Of course everyone needs to be healthy, but he also has to contribute more since Steph is sideline. And you said rely to Poole only? he needs to put up numbers that he should be putting not just like 18 ppg, he needs to produce more as the second offensive option for the Warriors.

I also disagree that the Lakers are kicking themselves of letting Julius Randle go because at that time they really don't know how he will blossom. Same with Jordan Clarkson and Ball and others that they traded to get Lebron. On the handed, it's a win for them as they were able to win a ring with Lebron.

A couple of well matched up games happening tonight on nation TV.  The crew at TNT will be watching the Steph-less Warriors take on the Knicks.  Seems crazy that the Knicks are such favorites, even with Steph out, but they've been winning a lot this year, surprisingly.  Then the Grizzlies and the Nuggets...  You don't get to see Ja very much on national TV so I am expecting some highlights.  Jokic should put on the usual MVP performance as well.  If I were to guess...  I'd say the Knicks and Nuggets win tonight.  Both games should be close though.

He can't really be a shooter, we have seen him shoot last year and at the start of this year and we can easily say that he is not a shooter at all, dude sucks at shooting. However, we can say that he is great at running very fast and disrupting defences, and during this era being able to disrupt the defence is all that matters.

What he gives to the team is the fact that when other teams defence is trying to recover, he can pass and the person who gets it could catch the other team off-guard and either score or get fouled. They have done this a lot now, and it's working and with second unit. On first unit they have Lebron, and westbrook is not an off-ball runner, so he just waits and watches Lebron and that didn't work obviously.

Like you, I see both games will be close and even without Curry, if Warriors players will play as one, the chance to win is possible
we already witness them winning without Curry as Poole stepup and cover his numbers.

I don't expect that to happen again, but in the back of my mind I'm thinking that he will try to do it again, plus the help of
Green and Thompson, the chance of surviving is still for the Warriors.

Nothing I can say with Nuggets and Memphis. Both are unpredictable teams, they can explode or they can also have off-night.

I tried to research it but there is still no official report yet concerning Anthony Davis's injury. It is just a hint from Brian Windhorst. Will keep a positive outlook until the official reports come in. But if Davis is really out longer than one month, that will really hurt the Lakers' chance to even get illegible for the play-in. The surge of win they had lately was on the back of a great performance coming from Anthony Davis. It will be hard to fill that up with the roster the Lakers have right now. We may see a losing skid against from the Lakers.


San Antonio is a rebuilding team; they do not have expectations this year and the salary is just proportional to a rebuilding team. The Golden State Warriors superstars alone will already match the salary of the San Antonio Spurs. They are a stacked team having a slow start. I do not expect the Warriors to be in this slump for too long. We may see them get back on the ranking next year. Warrior's income last year is almost a billion dollars. They can afford to pay their players + luxury tax, which come with a very high expectation.

Phoenix had a great comeback but the final minutes of the last quarter couldn't have been worse. They lost the match with the series they got in 3-4 minutes. I'm not sure if things would have changed if it had been Booker, but it's clear that they made some very bad choices when using the ball.
Shamet and Ayton played well but overall turnovers and taking the opponent too far to the free throw line were the main reasons for the gap.
Beal was the most effective player for Wizards and Kuzma had one of his good games. This is their first win after ten games losing streak.
Shamet just broke his career high with 31 points after that last second 3 pointer.

I thought that the acquisition of Christian Wood will make the Mavericks better than last season, but I guess I was wrong.

The Mavericks are better last season because their offense was distributed. They have more options to score. Now, most of the points are coming from Luka. I watched a video on Youtube yesterday and it shows that when Luka is off the court, they are -12 on points. Just look at how much points Luka is putting per game. 32 PPG and this just shows that he is doing most of the offense. Wood and Dinwiddie who are we expecting to help him only averages at around 16 and 17PPG.

Without an all-star beside Luka, he will never win a title. That's how NBA is right now. In order for a team to win, you need to have at least 2 all star player on the team. You expect them to be in the play-in tournament. I believe they might make a roster change or make some trades this season, and maybe that might change the tempo of the team. I expect them to be at the 5-8th spot. Slightly higher than your prediction.

They truly need to do quick action about it because they making some huge mistakes right now about how they play and it's not effective enough to secure a top 6 spot in the current league nowadays. The western conference is truly wild random play nowadays and some straight wins these next few days will lift them up to the top and might gonna hold it well if they managed to change their line-ups and the way they play right now of course. Surely Luka is a star player but he really needs someone to rely on to take some contested shots and clutch shots whenever he is doubled.

Luka is the main man of the Mavericks, he is the Kobe Bryant of LA Lakers and Giannis of Bucks, so you can't really expect to win without him. Dallas IMO are better this season, though they have struggle this early but comes playoffs, Wood will be very useful as they have a good scorer inside unlike last season.