Its clear the top 6 in each conference will make it.
For the first time in a while we have maybe....8 teams that can possibly make the finals.
We will just disregard the bottom 3 teams which we likely all assume are just prey. They may put up a fight but are eventually gonna be fed on.
But some of the better teams are no doubt gonna prove to be pretenders. Everyone has someone they just absolutely dont believe in no matter their record. Last few years its been the Raptors...or the 60 win Hawks....the Rockets. Whoever. We all have someone we see as nothing more than a meal. Perhaps a tough meal....but a meal in the end. Who are you most confident in being no more than a plate?
Top 5 seeds:
Bucks
Raptors
Philly
Pacers
Celtics
Warriors
Nuggets
Rockets
Blazers
Thunder
Give me 6 meals. That leaves you 4 serious contenders. Thats plenty to fall back on.
Who you giving straight up:
*
status?
Im sure the Pacers and Blazers make a lot of peoples lists but you still need 4 more.
Cmon. Who else goes down that gullet? Who are you sure enough about to risk the backlash if you are terribly wrong? Its actually hard to say this year.
The Thunder...Nuggets...maybe all 5 east teams could make you look like an idiot. But ill take the plunge anyway. No face saving "If..." or "But maybe____" shit in here. Be a man. Be firm in your convictions and brutally wrong if it comes to that.
I'll go first:
Nuggets
Celtics
Thunder
Bucks
Blazers
Pacers
All of them absolute
in the end. Just a meal for the big boys.
*Having several kids and teens under my care to one degree or another ive been exposed quite a bit to Attack on Titan. Which despite being a cartoon is pretty....****ed up. I feel the Titans provide a pretty solid analogy. The normal people manage to take one or two out but generally....you get brutally eaten at their leisure.