First time the Cavaliers have had a losing streak like this. I don’t know, this team feels different as once they lose to a team they tend to lose again in the next game, just like what happened with the Rockets. Mobley came back, but he wasn’t as effective, especially on defense. Hopefully, they’ll make strong adjustments to stop the bleeding. Their next game is against Detroit and I think they have a good chance to win that one.

That's what they need, adjustments. It looks like they got hit by a confidence-breaker after they lost the long winning streak and they cannot get up from that. This is a young team, that's possible but they must overcome those rough experiences as they grow as a team.
Mobley and Allen are the key to them winning games and they must stay aggressive on both ends of the floor as much as possible. They are scary when they are playing great.

The Knicks on the other hand are starting a winning streak again. OG had a monster game of 33 points against the Kings and it was a damn high-scoring game.

Cleveland is good but they have been playing above their teams talent i feel.  I think the second half they level back out.  I still think the celtics will win the division.  Rounded out by the cavs/knicks/bucks.  Cant wait until mitchell robinson comes back for the knicks.  Their defense  will def get better.  Tough stretch for them these next 2 weeks.  Be a good test before the all star break.

Besides it never guarantee anything if you start good automatically they win a championship. We see so many teams goes at the top in standings but didn't win a championship.

I remember how Garland missed his free throw vs Rockets which crucial to them. This is also show that lacking of experience might be their in Playoffs or even in Finals especially that phase is different and provably more teams will upgrade their gameplays.

But let's see if they can make it since it will be more exciting to see young Cavs win a championship this season.

Yeah that's what it seems like going right now. Like for example last year we had OKC be the first team at west too, what happened? They did manage to win at first round against Pelicans, but after that they lost to Dallas. So just because you are doing good, doesn't mean you will win.

This year, OKC is still one, and I am pretty sure they will not do that great, maybe this time they will go to conference semi finals, who knows what could happen, but they are not good enough to be winners. Same goes for Cavs, sure they are at the top, but they look like they are playing better than they should, there is something that makes them click, but that thing seems to be gone for the moment and I believe they will do much worse come playoff time.

I think it's also the respect that he got from the Knicks management and the players themselves, to make KAT more comfortable to this new team, and the playing time as well. And prior to that, he had a good 1-2 combination with Rudy Gorbert, and so the Wolves makes the worst decision to trade him instead of Reid and some one because they think that Naz Reid is a perfect fit for them.

Not the Knicks is so much in the better position now more than when Randle with them and he is the leader. So it's a very competition team right now and one of the toughest in the East. Let's see how how far they can get, it's almost the first half of the season is done and the most important is how they are going to finished the regular season and what position they will be.

There is definitely a situation where Alperen definitely dominated the game, but if you ask me the real difference maker was Amen Thompson. That kid is growing to be a very talented player, while I still see his lack of shooting as an issue, he is getting better and better, which will help this team on the long term.

They do have a lot of shooters anyways, so maybe they could just have someone who can drive inside which would help a lot. They have Fred, Brooks, Jalen all shooting anyways, let Amen not shoot and help this way. He was the reason Rockets won this game, kid really seems to be having a blast at that team right now, compared to his brother who must be hating playing for Pistons right now lol, Amen definitely got the lucky draft.

Ranked at number 5 now, nice improvement.

However,  I still don’t see this team as a championship contender as I’ve watched their last 10 games ( with a 6-4 record), their performance hasn’t been that impressive. They tend to lose against strong teams, and we all know that in the playoffs, they’ll face those same tough opponents. So I wouldn’t be surprised if they end up with an early exit, the way I see it, there’s still a lot they need to work on to be considered a serious threat.

Wow! the last time I check their standing they are below rank 10 but seeing they are now on top 5 seems like they are doing pretty good recently.

Although rank 5 to 12 has a very close standings which they can interchange rank with just a single loss of the match but still they are doing well by beating some top teams to climb their rank. I think they will have a good playoffs run if they will stick on 5-6 spot.

Lakers is exciting team maybe for now you see them to be like that but for sure things will be different when playoffs came. That reaching at 5 spot on standing in west provably great indication that they became more better team this season.

Their main players is intact and now they are doing good. So if they continue to have a good plays like that then win against strong opponent there's a huge chance that we would see Lakers competing on championship again. Not going to think about they going to exit early since NBA is exciting when Lebron is competing on playoffs so lets watch what's gonna happen and if we see this team to compete on next level or they would just drop early as what you expect here.