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.
