Wow....
The Western conference is a frenetic conference to be in.. Only 3.5 games separate the 4th seed from the 14th seed.
A 2 or even 3 game slump and you'd be looking out of the playoff race... Its still early but I do not really expect the separation to expand as teams are all as competitive with each other.. Even the Warriors are lookin vulnerable in the regular season at least.
TP. This might be unique. A conference where 13-14 teams have a legit chance to make the playoffs. I love it.
While not as close, the east is pretty lumped together as well. Celtics are 1 in the loss column out of 2nd place.
Well in the East there are already a bunch of teams (quite) certain to make the playoffs (Toronto, Boston, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Indiana) and also who aren't (Atlanta, Cleveland, Chicago, Brooklyn, New York). It's basically a competition for three places between Detroit, Charlotte, Washington, Orlando and Miami.
It's hard to predict which teams fail to make the playoffs in the West. My prediction would be that Phoenix (
), Sacramento, Dallas, Minnesota, Houston, San Antonio and Memphis don't make it. But I could easily be wrong about 4 teams or so.