What are some examples of treadmill NBA teams?

[NatiboyB]

I am assuming a 'treadmill' team is a team that is neither terrible or great.

I wouldnt consider a team that goes to the 'ship every couple of years to be a treadmill team

It's harder to do in the NFL because a team can go 11-5 one season and 5-11 the next season but in the NBA it's almost tied into whose your teams best players

That's the thing about the NFL that parity is awesome...a team like the Rams can go from 2-14 to 12-4

 

[tremonthustler1]

Treadmill teams are routine teams that make the playoffs but have no chance of even making the conference finals...Teams like

Atlanta Hawks-no star
Denver Nuggets-no star
Chicago Bulls-injured star
Minnesota Timberwolves- no youth development
Brooklyn Nets-old as hell
New York Knicks-no depth
Toronto Raptors-still young

These are teams who are routine 5-8 seed playoff teams who can win 50-60 games in a season but due to the way the rosters are set up you know they won't go much further...To be honest the teams need to make moves to improve.

In the NFL Cowboys, Bengals, steelers, Bears, Chargers, Jets seem to be those teams

the team hasn't made the playoffs in 10 years. That's not a treadmill. That's just straight up ineptitude. You're confusing a treadmill team with a team that inherently can't compete.

a treadmill team is the Houston Rockets.

 

[L&HH]

Memphis Grizzlies
Gold State
Atlanta

These teams have enough to make the 'offs but they'll probably never get past their conferences

 

[triplehate]

This the gotdamn nba if you don't have a top 3 player Can't be a realistic expectation to win shyt. Ever. Ever.

Watch to be entertained but don't be stressed over these teams breh

 

[CM_Burns]

Knicks

 

[Ritzy Sharon]

Purgatory lol. Denver Nuggets epitomizes this

and just like that, Dumars was open to trading Chauncey Billups and the Nuggets became instant contenders.

think going from awful to great is easier than going from good to great, brehs.

 

[Bilz]

The Lakers. Teams are running on them all the time

 

[Versa]

The Oakland Athletics

 

[MercuryHayes]

Clippers for sure. They never winning shyt, they're a fun reg season team never to be taken seriously.

 

[malbaker86]

Clippers for sure. They never winning shyt, they're a fun reg season team never to be taken seriously.

GREAT choice

 

[b. woods]

i think folks know what he's talking about, he just didnt explain shiit

he's talking about teams stuck in purgatory

"a land occupied by teams not good enough to compete for a title but too competent to throw themselves fully into lottery sweepstakes"

sounds like the Bulls

 

[Mook]

one of the worst threads ive ever seen. You bball stans are disgusting, you force the wackest threads and talk about the same shyt

whats next? who do you think is better magic or lebrom?

 

[LezJepzin]

The Hawks are the first team to come to mind. Have they even made it to the Conference finals once in the last 50 years?

 

[Broad Street Bully]

Oh, the God damn Eagles.

 

[USSInsiders]

Warriors are getting there, in the modern era at least