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Where do you think every team finishes? I don’t see a dominate team in the bunch. Should be a wild year.
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I think Memphis, SA, Pelicants battle it out for a top 8 seed. I think SVG a year away from getting NO in the playoffs.
Dallas should win the division, but the other 4 teams could end up in any order. Probably the hardest division to project in the league. Except maybe the Southeast, where all the teams other than Miami suck.
Dallas....... SA, Hou, Mem, NO. After Dallas it could be anyone.
Four ppl above agree on the 1, 3, and 5 spot and split on the 2 & 4 spot.
Who knows how this shakes out? I could even see Dallas finishing 3 or 4. I think every team could win it, but I have a hard time seeing Houston getting there. It's just too likely they implode, imo.
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New Orleans - terrible roster construction, bad fits
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We are winning it
Dallas has to survive without KP and he’s too important to go a long stretch w/o
Houston is done as a team.harden
Pels will be a year away due to that’s how long it takes Stan historically to get his together. Plus they will have injuries galore.
memphis is going to regress a bit this year. Tho if JJJ continues to play like he did in the bubble then I will be wrong about that
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It's a pretty compe ive division:
SA - Contract year for Aldridge and Demar? Pop seeing the errors of his ways? Athletic young core minus the defensive liabilities? Possibly the best defensive front court in the league? Spurs will surprise a lot of people.
Dallas - Luca and Porzingis are injury prone I think.
Hou - Harden and Wall could still get higher, but the windows are closing fast
NO - They are good from 1-5 so it's hard to discount them.
Memphis - The way they dropped games last bubble shows the immaturity of this team
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Why are people so high on Memphis and NO? People discounted the Orlando performances of PHO, SA, POR because most of the playoff teams that they were playing treated the bubble like a series of scrimmages. What does that say about Memphis and NO who flat out stunk under the same cir stances?
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Obviously subject to change when (if?) Harden get's traded in season: Mavericks, Rockets, Spurs, Pelicans, Grizzlies.
A combination of high ceiling young cornerstones and recency bias. To be fair, Morant was banged up and they were missing Jackson Jr., Jones and Crowder/Hill (technically traded for Winslow, but he's yet to play for them). Meanwhile, Williamson clearly wasn't right.
I agree with the sentiment though. The Grizzlies are still far too limited an offensive team in general and the Pelicans have a severe lack of shooting.
The Grizzlies are just a different team without JJJr. He will be an all star if healthy. He’s been injury prone and inconsistent because of it but is a difference maker. Morant was a rookie last season. They have a promising duo and Clark plus good chemistry but don’t have much talent outside their stars. I like their coach from a player development standpoint though.
Zion was so bad in the bubble that I have done bias against him. He’s clearly talented but he wasn’t ready to play or something was wrong with him. He couldn’t maintain the energy and focus to play both ends. IMO they need development and growth. I don’t think they will be better than the Spurs unless the Spurs massively disappoint.
it’s too early to be projecting the Spurs to be as bad as last season. Hopefully their youth has improved and Pops schemes highlight their strengths better.
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Almost. I don't think the Pels fail to win more games than show Rockettes, tbh, with their Lonzo-Ingram-Zion core after another season of development. Maybe I'm predicting too harsh a dropoff for Houston, but I just can't see the team playing with energy and grit after everything that's gone down with Harden.
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Houston still has a lot of better players than the Spurs
But they all go as far as Harden takes them. With him disinterested and saving himself up for the next season, having nothing to prove as a player to be traded for, I can't see the Rockettes being compe ive at all. They might surprise me, though, or the Pels disappoint me. I expect them to go further.
+1, I like the way you think my friendWe are winning it
Dallas has to survive without KP and he’s too important to go a long stretch w/o
Houston is done as a team.
Pels will be a year away due to that’s how long it takes Stan historically to get his together. Plus they will have injuries galore.
memphis is going to regress a bit this year. Tho if JJJ continues to play like he did in the bubble then I will be wrong about that
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