Originally Posted by
Goat Milk
They surrounded their core of stars with a lot of dirty hussle players, like Beverly, and Vanderbilt, McDaniels, etc. Anthony Edwards is one of the great up and coming 2 way players in the nba. Deangelo Russel doesn't play defense, but he's seasoned now, been in the league a long time. Towns to me is one of the best players in basketball. Guy is 7 feet and won the nba 3 pt shooting contest, so you know he has that fire in him where he thinks he's the best player on the court every night, even if he's not.
The West is starting to look pretty weak, with the Lakers looking like bums, the Suns missing CP3, Warriors stumbling, and Memphis being a one man squad. Jazz are the same team they've always been, just a jump shooting team. The Nuggets aren't getting Murray or Porter back this year, so I think they're finished in a 7 game series.
Warriors look like the most dangerous team obviously if they are clicking, but it feels like there's a level of physicality missing with that team for some reason. Klay isn't gonna be back to 100% this year defensively I don't think.
The Suns are the frontrunners for sure and they play great together and don't make very many mistakes. They have a dominant trio that is hard to bet again and it's not hard to see them winning it all.
Dallas I"m not sure. They are a wild card to me. They play tough though so that works in their favor.