Lakers
Boston
Orlando
seem to be the top 3. What are thoughts on the rest?

In no order a few more are

Cleveland
Denver
San Antonio
Atlanta
And Phoenix

1. Lakers



2. Cavs
3. Celtics
4. Magic
5. Nuggets
6. Spurs
7. Hawks
8. Suns
9. Mavericks
10. Blazers
11. Heat
12. Rockets

Call me a homer for putting the Cavs #2, but I honestly believe they're better than the Celtics and Magic. No one should be able to touch the Lakers this year.

1. Lakers


2. Boston

3. Magic
4. Nuggets
5. Cavs

^^

Haha I like seeing Denver above Cleveland

1. Lakers
2. Celtics
3. Cavs
4. Magic
5. Suns

That is right now IMO....this list could definitely change by year's end.

1. Los Angeles Lakers
2. Boston Celtics
3. Orlando Magics
4. Denver Nuggets
5. Cleveland Cavaliers
6. Atlanta Hawks
7. Phoenix Suns
8. Dallas Mavericks
9. Houston Rockets
10. Portland Trail Blazers

^^ I think Denver needs to be ahead of Orlando, but everything else looks good to me.

Very early in the season, but...

1. Los Angeles Lakers
2. Boston Celtics
3. Orlando Magic
4. Denver Nuggets
5. Cleveland Cavs

^^^ That's it right there...

1. Los Angeles Lakers












Everyone else?


Weak Sauce!

Cavs are not top 5 yet.

They should get there, but right now? Nope.

Trueblue23 wrote: Very early in the season, but...

1. Los Angeles Lakers
2. Boston Celtics
3. Orlando Magic
4. Denver Nuggets
5. Cleveland Cavs

Strapping Young Lad wrote: ^^^ That's it right there...

Denver is scary though

LTrain23 wrote: Cavs are not top 5 yet.

They should get there, but right now? Nope.

I thought the same thing, but there isn't really another team to put in that #5 spot.. Phoenix is, well Phoenix..

Atlanta is too inconsistent to be a Top 5 team.

Lakers
Celtics
Nuggets
Magic
Hawks
Suns
Spurs
Cavs
Portland
Utah

After the top 4 you can put them in any order you like.

1. Lakers



2. Celtics
3. Nuggets
4. Magic
5. Cavaliers
6. Hawks
7. Suns
8. Trailblazers

No way you can put the Spurs above Cleveland

Nah, that is why I said you could spin the last 6 any way you pleased.

No way Atlanta should sniff the top 5. Just wait until the playoffs, they're still the same team. A good team, not cut out to play with the big dogs. Their post game is not good enough.

There are only 6 LEGIT teams IMO and they're the same as they were last season.

The Cavs are still there--they'd be 2 or 3 on most lists if this wasn't started after they just dropped 2 games. People aren't good at looking at the bigger picture when it comes to ranking teams IMO.

SQ_Crazies wrote: No way Atlanta should sniff the top 5. Just wait until the playoffs, they're still the same team. A good team, not cut out to play with the big dogs. Their post game is not good enough.

Yeah, we heard last year from Cavs "intellects" on various boards regarding Orlando was too much a 3-point shooting team, and not built for the Playoffs. It finally took the World Champion Los Angeles Lakers to dismantle them.

JakeGiant wrote:

SQ_Crazies wrote: No way Atlanta should sniff the top 5. Just wait until the playoffs, they're still the same team. A good team, not cut out to play with the big dogs. Their post game is not good enough.

Yeah, we heard last year from Cavs "intellects" on various boards regarding Orlando was too much a 3-point shooting team, and not built for the Playoffs. It finally took the World Champion Los Angeles Lakers to dismantle them.

Um, you surely didn't hear what I just said about the Hawks. LOL, they have Dwight Howard.

I didn't think they were built for the playoffs--guys stepped up, they got hot at the right time and kept making shots. Cleveland was a better team, we couldn't match up with them and the players that we couldn't match up with played very well--and a few of our players went on a terrible cold streak. Anyone saying they weren't built for the playoffs meant it in a hell of a different way than I'm talking about the Hawks. They aren't built for the playoffs--they don't play good enough defense and their post game can't compete with the tops in the East. Let alone the Lakers, Spurs or probably even the Nuggets post game.

The Cavs may be top 3 on some lists if they were 17-5, but they aren't. They are 15-7. You are what you are. In the world of Power Rankings it's what have you done for me lately and the whole year. Most people are in agreeance they're playing more like a 4-5 type of team.

That's fine. So when the Lakers inevitably go through a stretch of tough games and lose a few in a row or 4 out of 6 or whatever it may be--will they drop to #5? LOL. There could be 4 teams with better records than the Lakers and I'd call anyone a moron that ranked any team above them. Like you said, you are what you are...the record is only part of it. It's not as if they're 11-11.

If the day comes when the Lakers are 3 losses behind the top 3 teams, then yeah I would have to say they're playing like the 4-5 best team right now. Doesn't mean I would bet against them when it mattered most. I look at it this way-- I don't see it happening to the Lakers because they simply aren't on the Cavs level. They're a step above. It's easy for me to rate the Cavs as 5th best when I thought they were 3rd at best to begin the year. They surely havn't done anything to change my opinion for the better. We know they aren't 11-11, hence why most people still have them in the top 5 instead of the 15-20 range. It's not exactly their record that makes me believe they're 5th, it's just their team.

The Lakers haven't had a 3 game losing streak in 2 years LOL