@@tribalypredisposed nah bro they are gonna try rehabilitate Paul’s trade value and trade him mid year and then tank to get into the lottery. They have 2 1st round picks next year which is is a good draft class. They have no incentive to be good this year
@@mrawesome7175 Chris Paul is 39, the man has no trade value. Yeah, they have lots of picks coming, year after year. But Wemby has something priceless along with his abundant athletic gifts: he HATES losing, like MJ and Steph Curry and Draymond levels of hate for losing. And now if you look at the Spurs starters, they have three guys who shoot 37% from three or better, where last year they all shot like 32% or lower, the starters. So now the Spurs can space the floor and Wemby will not be driving into three guys at the basket. This makes a huge difference. And CP3 will get Wemby the ball when he is running towards the hoop, unlike what happened last year. And Wemby will have some at least average help on D from Barnes and Castle and CP3. Wemby is not just some good basketball player, and he is listed at 235 this year when they listed him at 210 last year, so he is coming in with grown man strength this year and will not be pushed around so readily. Last year before the season I predicted Wemby would go for 18/10 with three assists and 3.5 blocks per game. He was better than that but I was closer than most. This season I think he goes for 28/12 with three assists and four blocks. Wemby will make the Sophomore Leap. I think the Spurs find themselves in playoff contention before the trade deadline and turn some picks into another good guard, maybe a combo guard with good defense and three point shooting. Or maybe a good PF with the 3 and D.
Swap Suns and Pelicans. I feel positively about the Pelicans, getting Dejonte without giving up Ingram. They're probably a top 3 team when healthy, but of course they won't be healthy. Still, Zion's playin performance had me believe that they can do real damage in the West, and they have a good cast around him. Definitely need a center though.
Pels will be 8-6 at best. Thies starting center is not good and banking on Zion’s health throughout the season never ends up well. Along with depth is a question. Suns added everything they needed this off season along with a much better coach, two great point guards, and drafted honestly a steal in the first round. Suns could finish 4th.
This one I had more differences with u but makes sense since its hard to call: 1. Thunder 2. Mavs 3. TWolves 4. Grizzlies 5. Nuggets 6. Kings 7. Pelicans 8. Suns 9. Clippers 10. Spurs 11. Lakers 12. Warriors 13. Rockets 14. Jazz 15. Trailblazers
WCF 2025 Regular Season standings. Let's Go!! 1) OKC 2) Timberwolves 3) Houston Rockets (they had a crazy win streak at the end of last season, they're getting better) 4) Denver Nuggets 5) Mavericks 6) New Orleans Pelicans (Zion's first playoff run, let's go!!) 7) Phoenix Suns 8) Memphis Grizzlies (7 and 8 win the Play-In to make the playoffs) 9) Golden State Warriors 10) San Antonio Spurs 11) Kings 12) LA Clippers 13) LA Lakers 14) Utah Jazz 15) Trail Blazers
@@theemotionalremix dude giving you names shows that I think you’re completely wrong with the teams I mentioned. Why would I put down the teams that I agree with.
1. OKC 2. Nuggets 3. Mavs 4. T Wolves 5. Suns 6. Grizzlies 7. Warriors 8. Pelicans 9. Lakers 10. Kings (as a kings fan, hurts for me to put this here) 11. Clippers 12. Rockets 13. Spurs 14. Jazz 15. Trailblazers I’m gonna admit I haven’t watched all the teams play this preseason so I may be completely wrong
4th Phoenix Suns are here by virtue of Denver and Minnesota losing valuable contributors 5th Minnesota Losing a franchise cornerstone is going to take time to get used to. 9th & 10th Warriors + Clippers 11th & 12th Lakers + Rockets How are you LA and cant get ANY free agents? Not even Jonas? And I fail to see how Houstons taking a massive leap. I see them as high as 9th. 14th Portland Too much talent to be dead last. 15th Jazz
Nobody watches basketball here? Donte, do some research on what a difference he made for the D on the Bucks, Warriors, and Knicks. And Minnesota has the DPOY, and a staunch wing defender too. If OKC was not so crazy good, Minnesota would be my clear number one.
@@tribalypredisposedGobert shouldn’t have won DPOY but that’s an argument for another day. Minnesota will probably be 3rd. Randle is good in the regular season but he’s also not a respectable 3pt shooter. Spacing will be tough, paint will be more clogged than ants liking. Getting Donte was huge tho but a 3rd seed is reasonable.
@@VinnieRodrigues0 So I guess people have more faith in 🐜 Man and Gobert than 3x MVP Jokic🤔 thats fine. Anything can happen in a season including injuries....
@@bamidelakin-np2ub yes last season they were the higher seed and it’s fair to say they will again. Denver did nothing this offseason, signed russ which doesn’t move anything, lost KCP, Reggie. Bench is young and inexperienced too. If nuggets vs wolves meet up in the playoffs nuggets would win imo but regular season goes to Wolves.
@@And.One.Hoops1 injury prone Jamal Murray, they lost KCP. Twolves added Divencenzo, Dillingham looked awesome in preseason and Julius Randle IMO is much more of a well rounded player who can switch on screens better than KAT could 🤷♂️
@@Mike0xBIG Absolutely, Wolves are going to be top three on D this seasons at worst; Donte is WAY underestimated in D, he was key to the D on every team he has played for.
They gotta switch some teams’ conference- the East is so stinky, a few West teams shipped over- Dallas, Memphis (you know cities in the mid/east ?!?!), Minnesota would make the both conferences so much more competitive.
Phoenix has three good players; two play the same position, and the third is old and has a repaired Achiles. If they had draft picks, the smart thing to do this season would be to enter the Cooper chase, because they are not getting anything else done.
Reading through all the posts and everyone loves the Suns so much, can anyone explain why? KD is 36 with a repaired Achiles, and his backup pretty well sucks. Nurkic is below average for a center and his backup also sucks, this is not a deep team. Booker and Beal pretty much play the same position really. Tyus Jones is okay, let's say league average for a starting point guard, and his backup Monte is okay. At best this team's starters play even with the starters of the good teams, and then the reserves get slaughtered, except maybe against Denver... Anyone who thinks the Lakers will even be an average team this year also needs to start watching basketball.
You’re really sleeping on the Grizzlies when they’re fully healthy they’ve finished top 3 in the West they’re finishing at least 5th if they’re healthy imo
In this scenario, Wemby dies, or something? How is it that none of you seem to have heard of Wemby? Spurs would be 10th this season WITHOUT Wemby, who may well be the best player in the league this season.
@@And.One.Hoops1 LOL. Well, I watch basketball, and I have heard of Wemby...no one else here seems to know who he is? Houston played almost 500 ball end of last season and San Antonio was not far behind that, and Houston picked up some real talent in the draft while San Antonio got Harrison Barnes, a good vet 3 and D, CP3, and a really good guard who is a lock down defender in the draft...and this guy Wemby put on 25 pounds of muscle since last season, and kept shooting the three better and better over the course of last season. Memphis is back healthy, and last time they were healthy they were second in the West, and they have a nice rookie too. Denver lost KCP and still has a pathetic bench, and Golden State will definitely be a bit better with Heild and Waters and so on. On the other side, Phoenix also has no bench, their SF is a joke, KD is on borrowed time, and their roster makes no sense. Clippers will be down to Harden, and Harden is old and still cannot manufacture fouls like they used to let him. Lakers were blessed with incredible health for AD and LeBron last season, the first season in five either played more than fifty games or so. Super unlikely to happen again, and even with great health for their stars they barely made the playoffs.
Yes, everyone who is the king of the casuals would agree! Curry has been better than Harden their entire careers, and now he is WAY better, and pretty much the entire rest of the Warriors team is better man for man than the Clippers. I go through the posts here and it seems no one knows who Wemby is, most underestimate Houston, most see a whole bunch of players who are not on the roster with the Suns and Lakers too, since I have no other idea how they are ranking those teams so highly...are people watching basketball who post here?
@@And.One.Hoops1 And before anyone knew of Kawhi’s chronic knee problems of the last five years? I mean, no one who watches basketball would have bet a penny on the man having a healthy season, right?
You had me until you put the kings over the pels and grizzlies, the pelicans beat the kings 6 times in a row in one season. Bruh that team is so overrated
What players do you imagine that the Lakers and Suns have on their rosters that they rank so high? Because based on their actual rosters, they are not even play-in teams.
@@tribalypredisposed i think they have gotten marginally better, while other teams are marginally worse or unchanged as far as contention. I don't think Jokic can carry his depleted roster enough (or should) to be a number 1 seed again, and the fact they were that burnt out after ONE finals run tells me a lot. NOLA is pretty much stagnant even with a healthy ZIon, and Memphis is a wild card but has a long road ahead of them to get back on top.
@@euro51116 The Suns are a combination of the problems of the Lakers and Denver. Awful bench, poorly constructed team, entirely dependent on a 36 year old with a repaired Achilles to even be an average team this season… The Lakers, BOTH of their two stars stayed healthy for their first times in the last five seasons last year, and they were within a few games of tenth place. Odds are like 5% of that happening again this season, or lower. Are they owners of the fountain of youth now, is that why everyone here is ranking them like sixth?
@@tribalypredisposed The problem with the Lakers werent their two stars, it was the roster depth around them. And there were A LOT of close games that were winnable and were the difference in seeding if you remember how close things got at the end. And they were lost by bad coaching, I have faith JJ will be better with Xs and Os than Ham. Lebron is getting old but has not shown major signs of decline yet and was the best player at the olympics, alongside an invigorated AD. Nuggets are their old bad matchup and they are weaker as a whole. That's why everyone has them around 6th.
@@euro51116 NBA games are often close, doesn’t mean a new coach will get them more wins. The modern offense JJ is putting in is nice, but it means more movement for the oldest player in the NBA who is one of your two stars. And for AD. Both of those guys are injury prone and I don’t think running more miles on the court every game will help them stay healthy. I also don’t see too many blazing fast guys opposing teams will find it hard to keep up with if you run around a lot. One of the big problems LA had was taking an early lead and then getting tired and losing it as the game went on. More running around seems like they will get tired faster, right? And the not impressive bench will have to play more? I look at the roster, and the two stars are much more likely to get injured than not, and without them you got a glorified G league team. .
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Kawhi is going to be out an indefinite amount of time to start the year so you can probably drop the Clips way further in this ranking
Mine 1. Okc. 2. Timberwolves 3. Dallas 4. Denver 5. Memphis 6. Suns 7. Golden state 8. Rockets 9. Lakers 10. Kings 11. Pelicans 12. Jazz. 13. Clippers . 14. Spurs. 15 Trail blazers
Better than his...I think. But Spurs will be a lot better than 14th.
@@tribalypredisposed nah bro they are gonna try rehabilitate Paul’s trade value and trade him mid year and then tank to get into the lottery. They have 2 1st round picks next year which is is a good draft class. They have no incentive to be good this year
@@mrawesome7175 Chris Paul is 39, the man has no trade value. Yeah, they have lots of picks coming, year after year. But Wemby has something priceless along with his abundant athletic gifts: he HATES losing, like MJ and Steph Curry and Draymond levels of hate for losing. And now if you look at the Spurs starters, they have three guys who shoot 37% from three or better, where last year they all shot like 32% or lower, the starters. So now the Spurs can space the floor and Wemby will not be driving into three guys at the basket. This makes a huge difference. And CP3 will get Wemby the ball when he is running towards the hoop, unlike what happened last year. And Wemby will have some at least average help on D from Barnes and Castle and CP3.
Wemby is not just some good basketball player, and he is listed at 235 this year when they listed him at 210 last year, so he is coming in with grown man strength this year and will not be pushed around so readily. Last year before the season I predicted Wemby would go for 18/10 with three assists and 3.5 blocks per game. He was better than that but I was closer than most. This season I think he goes for 28/12 with three assists and four blocks. Wemby will make the Sophomore Leap.
I think the Spurs find themselves in playoff contention before the trade deadline and turn some picks into another good guard, maybe a combo guard with good defense and three point shooting. Or maybe a good PF with the 3 and D.
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Well Hartenstein already fractured his hand is gonna miss at least 6 weeks
OKC is so deep they can be atop the West without Hartenstein. No problem.
great list
Swap Suns and Pelicans. I feel positively about the Pelicans, getting Dejonte without giving up Ingram. They're probably a top 3 team when healthy, but of course they won't be healthy. Still, Zion's playin performance had me believe that they can do real damage in the West, and they have a good cast around him. Definitely need a center though.
Pels will be 8-6 at best. Thies starting center is not good and banking on Zion’s health throughout the season never ends up well. Along with depth is a question. Suns added everything they needed this off season along with a much better coach, two great point guards, and drafted honestly a steal in the first round. Suns could finish 4th.
This one I had more differences with u but makes sense since its hard to call:
1. Thunder
2. Mavs
3. TWolves
4. Grizzlies
5. Nuggets
6. Kings
7. Pelicans
8. Suns
9. Clippers
10. Spurs
11. Lakers
12. Warriors
13. Rockets
14. Jazz
15. Trailblazers
Keep up the great work man. Love these ❤
WCF 2025 Regular Season standings. Let's Go!!
1) OKC
2) Timberwolves
3) Houston Rockets
(they had a crazy win streak at the end of last season, they're getting better)
4) Denver Nuggets
5) Mavericks
6) New Orleans Pelicans
(Zion's first playoff run, let's go!!)
7) Phoenix Suns
8) Memphis Grizzlies
(7 and 8 win the Play-In to make the playoffs)
9) Golden State Warriors
10) San Antonio Spurs
11) Kings
12) LA Clippers
13) LA Lakers
14) Utah Jazz
15) Trail Blazers
This list is so bad 😂
@@NikoStark1 please elaborate.
@@theemotionalremix Houston Rockets? Kings? Jazz? Lakers? 🤦🏻♂️
@@NikoStark1 giving me names of teams is not an elaboration of your initial critique. If you are able to, please explain further.
@@theemotionalremix dude giving you names shows that I think you’re completely wrong with the teams I mentioned. Why would I put down the teams that I agree with.
1. OKC
2. Nuggets
3. Mavs
4. T Wolves
5. Suns
6. Grizzlies
7. Warriors
8. Pelicans
9. Lakers
10. Kings (as a kings fan, hurts for me to put this here)
11. Clippers
12. Rockets
13. Spurs
14. Jazz
15. Trailblazers
I’m gonna admit I haven’t watched all the teams play this preseason so I may be completely wrong
1.OKC
2. Denver
3. Minnesota
4. Suns
5. Memphis
6. Rockets
7. Lakers
8. Kings
9. Pelicans
10. Warriors
11. Clippers
12. Spurs
13. Jazz
14. Blazers
13
4th Phoenix
Suns are here by virtue of Denver and Minnesota losing valuable contributors
5th Minnesota
Losing a franchise cornerstone is going to take time to get used to.
9th & 10th Warriors + Clippers
11th & 12th Lakers + Rockets
How are you LA and cant get ANY free agents? Not even Jonas? And I fail to see how Houstons taking a massive leap. I see them as high as 9th.
14th Portland
Too much talent to be dead last.
15th Jazz
Nobody watches basketball here? Donte, do some research on what a difference he made for the D on the Bucks, Warriors, and Knicks. And Minnesota has the DPOY, and a staunch wing defender too. If OKC was not so crazy good, Minnesota would be my clear number one.
@@tribalypredisposedGobert shouldn’t have won DPOY but that’s an argument for another day. Minnesota will probably be 3rd. Randle is good in the regular season but he’s also not a respectable 3pt shooter. Spacing will be tough, paint will be more clogged than ants liking. Getting Donte was huge tho but a 3rd seed is reasonable.
@@VinnieRodrigues0 So I guess people have more faith in 🐜 Man and Gobert than 3x MVP Jokic🤔 thats fine. Anything can happen in a season including injuries....
@@bamidelakin-np2ub yes last season they were the higher seed and it’s fair to say they will again. Denver did nothing this offseason, signed russ which doesn’t move anything, lost KCP, Reggie. Bench is young and inexperienced too. If nuggets vs wolves meet up in the playoffs nuggets would win imo but regular season goes to Wolves.
Putting the Nuggets in front of the twolves is wild😂
How?
@@And.One.Hoops1 injury prone Jamal Murray, they lost KCP. Twolves added Divencenzo, Dillingham looked awesome in preseason and Julius Randle IMO is much more of a well rounded player who can switch on screens better than KAT could 🤷♂️
Joker alone puts them above wolves imo.
@@sora_2342 good joke....pun intended
@@Mike0xBIG Absolutely, Wolves are going to be top three on D this seasons at worst; Donte is WAY underestimated in D, he was key to the D on every team he has played for.
They gotta switch some teams’ conference- the East is so stinky, a few West teams shipped over- Dallas, Memphis (you know cities in the mid/east ?!?!), Minnesota would make the both conferences so much more competitive.
Rockets will be the #5 in west bare minimum.
5 minimum, really? I like them too but you must be mayor of Houston.
I have them at five on my list...but higher seems a bit wildly optimistic to me.
west: OKC, Mavs, Minn, Kings, Dev, Phx, Pels, LAL, Hou, Mem
east: Bos, NYK, Cavs, 76er, Mil, Orl, Pac, Mia, Atl, Char
Phoenix has three good players; two play the same position, and the third is old and has a repaired Achiles. If they had draft picks, the smart thing to do this season would be to enter the Cooper chase, because they are not getting anything else done.
1 Okc
Mavs
Rockets
Grizzlies
Nuggets
Warriors
Timberwolves
Clippers
Suns
10 Kings
1. Thunder
2. Grizz
3. Kings
4. Nuggets
5. Wolves
6. Lakers
7. Mavs
8. Suns
9. Warriors
10. Rockets
1 thunder 2 mavs 3 Denver 4 wolves 5 kings
6 suns 7 grizzlies 8 pelicans 9 lakers
10 warriors 11 rockets 12 spurs 13 jazz
14 clippers 15 blazers
Look at the plays JJ is running in pre- season, the lakers are gonna suck.
1 OKC 2 Mavs 3 TWolves 4 Nuggets 5 Suns 6 Kings 7 Lakers 8 Pelicans 9 Warriors 10 Grizzlies 11 Rockets 12 Jazz 13 Spurs 14 Clippers 15 Blazers
Grizzlies at 10 is crazy
Part timer
As a kings fan we’re looking kinda rough right now, it’d be a major surprise if we even made it to 6th
Idiot
@@jasonraceles5007 proof that he doesn't know ball
Just watch this as of Nov 21 😅
Reading through all the posts and everyone loves the Suns so much, can anyone explain why? KD is 36 with a repaired Achiles, and his backup pretty well sucks. Nurkic is below average for a center and his backup also sucks, this is not a deep team. Booker and Beal pretty much play the same position really. Tyus Jones is okay, let's say league average for a starting point guard, and his backup Monte is okay. At best this team's starters play even with the starters of the good teams, and then the reserves get slaughtered, except maybe against Denver...
Anyone who thinks the Lakers will even be an average team this year also needs to start watching basketball.
You’re really sleeping on the Grizzlies when they’re fully healthy they’ve finished top 3 in the West they’re finishing at least 5th if they’re healthy imo
Agreed, it is like everyone here just feel out of a coconut tree and has no idea how good Memphis was year before last.
Clippers 9 or 10 in the West for sure.
You're way to low on Memphis I think they are the 5 seed
IHart was an underrated big, but now with Okc stans. IHart has become an overrated big.
They're acting like they just signed a prime Tim Duncan smh
Don’t sleep on the pacers
1 Wolves 2 Thunder 3 Nuggets 4 Mavericks 5 Grizzlies 6 Suns 7 Kings 8 Pelicans 9 Lakers 10 Clippers 11 Warriors 12 Rockets 13 Spurs 14 Jazz 15 Blazers
In this scenario, Wemby dies, or something? How is it that none of you seem to have heard of Wemby? Spurs would be 10th this season WITHOUT Wemby, who may well be the best player in the league this season.
Grizzlies gonna have a better ranking than mavs*
You don’t truly believe that
Mac and t wolves are too high. Klay is washed. GSW is too low, losing Klay is addition by subtraction. He caused so many bad vibes last year.
Disagree with a lot of that: 1. OKC, 2. Minnesota, 3. Memphis, 4. Dallas, 5. Houston, 6. San Antonio, 7. Denver, 8. Golden State, 9. Sacramento, 10. New Orleans, 11. Phoenix, 12. Utah, 13. Clippers, 14. Lakers, 15. Portland.
This list is wild
@@And.One.Hoops1 LOL. Well, I watch basketball, and I have heard of Wemby...no one else here seems to know who he is? Houston played almost 500 ball end of last season and San Antonio was not far behind that, and Houston picked up some real talent in the draft while San Antonio got Harrison Barnes, a good vet 3 and D, CP3, and a really good guard who is a lock down defender in the draft...and this guy Wemby put on 25 pounds of muscle since last season, and kept shooting the three better and better over the course of last season. Memphis is back healthy, and last time they were healthy they were second in the West, and they have a nice rookie too. Denver lost KCP and still has a pathetic bench, and Golden State will definitely be a bit better with Heild and Waters and so on.
On the other side, Phoenix also has no bench, their SF is a joke, KD is on borrowed time, and their roster makes no sense. Clippers will be down to Harden, and Harden is old and still cannot manufacture fouls like they used to let him. Lakers were blessed with incredible health for AD and LeBron last season, the first season in five either played more than fifty games or so. Super unlikely to happen again, and even with great health for their stars they barely made the playoffs.
We'll revisit at the end of the season and see who's laughing then
@@And.One.Hoops1 Cool, please do, because I have laughed last with a lot of these kinds of videos the last few years…
Don’t sleep on the warriors 😅
Clippers over the warriors without kawhi?
Yes, everyone who is the king of the casuals would agree! Curry has been better than Harden their entire careers, and now he is WAY better, and pretty much the entire rest of the Warriors team is better man for man than the Clippers.
I go through the posts here and it seems no one knows who Wemby is, most underestimate Houston, most see a whole bunch of players who are not on the roster with the Suns and Lakers too, since I have no other idea how they are ranking those teams so highly...are people watching basketball who post here?
Video was made before the Kawhi news
@@And.One.Hoops1 And before anyone knew of Kawhi’s chronic knee problems of the last five years? I mean, no one who watches basketball would have bet a penny on the man having a healthy season, right?
You had me until you put the kings over the pels and grizzlies, the pelicans beat the kings 6 times in a row in one season. Bruh that team is so overrated
Klay is a bum now, Dallas will be 6th at best.
nba champions … dallas mavericks
Yall sleeping on the Warriors smh
People told me that last year and look what happened
Warriors in my opinion will be a good team I like the additions of melton, kyle anderson, and buddy hield. I have them as a darkhorse in the west.
That's fair, but how far can they really go with that crew?
Everybody has their own opinion and is entitled to it but man you do not know ball bro 😂
Explain. What are your seedlings then since you know ball
1. OKC
2. Wolves
3. Mavs
4. Suns
5. Lakers
6. Nuggets
7. Memphis
8. Pelicans
And it won't matter cause Boston is repeating. And I hate Boston
What players do you imagine that the Lakers and Suns have on their rosters that they rank so high? Because based on their actual rosters, they are not even play-in teams.
@@tribalypredisposed i think they have gotten marginally better, while other teams are marginally worse or unchanged as far as contention.
I don't think Jokic can carry his depleted roster enough (or should) to be a number 1 seed again, and the fact they were that burnt out after ONE finals run tells me a lot. NOLA is pretty much stagnant even with a healthy ZIon, and Memphis is a wild card but has a long road ahead of them to get back on top.
@@euro51116 The Suns are a combination of the problems of the Lakers and Denver. Awful bench, poorly constructed team, entirely dependent on a 36 year old with a repaired Achilles to even be an average team this season…
The Lakers, BOTH of their two stars stayed healthy for their first times in the last five seasons last year, and they were within a few games of tenth place. Odds are like 5% of that happening again this season, or lower. Are they owners of the fountain of youth now, is that why everyone here is ranking them like sixth?
@@tribalypredisposed The problem with the Lakers werent their two stars, it was the roster depth around them. And there were A LOT of close games that were winnable and were the difference in seeding if you remember how close things got at the end. And they were lost by bad coaching, I have faith JJ will be better with Xs and Os than Ham. Lebron is getting old but has not shown major signs of decline yet and was the best player at the olympics, alongside an invigorated AD. Nuggets are their old bad matchup and they are weaker as a whole. That's why everyone has them around 6th.
@@euro51116 NBA games are often close, doesn’t mean a new coach will get them more wins. The modern offense JJ is putting in is nice, but it means more movement for the oldest player in the NBA who is one of your two stars. And for AD. Both of those guys are injury prone and I don’t think running more miles on the court every game will help them stay healthy. I also don’t see too many blazing fast guys opposing teams will find it hard to keep up with if you run around a lot.
One of the big problems LA had was taking an early lead and then getting tired and losing it as the game went on. More running around seems like they will get tired faster, right? And the not impressive bench will have to play more?
I look at the roster, and the two stars are much more likely to get injured than not, and without them you got a glorified G league team. .