Yup, is the West brutal or what? Your small ball teams keep getting beat by the big, bad Spurs. So, you build a team to beat the Spurs and you fall to a small-ball team. Amare goes down one year and you make it to the Finals, and...
Now, you are back to square one: build a team that will beat not only the Spurs, Rox but the Suns, Warriors and now Utah, not to mention Denver & the best team from the East!
OK, that's depressing