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Originally Posted by Harpospoke
And frankly, I scoff at the idea that the West is a "brutal gauntlet". The Warriors have barely broken a sweat on their way to the Finals the past few years. The OKC series was the only time they had to work hard. The Cavs swept teams on the way to the Finals an "the East is weak"...the Warriors do the same thing and "the West is tough".  |
The West has won the h2h matchups 18 of the last 19 years. And honestly it's only getting worse because literally all the talent in the NBA keeps coming to the West while teams in the East basically are on standby till Lebron stops playing or whatever it is they are doing.
So because the Warriors have 2 mvp candidates and 2 of the maybe 3-5 best players on the planet and 2 other players who at worst are all stars and at best are all nba or very near all nba players and therefore don't have a lot of competition that means the conference is overrated?
The talent of the West outweighs the East by so much it's a joke. Just name the top 5 players in the East vs the West. Hell just look at the All NBA team's recently...
http://official.nba.com/wp-content/u...Team-Votes.pdf
4 of the 5 on the first team are in the West, the other is Lebron. So if he came to the West then what? Seriously...
4 of the 5 on the 2nd team are in the West. One of them is IT so you could just leave him off entirely since his injury killed him. Still though only 1 player in the East makes the 2nd team.
3 of the 5 on the 3rd team are in the West. Jimmy butler is in the West now.... So that brings the total to 4 of the 15 all nba players being in the East and the best one people think is going to come to the West? The next 5 highest votes were all West btw(KAT, CP3, Gasol, Cousins, PG13) and of the 14 others who received votes only 5 of 14 were in the East.
So according to last years all nba team's the East has 4 of the top 15 players and 9 of the top 29 players one of them being Lebron who should apparently see the West as "no sweat"?