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I know we're supposed to be making fun of Leon Rose/Thibs and the Knicks, but man do I like what they have going on right now.
 
Elizah Huge said:
LeBron is out multiple weeks and expected to be longer than that. KAT still has no timetable to return. NO looks terrible. OKC looks like they’re slowly falling down the standings.

Playoffs here we come!!! I would love a 3/6 matchup with SAC. That would be amazing.
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I want LeBron in. Overall all these teams nosediving is bad for us because I think mostly impacts Minnesota’s positioning.
 
Elizah Huge said:
LeBron is out multiple weeks and expected to be longer than that. KAT still has no timetable to return. NO looks terrible. OKC looks like they’re slowly falling down the standings.

Playoffs here we come!!! I would love a 3/6 matchup with SAC. That would be amazing.
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Agreed except I think Lakers can still rise up without Bron (AD must play big though) as their schedule is favourable..

...but I'm not sure they can catch the might jazzmen of Utah who are starting 10-day contract guys and allow Rudy Gay to lay enough bricks to build an apartment building.
 
infection said:
I want LeBron in. Overall all these teams nosediving is bad for us because I think mostly impacts Minnesota’s positioning.
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I think Minnesota is going to be a play-in team. I wouldn’t be surprised if they dropped out of the play-in altogether though. They have a rough schedule coming up.
 
Elizah Huge said:
I think Minnesota is going to be a play-in team. I wouldn’t be surprised if they dropped out of the play-in altogether though. They have a rough schedule coming up.
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Yes but for the boat to sink the tides must rise… or some **** like that.
 
Elizah Huge said:
I think Minnesota is going to be a play-in team. I wouldn’t be surprised if they dropped out of the play-in altogether though. They have a rough schedule coming up.
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I want them out of the playoffs. Let Rudy get an early start to the summer to prepare to start fresh with Atlanta next year.
 
The West is a mess right now.
  • Nuggets are super solid
  • Suns might be really good with Durant, but we havent seen that yet. Their bench is sus though
  • Grizzlies are very inconsistent and have won just 6 of their last 16 games without huge health issues
  • Clippers are unimpressive unless they have an "extra gear" defensively. They did participate in the 2nd highest scoring game in the history less than a week ago and lost that game so I'm guessing not.
  • Sacramento is just as bad defensively as we are
  • I dont know what to make of the Warrios since I don't ever want to count them out, but they look bad
  • Mavs look horrible since the Kyrie trade. Badly balanced, trash defense
Others are not even worth mentioning at least in terms of teoretically contending teams. Barring some late season surge.. I think there are two real contenders right now in the West.

Can anyone else see paths for Mavs, Clippers and Warriors to catch up to the top if they get blown out of the playoffs by either? Do you think any or all of those 3 could try to get out of the tax next year and start a rebuild? Clippers are old, Mavs are assetless and have bad contracts, Warriors are old and in repeater tax already and one of their core pieces (Draymond) contract is running out.

I think Grizzlies and Sacramento are gonna build up but I think all those other teams could blow it up.
 
HermanG said:
The West is a mess right now.
  • Nuggets are super solid
  • Suns might be really good with Durant, but we havent seen that yet. Their bench is sus though
  • Grizzlies are very inconsistent and have won just 6 of their last 16 games without huge health issues
  • Clippers are unimpressive unless they have an "extra gear" defensively. They did participate in the 2nd highest scoring game in the history less than a week ago and lost that game so I'm guessing not.
  • Sacramento is just as bad defensively as we are
  • I dont know what to make of the Warrios since I don't ever want to count them out, but they look bad
  • Mavs look horrible since the Kyrie trade. Badly balanced, trash defense
Others are not even worth mentioning at least in terms of teoretically contending teams. Barring some late season surge.. I think there are two real contenders right now in the West.

Can anyone else see paths for Mavs, Clippers and Warriors to catch up to the top if they get blown out of the playoffs by either? Do you think any or all of those 3 could try to get out of the tax next year and start a rebuild? Clippers are old, Mavs are assetless and have bad contracts, Warriors are old and in repeater tax already and one of their core pieces (Draymond) contract is running out.

I think Grizzlies and Sacramento are gonna build up but I think all those other teams could blow it up.
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Yep, for the first time in a long time I think the east is much better than the west. At least at the top.
 
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