Who should I start off with? Well it's always good to start with the best.
The Golden State Warriors
The Warriors are off to a sizzling start. They are currently 8-0. The ONLY undefeated team left in the league. They are dominating teams on both sides of the ball, and its starting to become ridiculous. They are beating teams by an average of 17.7 points with their biggest being a 50 point shaming of the Memphis Grizzlies. They did play some exciting games this week though. Their closest game of the season came against their rivals, The Clippers. They won that game by only 4 points. The Clips simply had no answer for Curry when it was crunch time. He finished the game with 31 and the go ahead 3 pointer with under a minute left. The Warriors are dominant, and it is primarily because of one man.
Stephen Curry
Come week 2, Steph didn't slow down one bit. He didn't go off like he did last week in any games, but he still played better than almost everybody else in the league. On the season, Stephen Curry is still averaging just over 32 a game, the league leader. He is seriously looking to repeat as MVP, and he keeps up these Numbers and his team keeps winning at this rate, it's all but his.
The Warriors have been the best team in the league so far, but who has been second best?
The Cleveland Cavaliers
Weird the best two teams so far are the ones who played in the finals last year? Not really. The Cavs are currently on a 7 game win streak, their only loss being the season opener to the Bulls. Since then they have been on a roll, and this week proved no different. They beat the Knicks,76ers, Pacers, and the Jazz this week, and each game was close until one man decided to put his fingerprints all over the games. Can we guess who that man was?
LeBron James
LeBron was sensational this week. Started the week off by outplaying Melo in New York, but after that game the LeBron of old started making appearences. The first half vs the 76ers was a tightly contested game, but LeBron came out after halftime and dropped 18 of his 31 in the 3rd quarter to put it away for good. And oh yeah, He added a season high 13 assist too. The next game vs the Pacers, he was playing against a familiar foe in Paul George. He lost the stat battle to George, but LeBron's 29 was able to get his team that W. His best game of the week came last night vs the Jazz. The game was close all the way through tied at the end of the 3rd quarter. Then LeBron asserted his will. In the 4th quarter LeBron dropped 17 of his 31 points on 6-8 shooting to close it out. Remember I was talking about highlights? well here's the first one.
7'2 Rudy Gobert was shook to even try and go up with LeBron. Ya'll saying he too old though. I'm sleep.
But trust me when I say LeBron was not the only Cavalier doing his thing this week.
Kevin Love
Kevin Love is back, and I mean it. He's starting to look like his old self again after a disaster of last season. K-Love is averaging 17 and 12 this season including a monster 22 and 19 performance vs the Pacers. LeBron said this season the offense would be based a lot more around Kevin Love and it has shown.
Since we were already talking about Indiana, lets jump straight into the next topic.
Paul George
I don't know if yall are aware or not, but I'll gladly be the first to tell you, Paul George is BACK. After his gruesome leg injury and missing almost all of last season, Paul George is picking up right where he left off. He's looking like the top 10 player he was again. He is averaging 23.2 points, 5 assists, and 8 rebounds a game. This week with the exception of Orlando, he hit 26 and 7 rebounds every game. He went off for a season high 36 with 12 rebounds vs Miami, and he followed that up with 32, 11 and 6 vs the Cavs. I'm so glad to George back, he's gonna make Indiana very interesting this season.
Keeping it in the East, another team that's been suprisingly good?
Detroit Pistons
Stan Van Gundy has had a history of turning teams around, and with this year's Piston's team, he's showing it again. The Pistons are at 5-2 and currently 3rd in the Eastern Confernce, no one, I mean no one expected them to look this good to start out, and it's mainly because of their 2 headed beast of Jackson and Drummond. Jackson is averaging 23 and 5 in his first full season as a starter, and that includes a 40 point outburst Vs the Blazers. Andre Drummond has been looking like the second coming off a young Dwight Howard with his crazy 20-20 double doubles. He had 14-15 vs the Warriors and that was his worst game of the season. That says it all right there.
The last headline of the week is someone who shouldn't be. Or at least that's what we thought.
Kristaps Porzingus
He was supposed to be a bust they said. He wasn't suppose to even play this year they said. Well he's playing... a lot, and he's playing well. It could actually be up for debate that he is the Knicks second best player. He's averaging 11 points and 8 rebounds per game and even a block. He is the league leader in putback dunks this season with 7. It might not sound all that impressive, but consider this, There are 6 teams in the league that doesnt even have one putback this season. He's pretty darn good. I'm not saying he's the next Dirk, but I will say one thing. He is a highlight reel.
Now back to the rest of the Wild Wild West...
James Harden
The man got his groove back. He REALLY got it back. After starting the season horrible and losing their first 3 games, James Harden destroyed the Thunder to the tune of 37 points to end last week. It seems like all that momentum continued into this week because he has been going off. He started this week by dropping 28 on Orlando, then next game all hell broke loose. Harden went for 43 and 13 on the Kings, pretty much defeating them single handedly. The next game he didnt want to stop because he dropped 43 the Clippers. Now his team is on a 4 game winning streak.
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