We looked at the rankings a couple weeks ago because we didn’t have enough information to understand what the teams’ full potential was. But now we can look at the early NBA standings and have a guess as to how things are going to be during the first part of the season. For example, the Houston Rockets are in second place in their division, behind the Dallas Mavs, which was fully unexpected. As we have been reporting all summer, without Yao and several of their other best players, no one thought that the team was going to go anywhere at all. It was the Lost Season; but they are in motion now and it’s great to see. The Detroit Pistons were supposed to get better this season, but they’re struggling right now at 5-9, five games out of first. There’s so much basketball left to be played that we can’t assume much yet, but it’s interesting to see who’s starting out strong and who’s having trouble getting moving.

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