Lakers got blown out by the Pistons and dropped back2back road games
But the surprising team is Utah, won 10 games in a row and #1 seed with 14-4 record?
Utah is an underrated team. They don't have an eye-catching star (although Mitchell can be electrifying at times), but they have Gobert to anchor a very good defense as usual and they have good shooters and allround players for all positions.
I have Utah Jazz finishing as the 2nd seed in my pre-season prediction, so I can't say I'm surprised by their record (I'm wrong on a lot of other teams, so no gloating
).
They say that you need 8 dependable players, well Utah has exactly that: Conley/Mitchell/Clarkson/Ingles/Bogdanovic/O'Neale/Favors/Gobert
A team that isn't performing well is the Miami Heat. They have been missing Butler, but now they lost to the LA Clippers who were without Leonard and George. Clearly Adebayo isn't able to lead the team on his own (a bit like Siakam was the 'flavour of the month' last year). Are they in trouble?
Miami is 3 games back (GB) on Cleveland, 1.5 GB on New York, Orlando, Chicago and 1 GB on Toronto, Charlotte. Because the East isn't very strong (5 teams East >.500, 9 teams West >.500) it's all managable if the Heat starts clicking. But the Raptors will improve their record and only one of Cavs, Knicks, Magic, Bulls, Hornets has to go on a hot streak and the Heat will face a hard battle for a top 8 spot in the conference.
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