Yet they can't beat the Easts top team in a playoff series.
This. No idea why these west fans keep puffing out their chests Almost all these west teams are paper soft. No one is scared of the regular season team Spurs or the Harden-less Thunder. Miami with a less-than 100% Bosh/Wade backdoor-swept the best the west had to give last season.
I'm not saying the East has never won a title. Just that the West is obviously the overall better conference to play in (tougher regular season, tougher road in the playoffs). You can go back almost any length of time and see the West with more titles, too:
I'm not saying the East has never won a title. Just that the West is obviously the overall better conference to play in (tougher regular season, tougher road in the playoffs). You can go back almost any length of time and see the West with more titles, too:
3 out of last 5
6 out of last 10
10 out of last 15
12 out of last 20
13 out of last 25
15 out of last 30
18 out of last 35
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There isn't a big enough difference in titles won that justify how great the West is. Its nearly half in every years you mention.
There isn't a big enough difference in titles won that justify how great the West is. Its nearly half in every years you mention.
My argument is not that the disparity in titles is huge, but no matter how far back you go, it favors the West. On TOP of that, add in the fact that those teams that won a title had a harder route to do it (they weren't playing sub-.500 teams first round...often they were 50-win teams).
All I'm saying is that every year I think the strength of the East is going to even out the playing field a bit and it seemingly never does.
The argument is if your in the West you pretty much have to nearly die to make it to the NBA finals and use far more energy in just getting there, rather than who wins out of East vs West. West is way to stacked atm NBA should just make it top 16 teams, teams with worse records making it is a joke imo (I don't care about the travel make it work).
Miami has a great record against the West and an average one against the East.
A lesser discrepancy in wins and record doesn't mean that the West is better. They could be splitting wins, and thus creating more .500+ teams. Fact is, most 8th seeds are going to be easy first round wins no matter if they're 3 or 4 games under .500 or a couple over like in the West. That point is just proven by the fact that Boston is in 9th place in the East yet they're a better team than the 7th and 8th placed teams in the West (Denver and Portland).
Miami has a great record against the West and an average one against the East.
A lesser discrepancy in wins and record doesn't mean that the West is better. They could be splitting wins, and thus creating more .500+ teams. Fact is, most 8th seeds are going to be easy first round wins no matter if they're 3 or 4 games under .500 or a couple over like in the West. That point is just proven by the fact that Boston is in 9th place in the East yet they're a better team than the 7th and 8th placed teams in the West (Denver and Portland).
Who knows this year? Haven't seen too many Boston games, but the Spurs beat them twice pretty handily and have losses to both Denver and Portland. Celtics didn't look good in those games, but that's a small sample.
This. No idea why these west fans keep puffing out their chests Almost all these west teams are paper soft. No one is scared of the regular season team Spurs or the Harden-less Thunder. Miami with a less-than 100% Bosh/Wade backdoor-swept the best the west had to give last season.
And you think the Spurs are scared of Lebron in the playoffs? It's all about matchups. Man, you would think Lebron is unbeatable and has more than 1 title in his 9-year career the way you're talking about him.
The argument is if your in the West you pretty much have to nearly die to make it to the NBA finals and use far more energy in just getting there, rather than who wins out of East vs West.
Exactly. The **** the Hawks are tied in the loss column for the 2nd best team in the East. They´d be a 50/50 shot in the play-offs against the 11th seed in the West. I doubt the Raptors would be 50/50 against the Spurs, if you gave them a 2-0 lead.
Strength of West yet again this season
