Quote from: Ranly123 on December 16, 2019, 09:31:42 PM

Quote from: justdimin on December 16, 2019, 04:51:36 PM

Three of the biggest shocks I have seen this year from teams is Dallas Miami and OKC. Everybody knew Dallas would be better thanks to Doncic and KP because lets face it they couldn't get any worse anyway so last year they got a bit better but this year with KP coming back we expected them to be much better, however nobody expected them to be 3rd in west so far, maybe at early days thanks to good schedule and all but now we are over 25 games into season and they are still third, with Doncic missing they might drop a few but playoffs are basically guaranteed for them.

Dallas may quite be having a good record at the start of the season but it is still too early to say that they are guaranteed to be in the playoffs. Anything can still happen inside the court and that include injury issue that may drop them from being a playoffs contender.

If you had a doubt, they are currently top 3 in Western Conference. I look in the standing and I can say the top 5 teams in West has a guaranteed spot in playoffs. Their stats are pretty fine makes them safe from falling out. As for injury you saying, it's not like all of their player were going to have injury. Just in case their top scorer will have a serious injury(hope not), they still have players who can step up and maintain their playoff spot. Maybe not in top3 but still inside 8 seeds.