The first half of an NBA regular season is an important kind of first litmus test on a number of levels. You’ll have a clue whether your team has a clue what they’re doing on either end of the floor. Early-season award campaigns get underway before finding a sustainable gear or drowning in the muck of an 82 game campaign. We get our first batch of piping hot takes about how X player is a Huckster Fraud Loser, Y team should be moved to Vladivostok, and Z coach is maybe the dumbest person to ever live of all time.