There were so many ghastly predictions in that column – him being off with the PTBs was the least of it… But to be fair, this was a fairly unpredictable season. Who had the Milwaukee Bucks at the 5 seed?

Western Conference
1. San Antonio, 64-18
2. L.A. Lakers, 63-19
3. Utah, 51-31
4. New Orleans, 48-34
5. Dallas, 46-36
6. L.A. Clippers, 45-37
7. Houston, 44-38
8. Denver, 44-38
9. Phoenix, 43-39
10. Zombies, 42-40
11. Portland, 41-41

man, he did a poor job of guestimating in October.

Picks Clippers to finish sixth. LOL-worthy.

I realize he was wrong on basically EVERYTHING he predicted..

Maybe not on all the particulars, but I’m also not convinced that he is the right coach for this team anymore. I don’t know why there is so much hate for Simmons on this site, it’s an entertaining column. Is it because he was so right about Durant? And so far has been right about the pick (I hope time makes him wrong on that one)?

How does a young team with noticeable talent drop 13 wins?

Knowing him, he’ll write that losing Oden was a plus… :)

Simmons isn’t an analyst, he’s an entertainer, it’s his job to generate interest in his column, so when he does a predictions column it’s going to have some stupid predictions. And if he’s lucky one or two of these predictions will come true and he will looks like a genius (which he will constantly remind everyone of… i.e. Durant over Oden or Tyreke Evans will be terrible or Okafor over D. Howard)

After people started pushing Simmons on his 41 wins prediction, he said that if they win 41 or fewer Blazer fans had to change their twitter background to a photophopped Dre picture and if they won 54 or more he’d change it to something pro-Blazer. At the time I pointed out that wasn’t an over/under because there was a giant middle ground and most likely they’d finish in that area and nothing would happen. When push came to shove he believed they’d win somewhere between 42 and 53.

As for his other claims, he said we’d have trouble integrating all our parts and establishing a pecking order. Before players started dropping like flies the team did play awkwardly together. Before Oden got hurt there wasn’t enough room for him, Roy and Andre. When players got hurt everyone put their egos aside and just did whatever it took to win. We also traded away Blake and Outlaw, so there’s no way for an awkward minutes crunch at pg or sf anymore. His also claimed that Oden would be better than Durant. Yes, every GM at the time would have taken Oden, but how does that mean he’s wrong that Durant has become a better player? And he isn’t a Clippers fan. He goes to their games because he wants to watch as much basketball as he can. Honestly, Simmons is informed and knows what he’s talking about. I know he says stuff you don’t agree with and he uses jokes, but that doesn’t mean he’s an idiot. It’s so weird being the only Blazer fan who also likes Bill Simmons and doesn’t think he’s a moron who only lives to trash the Blazers.

Blazers fans and really just all sports fans are hypersensitive. I really believe that he is just calling them as he sees them, but if he was reading the responses here (and worse elsewhere), I wouldn’t blame him at all for picking on Portland (or other active fanbases) intentionally.

I do enjoy Simmons, but I wish he would spread himself out more. Fantasy football, the Celtics and Kobe. That’s all he writes about. He was picked up as the ‘Boston Sports Guy,’ so I don’t begrudge him his loyalties, and in fact I appreciate them.

You were wrong about us only getting 41 wins…….

Too bad Oden is still an injury train, our front office is falling apart, we overpaid for Aldridge, and we will probably be bounced from the 1st round.

BUT AT LEAST WE PROVED SIMMONS WRONG!!! WOOT WOOOOOOT