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Preseason is 30 days away so now that the dust have settled who who got making the playoffs in the east

Here’s mine in order

76ers
Bucks
Celtics
pistons
Pacers
Nets
Magic
Raptors

Are you a Pistons fan by chance?

Bucks
Sixers

Heat (how are you so low on them?)
Raptors
Celtics
Pacers
Magic

Pistons
Nets (tight race between Nets/Pistons for the last spot imo)

For regular season

1. Bucks
2. 76ers
3. Indiana
4. Nets
5. Boston
6. Pistons
7. Raptors
8. Magic

1. Bucks
2. 76ers
3. Pacers
4. Nets
5. Boston
6. Pistons
7. Raptors
8. Bulls

SerialChiller wrote:Are you a Pistons fan by chance?

I’m a nba fan in general But yes I’m a pistons fan and I like our chances if we stay healthy

Bucks
Raptors
Sixers
Pacers
Celtics
Heat
Magic
Nets

I can see the Raptors being a top 4 team since they had a great win record even without Kawhi. I can also see them imploding and not even making the playoffs. Both scenarios would not surprise me.

Optms wrote:I can see the Raptors being a top 4 team since they had a great win record even without Kawhi. I can also see them imploding and not even making the playoffs. Both scenarios would not surprise me.

Only if there significant injuries. If Raps are healthy, they're a top 4 team

Heat, pistons, magic etc just have too many question marks.

Pacer don't get Oladipo back until later

Celtics have no frontcourt.

eminence wrote:Bucks
Sixers

Heat (how are you so low on them?)
Raptors
Celtics
Pacers
Magic

Pistons
Nets (tight race between Nets/Pistons for the last spot imo)

This looks about right to me. That's how I'd group the 3 tiers of teams anyhow. The order within the tiers is up for debate.

Bucks
76ers
Heat
Pacers
Nets
Celtics
Raptors
Magic

yeah the Pistons wing rotation of Luke Kennard, Langston Galloway, Tony Snell, Bruce Brown and Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk is taking this squad straight to the top!

I get that the East being mediocre gives lots of fan bases hope every year, but Pistons fans are being irrational. It is hard to win in the NBA without a few above average wings, and the Pistons have nothing close to one. They don't make up for it with a dynamite backcourt. A team dependant on their bigs and a injury prone star isn't going far.

I'd organize the teams into 3 tiers:

(Talented championship contenders)
#1. Phili
#2. Mili

(Solid squads that should fight for homecourt but bad luck could have them as a lower seed)
#3. Toronto
#4. Boston
#5. Indiana
#6. Miami
#7. Brooklyn
#8. Orlando

(Teams that could make the playoffs if things go well for them and go bad for teams that are better than them)
Pistons
Chicago
Atlanta

Sixers
Bucks
Celtics
Pacers
Raptors
Nets
Pistons
Heat
Magic

Optms wrote:I can see the Raptors being a top 4 team since they had a great win record even without Kawhi. I can also see them imploding and not even making the playoffs. Both scenarios would not surprise me.

I'd be stunned if the Raps stayed healthy and missed the playoffs in the East. They can run multiple 5 man lineups that played together in the finals last year.

Bucks
Sixers
Celtics
Raptors
Pacers
Nets
Heat
Magic

1. 76ers
2. Bucks
3. Celtics
4. Raptors
5. Pacers
6. Magic
7. Nets
8. Heat

First Step wrote:

Optms wrote:I can see the Raptors being a top 4 team since they had a great win record even without Kawhi. I can also see them imploding and not even making the playoffs. Both scenarios would not surprise me.

I'd be stunned if the Raps stayed healthy and missed the playoffs in the East. They can run multiple 5 man lineups that played together in the finals last year.

People are sleeping on the Raptors. There is no way they miss the playoffs if they resist trading Gasol & Lowry. The same team won 58 without Kawhi and Danny Green the year before and Siakam is light years better than Derozen was back then.

Health plays a big factor in any of these type of rankings. I'm calling it now if the magic stay healthy they will be better then an 8th seed.

76ers
Bucks
Celtics
Raptors
Magic
Pacers
Heat
Nets

Can’t wait till da Nets prove folk wrong.
Can’t wait till philly lack of depth and injury prone players backfires
Can’t wait till Boston shows how overrated they are

jamaalstar21 wrote:yeah the Pistons wing rotation of Luke Kennard, Langston Galloway, Tony Snell, Bruce Brown and Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk is taking this squad straight to the top!

I get that the East being mediocre gives lots of fan bases hope every year, but Pistons fans are being irrational. It is hard to win in the NBA without a few above average wings, and the Pistons have nothing close to one. They don't make up for it with a dynamite backcourt. A team dependant on their bigs and a injury prone star isn't going far.

I don't disagree with you, but last year the Pistons finished 8th and had a wing rotation of Kennard, Galloway, SM, Reggie Bullock, Stanley Johnson, Wayne Ellington, and Glenn Robinson. As crazy as it sounds Snell might be an upgrade!

The biggest thing for them is health. Blake Griffin and Reggie Jackson were healthy last year, but before that they were very injury prone.