Greatest (over)hyped team to never sniff a NBA finals?

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Blake was hurt in 2013

He was, however, he injured his ankle in practice the day before Game 5 of that series; a series in which the Clippers took a 2-0 lead, then lost two straight and Memphis were gaining the upper hand long before his injury. He had his fair share of struggles in that series; getting punked by Z-bo in the process. That was still a winnable series for them, and they lost control of it before Griffin was injured.

Funnily enough, that was another series in which Paul failed to be aggressive in an elimination spot, when he needed to take over the game and didn't.

Blake was hurt in 2017.

Jazz were without their most impactful player for half of that series (Gobert), he wasn't 100% for the rest of it, and he only played 13 minutes of G7, scoring 1 point - the game the Jazz ended up winning. Basically, in the decider, the Clippers were without Griffin, and the Jazz were without Gobert. Hayward (arguably their most important player) only played 9 minutes of Game 4 because of an injury, another game where the Jazz ended up winning.

Again, another series in which Paul failed to be aggressive in an elimination spot, when he needed to take over the game and didn't.

as what happened in 2016.

I didn''t mention that series for a reason.

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Does it really make a difference though? They weren’t beating the spurs in 2014 with the mission they were on, and do we really need to debate what it would’ve looked like if they matched up with the warriors? I think they’ve lost their last 14 matchups and been blown out in all of them now. We may have seen the record for largest margin of victory in any playoff series ever if they played the clips instead of the rockets.

In the context of this thread, I think it does, because they either lost series' which were winnable or choked them away. At least with the '00s Suns, they lost to the eventual champs multiple times - the Clippers lost to teams who didn't even make the Finals.

 

[resurrection]

Gotta be those Kings teams

 

[Liquid]

How the fukk is reaching the Conference Finals not sniffing the NBA Finals? Especially with some of those teams literally minutes or a "FIX" to not allow them to get in?

This goddamn forum man...holy shyt outside of talking with @Malta and @Gil Scott-Heroin about some general hoops. @ikbm @storyteller and the rest of the knicks fans in here this forum is annoying as shyt

BTW, I am going with the clippers.

 

[Primetime]

How the fukk is reaching the Conference Finals not sniffing the NBA Finals? Especially with some of those teams literally minutes or a "FIX" to not allow them to get in?

This goddamn forum man...holy shyt outside of talking with @Malta and @Gil Scott-Heroin about some general hoops. @ikbm @storyteller and the rest of the knicks fans in here this forum is annoying as shyt

BTW, I am going with the clippers.

It's not that serious breh. I already expanded on what i meant in the op, everyone is simply having a discussion about the teams.

 

[Liquid]

BTW those voting for the Nash/Amare teams with D'Antoni are out of your minds. Those teams did underachieve, but they were right there.

Ironically I am not sure if it was Nash or D'Antoni who said that they think the reason they think they never made it is because they did not emphasize the 3 point shot as much as it is now. I am somewhat in agreement with that sentimen it would have been interesting to see if D'Antoni took his Rockets formula back in a time machine with that stacked team.

 

[Liquid]

It's not that serious breh. I already expanded on what i meant in the op, everyone is simply having a discussion about the teams.

It is if you are a hoops fan I am not mad just calling the ridiculousness of it all

It's disrespectful to call the kings/suns and even the blazers "greatest overhyped" when they were legitimate title contenders literally plays away from the finals and snuffing out any east team in that weak era in 5 finals games.

Keep cooking though, I am not hating

Oh and before @Gil Scott-Heroin takes my "weak east" comment and tries to flip it on me. Kidd > Lowry even with that fact.

 

[Primetime]

In the context of this thread, I think it does, because they either lost series' which were winnable or choked them away. At least with the '00s Suns, they lost to the eventual champs multiple times - the Clippers lost to teams who didn't even make the Finals.

I'll say this about the Suns, it did used to bother me when Barkley and other pundits would use the narrative that Phoenix couldn't win the title because they "didn't play defense" but they wouldn't acknowledge that the only team that (could) beat Phoenix was the same team that beat everybody else and won the title ('05 Spurs). Regardless of what they may have been on defense, it's not like everybody was just exploiting them come playoff time.

 

[#1 pick]

Blazers had one squad that was the best till the playoffs. Kobe and Shaq showed their asses.
Kings really should have won one ring.
Suns were a regular season team. Kings is the only legit title type team on the list considering their era.

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

SSOL Suns by far... The hype for them compared to what they actually ended up accomplishing (marginally more successful than the lob city clips) is on a level of its on... The cac hoops media/journalist types had a "if your erection lasts longer than four hours, please consult a doctor" level boner for that squad... You can go back and revisit the write-ups bout them and might need a barf bag for the nausea... Steve Nash is the only multiple mvp to never play a second in the finals... fukk the fact that Steve Nash had MVPs at all, let alone two... @profasi (whatever his name is now) was the most insufferable fakkit of a stan of a team in combined /coli history... All this, over the course of multiple years...And never made it out the west

Suns hands down

He really was insufferable.

It's almost as if the basketball Gods sent this Warriors squad to punish him for his past indiscretions - a squad that hot-lined, hot-song'd the '00s Suns' style, anchored by a player who is the evolution of Nash, and didn't have the run of bad luck that the '00s Suns had. It's no wonder he hates GS so much - they're everything those '00s Suns teams were, and MORE, and have multiple titles to show for it. Now he's doing everything in his power not to acknowledge how great this Warriors team is, because he spent all those years trying to get others to acknowledge those Suns teams.

I'm surprised he even watches basketball anymore after all the torment and pain.

 

[Primetime]

It is if you are a hoops fan I am not mad just calling the ridiculousness of it all

It's disrespectful to call the kings/suns and even the blazers "greatest overhyped" when they were legitimate title contenders literally plays away from the finals and snuffing out any east team in that weak era in 5 finals games.

Keep cooking though, I am not hating

Oh and before @Gil Scott-Heroin takes my "weak east" comment and tries to flip it on me. Kidd > Lowry even with that fact.

I'm a hoops fan and i don't find any disrespect in discussing which teams people felt were the most disappointing out the bunch.

If people feel one was the biggest disappointment given the hype around them...or that said team was overhyped (or overrated).. shyt, I've seen both sides of the argument before, especially for a team like the Blazers.

They just had a thread with people arguing about how the Blazers/Kings would whoop the '17 Warriors, and some posters were going off on how people overrate those '00 teams. Which is a specific debate that's nothing new on the coli... since at least '05 when it was sohh. It's good arguments on both sides tbh.. tho i don't think the blazers or kings beat the warriors at all.

Either way, it's all good

 

[LezJepzin]

Sure, but they choked in epic (or embarrassing) fashion and were nothing but 1st round fodder for the Lakers in the years that followed.

The Kings seemingly had next but they stayed losing in game 7s when it was time to level up ('02 Lakers, '03 Mavs, '04 T'Wolves), the first of which I understand people blaming the refs for game 6 but I also remember the Kings still choking away at the foul line in game 7, outside of maybe Bibby.

we all know what happened in '02 but Chris (put the franchise on hostage to sign a $100+ million extension) Webber blew out his knee in that series against Dallas and wasn't the same after that

I had that Blazer team of Roy/Aldridge/Oden as the most overhyped on that list first but changed it to the Suns . Felt it was unfair to put them in discussion

I hated those Suns teams because of "multiple MVP" Steve Nash Don't give me that Robert Horry incident because that team had plenty of chances to prove themselves.

 

[FunkDoc1112]

I'll say this about the Suns, it did used to bother me when Barkley and other pundits would use the narrative that Phoenix couldn't win the title because they "didn't play defense" but they wouldn't acknowledge that the only team that (could) beat Phoenix was the same team that beat everybody else and won the title ('05 Spurs). Regardless of what they may have been on defense, it's not like everybody was just exploiting them come playoff time.

And the SSoL Suns did have some good defenders on those squads...they were more mediocre on defense than outright awful like a Don Nelson team. Hell the Gentry Suns were way worse on defense.

 

[prophecypro]

Suns.
Mad fun to watch though and I can understand them feeling like 05-07 might have gone differently if it werent for a few injuries

 

[Easy-E]

I see four men who's bodies are breakin down...and Ron Artest