Updated Power Rankings

[dejordan]

Originally Posted by boozehound

sasha and sideshow. At least they havent signed their qualifying offers yet and they supposedly may not. I agree it is debatable to put a team that lost to another team in the playoffs last year ahead of them in the rankings considering no games have been played yet.

well if they lose those two, then forget it. i'd drop them behind a healthy nets team too since they'd have 0 front court depth (hell, maybe the raps, wiz, and celts for that matter - they didn't have a ton of separation last year).

[Pistol Pete]

13) Toronto (47-35) - The Raptors won a lot of games last season, but they overachieved thanks to a weak East, and their upside is limited. Their first round playoff loss to the Nets was predicted by InsideHoops.com and not surprising. Chris Bosh is a star. Is Andrea Bargnani ready to rise?

Toronto's upside is limited? What does that say about the rest of the league? Toronto is a very young squad, a team that had many additions last year and took quite a while to get into a groove, to imply that Toronto will take a big step back seems wrong to me. I could see us simply maintaining our record because of Eastern Conference improvements but I still see the Atlantic Division as the Nets or Raptors to lose, not the Boston Celtics as you seem to believe. Andrea Bargnani is a stud, he'll continue to develop fast, and will help to prove all writers wrong once again this year, maybe then we'll finally get some respect.

[luigi>mario]

1-9 look perfect.

[90sDynasty]

Bulls best team in the east?

I like.