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The question is whether this is Fools Gold.  We are 30th in Strength of Schedule so far.

I think Strength of schedule has played a part in this.   Good teams who expect to be in the playoff need to beat the Bulls and Nets at home and get wins against San Antonio and a depleted Memphis team on the road.  Last year this team lost way to many of these games.   It really gives you little room for error if you lose 6-7 of these type of "win" games.   

While I am not sure the defense is good or not, I have seen more fight this year than all of last year imo.   Feels much like the previous year than last year.  

Lastly, this team never won when Luka was out to begin last year and they probably would not have won a game where Luka scored under 20.   Luka had to work really hard last night.   It would be nice if he could have those games where he could sort of coast and find a few parts of the game to dominate.   Jokic can do that in the regular season.  It certainly helps for the long season.