The Zach Lowe ShowThe Most Confusing Teams in the NBA!
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 Rob Mahoney | 0 | 0 | 8 | — | 3.6 | 0 |
 Zach Lowe | 0 | 0 | 13 | — | 4.9 | 0 |
- The Warriors aren't a good playoff-caliber team.
“I just don't see how there's like a good playoff caliber basketball team there”
- The 76ers are Zach's reluctant pick to reach the Finals out of the East besides the Knicks.
Asked himself which team other than the Knicks makes the Finals out of the East.
“I'm going to throw up in my mouth a little bit and pick the Sixers”
- The Heat could finish as the seventh or eighth best team in the East.
“they're going to shake out as like the seventh or eighth best team in the conference”
- The Heat win between 46 and 50 games.
“it would be hard for me to see them winning fewer than like 46 games”
- The Jazz probably miss the playoffs.
“So I don't really think they're going to get all the way that far.”
- If an incumbent West top-six team falls out of the top six, the Jazz replace it.
“They were my number one pick in the if some incumbent team from the West top six just inexplicably falls out of the top six.”
- The Trail Blazers finish around .500 and land in the play-in tournament.
“I think they'll be in the play -in”
- The Pelicans finish behind the Blazers and Suns, and probably behind the Mavericks and Grizzlies.
“i would rank this team behind portland phoenix”
- The Raptors could be a top-four seed in the East.
Asked by Mahoney to talk him down on the Raptors.
“I could see them being a top four seed in the Eastern Conference”
- The Raptors don't make the Finals.
Citing Kawhi Leonard not finishing a second-round series since 2020.
“there's no universe in which I could pick a Kawhi Leonard team to make the finals.”
- The Hawks probably aren't a top-six team in the East.
“sell me on why this is actually a threat to be a top six team, because I frankly don't see it.”
- The Hawks probably finish in the East's lower tier, around 8th to 10th.
Explaining why the Hawks are on his most confusing teams list.
“I have them probably closer to like Charlotte in Orlando in that lower tier of like, you could be eighth, ninth, tenth.”
- The Lakers finish in the West's top six.
“not good enough to make a finals run too good to be out of the top six”
- The Lakers are roughly a 50-win team that can't challenge the Spurs or Thunder.
“I just think they're gonna be what they always are which is like a 50 win team who isn't good enough to challenge the Spurs or the Thunder”
- The Pacers are really, really good this season.
Says he's higher on Indiana than the Vegas over/under.
“i think they're just going to be really really good”
- The Pistons are decidedly worse in the regular season than last year's 60-win team.
“I think the Pistons are going to be decidedly worse as a team in terms of a regular season product.”
- The Pistons may not be a top-six team in the East.
Asked whether the Pistons are a lock for a top-six spot; he folds in playoff trustworthiness.
“I think it's perfectly realistic that the Pistons are not in the top six of that group.”
- The Pistons don't make the Finals.
“I don't consider them a contender to like win to make the finals next year”
- The Mavericks probably don't reach a top-six playoff seed in the West.
“And if there's going to be enough here to cobble that together, I'd be a little bit surprised just given their competition in the West”
- The Grizzlies probably aren't a winning or playoff team right out of the gate.
“but it's just a lot to put on them to say that they're going to be a winning or like a high level or even a playoff team right out of the gate.”
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