LOL.

They play different when it comes to the playoffs. That is why even just for the 8th seed it will be worth the shot.
Season is about the attendance of the roster, they dont play that hard anymore in season to protect themselves.
Denver have young players in their roster and that is why they made it as the 2nd seed in the West.

Don't get me wrong but look at the Roster of other teams in the West. Yes, they are all powerhouse teams but.... they are not getting any younger. They cannot complete 82 games anymore and that means something if you want to be number 1 seed. Every game will count.

I agree that you can't sleep on Celtics because of Kemba Walker. I'm not aware though of him being a locker room diva so that is something that he needs to check. Celtics is still a young team and they need some leadership from him and not act like he is the main man. I would say that Kyrie try to be a leader on Celtics, but I guess he lacks that communication skills that good leader possessed like Jordan or even Kobe.

Well being a former NBA player his analyst is something that we need to look at. Remember even though those guys are not playing anymore, they still have contacts and insider information. Just like us here, we have our own predictions however, it doesn't have any weight as compare to those NBA analyst because they really know what's going on inside and outside of the basketball court. So I will respect what Rose has put up in his list, just sayin'.

I reckon that might be the western conference seeding for the end of the regular season. How can you seed them after the playoffs?

The sportsbooks also have similar projections on the top 3 based on the odds. However, if it is for the whole league, put the Bucks on no.3.

Yep, those inside info are really being passed to them. It's like that they are in a big organization and each of them knows everything on what are the trades and rumors that are about to happen.

Moving on about his predictions, the teams still had enough time for the regular season.

They are a young team and they have continuity. You cannot take that away from them. Regular season is different from playoffs. Since they are younger and healthy, they can play all 82 games so they are a top contender for the top seed.  If they fall from playoffs last season, it's because they have less experience in the PLAYOFFS. They will be better this year.

Everyone keeps saying playoffs are different from regular season and I totally agree because in regular season players do not give 100% of their game and just try to make it to playoffs which is enough, sometimes there is radical stuff happen like 73-9 warriors season but normally everyone just plays with like 50% power.

HOWEVER, that doesn't mean that plenty of stuff changed in the past off season, yeah Denver is a good young team but right now there are plenty of teams with super duos, clippers/Lakers/rockets/blazers and warriors still have curry, so there is a big chance teams will play all around better because talent is more evenly distributed, that is why I think there is no chance Denver finishes second seed, maybe last year or year before that it was possible but there is parity in the league now.

Denver played really well for their seven-game series against to Portland and I like how Nikola Jokic played against to portland for the whole 7games, he surely gives his best on that but maybe it’s not the right time for him.

It surely does, good experience on playoffs. SA has really have the play composition since they manage to be champion in the of 2014, ther movement was really good.
 

Just learned today that another big man was added in Houston Rockets pool, the veteran Tyson Chandler.

We all know that he's not the Tyson Chandler we all know today. After his dominant performance in his championship season up to New York Knicks days, Chandler noticeably becomes slower the following seasons. Maybe because of his injury during the last season in New York Knicks. But still, a good addition to Rockets towers as we all know there's really no Center at this team (Capela is a PF but D'Antoni put him as Center since this guy can handle that position well. The reason why Capela became used to play as a big man and became dominant as well at that field. Thanks to Mike).


Why the concern for Denver Nuggets shouldn't be on 2nd seed next season? Why giving a big deal on it? Hmm..

For real? come on, you got me and searched for the sources quickly and here what I've found out.
https://www.nba.com/article/2019/07/18/houston-rockets-sign-free-agent-tyson-chandler-official-release
He can contribute base on his experiences and on how to deal with such situations but I'm not expecting that he can contribute that much physically inside the court.