11-2! Quietly rose to the top of the league, the most dominant team in the NBA, and the trade was really bloody

The NBA regular season has been played more than one-eighth of the time, but unlike at the beginning of the season, the East-West landscape is not just the teams in the middle of the table that have been changing, and the top positions have suddenly fluctuated so far. The defending champion Nuggets, in the absence of their main point guard Murray, except for Jokic, who can step up and attack the organization in key moments, no player on the team can take on this role. This also leads to the fact that after the team won the Pelicans and the Warriors, the basic style of play without Murray has been figured out by the opponent. So far, the Nuggets have lost to the Rockets, Pelicans and Cavaliers in a row. Of course, Jokic's performance has not been affected, and he still averages 28.8 points, 13.8 rebounds and 9 assists per game, ranking in the top 3 in the league in rebounds and assists per game.

But the lack of a playmaker in the team's backcourt exposed the Nuggets' vulnerabilities in advance. After this wave of consecutive losses, the Nuggets' record also fell to 9-4 and their ranking fell from 1st in the West to 3rd in the West. But for a team like the Nuggets, as long as they wait for Murray to return, the team can get back on track. After all, the Nuggets still have the most efficient starting 5 in the league. In addition, the Mavericks and Warriors, who have been sticking to the top three in the West, have also changed, the Warriors have been intermittently absent due to Curry's injury, and Thompson and Wiggins have fallen seriously to the 10th place in the West after suffering six consecutive defeats.

The Mavericks also lost to the Bucks and Kings in the past two games, but the team's core Irving and Doncic played very well, Irving scored 39 points, 4 rebounds and 6 assists, 23 points, 2 rebounds and 1 assist in the first and second games, and shot 51% from the field. Doncic also played 35 points, 9 rebounds and 9 assists, 25 points, 10 rebounds and 7 assists. But as the season progressed, the Mavericks' extreme vulnerabilities on both offensive and defensive ends became apparent, with the team's offensive efficiency ranking third in the league at 120 and defensive efficiency at 118.2, ranking sixth from the bottom in the league. The star Doncic also made it clear that the team is very inadequate on the defensive end. And this is precisely the biggest weakness of the Mavericks this season, except for Williams on the outside and Lively on the inside, there are few players who can do both offense and defense. 11-2!Quietly rose to the top of the league, the most dominant team in the NBA, and the trade was really bloody!

And if you want to find the most dominant team in the league so far this season, it's the Eastern Conference Celtics. The Celtics took the opportunity to send away veteran Smart in the offseason in order to strengthen the interior line. And before the start of the season, by chance, Holiday was acquired, so that the Celtics did not lose the depth of the backcourt, and further strengthened the interior. Unlike the Bucks, who also made big trades, the Clippers and the Suns did not show much of a run-in problem since the start of the regular season. On the contrary, Holiday and Porzingis fit perfectly into the Celtic system, being players who can play and plug and play.

Coming to the Celtics, Holiday can appropriately reduce his role on the offensive end, which is also a point that he is not good at in his career. But when the time was right, Holiday was still able to look for opportunities to score. So far, he has averaged 12.9 points, 7.5 rebounds and 5.2 assists per game, with a plus/minus of +9.3 and a net efficiency of 13.1, which ranks 14th in the league. However, in front of Holiday are the Celtics' Tatum, Pritchard, White, and Porzingis. That said, only Brown was behind Holiday in the starting lineup. In the game against the Knicks, Holiday scored 14 points and scored more than 15,000 points in his career, ushering in a personal career milestone.

Porzingis is absolutely indispensable for the Celtics inside, averaging 19.8 points, 6.8 rebounds and 2.1 assists per game while shooting 36.4% from three-point range. Defending himself, he averaged 1.8 blocks per game, and Porzingis made six blocks against the Grizzlies and the 12th time in his career that he had more than six blocks in a single game. Porzingis is very clear about his positioning, saying that the team's main points of attack are Tatum and Brown, and all he needs to do is look for misplaced opportunities to make the opposition defence pay the price. Tatum is averaging 26.9 points, 8.7 rebounds and 4 assists per game so far this season, shooting 37% from three-point range.

Brown averaged 22 points, 5.1 rebounds and 3.3 assists per game, and the only inconsistent player in the starting line was Brown, averaging 3.3 assists per game but diching out 2.5 turnovers. However, Brown is very confident in himself, and he says he has developed good chemistry with Porzingis. Brown thinks he can read the game correctly and find teammates with better offensive positions to complete the playmaking tandem. But that's something Brown is lacking at the moment, and after White is promoted to the starting lineup, he should focus more on his own offense. Of course, surrounded by Tatum, Porzingis, Holiday and White, Brown's individual performance will also improve as a result.

So far this season, the Celtics have started the five, and each player has a total plus/minus ranked in the top 10 in the league. After winning against the Grizzlies, the Celtics went on a six-game winning streak to return to the top spot in the East with an 11-2 record, and are currently the best team in the league. So, the Celtics are definitely the most dominant team in the league at this stage, and getting a deal for Holiday and Porzingis has already paid off.