Just over three weeks into the 2014-15 NBA season, a number of teams have already rendered preseason prognostications somewhat obsolete.
Who foresaw the Sacramento Kings as a potential playoff contender out West? Who expected the Memphis Grizzlies, Golden State Warriors and Houston Rockets to be battling it out for the conference's top record? Did anyone anticipate the Milwaukee Bucks being on pace to match their 2013-14 win total by mid-December?
Some things haven't come as a major surprise—see: the Cleveland Cavaliers struggling on defense, or the Philadelphia 76ers being historically awful—but many more teams are resetting our expectations with their early-season play.
Before abusing your favorite NBA writers for their off-base preseason predictions, keep the season's small sample size in mind. After all, at this point last year, no one would have assumed the Toronto Raptors and Washington Wizards, owner of sub-.500 records at the time, would emerge as the Nos. 3 and 4 seeds in the East.
Still, based on what we've seen so far, some trends appear here to stay. Let's take a look at 10 teams that have either fared far better or worse than a majority of NBA observers would have guessed heading into the season.
from Bleacher Report http://ift.tt/1uIZR36
via IFTTT November 21, 2014 at 02:30AM
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