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Early-season play features many surprises

By John Hollinger
ESPN Insider

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

People ask me the same questions every year at this time: What's surprised you? What's happened so far that you didn't expect? This can be a harder question than it seems. Over any six- or seven-game period, almost every player and team in the league will perform at least slightly better or slightly worse than expected, just due to normal random variation. That said, some early trends are worth noting. Inevitably, some players and teams have done so much better or worse than we expected tha ...

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