Says the guy who ignored my post...
You can clutch your pearls over Lebron all you want, how about you address his team being the only one who didn't make it back to the finals?
Oh wait, turns out that a massive break benefited injury-prone players like AD.
You can get mad all you want, it's been 5 years and people still laughing at that bullshyt ring, it doesn't happen to everyone else. All this name calling and projecting like you're actually saying something, you're just caping, and you'll stay mad because you'll have to do it forever.
The following year they had the second best record in the West then AD got hurt so they lost to PHX in the first round.
After that the Westbrook trade happened and they were a completely different team. Surely you cannot be this fukking stupid. Oh I forgot you nikkas don’t actually watch ball just dikkride and parrots narratives.
You see how simply I answered that? But you still can’t answer mine. One more copy/paste for your remedial ass.
I’ll ask again, if the bubble is a fluke why did 3 of the final 4 teams go on to return to the finals (some multiples times), with Boston and Denver eventually getting rings of their own. I’ll wait…
-5 month break mid season.
-No travel
-No crowd
-Players opting out/wanting to opt out/out because of covid
If you want to pretend that changing the parameters around the game didn't affect performance then that's on you. Facts are that a ring with a 5 month break before the playoffs will never be respected in the same light as the rings that came by the way of playing 8-10 consecutive monthss of basketball. All the "you just hate Bron" cope won't change that.
Also don't ask why 3 of the 4 teams haven't went to the finals since the bubble because the better question is why haven't the Lakers?
See above for why Lakers didn’t make it bac.
The only player of genuine impactful significance that opted out was Kyrie. Please go look at the list of bubble absentees and tell me it has any relevance to the outcome. The majority of them were role players on losing teams that didn’t have a snowballs chance in hell. The way you dudes reach when it’s Bron is crazy. Oh god what will we do without Thabo Sefolosha and Davis Bertans.
The Lakers actually suffered one of the
worst opt outs with Avery Bradley btw but let’s just ignore that.
The rest of your bullet points are contradictory. All of these elements make the tournament harder not easier.
By getting a several month layoff teams got a chance to get healthy and weren’t worn down by the grind of the regular season. Which is why there were so little injuries in the bubble. This effectively lessens the talent gap between teams.
No home court/crowd
disadvantaged a team like the Lakers, who would’ve had it the whole time under normal circumstances. Not helped them. But somehow you actually had the audacity to list this as some killer talking point.
No travel means less fatigue, distractions and jet lag. These dudes were locked in resort with nothing to focus on but basketball. Again, this optimizes the playing conditions and actually lessens the talent gap.
And less crowd/media pressure in theory helps role players perform better. TJ Warren had a period in the bubble where he looked like Michael Jordan. You ever watch the gym runs of NBA players? Even scrubs can’t miss. If we’re using that logic that again, makes the game harder. Because now everyone is killing.
Regular post season environment introduces a lot of handicaps that help teams wins when they aren’t necessarily the best. Home court, travel, injuries from the regular season grind, etc. The bubble was ball in its purest form. Completely neutral just nut up or shut up. The team that was considered the best prior to Covid won and the 3 runner ups all went on to return to the finals and 2 of them got titles.
What are we even doing here? Seriously. I want to believe you aren’t this fukking retarded.
