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We are roughly 20% of the way through the regular season (alien.top)
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What are some of your takes so far? Any surprising or disappointing teams this season? Unexpected stars? Future takes for the rest of the season?

Here are some of mine:

  1. The Thunder are the most surprising team so far, and moght be genuine contenders. Chet will win ROTY

  2. If the Rockets make 8 seed and keep up a top 5 defense, Udoka is a lock for COTY

  3. I think the Clippers will combust and might scrape 10 seed with how good the West is

LMK some of yours

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[–] CaptGJ@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I definitely have some bias but I think the Magic are the bigger surprise than OKC. They have the same record but the Magic have beaten the Lakers,Bucks,Nuggets and Celtics in that stretch. Those teams would be very unsurprising conference finalists.

Also OKC have SGA who was literally All NBA first team so their potential to be great was more predictable.

[–] SaltyTraeYoungStan@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah, I definitely had low expectations for the magic this year, where as the Thunder had an MVP calibre player and top pick 7’1 sharp shooting rookie coming in at 21 with a year of NBA development. Thunder had expectations.

To me the biggest surprise teams are the magic, the Rockets, and maybe the pacers.

[–] FastestPP@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Nuggets without murray celtics were up 15 before porzingis got injured. Were without Jrue.

Let's see what they do to fully healthy teams.