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The Most Confusing Teams in the NBA!

Oct 12, 2026 · 1h 26m · take 8 of 38

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Mahoneybut if things don't work like I just have a lot of faith in Eric Spolstra to tinker and to continue to like find inroads to something it's just hard to know what that something is like if you told me the style of offense that the heat are going to run in November and the style of offense that they're going to run in April they could be worlds apart and I think the process of seeing the heat become themselves is

Mahoneygoing to be one of the great adventures of this season and I just like when Giannis is on the floor his team is good like the Bucks last year with Giannis were good were like quite good as good as you know like the nuggets or the calves or the wolves right in that kind of mix in terms of net rating and so thinking that this team is going to be seventh or eighth I just I don't know I I

Mahoneyfind myself like self -flagellating for that a little bit where it's like they simply have to be better than that by talent and yet the attrition of the east might be what it is well

Loweand we've just got to see can you get through 65 68 games whatever it is because you're right When he's on the floor, I mean, between him and David Mitchell and Wiggins and Bam, this should be a top eight defensive team. If everybody's healthy top 10 at worst, like they're going to be a very good defensive.

LoweAnd they may be way better than I'm just trying to be conservative.

LoweIt's the offense. That's going to be the, the make or break for them. And you're right. Like if Giannis is on the floor as a one man, fast break for 32 minutes, a game, 65 times with the amount of shooting they have around him. And Bam is going to be on the floor for some of those 32 minutes, but not all of them.

Lowelike they're going to be a pretty goddamn good offensive team. I don't know that they're going to be sixth or fifth, but I don't think they're going to be 20th. I think they'd be somewhere like slightly above average to maybe better than that. So that's it. And that, that's out to a good team.

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