What utter bullshit. It's like they totally forgot about last year when we won without Yao and they thought we'd miss the playoffs last year.

Everyone knows the team is better and playing better without an injured McGrady, who is now out for the year. No more distractions from him, and yet Legler here thinks we can't even make the freaking playoffs without him. This clown is severely ignorant.

This team even without a healthy T-Mac is CLEARLY better than last years team without Yao, because genius Morey found a way to acquire Artest (great insurance in case T-Mac got hurt, which happened) without giving up a single starter or important bench component.

Missing the playoffs would be an epic failure. I thought we could get out of the 1st round even without McGrady... but that was before the Rafer trade. Now we have to pray Brooks doesn't crater like he did last year and even at some points this year. Still, if he plays reasonably well and Lowry contributes, it is still possible with the right matchup.

But to say we'll miss the playoffs, and the Suns with their ZERO DEFENSE (giving up almost 130 points to the Celtics at home without KG!?) will pass us up is freaking ridiculous.