Very few expected a team with DeRozan, LaVine and Vucevic to be elite on defense, but that happened last season with the Bulls. Behind some great coaching, Chicago was ranked #5 on defense last season as they were elite at creating turnovers, grabbing the  defensive...

Last season was the first time since 1996-97 that San Antonio lost 60 games in a regular season. After that terrible season, the Spurs were “rewarded” with the #1 overall pick in the draft. They drafted Tim Duncan and the rest is history. After last season, the Spurs...

For the third season in a row, Houston was a terrible team that was at the bottom of the league rankings on both ends of the floor. They played fast, but most of the time out of control (dead last in TO/rate) and they couldn’t shoot the basketball well. Defensively,...

After making the NBA Finals the previous year, Boston was determined to do even better last season. They started the season with a vengeance by winning 21 of their first 26 games, but then the team started to slowly lose their edge and ended the regular season with...

The Knicks were surprisingly an “anti-Thibodeau” team last season as they were the #2 best offense in the league (after being #24 and #21 in the two previous seasons) but they stopped being the good defensive unit that they used to be as they were only ranked #19....

 Miami had a pretty disappointing regular season last year after having the best regular season record in the East in the previous year. They still had an elite defense as usual by being very disciplined and having a top 10 unit at creating turnovers, grabbing...