NBA Mid-Season Update: Standings, Surprises, and Analysis

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00:00All right, here's where we sit at the break.

00:03NBA standings at the all-star break.

00:05There they are for you.

00:07Of course, Cleveland and OKC are your one seeds.

00:10Interesting thing in the east,

00:12I've been telling you about the Brooklyn Nets.

00:14They are now only one game back in the loss column

00:17of the play-in tournament, and Chicago.

00:19That's how well Brooklyn played going into the break.

00:22On the west side, Phoenix on the outside looking in

00:26of the play-in, which has Minnesota, Dallas,

00:28Sacramento, and Golden State right now.

00:30Do you think Brooklyn will supersede the Sixers

00:35and the Bulls and get in when it's all said and done

00:38the way they have Fernandez has this defense going?

00:42Like they're winning with defense.

00:44They're holding teams under 100 points every night.

00:46And do you think they'll jump them?

00:48Because people still talk about the Sixers

00:52like they're potentially going to win an NBA crown.

00:57They are awful.

00:58I mean, Paul George has been a disaster and Embiid never plays.

01:03The only guy that does anything is Maxie.

01:06Now he's not playing.

01:08I mean, do you think the Nets are going to jump those two teams?

01:14I'll give you this.

01:15I'll go a little further.

01:16I think they're going to jump those two teams.

01:18And I got to tell you, I think Philadelphia might get in as well

01:23because I think that Miami is dropping like a rock.

01:28I mean, you got to look at them.

01:30Miami two weeks ago was in the top six.

01:33They have lost four in a row and they are now in the nine spot.

01:38And they're all, you know, look, it's six games in the loss.

01:41It's a pretty sizable amount between them and the Sixers and Nets,

01:45but they've played awful.

01:47And I don't see it getting better.

01:49Like, it's like this Butler thing really torpedoed their entire season.

01:55And I feel like it's like all these guys, it's just coast away time.

01:58Like, let's just get this thing over with.

02:00Let's get the season over with.

02:02And they're not scoring, right?

02:04They're not like, they're averaging like a terrible number.

02:08They give up a lot.

02:10You know, it's funny, we talked about them this week, this very week,

02:13that they were in first place in their crappy division.

02:16And look at them, they're falling apart.

02:18And we suggested on this show that what Butler did to him with his lymphoma

02:25was ruin the team.

02:27I thought he ruined the heat, their season, their everything.

02:32I thought he undermined Riley, Spoh.

02:37I think his teammates turned on him.

02:40They hated him.

02:40They wanted him gone.

02:42When he was suspended, they didn't want him back.

02:45I think he ruined the heat season.

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