Quote Originally Posted by Spencer 555 View Post
If I had to rank teams based purely on paper. My rankings would be (and this is considering fully healthy):

GSW
SAS
CLE
LAC
RAP
WAS
HOU

I think the top 4 are pretty much locked in and the next 3 all have an argument for 5th, but these are the playoff contenders.

I'm not at all convinced the Celtics are as good as the record shows. Thomas is their best player and he's a huge liability defensively. By every metric and the eye test Thomas is the worst defensive player in the league lol and the Celtics are ranked 25th+ in rebounding %. In fact last time I checked they were 29th.
Maybe I'm just a D'Antoni fan, but I put Houston 4th on that list.