At least somebody is honest enough to give a real assessment of what we've been watching since the start of the season. ESPN personnel released their power rankings this morning, and their method involved pooling the opinions of several NBA insiders to compile the list. They concluded that the San Antonio Spurs have played the second-best basketball so far this season, and they're absolutely right.
Minus one hiccup in Phoenix, San Antonio has been handling business. Not only have they been beating teams, but they've dispatched most of them by double-digit margins. It's the mark of a true threat to treat inferior teams like the nuisances they are, dealing with them with relative ease before casting them aside.