Eastern Conference has ruined the NBA

[Regular_P]

You just defeated the whole point of a 1-16 seeding.

I did not. The point of 1-16 seeding is to have the best teams meet near the end.

 

[Kovu]

spurs aint winnin shyt with that mute fakkit

I like Kawhi but this shyt got me dying

 

[Antares]

Don't worry the communist system of the NBA will fix this.

 

[tremonthustler1]

I did not. The point of 1-16 seeding is to have the best teams meet near the end.

Then do a 1-8 seeding

 

[Jordan>>LeFrozen]

Now you dragging 80's teams into the argument. It's a known fact Jordan didn't win shyt until Magic, Bird, Thomas, etc. were pretty much done. Then he was the man as he was the lone true superstar in the league and had a trusty sidekick in Pippen and a pretty solid PF in Grant. That still does not stop the east from being garbage. If Cleland comes back and wins the series, that won't stop the East from being garbage.

The east in the 80s and 90s were better than the east in 00s and now. In the 80s bird won against stacked west laker teams. Lebron formed voltron twice and Is about to lose 4 in this decade. Nobody kould stop a lebron led team in the east, but he gets his ass handled out west. bird and magic were trading blows in the finals. The Bulls era started in 1991 after the Pistons won 2 straight 1989-1990. The 90s east that Jordan beat up on was better than this trash east. Shaq and penny kould keep lebron from making the finals.

 

[Osmar]

1. warriors
2. spurs
3. cavs
4. raptors
5. thunder
6. clippers
7. heat
8. hawks
9. celtics
10. hornets
11. pacers
12. trail blazers
13. pistons
14. mavericks
15. grizzlies
16. bulls

Hypothetical 1-16

remember Cavs and Raptors had a better record than the Thunder, so Thunder-Warriors would have still been a semifinal

 

[Suleiman Bey]

The east in the 80s and 90s were better than the east in 00s and now. In the 80s bird won against stacked west laker teams. Lebron formed voltron twice and Is about to lose 4 in this decade. Nobody kould stop a lebron led team in the east, but he gets his ass handled out west. bird and magic were trading blows in the finals. The Bulls era started in 1991 after the Pistons won 2 straight 1989-1990. The 90s east that Jordan beat up on was better than this trash east. Shaq and penny kould keep lebron from making the finals.

90's east was trash, maybe not as trash as todays east but trash nonetheless. We not talking bout the 80's we talking bout the 90's and they were trash. Shaq and Penny could keep LeBron from the finals but they'd lose to Jordan anyway, so what exactly is your point? Nobody in the east can stop LeBron because nobody in the east has a consistent scorer. GS has a ton of guys who get buckets and they play unselfish, same as SA. LeBron can't beat the west because he's a ballhog. He doesn't know how to play basketball. He knows how to get stats,

 

[AAKing23]

you sure about that laughing? Cavs were not as good as you think. they fed on the leastern conf for wins.

lets take a look at them vs portland. only played twice. barely beat lilard and crew by 5 points. the other game they got blown out.

2015-16 Team Comparison - Portland Trail Blazers vs. Cleveland Cavaliers - National Basketball Association - ESPN

^^check the stats friend

now as far as the clippers you would be correct.

And Portland got blown out by Philly in the regular season, so fukking what


Those regular season games do not mean anything come playoff time

 

[ManBearPig]

along with Golden State... Oklahoma City, San Antonio, L.A. Clippers, and maybe even Portland would all rag doll Cleveland in a seven game series.

nah

 

[AAKing23]

1. warriors
2. spurs
3. cavs
4. raptors
5. thunder
6. clippers
7. heat
8. hawks
9. celtics
10. hornets
11. pacers
12. trail blazers
13. pistons
14. mavericks
15. grizzlies
16. bulls

if they did 1-16

But there's more east teams than west teams

 

[New Username]

How is this feature

 

[threattonature]

Silver has to get that 1-16 playoff seeding in effect next season. This shyt is ridiculous.

To me it makes more sense in regards to making the top teams play harder throughout the season. Now Cleveland could coast late in the season knowing they didn't have to worry too much about if they had homecourt or not. The west order was pretty much determined a few weeks before the season was up. If those teams knew they had to worry about seeding order against east teams as well they may not have been as comfortable later in the season and played it out through to the end. Also would make the final 4 much more exciting as it would have a chance to weed out pretenders more.

 

[LV Koopa]

blame the shytty GMs and Front Offices in the East

 

[Da King]

Cavs were actually 22-8 against the West this year though....

Misleading record because they can essentially "rest up" when they play eastern teams, which they do most of the season

blame the shytty GMs and Front Offices in the East

No, blame David Stern and now Adam Silver for allowing it to happen and giving eastern teams basically no reason to get better

Easy fix is just to have a 1-16 playoff seeding, overnight every east team will be scrambling to get substantially better

 

[Jordan>>LeFrozen]

90's east was trash, maybe not as trash as todays east but trash nonetheless. We not talking bout the 80's we talking bout the 90's and they were trash. Shaq and Penny could keep LeBron from the finals but they'd lose to Jordan anyway, so what exactly is your point? Nobody in the east can stop LeBron because nobody in the east has a consistent scorer. GS has a ton of guys who get buckets and they play unselfish, same as SA. LeBron can't beat the west because he's a ballhog. He doesn't know how to play basketball. He knows how to get stats,

Lebron benefits from a trash east. Jordan atleast thrashed the west. The east collectively was better than the last 2 decades in the 90s. The magic beat Jordan in the playoffs once and kan thrash this east. These two decades of eastern conference basketball is trash kompared to the 80s and 90s. The 90s Pacers kould do damage in this east. The cavs were looking like contenders running through the east and look like midgets while facing a west team. Thats how it's been with the east through the years. The cavs collectively ran through the east this year and were looking like they kould give the Warriors a battle. The east is so bad that lebron ran through them without knowing how to play basketball, but you kalling the east in the 90s thrash? That that east would run through this east