Memphis is the team I’d be worried about if I was the rest of the NBA right now. Where is that teams weakness, besides perhaps experience?

a) Conley at PG. He’s improved, but he can be abused by better athletes. CP3 routinely gives Conley fits.

b) Rudy Gay’s attitude. He’s not a shut-down defender (obv.), and tends to go into selfish mode if he doesn’t get touches in the regular offense.

c) Tony Allen’s offense. He’s an erratic shooter in the half-court sets, and can be goaded into taking bad/off-balance shots, especially early in the shot clock.

The word around town is that Lin has not fully recovered from his knee troubles. This may be excuse-making for a bad move, or it may have some validity. Supposedly the Rockets have measurements on things like explosion/speed on the first two steps of a pick and roll, etc. and he’s still not at last year’s levels.

He must be only at 89% now.

New York 88, Indiana 76: Shhhhh, the Knicks are 7-1. When you can win despite shooting 36 percent from the field, things are going your way.

The Knicks were better than the Pacers last year head to head, and they’re better this year. Danny Granger isn’t good enough to be a difference maker in this matchup. The Pacers got alot of preseason hype by benefitting from a few games in the playoffs where Miami was adjusting from losing Chris Bosh.

New York 88, Indiana 76: Shhhhh, the Knicks are 7-1. When you can win despite shooting 36 percent from the field, things are going your way.

or, they were playing the Pacers, who suck without Darren Collison and Danny Granger.