As the NBA regular season continues, the race for the Western Conference standings has reached a critical juncture, and the next trade market will inevitably adjust if those teams that want to do better, and those teams that aim to play bad will inevitably move towards their goals in the future, just like a game that once led by more than 40 points, and finally lost the game. So what's the current situation in the Western Conference standings? Let's take a look. The NBA Western Conference Rankings are updated!The Warriors are behind, the Lakers are winning 10th in a row, and the dark horse has risen to sixth.
The 11th~15th places in the standings are the Jazz, Warriors, Grizzlies, Trail Blazers, and Spurs. It's hard to imagine that after losing Morant, the Grizzlies still maintain their winning streak, when Morant was reimbursed for the season due to surgery, the outside world thought that the Grizzlies would basically miss the playoff competition next, but they used their performance to prove that they are not going to be bad, they have the strength to win the game, beat the Lakers, Suns and Mavericks one after another, and won a wave of three consecutive wins, but the current roster is indeed plagued by too many injuries. If they can stay healthy in the future, they could still make a playoff run with their current roster.
The Warriors, for their part, have fallen out of the play-in zone and are behind the Jazz. They currently have a 17-19 record and are only 12th in the Western Conference standings. The next key point for the Warriors is to consider whether to try to break the deadlock through trades, so if they do, who will be the bargaining chips and what kind of players will be traded, and whether the Warriors can really remain competitive in the rest of the season?
The 6th~10th places in the standings are Pelicans, Mavericks, Suns, Rockets, and Lakers. The Lakers have won two straight games, and the winning rate is back to 50% again, and they are currently 10th in the Western Conference standings with a record of 19 wins and 19 losses, but they still caused a lot of discussion because of the blowing issue in the earlier game against the Raptors. Next up they will face the Suns, Jazz, Thunder, Mavericks and Nets. I don't know if the Lakers will be able to stabilize their situation. At present, there is no problem with the status of thick eyebrows and James, it depends on whether they will trade next, after all, Ham's current position is very stable.
After the Mavericks' defeat, they have dropped to the play-in tournament and are currently in seventh place, ahead of the Pelicans. It is worth mentioning that the Pelicans led by the Big Three have a 10-4 record in the past 14 games, winning by 19.2 points per game, ranking among the top of the league at the same stage in many statistics. The weak version of Zion + Ingram + McCollum has an average of 20+ points per game.
The 1~5 places in the standings are the Timberwolves, Thunder, Nuggets, Clippers and Kings. These teams are currently in a stable position, but the difference in the number of wins and losses between the Nuggets and the Thunder is relatively small, and the wins and losses of the two of them in one game may affect their rankings. For the Clippers, if they stay healthy this season, then they still have excellent strength in the future, after all, judging from the past few games, the big three after the run-in and the configuration of the current lineup of the Lake Clippers make them have further strength.
Which teams do you think will be traded and tweaked during the trade market phase, and which teams will advance to the playoffs in the West this season?