidd :D

[BlitzForce]

Baren Davids :pimp:

[LamarOdom]

Baren Davids :pimp:

[miles berg]

OJ Mayo & Goran Dragic

[noosaman]

OJ Mayo & Goran Dragic

Great minds...

[InspiredLebowski]

Could easily see Darren Collison putting up numbers similar to his rookie year running pick and pops with Dirk all day.

[noosaman]

Could easily see Darren Collison putting up numbers similar to his rookie year running pick and pops with Dirk all day.

THIS

[G-train]

If one more person mentiones Paul George I'm going to smack someone. Beyond length and athleticism, he has shown NOTHING skill wise to indicate he will be better than he already is as a player. People talk like he's the next T-Mac.


I have to disagree with bolded.
His offensive and defensive game has continually improved, and there is no real reason why it shouldn't continue to do so.
His scoring, especially his shooting, improved considerably last season from his rookie year, and he is a very good defender, especially given his age (22).

[Bandito]

I could see OJ Mayo blowing up this year if they let him have free reigns, yr average in his rookie season like 18~20 ppg and I can see the same performance this year.

[hangintheair]

Donatas Montiejunas.. book it!

[tmacattack33]

I though this song fit this thread:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plqa8Jj9xO4

(J Cole - Blow Up)

[TaLvsCuaL]

Likely: Eric Gordon, Faried, Monroe, Paul George, Parsons, Harden (even more), Ilyasova, Jrue, Dragic,

Unlikely but possible: Derrick Williams, Tyreke, Mayo, Cousins, McGee, Kyrie, Ibaka.

Rookies: Valanciunas, Lillard, Motejiunas, Unibrow, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist.

[SourPatchKids]

I agree, Tyreke is going to
http://www.simplysneakers.com/wp-content/gallery/2010-08/cradle-rock-reke-havoc-3.jpg
next year.

[BlueandGold]

Kobe Bryant
lol

[rknine15]

Jason Kidd its his time

[swi7ch]

JaVale "The Beast" McGee

[MichaelCheazley]

Mike Beas of course

[Raz]

Demarcus Cousins and Greg Monroe are really going to be something else this year. Kawhi Leonard should be much improved as well.

[alwaysunny]

I agree, Tyreke is going to
http://www.simplysneakers.com/wp-content/gallery/2010-08/cradle-rock-reke-havoc-3.jpg
next year.

Nah man Reke is my boy but the progression of his career (or regression should I say) associated with the Kings' FO has shown downhill since his rookie year. They have too many individual offensive talents for him to improve his numbers. I see that they recently added Aaron Brooks..one more reason for him to play SF which clearly isn't his natural position. Obviously Sac shouldn't take all the blame because partly it's his own fault that he hasn't performed as expected. I predicted a major breakout from him last year but was wrong and it won't happen this year.

I wouldn't have minded him coming to BK if Deron had shipped to Dallas though. He still remains as one of my favorite players.

[pauk]

John Wall
Tyreke Evans
Evan Turner
Kyrie Irving
James Harden

[Rubio2Gasol]

Three pages and no one has mentioned Pekovic?
I mentioned him on the first page ......:coleman:

[Levity]

Isaiah Thomas

I love that little man, but I think by the all-star break, brooks will have his starting position, if not sooner.