Wow you made me spit out my coffee
They also won without AD and LeBron.
They also won without AD and LeBron.
That's not sustainable. See last season or the one before it.
they can still take the top seed with load management.They also won without AD and LeBron.
That's not sustainable. See last season or the one before it.
I mean my 8 year old son is probably a better coach than Luke Walton. But a coach can only do so much.
welp, we're halfway through the season. Where is your team tier wise?
Title Favorites (Gun to head, the teams you'd pick right now to be in the NBA Finals): Lakers, Bucks, Clippers
Title Contenders (Not quite good enough for top tier, far too talented to look past): Sixers, Jazz, Celtics, Nuggets, Rockets, Heat
Playoff Squads (Good teams who are a step away from being great teams, or just too injured to be higher): Mavericks, Pacers, Raptors
Mid (Battling for the lower seeds or flirting with .500): Spurs, Thunder, Nets, Magic, Grizzlies
Charlotte Hornets tier (Not good enough for the playoffs but too good to bottom out, so the treadmill is full speed ahead aka "the Charlotte Hornets franchise"): Suns, Kings, Wolves, Bulls, Hornets
Bad (too banged up to be any good, hope seems to be deteriorating) Pelicans, Wizards, Pistons
Complete Despair (Fans show up the arena with bags on their heads. Watching their games is a bleak, nihilistic experience): Hawks, Warriors, Cavs, Knicks
I can see the argument for the pelicans. They've been slightly positive net rating wise these past 15 games, almost dead in the middle lolI would take the Bulls out of Hornets-tier and put them in the "Bad" tier. I would also probably put the Warriors in "Bad," too. And I think the Pelicans need their own tier. They started out like trash, but they've been pretty feisty lately. I wouldn't call them bad or say that hope is fading, but they definitely don't look like a treadmill team and I wouldn't call them good, either.
I can see the argument for the pelicans. They've been slightly positive net rating wise these past 15 games, almost dead in the middle lol
Zion coming back could really shake things up. The battle for the west eight seed really could come down to the wire this season.
Imagine Lonzo getting hot in the playoffs and making all of his 3s.Adam Silver would nut if he got a Zion/Lebron 1st round matchup
#OurJazz doing what they always do, starting off rough and then getting it together in the second half of the season
Part of me just wants the Celts to give Grant like 25 minutes a game and see what happens. Dude is such a good player.
lonzo makes his 3s but will miss every one of his free throwsImagine Lonzo getting hot in the playoffs and making all of his 3s.
It would take the other team like 3 games before they decided to run him off.
Not many guards are as bad as FTs as Lonzo and Rondo.
I'm still not confident on this Lakers team. When they played against Bucks, Clippers, Toront they had really bad games...welp, we're halfway through the season. Where is your team tier wise?
Title Favorites (Gun to head, the teams you'd pick right now to be in the NBA Finals): Lakers, Bucks, Clippers
Title Contenders (Not quite good enough for top tier, far too talented to look past): Sixers, Jazz, Celtics, Nuggets, Rockets, Heat
Playoff Squads (Good teams who are a step away from being great teams, or just too injured to be higher): Mavericks, Pacers, Raptors
Mid (Battling for the lower seeds or flirting with .500): Spurs, Thunder, Nets, Magic, Grizzlies
Charlotte Hornets tier (Not good enough for the playoffs but too good to bottom out, so the treadmill is full speed ahead aka "the Charlotte Hornets franchise"): Suns, Kings, Wolves, Bulls, Hornets
Bad (too banged up to be any good, hope seems to be deteriorating) Pelicans, Wizards, Pistons
Complete Despair (Fans show up the arena with bags on their heads. Watching their games is a bleak, nihilistic experience): Hawks, Warriors, Cavs, Knicks
welp, we're halfway through the season. Where is your team tier wise?
Title Favorites (Gun to head, the teams you'd pick right now to be in the NBA Finals): Lakers, Bucks, Clippers
Title Contenders (Not quite good enough for top tier, far too talented to look past): Sixers, Jazz, Celtics, Nuggets, Rockets, Heat
Playoff Squads (Good teams who are a step away from being great teams, or just too injured to be higher): Mavericks, Pacers, Raptors
Mid (Battling for the lower seeds or flirting with .500): Spurs, Thunder, Nets, Magic, Grizzlies
Charlotte Hornets tier (Not good enough for the playoffs but too good to bottom out, so the treadmill is full speed ahead aka "the Charlotte Hornets franchise"): Suns, Kings, Wolves, Bulls, Hornets
Bad (too banged up to be any good, hope seems to be deteriorating) Pelicans, Wizards, Pistons
Complete Despair (Fans show up the arena with bags on their heads. Watching their games is a bleak, nihilistic experience): Hawks, Warriors, Cavs, Knicks
I just want to say for the record that while the Hawks are historically bad and watching them lose to a Wizards team with an also historically bad defense, lacking their main points scorer was akin to skin flaying, at least we got that NBA TWITTER CLOUT BAAABBBYYYY
- Philadelphia 76ers - 12.62%
- Los Angeles Lakers - 12.42%
- Atlanta Hawks - 10.30%
I can only assume the majority of those Pelicans tweets are something along the lines of "WHY THE FUCK DO THEY KEEP TELEVISING PELICANS GAMES SURELY THERE MUST BE AN INSURANCE POLICY SOMEWHERE"
Assuming everyone is healthy
Top Tier:
Clippers (The only truly complete package in the league. Best player in the world, a top 10 player to back him up, token annoying mother fucker to get under the other team's skin, depth out the ass. Unless something goes horribly wrong they are the easy favorites)
Bucks (There is no Kawhi to lock down Giannis in the conference finals and cause the Bucks to lose 4 straight anymore. Bucks are worse than last year but Giannis is the easy best player in the east and basically unguardable. There is only one hope...)
Raptors (Healthy Raptors with Pascal playing MVP level like he was during early part of the regular season + god tier Nick Nurse coaching is the only threat to the Bucks out of the east. Lack of a god tier superstar like Kawhi is obviously going to hurt, but the champs still have a swagger to them that will be tough to deal with come playoff time. Also the anime storyline of the defending champs meeting the deserter Kawhi in the finals is the perfect story and we all know the NBA is scripted)
Lakers (Lebron and AD is obviously the best big 2 in the league, or a close second to tryhard Clippers. I think their lack of depth could hurt them come playoff time, but it's hard to argue against playoff Lebron who will likely go on an absolute fucking tear like usual. Lakers/Clippers are at a level above the rest of the conference)
I think those are your easy conference finals if the seeds line up, but we very well may be seeing these matchups in the 2nd round considering no one tries in regular season anymore.
Has Issues but are real close Tier:
Dallas (A healthy Dallas is going to be horrifying. Big Dick Donc has proven himself a top tier player in this league and I see zero signs that this fucker will slow down or show any jitters or nerves come playoff time. Only thing that stands in his way are the god tier LA teams. Too early but your time will come young fella)
Indiana (They look stupidly good right now and Big Dick Vic is about to make his return. Be afraid.)
Boston
Denver (Both just solid as shit. I think they're missing something to bring them to the next level, though.)
Utah (The Jazz are like 12-1 since Donovan Mitchell changed his Twitter pic to Baby Yoda. That's all that needs to be said. They could be scary, but the competition is crazy out west and they always seem to fall apart come playoff time. Very interesting team to follow)
Phily (They have big fucking problems and I'm amazed people are still acting like it's going to be Phily/Bucks east finals and anything else would be a surprise. Losing Butler was a massive blow and they look worse than last year's team. Of course they're still a solid team, but even if Embiid goes Super Saiyan 2 I don't know if they have what it takes to win 4 games against any of the east teams I've listed above)
Miami (They're looking real good right now but come playoff time I honestly think they're fucked lol. All the focus will be on locking Butler down... who thrives in the playoffs to be fair, but the rest of this team is not ready. Then again, if they hold onto that 2nd seed they'll cruise into the second round, and at that point who knows what could happen)
OKC (I can't believe it but Chris Paul looks like he has a chip on his shoulder and is going insane. The Clippers outcasts have the same energy: young Canadian GOAT Shai is looking like an all star and Big Dick Dani is hitting everything out there. The west is way too stacked this year but I would not be surprised if this team took 1 or 2 games off the Clippers in the first round, much like last year's Clippers did against the Warriors.)
Houston (Harden and Westbrook are oil and water. It's not gonna work and I don't see them getting out of the first round.)
Irrelevant:
Everyone else
Not many guards are as bad as FTs as Lonzo and Rondo.
Thats some rare shit on display for a pro baller.
Booker wants a big three with Towns and DeAngelo Russell. Even better.not only that trade is dumb, but a ball-dominant player with no interest in playing defense is not the guy you want to be the 3rd dude on a big3.
Its hard to shoot above 80% for an amateur on free throws. But honestly 70% is pretty easy to obtain. These less than 50% fuckbois I don't want to say. Their fundamentals are as bad as Kawhis knees.I bet John Stockton and Reggie Miller still better at Free Throws than 90% of these guards out here. Put some respec on them daisy dukes amirite?