What is up, fellow thermonuclear A efforts. I am Dan have a valley
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is gonna come back and we're gonna do our over unders for the East and
the West. We'll go a little bit more into detail on these, but
just figured to do it off the cuff. I'm not looking at over unders
while I'm doing this, and I know some of the lines have moved anyway.
I'll have the wind totals. We gotta get to twelve thirty on each
column, so let's see go back and where I have to correct when I
take wins away from I just feel like it'll be super interesting very quickly.
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into this. I'm gonna throw it up on the screen for people watching on
YouTube, and as you can see, we gotta get to one two hundred
and thirty wins one thou two hundred and thirty losses. So I haven't set
up that it should be automatically. And then I haven't set up on the
next dock where I can go through my standings really quickly. At the end
of this and I have the wins, might be mentioning those from last season.
That'll help me give a baseline if I think teams improved, how much
worse that they got. But let's do this and see how long that it
takes me. I was hoping for like twenty minutes or less here, but
I guess we're about to find out. The Atlanta Hawks forty three wins last
year. I'm gonna go with forty six right now. Boston Celtics at fifty
one last year. They're all kinds of gallows injured. RW three is gonna
be injured, Sam How's cornet look like they're gonna play a ton of roles.
The Emailudoka stuff, all sorts of weird. I'm just gonna pencils the
man for fifty, which is a win fewer than last year. The Nets,
I can't trust them as far as I could throw them. They're at
forty four last year. Low Key Kevin Durant since twenty eighteen twenty nineteen has
appeared and fewer combined regular season playoff games than Joel embiid En Kawhi Leonard,
two players who are often dinged for their fragility. I just don't trust this
team. I could see it imploading. Kyrie Irving always seem to mistime for
stuff. Ben Simm's working his way back from a back end injury, learning
to fit in with his new teammates. I don't know what the defense is
gonna look like. They could still be really fucking good, though, I
don't think they're a fifty win team. I'm gonna say forty six as well
for them the Hornets, I just have no faith in. I feel like
they're a team that might sort of implode during the season on purpose. Maybe
Steve Clifford. I think that he'll be good to improve the defense, and
his teams tend to get the low hanging fruit and had a couple of wins
there. They were at forty three last year. I think they're gonna below
that though, And I'm just gonna inverse their record thirty nine wins for the
Charlotte Hornets the Chicago Bulls forty six last year. They dealt with a ship
ton of injuries, more so than just Lonzo, but they Caruso missed a
ton of time. Patrick Williams missed a ton of time. Zach Lavine was
dealing with and playing through some knee stuff. The Bulls, but I feel
like they're gonna win fewer. I'm gonna put them at like forty two.
The Cleveland Cavaliers at forty four. They trade for Donovan Mitchell if they even
just get better health. They had Jared Allen dealing with some stuff towards the
end of last year. The bench, you could have faith in it,
Maybe don't have faith in it. A full year of cars Lavert Rubia comes
back at some point. I really love Dean Wade. Ken Love is a
great year last year. How many wins is Donova Mitchell worth to this team
with the East being so deep, I'm gonna go with fifty for the Calves.
I'm a big believer in the Calvs. The Mavericks. I don't know.
They're talking about signing for Kundo Compazzo, which if you needed a third
ball handle, you probably should have thought about that sooner so that you didn't
have to wind up using Josh Reen or Frank Nielkina and then falling back to
Facundo Compazzo. They were fifty two last year, Lucas slow start, he
might dominate all season. He looks like he's in pretty good shape. He's
probably good for close to fifty wins himself. I'm gonna go with forty eight.
I might even be a little generous here. The Nuggets forty eight wins
last year with basically no Michael Porter Jr. He sucked when he was instinct
sucked, but he wasn't great when he was playing. No Jamal Murray.
Looking at some of those bench units, I just feel like, even if
they cake in some maintenance for MPJ, for Jamal Murray, even if Yokits
just can't go full bordering the regular season because of the past three years,
this team's gonna win a ship a ton of games. I think going fifty
five Detroit Pistons twenty three wins last year, they're probably better. I don't
know what they can do this year in the East, which is deeper,
so wins are harder to come by. And if you know, if the
magic, like the magic of the Pistons will probably end up being better than
expected, which will come at the expense of the other team, I'm just
gonna put them in for like twenty seven for now Golden State, with the
Draymond green stuff sort of floating around out there, they are going to be
reliant on some more of the kiddos more they had fifty three last year.
Is that reasonable to assume that they do that again. I'm just gonna depends
limit for fifty three again. I love Steph Curry. I think he might
be my MVP pick. I'm debating between him and Janice right now. And
there was some zion in Pascal consideration in there. If anybody cares the Rockets
twenty wins last year, I don't think they get more than that, but
they're just gonna be so overmatched in the West. I'm gonna say twenty five.
I'm gonna say twenty six. That even feels low. The Pacers,
I just feel like having sub twenty five, I'm gonna put him in for
twenty five wins again with their team that if they trade Miles Turner, they
might just be bad on purpose and we could see them pulling okay see and
sort of shut down Tyree's Haliburton like at the halfway point of the three quarters
pulled the Clippers forty two wins last year. You have to imagine They're gonna
get better health from one of Kawai, Norman Powell, and Paul George,
if not all three of those dudes. I think they're a fifty win team,
but they won't care as much about the regular season. I'm gonna go
fifty one here the Lakers. If they're not gonna trade Westbrook, I just
you'll get better health from Adie and Lebron. They're gonna be in the thirties
for me. Let's go thirty eight and just move on. And they need
to trade Ross or make the roster make sense at least. The Grizzlies fifty
six last year, no Triple Jay to start the season. I kind of
think they overachieved a little bit last year, but I've been wrong on them
for four years in a row. I don't even know what the overunder is
on them just yet. I haven't done their look ahead pod fifty six wins.
I just the West is tougher. It's going to be fewer than that,
and I'm gonna say I feel like this is gonna make people mad.
I'm gonna say forty eight. Remind me heat fifty three last year. They're
a little bit older. Kyle Lowry's apparently in better shape, and if he's
healthier, he's also dealing with a lot of person stuff. Tyler hero get
another year from him, But they're really gonna miss PJ. Tucker. I'm
gonna put them in for fifty Milwaukee fifty one. We don't know when Chris
Middleton's gonna come back. They're a team that they're the least combustible team maybe
in the NBA, like just there's their infrastructure is just so dependable. So
I'm gonna say that they get better, and let's go with fifty three.
Here the timberwolve of forty six. How much better do they get with the
Rudy Gobert trade. I'm gonna say they get pretty bed. I'm gonna forty
nine New Orleans Pelicans. I don't know if this is I thought I was
like ahead of the Pelicans, but I'm starting to realize how high people are
on the Pelicans. If you tell me Zion plays in sixty games, I'm
smashing. They're over whatever that is sitting. I don't even remember it from
the pod that we did. Look, look, let's do it. Fifty
two wins for the Pelicans. Let's get drunk here for Nicks very seven and
forty five, I probably have a little bit higher of hopes for them,
even though the East is deeper. Julius Randall, hopefully he buys into a
more complimentary role. Jalon Brunson's really fucking good. I'm trying to manifest r.
J. Barrett from most improved player or even though I think it's gonna
be LaMelo ball if they play Quentin Grimes, if they play you know,
more of the kids Obi just the shot of adrenaline. I love Isaiah Harten
signed them as a fantastic signing. I think they're like a five hundred team.
Maybe that might be when we come back to okay See twenty four wins,
no chet going under that now feels like reasonable. But I did give
twenty six wins to the Rockets, who are probably better on paper that them.
Let's just say, okay see and the Victor Weban Yama's gonna factor in
this. We're going twenty three for okay See. They take the shit out
of this. I feel like the Magic could be really good. The fault
injury hasn't been concerned. They're gonna be missing jell and Suggs, who didn't
have a great rookie year, but I think he was gonna be really good
this season, especially when being able to play with palel Ban Caro and Wendell
Carter Jr. And Franz Wagner. Those three together are super interesting. The
guard play on this team is a huge question mark, but I do think
they're It wouldn't surprise me if they get into the thirties. I'm gonna put
them in thirty one Philadelphia fifty one and thirty one. That almost feels about
right. But Kking another year of tyrees, Maxie James Harden being in shape,
and they won fifty one when they had just that empty roster spot rotation
slot because of Ben Simmons for so much of last year. Fifty fifty four
sat too, But like, why would they win more than the Bucks?
Though? You have a I'm gonna put the Bucks. So fifty four for
the Bucks and let's put fifty three for the Sixers the Suns. This is
a big one. They won sixty four last year. We don't know what's
gonna happen with the Jay Crowder situation the bench. There are players that I
like on there. Damian Lee, I'm a biggish waynewright guy. Let's see
if he just he has his hands up all the time, and he's very
plug and play on offense, and he even put the ball on the floor
bit in open space in addition of just you know, fanning out to the
corners and just isn't a ball stop right there? So whould keep the ball
moving? Will he play? Though? Is the question? Their secondary big
man rotation makes me uneasy. There's a lot of good things being said about
Jock Landale right now. He might useur Bismack Bimbo and maybe even Dariel Scharitch
in that backup five spot, but there's still so many questions they're going to
be worse Chris Paul's older Devin Booker fucking rules. I just think we gotta
we can't overestimate there's some drama going there, but let's not overestimate I'm gonna
in a ten win drop, and that's a pretty substantial drop. Maybe they
load managed CB three or I have to deal with an injury, but we
I think we need to recognize collectively that the Suns are just still really freaking
good, even if you don't believe in them. For the playoffs, I
think this team makes a move and they would still be a regular season machine.
When you look at sort of the top five players on their roster,
it gets fifty after five right away. Unless you just believe in Campaign,
believe in Josh and Kobe or Damian Lee or Tory Craig or Jack Landale or
Bismack Beyond. I mean, yeah, I'm talking to myself about it right
now. That's why. That's why it's fifty four. If you told me
they traded for like Gary Trent Junior, even fucking Cody Martin from Charlotte,
who's a trade target, I think they should go after. I might nudge
it up a bit. I have no idea what to do on Portland twenty
seven and fifty five. I'm just putting them at forty one. They feel
like that type of team. They're a little shallow, went unproven. How
much are they gonna develop? Shade and sharp? Can Afrey Simon's carry those
line ups without Dame. I think Dame will be great this year for what
it's worth. Though the Kings, I don't know. Thirty seven. I
think they're like thirty eight thirty eight for the Kings. The Spurs, they're
gonna be bad on purpose. I don't know if they're the worst team in
the NBA, because they have a lot of really intriguing players, most of
whom are young, and so yeah, you can trade Jaka Peartle and Josh
Richardson and Doug McDermott, but how many wins does it actually cost you.
They're at thirty four last year. I think that they're we're gonna see some
real time. I'm putting them at twenty five. The Raptors forty eight last
year. They're better Otto Porter Junior. They signed him Precious A Chua man
I just I whipped on him. Just always trust the Raptors. I did
it with Scottie Barnes. I did it with Gary Trent Junior because I thought
I learned, But I didn't do it with Precious A Chua. They're really
I've heard some good things about Christian Coloko and Delano Banton. There's been a
lot of great things said about them. I still very much worry about their
half court offense and maybe they're shooting overall, especially they end up moving GTJ
because he's in a contract year. I'm pets limit at forty eight again,
but they feel like they could be a better team and give him some respect.
A fort on the Jazz. Now, Jazz fans, I'm gonna do
a Jazz look ahead. And I've seen Jazz fans get rightfully so concerned that
their team is not gonna get enough coverage or they're gonna be misinterpreted because they're
going to be so bad. And I've also seen a lot of Jazz fans
say this team will be better than expected, look at the talent. My
big thing is even the Jazz can say whatever they want about not tanking,
this team is going to look drastically different by the trade deadline. You look
at Conley, you look at Malie Beasley, you look at Ruby Gay being
merrithough, how much of an impact does he have. You look at Jordan
Clarkson, even who people said, oh, he's more likely to extend than
be traded. This team is just going to look different, even if it's
shutting guys down. I think we need to remember that. And so there,
I do think they have a chance to be the worst team in the
league. Do I think they're gonna be worse than Okay, see at this
point, if you tell me they play the Vets I'm gonna say no,
but they might be right in line. I'm going twenty seven for now because
they might Let's go twenty eight because they might win too many regular season games.
Well, I'm like spot on the money if you're looking at these totals
right now, or no, I'm not spot on the mone. I'm gonna
be off by quite a bit. The Wizards, I don't know, thirty
five games last year. I feel like they just might be there again.
Can you count on Christops for a whole year? What does this defense sort
of look like? They have a bunch of really intriguing wings with Danny Avia,
Kyle Kuzma. I like Will Barton, I like Monte Morris. I
just something's just a miss with this squad, and I can't put my finger
on I don't think they're deep enough. Is probably one are you going to?
You know, like, who are you trusting really to defend like the
other premier players. I guess Kuzma can do that. Danny Avia can even
do that a little bit. Bradley Beal will probably have a bounce back season.
This team is tough. They're at thirty five. Let's just sue Bradley
Beal is healthier and better, and I thirty nine. All right, so
I am I mean forty one more losses here For anyone who could say I'm
at forty one over, that is probably pretty high. So let's see who
I'm too high too low on forty six. For Atlanta, I don't want
to go lower boss, Let's put him at forty nine. They're a mis
fifty. I mean, they don't have a gooka. They're dealing with some
injuries. Let's just go Horford's older. I'm gonna go forty nine. Then
that's at forty six. You know what from down forty five. I don't
care no hornets. I think I'm being too much of a coward with how
low I am on them, Like this isn't a team that I really believe
in thirty six, I think they're gonna be. They might not be like
super Bad, and there might be some really good development. If you're looking
at LaMelo Ball, James book Night does not look great in the preseason,
by the way. That kind of hurts my soul. But they could flip
a switch to and decide to enter the tank sweepstakes, so we'll revisit them.
I'm not moving Chicago down. I'm gonna try not move Cleveland down at
fifty, Dallas at forty eight. I just I trust Luca and not the
Mavericks, if that makes any sense. The Nuggets at fifty five. I
don't even bullish there. If fifty five is the highest wind Told I could
see him I have in the best regular season record, let's leave that.
It's into twenty seven, man, I'm gonna leave them there. I feel
like I didn't even go up enough. Let's give the Warriors just They're not
gonna give a shit out the regular season. Let's give them fifty two.
The Rockets at twenty six, the Pacers at twenty five. There's some room
on the Pacers. I think maybe there's a like, are they worse than
last year? Because Turner might be healthier, but they're not gonna have Sabonus,
who was their best player. Tyre's Halliburton is gonna be a lot better.
Though. I really like ben Nick Mathren. Isaiah Jackson intrigues me,
although not he was talking more about his ball skiales. I spoke with Caitlyn
Cooper about that. That's rough. Uh, I'm gonna leave them for now.
The Clippers at fifty one. We're just gonna leave them. They're so
deep, so good. Do I want to bring the Lakers down to like
thirty seven or something? Leave them at thirty eight? You know what?
It's time. I'm sorry. I can't be a coward here. I hope
I'm wrong. The Grizzlies are so much fun. We're going forty six.
You know what? Are we going forty five? No? Forty six for
the Grizzlies, forty nine for Miami? Just some direction? They're fifty four
for Milwaukee, not moving off that. Minnesota at forty nine. How do
we feel about forty eight for Minnesota? I think that's that's maybe fine.
Fifty two or fees, that's like a very easy one to come off.
But I'm not moving off the fifty one one fifty one right there, sticking
with it. Nick's at forty one and forty one. Maybe I'm being a
homer here and too high on them. Let's just see where I end up
with. Okay, See at twenty three is a lot Orlando, I'll give
him thirty instead of thirty one. Philly at fifty three, and the Sun's
at fifty four. I'm gonna leave it just see how watch I'm off by
the Blazers at five hundred, I'm gonna leave it. The King's at thirty
eight, I'm gonna leave it. The Spurs at twenty five, Let's you
know what they really they're the team. They're the team that I think is
gonna steer into the tank the most. The Spurs of twenty three, the
Raptors at forty nine, I'm not moving that. The Jazz at twenty eight,
there's some like a room nality. We are the Wizard that thirty nine,
I'm still twenty seven wins short Ah, it's time if we gotta start
making some tough cuts here, I don't know where to go. I'm this
is why I'm doing these in real time. I want to see if I
can process it. It's we gotta it's time to start trimming a fact.
I'm too high on all these teams. Let's start again. Atlanta at forty,
No, Boston forty nine, No, Brooklyn forty five. I want
to go lower the Hornets. Look, Charlotte, I'm sorry. I think
there's there's real implosive potential here. Thirty four for Charlotte, I'm gonna are
the Bulls of forty one win team m Man, no Lonzo for so much
of the year, so important to their defense is the ros't gonna be as
clutch as he was last year. Who just looked okay in the preseason.
That's good. Forty one for Chicago. Cleveland at fifty that's like begging me
to probably pull it down, you know what. Forty seven for Dallas.
I love you, Luca, but I don't trust the supporting cast at all.
The Nuggets to fifty five, no staying bullish. Bullish on the Nuggets.
Twenty seven for Detroit, fifty two for Golden State, twenty six for
Houston. I think they'll be some Shenanigans in Houston. Let's just say,
like it's plus four wins, why should they be if they might trade Eric
Gordon and really lean into like Tarry Easan's looked great, so they start playing
him over j Shawn Pate twenty four and that means I gotta bring the Pacers
down to twenty four as well. The Clippers at fifty one, LA at
thirty eight. Memphis is at forty six. Guys, I'm sorry, ladies,
gentlemen, everyone, I'm just anyone out there. I'm apologizing this is
so bad. I can't do it. I can't bring Memphis down to forty
four forty five? Can I? Britain? Let's leave it for now.
Milwaukee at fifty four. Maybe I'm a little bit. Maybe they won't care
about the regular season as much. Middleton is mint some time, all right.
Fifty three on Milwaukee, fifty three on Milwaukee. New Orleans fifty one.
I'm sticking with it. I'm sticking with it forty one for the next
I'm gonna stick with it to talk me out of it. Orlando at thirty
is probably the one where I really need to come pull back on. I
said there's a chance I think they're better than the Hornets, and it's so
like, why are you going to come down? Leave them for now?
Philadelphia fifty three. I just keep coming back to how are they not?
I'm just dropping shit all over the place because I'm worrying right now. Phildelvia
fifty three. How are they not better than they were at they won fifty
one? I know the East is deeper, but holy shit, I'm gonna
leave it. Phoenix at fifty four. Nope, it's gonna be bullish,
you know what. Portland, it's time. I'm confused. Portland, you're
a thirty eight? Are you better than even the Kings? No? Thirty
I'm gonna so thirty seven for the Kings. Do you really think the Blazers
are better than the Kings? I don't. Thirty seven for both the Kings
and the Blazers. The Spurs do I trust them to they? It always
feels like, and I don't not looking at this is Tory, but it
always feels like there's a twenty win team somewhere. Where are we getting that
this year? Not taking off the rap, there's the Jazz, let's come
back. One off the Jazz, and then the Wizards. It's time,
because just they're implosive. I don't see it. Two more wins. I'm
still eleven short, eleven short. This is amazing. This is hard,
This is so hard. Are you ready to forty wins for the Bulls?
I think that's fair. Cleveland, you should just come off the fifty.
I'm not gonna do it. I really think that they're a lot better than
people are crediting them. Matters to forty seven. That's like if you're telling
Lucas that's my limit. Detroit at twenty seven, I don't want to do
it, but I might do it. Golden State at fifty two, one
win worse, and they they're gonna be They haven't necessarily solved the non staff
minutes. What's going on with Draymond, how much you're gonna play Wiseman and
Cominga and Moody, how much you were lying on them. I'm gonna leave
him at fifty two twenty four for the Rockets and the Pacers, that's really
low for both those guys. I'm sticking. You have to probably be bold
and pick a team that's gonna be bad. Is it okay? See?
Is it just I'm so high on so many members of their core, but
I don't know that they they really are the ones that are invested. Like
Detroit traded for Boyon, Indiana still has Miles Turner. Houston has Eric Gordon
as well, Jay Shawn Tate, the Skew a little veteran there, and
then also Albert and Shane gun was among the most seasoned rookies last year.
I can't get lower there. The Lakers at you know what, the Lakers
at thirty seven, Okay, Memphis at forty It's happened. Memphis at forty
five. I'm sorry, I hope I'm wrong. I'm gonna forty eight for
the Heat. They just feel a little bit shallower. I guess you have
a full year Victor Rolodippo Milwaukee at fifty three, Minnesota at forty eight,
Like, are they really only gonna be one win better? I'm not gonna
say the Pelicans at fifty one. The Knicks, it's trying to stick it.
I gotta pick a team that's gonna just suck something awful, whether it's
on purpose. I would be annoyed if the thunder shut down Shay and I
could see development from Josh Giddy. I love lu Door ken Rich Williams.
Is there Ushman Jang if he's able to just hit any sort of set jumper
for them? Is this the they won twenty four last year? Well shutting
down Shay and I ready just gave them twenty three? How astronomically stupid is
that? Man? No, can't do it. Phoenix, Philadelphia thirty seven
for the Kings of the Blazers twenty three. This is the team San Antonio.
I'm sorry. The Raptors of forty nine. I want to stay there.
I really think that the Jazz are gonna get bad on purpose. Let's
bring him down to twenty six. It's not sold. I think that's what
they need to do this year. I'm still four short. You know what,
Wizards, I don't believe in you, and it's time to make the
call that I've been dreading the Hornets. I'm I don't know if the Hornets
they're a thirty five win team. Even with Lamello, they're good. Steve
Clifford is amazing, but I can't im It's time to make some bold leaves
here. I think the Hornets are gonna end up being a lot worse than
people expect, even if the talent suggests that they shouldn't be. But I
mean, I think I have many more wins? Am I short? One?
I need to come up with one loss somewhere? Uh denver I fifty
four it's just low hanging fruit. But I mean, if fifty five is
low hanging fruit, I'm not doing it. Though. I'm trying to really
stick with my beliefs here. The Pistons getting four wins, better they have
bow Yon, do they keep him? I'm gonna leave it. I'm gonna
I'm not gonna. Let's just see the Pistons. I might move to twenty
six Houston and Ndia twenty four. That's fine, Clippers of fifty one,
Laters at thirty seven, members of forty five. I feel wildly uneasy about
the heat at forty eight Bucks at fifty three, Minnesota at forty eight Helicans
fifty one, there's probably some low hanging fruit. What if I just make
them a fifty win team. Let's just do it there it is, unless
I want to pull back elsewhere. I can't. I just feel like the
rebuilding teams might even be better than we expect, but the tanking race might
also be sort of epic, and so I probably could come up if I
just took a win away because Shenanigans are up. But I already have OKAYC
being worse than last year, which is so counterintuitive. So here's what's happening.
I'm gonna go twenty for San Antonio and twenty four for OKAC, same
records last year, assuming some tanking shenanigans there. I don't think Orlando really
gets like too far into the tank. I'm gonna say Indiana really steers into
the tank this year gets worse. There are twenty three I'm gonna be able
to throw some more wins around, folks, don't worry about it. Detroit
at twenty seven. That's the tough one. I'm gonna say no, because
even if they try and be organically bad, I think their talent's a little
bit too d So I believe I have a couple of wins to throw around
now, and I am at I have one win. Let's throw around.
Do I give it to the Hornets or do I give it to the I'll
give it to the Grizzlies. Forty six for the Grizzlies. All right,
let's check out what my standings are, so we will do this. All
right, So, as of now, I have Milwaukee and Philadelphia tied for
the one seed in the East at fifty three wins. My math is clearly
off here because I'll fix it now. But there's some clear Google doctor shenanigans
here. But my time thought I had everything set up properly. I apologize.
So all right, fifty three twenty nine from Milwaukee and Philadelphia. Fifty
for the Calves is the three seed. Wow, that's all sorts of bizarre
my end whatever, Boston is the four seed, and the Raptors with forty
nine wins. Miami checks in at number six with forty eight wins, Atlanta
number seven at forty six, Brooklyn I get in there eight at forty five.
I have the Knicks and Bulls at nine and ten with forty one and
forty wins. Specifically, So my playing teams in the East right now are
Washington, Charlotte, Orlando, Detroit, Indiana. That feels fair. That
feels fair. So yeah, let's let's now look at the West standings.
Denver I have is one seed. I know that with their fifty five wins,
So that's that's an easy one to go buy. Let me sort this
to get the records here. Los Angeles Clippers fifty one at the two seed.
No. I. Phoenix is a two seed at fifty four. Golden
State as the three seed at fifty two. The Clippers is the four seed
at fifty one, with the Pelicans the five seed at fifty That was with
the Pelicans hitting fifty games. I really want to just put the Pelicans and
like, this is where maybe I should be changing win totals right now?
Is do I take Do I pull back and think the Clippers are only gonna
get the fifty they're so deep, but it's like how many games are their
starsmiths? They really don't care about the regular season. I might just do
it, like I feel like it's time to be bold here. I'm supposed
to be hid in the Pelicans. Why don't you be high on the Pelicans?
Fifty one wins for the Pelicans and we're gonna give fifty wins for the
Clippers. Or is there's someone else that I feel confident in pulling that back
from. I don't want to go with twenty five for the Jazz. I
think that they might try and yeah, I mean women, Yama, man,
this is I'm doing it. Utah. I just think you're gonna look
drastically different. You're gonna shut guys down. It's not an insult. I
think that's what you need to do. I'm not low hanging fruit there.
I'm not trying to do that. So I have the Pelicans or the Clippers
with the four seed at fifty one. Minnesota is five at forty eight,
Dallas is six at forty seven. I'm apparently higher on Dallas than I thought.
Memphis is seven or Memphis is eight, excuse me. So I have
Denver at one with fifty five, Phoenix at two with fifty four, Golden
State at three with fifty two, the Pelicans at four with fifty one,
Slash, the Clippers at fifty one, number six, the Timberwolves at forty
eight, number seven, the MAVs at four seven, the Grizzlies eight at
forty six, and then I have the Kings, the Lakers, and the
Blazers and a three way tie for the play in with thirty seven wins?
Can I is there any way I could cut that? Do we try?
Do we think that? Okayc's just gonna get bad bad? I don't.
I have four teams in the West with twenty something wins. I can't do
it. I just I can't do it. So we're just gonna leave that
as is. If anything, I would probably pull back a win from the
Lakers and give it but the Kings for the play in teams is the MAVs,
Grizzlies, and then two from the Kings, Lakers, Trailblazers. That
feels right, Jazz, Okay, see Houston and San Antonio as the bottom
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