<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>West Rankings: 1. Clips 2. Thunder 3. Warriors 4. Rockets 5. Grizz 6. Spurs 7. Nuggets 8. Lakers</p>— chris palmer (@ChrisPalmerNBA) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisPalmerNBA/statuses/375091157648154626">September 4, 2013</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Love the Pelicans: Davis, Jrue, Gordon, Anderson. Best young core behind Thunder.</p>— chris palmer (@ChrisPalmerNBA) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisPalmerNBA/statuses/375095308964753408">September 4, 2013</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Corrected: Love the Pelicans. Davis, Jrue, Gordon, Anderson, TYREKE.</p>— chris palmer (@ChrisPalmerNBA) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisPalmerNBA/statuses/375095885073354752">September 4, 2013</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>More pure hoop talent: Thunder (KD, Westbrook, Ibaka) or Pelicans (Davis, Jrue, Gordon, Tyreke)? It's close.</p>— chris palmer (@ChrisPalmerNBA) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisPalmerNBA/statuses/375098033865629696">September 4, 2013</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Hoop talent does not mean wins. Ben Wallace didn't have straight up "hoop talent" but he impacted WINNING on an obscene level.
His West predictions aren't THAT crazy, but highly unlikely you see the Warriors that high, and a Spurs slide is possible, but I don't see it.
