Power rankings are dumb, subjective ways of measuring teams, but it's pretty ridiculous that they have Houston over us given our impressive streak with our injuries. I'm not too impressed with them, and I think our elite D would cause them problems and cause them to jack up even worse shots than they already take.
Ultimately, I think we're pretty clearly the second best team in the NBA right now. Can't wait until Thursday's game against GS. Hopefully everyone is healthy (besides Gordy) so that we can have a true measurement of where we are in the league. I think we matchup even better with them now than we did last year, and we should really thrive on turning them over and pushing the ball.
you act like Houston doesn't have injury concerns as well. They've also only had 4 players play in all 14 games and like Boston their 2nd best player got hurt in their first game and he hasn't played since. Houston has played a tougher schedule thus far and is 11-3. It certainly isn't crazy to put them ahead of Boston on the season.
The injury concerns to the top players are quite a bit more severe for Boston than Houston. Not counting Paul or Hayward, our top three (Irving, Al, and Morris - 12 missed games) has missed significantly more games than their top six guys (Harden, Ariza, Gordon, Capela, Anderson, and Williams - 5 missed games).
Adding that to our 12 game win streak, better overall record, and fairly similar strength of schedule, yeah, it's definitely crazy putting them over us.