Welcome to our locked on NBA round table discussing teams that are not true

playoff contenders but too good to be outright tanking. I'm Jake Madison host to

a locked on NBA and lockdown pelicans you can follow me on Twitter

it's at Nola Jake. I'm joined today by Mike Richmond of Lockdown Blazers.

You can follow him on Twitter at Mike G. Rich.

We've got Gavin Shaw of Lockdown Nix.

You can follow him at Lockton Nix.

Jeff Garcia of Lockdown Spurs. He's at Jeff G. Spurs Zone, and Matt

George of Lockton Kings. You can follow him over at Matt George SAC.

So it said, these are teams that are not amazing but not outright bad and maybe don't have a true path to contention or tanking either way.

So the first question to everybody here,

anyone feel their team doesn't really belong in this group and should maybe be placed somewhere else in some of the rankings whether that's kind of a play in contender or an outright tanking team something along those lines?

Mike, I see you bopping your head there so so do you think that's where the

blazer should be? Um yeah I mean there is no man's land as a no man's

land team could be right like they tried to get bad and like truly tank over the last, I don't know, two weeks, leading up to the trade deadline. They intentionally got worse and now they've won four of five, which for them is like a hell of a run.

So, yeah, they're stuck, they're truly stuck in no man's land where I think they would like to be worse than they are right now.

They've got a clear path back to being decents, but beyond

decent is would be a stretch. It would be very, very rosy outlook here in the Rose City.

Yeah, and one of those wins for Portland was unfortunately against the New York

Knicks who have now lost 12 of their last 15 and I think they're in the

epitome of no man's land because they have all these high-priced

vets that they paid over the summer signed up N Nurlans Noel, signed up Alec Perks,

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