Washington had an incredible start of the last season as they won 10 of their first 13 games, while showing some solid defense (#4) and using a slow paced offense that wasn’t seen in previous seasons. However, everything fell apart in the following weeks and already...
After making the playoffs eight years in a row, Portland missed them last season in a tumoultous year: Damian Lillard only played 29 games due to injury while the remaining players missed a combined 326 games with injuries of their own. The Blazers also changed their...
After winning the title in 2020-21, Milwaukee went to last year’s regular season not as focused as they were in previous seasons. They had a subpar record (24-25) in games against teams with 0.500 records or above with the main reason for that being their defensive...
The start of the last season wasn’t great for Dallas. Luka Doncic looked to be out of shape, the team couldn’t hit a three pointer and their offense was only average after being a top 10 unit in the previous two seasons. Due to all these factors, at the end of 2021,...
Memphis were an unexpectedly elite team last season. They finished the regular season with the second best record (56-26) in the league while having the #4 best offense and the #5 best defense. The blueprint of their success was “anti-analytic”: they didn’t take...
