Every year, I write a preview in the preseason and every year I like to look back on that preview. I get to take a victory lap about what I got right and make fun of myself for what I got wrong.
One major point before we jump into this: I wrote this preview before the Jrue Holiday trade which is a significant sliding doors situation. I think this team still could have finished first in the East without that trade, but I don’t necessarily think they would have lapped the field in the regular season like they did.