SI's Opposing Team Scouting Report

More photos » by Mary Schwalm - AP Despite the distractions, Rondo can still be a leader. Browse more photos » It is preview season, so everywhere you look some expert is picking team names out of a hat and putting them on a board and ranking them based on who-knows-what kind of system.  It all starts to sound like noise after a while and the opinions that I respect sometimes get blended in with the ones that I really don't care for.  However, I do always pay attention to the annual scouting reports that SI runs that are done by actual NBA scouts of opposing teams.  They aren't perfect either, but this is their job to know the ins and outs of each team.  (As opposed to Marc Stein, who's job is to write articles about the league - which he does well, but it is a different goal) So without further l...