Thurs/Saturday at home to Indy/Phoenix. Then a real tough 5 game roadtrip.
Winning 10 of their last ten and will hit the halfway point in the season above 500. I thought this team would win 28 all season.
And what makes this even more impressive is Cade was doing this against OG and Mikal
it really is crazy what replacing more than 8,000 sub replacement level minutes with real NBA players will do for a team
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Also so nobody gets angry, they doubled Cade and left THJ open and he made the extra pass to Beasley both times. Still a bold move leaving THJ wide open.
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Cade is the one star that I can think of who doesnāt do any head-jerking or anything when he absorbs contact.
My hot take is heās the best guard in the Eastern Conference this season. He is an All Star but All NBA is starting to be a legit conversation imo
Brunson is a great player, but not at all fun to watch. Heās like watching Illinois hoops. Drive, flail, draw a foul, repeatā¦
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I am so glad I threw 50 bucks on Pistons over 25.5 wins
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Soon to be the first Nobel laureate in basketball, so, yeah. of course he is.
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Easiest bet Iāve made simply because Monty isnāt coaching.
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the āmgl allstarsā (off the top of my head, not based on if theyāre currently healthy or likely to play or whatever, they are the best 12 man teams in each conference I think)
EAST (this is hard, because there are like 4 guys over 6ā6" who I think deserve it who are healthy (which is why Franz is here despire missing so much time)):
Guards: Garland, Mitchell, Brunson, Cunningham, Halliburton, White
Forwards: Tatum, Mobley, Giannis, Wagner, Siakam
Centers: Towns
WEST:
Guards: SGA, Booker, Curry, Irving
Forwards: Jalen Williams, JJJ, Durant, Amen Thompson (hot take, simply because I like him and the forward line here isnāt that compelling)
Center: Jokic, Wembanyama, Davis
My last spot is either Hartenstein, Zubac, or Sengun. IDK
For me, Doncic and Morant havenāt played enough to get over guys who played 50% more and a little worse
I do generally believe better teams should have multiples, so I feel ok about 3 Cavs, 2 Celtics (White was towards the bottom but heās really good in his role), 2 Thunder. Felt I had to get Amen or Sengun in there because FVV wasnāt going to make it and they need at least 1 guy. 2 Suns and 2 Pacers feel bad when thereās 1 Rocket and 1 Grizz (Grizzlies lineups have been so all over the place though its tough).
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Need to account for the new all star format. You will have a mix of east and west players on the same team.
itās still 12 from each so doesnāt really matter
4 teams of 8, 8 from rising stars winning team
lol Iām not fāing with the rising stars
if itās not 12 from each conference anymore (I think it is?), Iād probably drop like Siakam or Halliburton and take another one of those Western conference bigs I was down to. Other than that, w/e
Donāt look now, but the Pistons are 1.5 games back from the 4th place spot in the Eastern Conference. 
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So the injury was less severe than Paolo?
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It would appear so
Iām very interested to see what the Paolo/Franz dynamic looks like now.
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