Some surprising numbers in the last 10 games column. Of the top 5 everyone is 8-2 or better except Boston at 5-5?? Spurs at 2-8??
It's always baffling to see how terrible LeBron James teams have been in the regular season going back even to his Heat days. What's strange is that he's had his best regular seasons with the Cavs when he had no all-star teammates.
Shows you how much parity there is this year with us not even being a .600 team but still that high in the standings. We’ll have to show a lot of grit to keep it up.
Amazing to think that there are teams like Philly who are still struggling to make the playoffs and we didn't tank one single year.
Well, you do extra well in the regular season when you give a shit. LeBron hasn't had two shits to rub together about the regular season in a very, very long time.
5 team division and the 5th team is only 4 games back.....that does not happen very often at this point in the season.
I was never doom and gloom about the team like A LOT of folks were, but I can honestly say I didn't expect to be sitting in 3rd with 19 games left to go. The script usually calls for those top three seeds being locked up by now, but this season has forced everyone to throw away the script. All I can say is that if you really think about it, Portland's success should not be that surprising. We've been rebuilding while simultaneously making the playoffs - not an easy task. We've had the bedrock of an excellent team from the start of the rebuild, but the pieces of the puzzle weren't totally fitting. We're not 100% there yet, but you can start to make out the image.
It's not that we can't fall back a bit, it's that these people thought we didn't have chance in this division. We may not win it, but we are obviously fucking competitive in it.
I think The Process is gonna net them a championship in the future, especially if Fultz gets his head straight. Once their core gets seasoned watch out.
They are starting to look like a good team, years later. Simmons is insane, embiid is as well. Fultz is the real odd situation but if he can turn out how people thought he could when he comes back, that's a great big three
Also for perspective, we are a 3 game losing streak away from falling back out of the playoff picture which is crazy. Good news is, I think we could take any series in the west this year unless it's houston or golden state
