i promise this is the last post from today

on another nba topic...

near to last season, i said, i predicted the nba was going to be GOOD this season; it seemed like there were the top tiers, but maybe only a few, and then there'd be a buncha teams in the middle b/c there'd be a lotta improvements, and then maybe 1 or 2 bottom tiers.

does anybody feel though, that the top list has basically emptied out?

the east has been reduced back to the lowest common denominators; miami, detroit and indiana. cleveland seems on the rise, but a ton of the eastern teams are in the middle b/c they suck, not b/c they've improved; chicago and boston seemed to just DROP. washington might still be there, but they've went slightly back.

meanwhile, the west isn't that much better; unless if your team's name is san antonio, everybody else has dropped backward too. suns for instance.

basically, i get the feeling that the guys that are a step below the top teams in the nba(basically if you're not miami, indiana, detroit, and san antonio), you got there b/c, well, the teams that WERE there took a drop, as opposed to the new upper-mid teams upping themselves.

i mean, i could be wrong, and the season hasn't started yet. i'm hoping i'm wrong. but it seems like the rich got richer, and the poor got poorer.