Eastern Conference gotta do better

[Malta]

Well I actually disagree with you. I think Portland would beat Atl and Det but even if you're right they are playing OKC now

No they wouldn't, the Blazers had no answer for the Pistons this season, Drummond & Jackson averaged 22ppg and 23rpg while Jackson averaged 35 & 7 on 58% shooting, they were too physical for the Blazers and had the athletes to match them. The Pistons are a bad matchup for the Blazers and proved it this year, they couldn't use athleticism against the Pistons.


The Hawks would beat them as well, don't get why yall stay trumping up WCF, the only ones worth a damn were the Spurs, Thunder and Warriors.

 

[The G.O.D II]

Nah....that's what you're resorting to when you can't say the teams are better.

WNBA playoffs are competitive. So what value does that have? Still a shyty league much like the 90s NBA

I just named how the Knicks are a better team based off their accomplishment while you search up ball reference to pull up stats. And then you just brought up a comparison to the WNBA. You are done. Stop posting

 

[Malta]

Ok? I don't understand the point? If we are talking parity in a conference full of trash teams not better than a conference with 1 amazing team and then a bunch of trash teams? In one scenario we all know which team is going to the finals. In the other we have no clue and it's more competitive

It's not more competitive because ultimately you'd just be saying "The East trash, they can't beat the West" when the teams play in the finals, the scenario we have now is 1 team bullying the conference that has an actual shot of winning the title, in your hypothetical EC whoever wins would get face fukked violently.

 

[NYC Rebel]

I just named how the Knicks are a better team based off their accomplishment while you search up ball reference to pull up stats. And then you just brought up a comparison to the WNBA. You are done. Stop posting

No you didn't.

Tell me how the Knicks are better other than using their 90s accolades? Might as well say the 1940s Minneapolis Lakers could beat the 90s Knocks since they had more accolades in the 4 team NBA.
Dumb

 

[Brief Keef]

Cavs never lost to wade or bosh in the playoffs.

he would of if he didnt make that move he even said it himself

 

[mikishere]

No they wouldn't, the Blazers had no answer for the Pistons this season, Drummond & Jackson averaged 22ppg and 23rpg while Jackson averaged 35 & 7 on 58% shooting, they were too physical for the Blazers and had the athletes to match them. The Pistons are a bad matchup for the Blazers and proved it this year, they couldn't use athleticism against the Pistons.


The Hawks would beat them as well, don't get why yall stay trumping up WCF, the only ones worth a damn were the Spurs, Thunder and Warriors.

i think a healthy grizzlies and clippers team would easily beat the raptors and hawks... regardless of what the season series is

i wouldn't trust the top 2 players for the raptors (lowry and derozan) in a series vs either of them with playoff numbers like this

 

[I AM WARHOL]

It's not more competitive because ultimately you'd just be saying "The East trash, they can't beat the West" when the teams play in the finals, the scenario we have now is 1 team bullying the conference that has an actual shot of winning the title, in your hypothetical EC whoever wins would get face fukked violently.

But the east still is trash and unless it's OKC out the west will still get face fukked violently IMO. I feel like it's a cop out for all the teams in the east to say they can't compete unless they have super teams. Just build and make smart moves. If it's hard so be it

 

[Malta]

But the east still is trash and unless it's OKC out the west will still get face fukked violently IMO. I feel like it's a cop out for all the teams in the east to say they can't compete unless they have super teams. Just build and make smart moves. If it's hard so be it

This Cavs team has a chance of winning the title if it's OKC or GS, they aren't going down easy breh, not with the way Kyrie is playing.

It's not easy to just build and make smart moves.

 

[ghostwriterx]

No they wouldn't, the Blazers had no answer for the Pistons this season, Drummond & Jackson averaged 22ppg and 23rpg while Jackson averaged 35 & 7 on 58% shooting, they were too physical for the Blazers and had the athletes to match them. The Pistons are a bad matchup for the Blazers and proved it this year, they couldn't use athleticism against the Pistons.


The Hawks would beat them as well, don't get why yall stay trumping up WCF, the only ones worth a damn were the Spurs, Thunder and Warriors.

Difference between the West and the East was closer than its been in years.

NBA's Western Conference tops East for 16th time in 17 seasons, but separation much tighter in 2015-16

 

[Kaypain]

Breh it clearly matters what age they were. Be real for a second and not just a blind Bron Stan . You don't see a difference in a PRIME Ray Allen, PRIME KG, and a PRIME Paul Pierce vs those same players on the down end of there careers. They were still great players and it was still bullshyt IMO but at least they were all in there 30s so you thought there window is close to being over anyway

No the fukk it doesnt what the fukk are you even talking about nikka?

 

[Gravity]

Yeah right. GS beat OKC bad during the season.

Vegas had them getting spanked.

I didn't hear one person giving OKC the win the other night except OKC fans.

Everybody expected GS to dismantle the west.


Yall can't have both narratives.

Either GS isn't an "all time great" team or the east isn't weak.

Giving up 120 points to this Blazers team is basketball excellence? That's the third game in a row that the Blazers hit 120 too.

If the Thunder are to beat the Spurs, they're going to be a hell of a matchup for GS. They've got the size and athleticism to beat GS up in the inside and to guard GS all over the floor. Don't annoint them just yet.

Those teams lacked talent. Mark Jackson as a Pacer was such a plodder as a scorer that the NBA made a rule to based on his turtle like back to the basket scoring. Mark Jackson was traded by the Knicks because he was a defensive liability who couldn't be stay in front of anyone.

You're just trying to cloud the issue with bullshyt. The Pacers lacked the talent to beat the Bulls or contend with the very best teams of the 90s but they had more talent than this Raptors team and that's the point. Mark Jackson was slow and not a great individual defender but besides the point. I said that dude was a better playmaking point guard than Lowry is. Lowry is a better scorer but that's not saying much because he's a volume inefficient scorer who shrinks in the playoffs. You can't count on dude to be a scorer in the playoffs.

Reggie is NOT better than Derozan. He wasn't even in Mitch Richmond's league. He had no put the ball on the floor type of game. Derozan is a much better scorer.

You're just flat out wrong bruh. You're talking nonsense. Reggie is one of the best shooters in league history along with being one of the best clutch performers in league history. Derozan can't shoot for shyt
And he's sucked in the playoffs at 37% or some shyt. He gets his points driving to the hole and getting bailed out by the refs. He struggles in the playoffs because they don't call the usual ticky tack bullshyt that he feasts on in the regular season.

Reggie didn't need to put the ball on the floor to be a great player because his off the ball game was so good. The way he constantly ran around off of screens actually opened up the court for his teammates because you constantly had to give his primary defender help. In today's perimeter oriented 3 point happy league Reggie would be even better than he was during his time. He'd be even harder to guard now because you can't bump cutters and be as physical with guys off of the ball. at Derozan being better than Reggie the hall of famer. Barring some drastic improvement Derozan won't be making the hall bruh.

Both Lowery and Derozan can create their own shot.

Sure they can create their own shot, they just can't create good ones. That's why they're both struggling at way below 40% during this playoff run That's sub 40% in an offensive friendly small-ball soft league too. These cats probably wouldn't be starters in the 90s.

90s Pacers were ordinary as fukk along with the Knicks.

The point is if they were "ordinary" then this Raptors team is garbage as fukk because both the 90s Knicks and Pacers wash this team.

They just went life and death with a depleted Heat team and a garbage Pacers team that had Paul George and role players, but they'd beat the 90s Knicks and Pacers?

 

[MooseMouthMthafuga]

The East is weaker.Other than Cleveland, is there another team in the EC that could make it to the WCF's?


I think either of the top 2-5 seeds from the WC (Spurs, Thunder,Clippers, Trailblazers) would make it to the ECF.


And maybe 2(Spurs/Thunder) could possibly knock off the Cavs in the ECF's

 

[ghostwriterx]

he would of if he didnt make that move he even said it himself

LOL he said that to pump his boys up. Bosh missed the playoffs the two years before he got to the Heat and Wade was coming off consecutive 1st round departures including losing in 7 to an ATL team Bron swept.

 

[eastside313]

And his running mate passed up $11 million to go catch that L in San Antone.. backwards azz niccas

David west old ass being Paul George running mate

 

[ghostwriterx]

You're just trying to cloud the issue with bullshyt. The Pacers lacked the talent to beat the Bulls or contend with the very best teams of the 90s but they had more talent than this Raptors team and that's the point. Mark Jackson was slow and not a great individual defender but besides the point. I said that dude was a better playmaking point guard than Lowry is. Lowry is a better scorer but that's not saying much because he's a volume inefficient scorer who shrinks in the playoffs. You can't count on dude to be a scorer in the playoffs.

You're just flat out wrong bruh. You're talking nonsense. Reggie is one of the best shooters in league history along with being one of the best clutch performers in league history. Derozan can't shoot for shyt
And he's sucked in the playoffs at 37% or some shyt. He gets his points driving to the hole and getting bailed out by the refs. He struggles in the playoffs because they don't call the usual ticky tack bullshyt that he feasts on in the regular season.

Reggie didn't need to put the ball on the floor to be a great player because his off the ball game was so good. The way he constantly ran around off of screens actually opened up the court for his teammates because you constantly had to give his primary defender help. In today's perimeter oriented 3 point happy league Reggie would be even better than he was during his time. He'd be even harder to guard now because you can't bump cutters and be as physical with guys off of the ball. at Derozan being better than Reggie the hall of famer. Barring some drastic improvement Derozan won't be making the hall bruh.

Sure they can create their own shot, they just can't create good ones. That's why they're both struggling at way below 40% during this playoff run That's sub 40% in an offensive friendly small-ball soft league too. These cats probably wouldn't be starters in the 90s.

The point is if they were "ordinary" then this Raptors team is garbage as fukk because both the 90s Knicks and Pacers wash this team.

They just went life and death with a depleted Heat team and a garbage Pacers team that had Paul George and role players, but they'd beat the 90s Knicks and Pacers?

Just stop posting breh.
In 95 the Spurs had the best record in the league. They're starting backcourt was Avery Johnson and Vinny Del Negro.