Orlando has proven that they can be a very good team in the regular season, but is nowhere near being a good team in the playoffs. Eventually, Dwight Howard is going to lead the Magic into that next step—but for now, I would expect similar results from them in 2009.
Washington Wizards
Projected Depth Chart:
PG Antonio Daniels/Juan Dixon/Dee Brown
SG DeShawn Stevenson/Nick Young
SF Caron Butler/Dominic McGuire
PF Antawn Jamison/Darius Songalia
C Etan Thomas/Andray Blatche
The Washington Wizards’ roster looks severely depleted with Gilbert Arenas out for at least the first month of the season. If Arenas can make a comeback at full strength, their prospects for making the playoffs are significantly more substantial than without him.
Much of the Wizards team is the same from their past few playoff runs—but that is also a problem, since they have struggled in trying to get to the Conference Finals. Barring any disastrous news regarding the Arenas injury, they should at least make the playoffs, but at some point Washington will have to do more than that.
Washington is currently dealing with an interesting position—not quite good enough to be on top of the Eastern Conference, yet knowing they can make the playoffs when healthy. Yet there are only so many years that you can hold a team together before needing to make a change.
This is the year where the roster needs to be shaken up in some way.
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