On paper the combustibility rating for this team is off the charts. You have 3 notorious personalities on this team in Cousins, Rondo and Allen. People are waiting for this thing to blow up after hitting the smallest speed bump. What they don’t realize is these 3 guys all know and like each other, and Rondo has coaches he can yell at in Gentry and Erman that aren’t going to get upset about it and start a him or me power struggle over it like happened in Dallas.

I also think several other teams like Minnesota are getting overrated. There isn’t much separation in the back of the playoff race. There are a bunch of unknowns that will determine who makes the playoffs like injury and whether some of the young offensive stars like KAT and Jokic start playing better defense.

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Posted by CelticDog

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Posted on 10/6/17 at 9:02 am to TigerinATL

Under.

No sf to speak of.
No bench.
Rondo big if.

Even if we see all star rondo, the lack of bench will absolutely kill them.
The top teams all have real benches. Those teams will crush the pels.
Pels lead by 5 going into last 3 Minutes of first half, then the bench is swatted aside. Pels hard won lead evaporates. This will happen enough times to demoralize rondo, then cousins will catch the rondo induced idngaf. Pels will also often just get outscored by 20 to 25 at the sf position.
Top end 50
Bottom 25
O/u. 33
I love AD.
The ownership/budget, asik deal, and hill injury snuffs out the pels. God help them if ad or cousins or jrue is out a month and takes 10 games to get back his touch.
That last injury scenario = 25 game win total.

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