Eastern Conferences playoffs is hella garbage

[Gotright]

This thread is not about Lebron. He could play in any era. This thread is about as a whole the NBA is sh*tty nowadays, but what truly takes the cake is this WOAT Eastern Conference playoffs.

Milwaukee/Toronto Boston/wiz was as decent as any other match up out west

 

[blackzeus]

Milwaukee/Toronto Boston/wiz was as decent as any other match up out west

A battle of mediocre players breh. Name one player from those 4 teams that will be an alltime great. What epic match up of talent did we witness in either series? I could have been easily equally entertained by watching a pickup game in the city.

 

[qnsfinest]

Here goes that bullshyt again. Lets pretend like the western conference ain't been worse. They've had maybe 2 or 3 good competitive game, even game one of the wcf was a blowout until kawhi got hurt. Eastern conference has had 5 or 6 real good games. Even cavs first round was a good one, yea they swept them but margin of victory was 5pts or less.

Even if you went with that crazy top 16 teams make the playoffs, you'd still have 8 teams from each conference make it. Lets play that bullshyt and see how the seeding would go.

Bold teams winning. So 4 and 4 from each conference advancing

1 warriors vs 16 blazers
2 spurs vs 15 bulls
3 rockets vs 14 pacers
4 celtics vs 13 bucks
5 cavs vs 12 grizzlies
6 jazz vs 11 hawks
7 raptors vs 10 okc
8 clippers vs 9 wizards

2nd round, same bold winning 3 from west 1 from east.
1. Warriors vs wizards
2. Spurs vs raptors
3. Rockets vs jazz
4. Celtics vs cavs

1. Warriors vs cavs
2. Spurs vs rockets

Cavs beat spurs.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

1) Did he not plan to link up with Wade and Bosh at the Olympics? How in the f*ck is not that collusion?

Because as a player you are absolutely allowed to talk about where you want to play and who you want to play with.

The mere fact that Lebron finally got a decent teammate next to him for the first time in his career had people going crazy thinking this was fukking spy games or something.

The subject was discussed broadly at the owners meeting here on Monday, and there was some sentiment for revisiting the rules governing player-to-player tampering. But no team has filed a tampering complaint, nor does the league expect one.

“What we told the owners was that the three players are totally, as our system has evolved, within their rights to talk to each other,” Commissioner David Stern said after the meeting, which was held here in conjunction with the N.B.A. summer league.

Players on different teams who discuss the idea of someday playing together “is not tampering or collusion that is prohibited,” Stern said.

Although the league could investigate without a formal complaint, Stern said, “There’s nothing here at this time that is causing us to lodge an investigation.” He dismissed news reports that implied a long-term conspiracy as a “variety of gossip, bound together with innuendo, infused by hearsay.”

You can't name a single rule that keeps players from talking to each other. Even when Cuban was complaining about it, he complained that the NBA should WRITE a rule to make talking about wanting to play together illegal....neither he nor anyone else stated that it was already illegal or could show a rule proving such. And you can't either. And that's why it was never challenged.

2) Durant just joined this year what the f*ck are you talkin' about?

Isn't this the year Lebron said he needed more help?

Or are you saying that a team shouldn't look to make any trades at all once they have three good players? I guess that's why Duncan/TP/Ginobli had ten straight championships, why Pierce/Ray/Garnett won the ring every year, why Durant/Westbrook/Harden/Ibaka had so many titles, why Curry/Klay/Draymond were enough last year? So three players is good enough and teams should look to improve past that?

3) Kobe played in the West with Smush Parker on his team breh, that sh*t is "I need help status". 2 All Stars on your team and you needing more help is b*tchmade, that's why the greats don't respect 'Bron like that.

So even when the Lakers had Kobe and Pau and Odom and Bynum and Phil Jackson, they weren't looking to add more talent? When the Bulls had Jordan and Pippen and Phil Jackson, they weren't looking to get another HOF player or two if they could? When the Spurs had Duncan and TP and Ginobli, they were set? The Clippers with CP3 and Blake and DeAndre and Crawford and Redikk should just stand pat?

Overall breh this is as sh*tty an NBA as I have ever seen, and the early 2000s Eastern Conference was pretty bad, that's back when Kerry Kittles was a dominant player, but cats like Eric Snow who were role players back then would be all stars in this league

All-star point guards this year: Curry-Harden-Westbrook-Kyrie-IT-Wall-Lowry.

If you think Eric Snow would be an all-star you are too stupid to continue a conversation with.

 

[e001]

Hard Cap, smaller cap room and no max contracts, I don't know why it hasn't been implemented yet. I can't understand a multi-billion dollar company being held hostage by Chris Paul and friends.

 

[JackRoss]

Here we go discrediting a conference because of the player.. Then we look at the other conference and say they beat each other up all year


The East so weak the 2 seed tanked

Yall really want it both ways


Yall want to discredit but the other conference isn't doing ANY better against the best team in the other conference and yall play dumb.. Damn near all these games been double digits in both conferences but the East is weak.. Aight

Keep actin likin you're objective.. We know why you keep sayin the East is weak....

 

[JackRoss]

The East so weak Western Conference teams gettin they ass whooped by the top seed by a great margin

Goddamn East makin the West weak

 

[JackRoss]

I beat a team by 2 points per game in a series.. You beat a team by 8 points per series.. Why are you saying the 2 point series was easier?

I consistently beat teams by 12 and you beat teams by 9, how was it easier?

Yall gotta stop.. Yall goin dumb... Admit your hate for the player instead of saying dumb shyt

 

[JackRoss]

Tough series against Utah winning by 13 every game

Tough series against Portland winning by 9 every game


Somebody watching somebody that's not acknowledging them

 

[blackzeus]

Because as a player you are absolutely allowed to talk about where you want to play and who you want to play with.

The mere fact that Lebron finally got a decent teammate next to him for the first time in his career had people going crazy thinking this was fukking spy games or something.




You can't name a single rule that keeps players from talking to each other. Even when Cuban was complaining about it, he complained that the NBA should WRITE a rule to make talking about wanting to play together illegal....neither he nor anyone else stated that it was already illegal or could show a rule proving such. And you can't either. And that's why it was never challenged.






Isn't this the year Lebron said he needed more help?

Or are you saying that a team shouldn't look to make any trades at all once they have three good players? I guess that's why Duncan/TP/Ginobli had ten straight championships, why Pierce/Ray/Garnett won the ring every year, why Durant/Westbrook/Harden/Ibaka had so many titles, why Curry/Klay/Draymond were enough last year? So three players is good enough and teams should look to improve past that?





So even when the Lakers had Kobe and Pau and Odom and Bynum and Phil Jackson, they weren't looking to add more talent? When the Bulls had Jordan and Pippen and Phil Jackson, they weren't looking to get another HOF player or two if they could? When the Spurs had Duncan and TP and Ginobli, they were set? The Clippers with CP3 and Blake and DeAndre and Crawford and Redikk should just stand pat?






All-star point guards this year: Curry-Harden-Westbrook-Kyrie-IT-Wall-Lowry.

If you think Eric Snow would be an all-star you are too stupid to continue a conversation with.

Bron taking a pay cut to go to Miami AND they still have enough cap room to get Bosh and you talk about no collusion, those are three max players on one team Ginobili was never a max player, neither is Klay, and to keep it 100 I'm not so sure Draymond and Ibaka are truly max players, I'm not building a team with those two as my foundation.

Jordan never tried to team up with Olajuwon and Barkley

Kobe never tried to team up with the Spurs or Kings

Magic never tried to team up with Bird

There is no way an NBA player who busted his azz to get a ring is going to respect a guy like 'Bron who formed Voltron to avoid ending up like Barkley and Ewing. By the way I don't know how the hell this turned into a discussion about LeBron Regardless of however you feel about 'Bron, he is playing in a sh*tty conference and an even sh*ttier playoff season. At this point I'm just waiting for football to start

 

[JackRoss]

Bron taking a pay cut to go to Miami AND they still have enough cap room to get Bosh and you talk about no collusion, those are three max players on one team Ginobili was never a max player, neither is Klay, and to keep it 100 I'm not so sure Draymond and Ibaka are truly max players, I'm not building a team with those two as my foundation.

Jordan never tried to team up with Olajuwon and Barkley

Kobe never tried to team up with the Spurs or Kings

Magic never tried to team up with Bird

There is no way an NBA player who busted his azz to get a ring is going to respect a guy like 'Bron who formed Voltron to avoid ending up like Barkley and Ewing. By the way I don't know how the hell this turned into a discussion about LeBron Regardless of however you feel about 'Bron, he is playing in a sh*tty conference and an even sh*ttier playoff season. At this point I'm just waiting for football to start

Act like the Pierce, Allen, and KG roster was full of Kendrick Perkins brehs

Act like LeBron didn't fire off on the Detroit Pistons brehs

Act like Pierce, Garnett and Allen didn't collude because they weren't tired of being one man armies brehs

Be mad LeBron did something you could never do with your own life brehs

Be mad about a dude you dont know being able to choose his own destiny 7 years ago and still hold a grudge against him while your last 7 years have been spent talking about the move another man made and you can barely provide supper brehs

Act like teams in the West aint gettin blown out brehs

Act like that graphic of 15 of 17 playoffs games being decided by double figures was all in the East brehs

Act like Warriors/Utah or Portland was entertaining brehs

 

[AAKing23]

Ya'll need to kill this "The West is so good" nonsense

 

[Sauce Dab]

Same thread with the same posts arguing with the same posters just on a different day

 

[Donald Trumps Twitter]

Nothing new, 1 seed about to get swept

 

[lutha]

lol at the playoffs being garage...nope, seems like the same playoffs to me: the teams without legit shots have competitive series against each other, but then get destroyed by the teams with legit shots at the title....and it's always only been a hand full of teams with legit shots at the title....as far back as the celtics starting in the 50s...seriously, it's a reason 2 teams have almost half, if not more than half, total nba titles....the only reason most of yall complaining is cause the team yall root for aint the one running shyt; if they were, yall would have no problem with it....

also, somehow, someway, yall gonna find a way to blame bron for this lol.....probably go with the 'super' team and/or 'stayed in the east' narratives......