Chris Cody

I don't think anyone is saying this is one of the best teams in the league.

We're just saying that, hey, being 15th against all the elite teams, not bad when that 15th comes in the context of everyone else's rating includes playing bad teams.

And so, you know, the idea here is you guys are like, oh, they're going to end up 9-10.

They're a game and a half behind five.

Minnesota went to Boston yesterday without Anthony Edwards, and they won.

I was like, there's no chance.

There's no chance.

They went out and won that game.

There's no foregone conclusions.

About two weeks ago, we were making jokes about the Atlanta Hawks have been 500 for the last five years.

And now they're on, like, a 12-game winning streak.

A week ago, we were talking about the best records post-All-Star break.

The Heat and the Magic were on that list.

But then a four-game losing streak, it changes it.

But the standards are so condensed.

Those are the ones that hurt.

Losing at the buzzer to the Rockets, it sucks, but it's like, hey, it was a coin flip.

Losing to, was it the Magic a few nights ago?

All right, close enough game.

Losing to the Lakers, even though that wasn't a coin flip game, but