For everyone’s reading pleasure I decided to submit my list of the best 2-3 combos in the East to see where exactly this team ranks with all the others. I took into consideration if a team has a reserve with starting caliber talent. Feel free to argue with anything and everything…

  1.  Boston (Pierce/Allen)
  2.  Miami (Marion/Wade)
  3.  Milwaukee (Jefferson/Redd/Mason)
  4.  Detroit (Prince/Hamilton)
  5.  Cleveland (James/Szczerbiak)
  6.  Chicago (Deng/Hughes/Gordon)
  7.  New Jersey (Carter/Simmons)
  8.  BOBCATS (Wallace/Richardson/Morrison?)
  9.  Washington (Butler/Stevenson)
  10. )Orlando (Turkoglu/Pietrus/Bogans)
  11. Atlanta (Johnson/Evans)
  12. Philadelphia (Iguodala/Young)
  13. New York (Richardson/Crawford)
  14. Toronto (Kapono/Parker)
  15. Indiana (Dunleavy/Granger/Daniels)

There you have it, what is widely considered the team’s strength is really very average. I hate to be a pessimist but Brown will have to do a heck of a job for this team to make the playoffs.