What team will be better next year?

[cruzg24]

Both of these teams have built through youth in the past 2 drafts. They have a lot of youth and potential. Which one will be better next year and why?

 

[MIKEAIRS]

A great team starts with there point guard, and the CAVS are the only one of these teams that have a all star caliber point guard..

 

[DJT]

Hornets if Gordon is ready.

 

[elcheato]

Unless Waiters is really good his rookie year (somewhere around 15 ppg, maybe more), then it will probably be the Hornets. Natural progression and more minutes given to Kyrie could make the Cavs better though.

 

[jonathanlambert33]

Are we talking healthy, or take injuries into consideration?

Given Gordon's injury history I'd have to say the Cavs, but if he does shake that injury bug I'd say Hornets.

 

[Pugz]

just on paper. injury free. i think the hornets will be better, not by much though.

 

[jonathanlambert33]

Yeah, injury free it's the Hornets.

Though obviously, these rosters are far from complete. The Hornets reportedly will go all in for Javale McGee.

 

[Pugz]

i think hes going to stay put in denver but a davis/mcgee paint would be HARD to score in shit.

 

[elcheato]

The Cavs will probably add a rotation player or two in free agency, but they're probably going to preserve most of their cap for the 2014 free agency class so they can still throw out a max deal.

 

[jonathanlambert33]

i think hes going to stay put in denver but a davis/mcgee paint would be HARD to score in shit.

Me as well.

 

[SaintFan25]

It'll be close but I'd say Hornets as of right now if Gordon comes back healthy. Both teams I feel are heading in the right direction though.

 

[jonathanlambert33]

Gotta take into account though, Hornets were tied record wise last year with their best player only playing 9 games, with Jack, Ariza, Okafor, Kaman, and Smith also missing significant time. And now we had a better draft.

 

[elcheato]

Varejao missed 40 games, Kyrie missed 15 games and only played 30 minutes a game when he did play. Not as drastic as Gordon missing 57 games or whatever it was, but it's still major.

The Hornets draft is better long term, but in terms of immediate help, I think Waiters and Zeller will be provide just as much considering Rivers probably isn't going to start and he has a huge learning curve with being a PG in the NBA.

 

[jonathanlambert33]

Varejao missed 40 games, Kyrie missed 15 games and only played 30 minutes a game when he did play. Not as drastic as Gordon missing 57 games or whatever it was, but it's still major.

The Hornets draft is better long term, but in terms of immediate help, I think Waiters and Zeller will be provide just as much considering Rivers probably isn't going to start and he has a huge learning curve with being a PG in the NBA.

Mek missing 39 games, Smith missing 20 games, Kaman missing 19 games. Heck I somehow left him out but even Carl Landry missed 25 games. Your top four bigs missing 103 combined games on top of your best player missing 57 games. That shit really adds up. I won't complain to much, if it wasn't for that we wouldn't have Davis lol

The bolded is the interesting part though. I'm not sure how quickly Zeller will adjust to the NBA, same way I'm not sure how quickly Austin will adjust to not being the man in the NBA.

 

[Pugz]

zeller is pretty close to nba ready imo

 

[jonathanlambert33]

Close, but not there yet. He'll struggle at the start of the season a little.

I think Anthony Davis (I think I've said this before) will struggle a little too for the first few weeks or month, to be honest.

 

[Pugz]

pretty much every rookie stuggles but i think zeller will have a better role than austin, for now.

 

[CameronCrazy06]

Too much left to be decided before I vote.