A couple weeks into the season, what are your biggest surprises, both good and bad? Could an individual, a team, or anything else. I’ll give mine.
Worst surprises: Bucks’ defense, Suns’ health, Kings’ cold shooting, Jordan Poole
Best surprises: Aaron Nesmith, Cade Cunningham, Atlanta Hawks, rookies like Sasser, Strather, and Hawkins
The Bucks defense has not been bad in the last 3 games they’ve reverted back to Brook being in drop more, that’s old news
We’re better than I thought we’d be, Cam is really good
Best Suprise: Shaedon Sharpe can pass, defend, AND score at a high level.
Worst Suprise: Scoot, while I’m not super worried long term, was not as prepared to hop into the NBA as the g-league truthers made it seem.
Worst Surprise: Lakers are still the same from last season.
Best Surprise: Rockets
If you’re a contender not named the Bucks, the Bucks defense is the best surprise you could ever wish for
I’m genuinely happy for Wolves fans. I think they’ll still regret the Gobert trade long term, but they might just be a legit contender right now
Best surprise:Chet and Cason Wallace are both huge contributors as rookies. Lu Dort shooting 51% from 3 while playing insane D, better shot selection.
Worst surprise: Josh Giddey’s disaster start shooting the ball. Fans are starting to turn on him in the Thunder sub
A surprise is something you dont expect. A lot of what you listed was expected.
Bucks defense was gonna be sus with Dame and Khris coming back from injury. Suns health was all anyone talked about when they were mentioned. People correctly thought Poole was gonna be an inefficient chucker who popped off for 30+ sometimes, which he did in a preseason game.
Cade had a great rookie year and missed last year from injury. Still, its only his 3rd year and we expected him to continue where he left off.
I don’t like this question…
really? Jordan poole?
I am not surprised at all.
kings, on the other hand, really surprised me. You guys had historical great offensive rating last year
Best: Rockets, Seem like last year Jazz
Worst: Your Memphis Grizzlies
So far, the biggest “surprise” for me has the opening records for the top seeds. We’ll see how it all shakes out, but I wasn’t sure any team would be much over .600 / 50-ish wins, after last season.
At this point, .600 / 50-ish wins is projecting out to be what it will take to get a top 6 seed in either conference. Which, could drop the play-in teams down to the .400-ish range. Maybe even drop the non-playoff teams into that .300 or less range.
I thought the parity would come more at the top first, but it might pan out to be the exact opposite. :)
Warriors being legitimately good again is a nice surprise after such a minimal off-season .