Before the 2015 Hawks what was the go to example of the “fraud” team?

[Street Knowledge]

The last 10 years anytime a team in the regular season over performs in the eyes of some fans and doesn’t win the chip people start comparing them to the 2015 Hawks. We saw this a lot during the regular season when the Cavs this year were running through the league people were comparing them to this hawks team.

When they finally lost in the playoffs we saw meme after meme with this comparison.

Prior to the hawks what was seen as the “fraud” team?

 

[Soldier]

Maybe the Late 90s/early 2000s Miami Heat ?

(Alonzo mourning/Jamal mashburn/Tim hardaway era)

Between 1996-2001

 

[triplehate]

Every young team in the 90s

 

[ghostwriterx]

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[Miggs]

Those late 90s Heat teams with Zo and Hardaway that always crashed out in the 1st round were one of the biggest fraud teams in NBA history.They won 50-60 games in the reg season and were getting forever torched by 8 seeded teams...

Wade saved that franchise from an eternal choking label.

 

[BlackMajik]

How tf were the Hawks a Fraud team...they made it to the ECF and ran into the buzzsaw that was a Prime Bron

One of your trash NY Knicks teams is a fraud team

Yall got your shyt ran by Aaron Nesmith lol

 

[Mandizi]

'94 Sonics

 

[god shamgod]

‘94 bulls

Lost to a team in the 2nd round who never beat Jordan bulls in the previous 4 series

 

[Canada Goose]

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I still remember my classmates being like the day after those playoff Mavs/Warriors games in Spring of 2007




I didn't have cable at the time so I couldn't watch

 

[Standing on business]

2004 lakers

 

[Controversy]

the media made Atlanta seem like they were a juggernaut when they were equivalent to a 4-5 seed in the west. Leebronze had a cakewalk to the finals most yrs, including 2015 and that fraudulent Hawks team.

 

[jwinfield]

How tf were the Hawks a Fraud team...they made it to the ECF and ran into the buzzsaw that was a Prime Bron

No one expected that team to do shyt.

There was a debate about this when Teague said the team would've beaten OKC.

They beat a 38 win team led by Brook Lopez and a 33 year old Joe Johnson in the first round.

Took them 6 games to beat a Wiz team that only had Wall for 3 of them

Then got swept by a Cavs team with no Love and Ky for only 2 games.

No one saw a team led by Paul Millsap and Al Horford as a threat.

 

[Collateral]

Those Derrick Rose lead Bulls teams were fake/frauds to me bc outside of Rose they had no other guy. Not enough shooting.

 

[AlbertPullhoez]

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Wouldn't call them a fraud. Just a bad matchup and Nellie knew everything they were doing

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

Every young team in the 90s

Every?