1. Miami 2. San Antonio 3. Indiana 4. Golden State 5. Memphis 6. New York 7. Clippers 8. Denver 9. OKC 10. Chicago 11. Houston 12. Brooklyn 13. Atlanta 14. Boston 15. Lakers 16. Milwaukee What do you guys think? You might be wondering why I put GS ahead of Golden State. Well, they both beat equally good opponents in round 1, but, GS took the WC champs to 6 while Memphis got swept by them. I feel GS would have beaten the hobbled Thunder too. Then I have OKC really low, because in my opinion every team that I put ahead of them, would have beaten them in a 7 game series without Westbrook.
Well to be fair, Houston could likely beat OKC without Westbrook in 7 games too. So the question you should probably ask is could these teams beat OKC with 2-3 games of Westbrook and the rest without Westbrook? I'm not sure Denver can, if they aren't fully healthy (and they weren't). The Knicks and the Clippers? Maybe, but I'm not sure.
I would put the playoff Lakers behind Milwaukee. I personally don't think Indiana would have beaten any of the top 6 teams in the West apart from Denver but whatever.
1. Miami 2. San Antonio 3. Memphis 4. Indiana 5. Golden State 6. OKC 7. Clippers 8. New York 9. Denver 10. Houston 11. Brooklyn 12. Chicago 13. Atlanta 14. Lakers 15. Boston 16. Milwaukee 137, I liked your list, but made a few changes of my own. I thought of it as, 'what if' it was a 9 game series, how would these teams fair?
1. Miami 2. San Antonio 3. Indiana 4. Memphis 5. Warriors 6. Knicks 7. OKC 8. Chicago 9. Nuggets 10. Clippers 11. Nets 12. Rockets 13. Atlanta 14. Boston 15. Lakers 16. Bucks
I'd rank the top 2 teams: 1 a. Spurs 1 b. Miami The aggregate score for the Finals Spurs 684 Heat 679
we went 2-2 against okc without Westbrook. Not sure how you can conclude that we would have beaten them.
Excellent list 1. Miami (Champions, even) 2. San Antonio (Perennial conference powerhouse, even) 3. Indiana (improving) 4. Golden State (improving) 5. Memphis (declining) 6. New York (even, declining) 7. Clippers (improving) 8. Denver (even) 9. OKC (even, improving) 10. Chicago (improving) 11. Houston (improving) 12. Brooklyn (hard to say) 13. Atlanta (hard to say) 14. Boston (hard to say) 15. Lakers (declining) 16. Milwaukee (even)
