murksiderock
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Mf's acknowledge The East as the inferior conference for the last 26 years. When LeBron is mentioned, it's, "he dominated the weak East"...
We have been in a post-LeBron East for 6 years now, and were told how easy it was to dominate the mid teams and stars in that conference. Why aren't the East stars of the post-LeBron East dominating the "weak ass East"?
•The Celtics have a losing ECF record (1-2) in the post-Bron East. They've been the most successful East team by some measures, but have a losing conference finals record and their biggest star, Tatum, isn't seen on the upper echelon anyway (Jokic, Giannis, Embiid, Luka)...
•the Heat are the second most successful team of the post-Bron East. I guess you could call them more successful than Boston, as they've been to more Finals than Boston, have a winning ECF (2-1), and are 2-2 vs Boston in the playoffs. But like Boston, no titles, and nobody considers Butler an upper echelon player...
•this takes me to the upper echelon players. Embiid, never made it beyond Rd2, that speaks for itself...
•Giannis, just two ECF appearances, more chokes than that. He has his title in a very fortunate set of events, but with two ECF runs, we definitely can't say he's "dominating the weak East", which is the subject of this thread...
•KD was here for 3½ years, no ECF runs. Kyrie for 4½ years post-Bron, no ECF runs...
This next post, I'm gonna post what other East stars did in The East from 2003-18, Bron's 15 years there, and after that, I'm gonna post what the East "heavyweights" were doing in the post-Jordan East from 1998-2003. But it's okay to acknowledge that even if we all recognize it as the "inferior" conference, there have been a ton of big names that have had their opportunities to dominate and haven't done that...
Maybe it wasn't so easy to just beat up all the mid teams and stars out East all along. Nobody else has done it...
We have been in a post-LeBron East for 6 years now, and were told how easy it was to dominate the mid teams and stars in that conference. Why aren't the East stars of the post-LeBron East dominating the "weak ass East"?
•The Celtics have a losing ECF record (1-2) in the post-Bron East. They've been the most successful East team by some measures, but have a losing conference finals record and their biggest star, Tatum, isn't seen on the upper echelon anyway (Jokic, Giannis, Embiid, Luka)...
•the Heat are the second most successful team of the post-Bron East. I guess you could call them more successful than Boston, as they've been to more Finals than Boston, have a winning ECF (2-1), and are 2-2 vs Boston in the playoffs. But like Boston, no titles, and nobody considers Butler an upper echelon player...
•this takes me to the upper echelon players. Embiid, never made it beyond Rd2, that speaks for itself...
•Giannis, just two ECF appearances, more chokes than that. He has his title in a very fortunate set of events, but with two ECF runs, we definitely can't say he's "dominating the weak East", which is the subject of this thread...
•KD was here for 3½ years, no ECF runs. Kyrie for 4½ years post-Bron, no ECF runs...
This next post, I'm gonna post what other East stars did in The East from 2003-18, Bron's 15 years there, and after that, I'm gonna post what the East "heavyweights" were doing in the post-Jordan East from 1998-2003. But it's okay to acknowledge that even if we all recognize it as the "inferior" conference, there have been a ton of big names that have had their opportunities to dominate and haven't done that...
Maybe it wasn't so easy to just beat up all the mid teams and stars out East all along. Nobody else has done it...
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