Who will win the Southwest Division?

Look, TDbeagle, I respect your opinion but first of all nobody took this team for real till after the all-star break. Heck, a lot of people picked them to lose to Dallas in the first round. But, from the moment the regular season starts next season, the Hornets will be taken seriously and they will be one of the teams that are targets of most teams in the West. It's a lot harder to win a lot when other teams expect you to and therefore, you get much harder play from your opponents. Trust me, that alley-oop sh## will slow down next year. Teams have a whole offseasn to prepare for that. If Chandler wants to be an elite center in the league, then he has to develop some kind of low-post game. Second, I don't know if you watched the Spurs/Hornets series but there was a guy on the Spurs by the name of Bruce Bowen who basically made Peja a non-factor. The Rockets have a guy similar to that by the name of Shane Battier. He can be just as physical as Bowen and is even more athletic then Bowen. Peja isn't that great of a player cuz he's just a shooter. He's not real athletic so his ability to drive to the hoop is very limited and he's not a great defender. In the 4 games the Rockets and Hornets played against other last year, Battier held Peja to an average of 8.5 ppg and Peja's high in those 4 games was 13. Those numbers speak for themselves. Morris Peterson is weak, nuff said. I do agree with you in that Wells and Pargo are good scoring threats off the bench. I wish the Rockets had a backup PG that can knock down shots like Pargo does. But other than that, the bench sucks. Wright can be stopped with a good defender (Rockets have plenty of those). Ely and Armstrong are poor excuses for backup big men. The Rockets finished just one game behind the Hornets and Spurs last year and we didn't even have Yao. Not tryin to make excuses, but if we had Yao, we probably would've won close to 60 games and won that division and may have made it further than the first round. Plus, I live in Metairie, LA (about 15 minutes away from Nawlins) and I know that NOLA sports teams have a tendency to fail to exceed expectations when they are high (see last year's Saints). The Hornets might not win as many games as you think they will (maybe 50-52) and might not be as good as most people think the are. So, to all Hornets and Spurs fans: If the Rockets stay healthy for most of next season, WATCH OUT, cuz Clutch City is coming and may very well be the best team in that division and a threat in the West!!!!!!

GO ROCKETS!!!!!!!!!!

P.S. When I said we didn't have Yao, I meant only for the last 25 games of the reg. season and postseason.