The warriors are not even at the top last season, this team yet still won the championship and is now the defending champ. I would not want to count their performance as for me they are still the best team despite their struggle this season. Curry will eventually be ready in the playoffs and that would make this team still a very dangerous opponent.

Right now, the Nuggets, Pelicans and Memphis are doing well, but comes in the playoffs, it's still all for the Warriors.

What site ranking is this in the first place? I just want to know. I doubt it for the GSW this time around it looks like they won't gonna make it. These days it keeps getting unpredictable on who's gonna win the NBA championship, and, when the playoffs come that's when the most unpredictable thing happens.

Makes sense. The GSW's current ranking is still affected by the absence of some key players of the team, particularly Curry. Even still, Klay and Poole are doing good work by being solid at home, and obviously they need to do something about their on the road games because it's looking to bleak with their recent performances.


If playoff experience is what the odds are based heavily on, I'm surprised that the Clippers fared better than the Nuggets and 76ers. I think it's a mix of experience, current performance, and how well some key players are performing for the oddsmakers to come up with this current ranking.

And I agree that the playoffs is where most of their trump cards are activated. In the off season you'll see players pop off that are usually not that noisy, and then those same players disappear when it comes to the regular season. Usual high scoring games during the off season becomes not so common during the playoffs. Teams don't want to give too much information during the off season, they just want to condition themselves on the possible form of the enemy when the time comes.

Great numbers from Luka but what's more impressive to me is how coach Pop kinda guessed how things will play out. They would have won that game had they managed to bring Luka's score to 49 hehe.

I don't know about best roster but I do hope they get to the West Finals this year at least. It helps build their confidence if they perform better than their previous achievements.

No way picking championship predictions can be made yet.  Way too much left in the season.  Injuries will shape the second half of the year as well as the trade deadline.  A fringe team can become the frontrunner with a blockbuster deal at the deadline.  I like to wait until at least March to start looking at who might be the frontrunners.

They know how good their roster are and that's why they're now at the top, 2nd to the standings. But before the year ends for 2022, they're at the bottom just like the Lakers.

All good. We've seen that they've stepped up already when the coach was changed and finally the management probably seen that the team has no respect to their coach or a few of them.

Then, there has something to be done and they've obliged.

I do not know where you are basing that comment, but GSW still looks solid even with their poor start this season. They are 19-18, which is above 500. They are currently on a 4 winning streak and 5-5 on their last 10. All that was done without Curry and Wiggins. They are currently ranked #9 which is still okay since they still have 45 games to play. Last year, I think, they finished 5th in the West and were still able to take home the Championship. As long as they are able to get into the playoffs, they still have a good chance of winning the chip. They are a different beast in the playoffs, especially if they are all healthy.


Those are homegrown talents getting on to their prime. They need to get paid, or they will take their talents somewhere else. Draymond is maybe on the decline right now, but he is still a vital piece on their original core. He helped the Warriors get the 4 chips in the last decade, 6 finals appearances, and help make GSW from a million-dollar team to a billion-dollar organization.

Looks like others are really referring to the current standing in predicting who will be on the Finals or so.

The final seeding is not that necessary as sure experienced teams will unleash their best once playoffs come.

Standings are only for bracketing. When playoffs come, all teams will have a 0-0 standing. Pointing to Warriors, they are build different when playoffs come.

Yes, but they have a good chance though specially the top seed because they are going to face the weakest amongst of the seed team. Nevertheless, like what we have seen, Phoenix pretty much steam rolling everyone in the regular season with their fast phase basketball. But once the playoff goes, superstars like Luka and Steph Curry goes on a beast mode carrying their team. But there could only be one team to be a champion and fortunately it is the West, the Golden State Warriors.