Why does the sports media not make a big enough deal about how easy the Eastern Conference is to play in?
The last legit team LeBron faced in the playoffs was the 2008 Celtics who he lost to. Every eastern Conference team since wouldn't have even made it to the WCF.
Seriously, LeBron has no real rivalries because he has been hiding out in the East his whole career. Celtics is the only team he built hatred for but they were washed up by the time he went to the Heat.
Parker Taylor
Shitty bait thread, feel bad Sadtonio
Anthony Williams
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James Wilson
>play in "inferior" east >they make up for lack of skill with physicality >physically beat up as you clear the east >play the "superior" west as your final challenge at the end of a long battle You'd want it any other way?
You people are fuckin retarded and don't understand sport
Nathan Ramirez
>talking out of your ass
the top west teams would burn through the east like wild fire when the excuses for lebron are the only things that burn through like wild fire
if san antonio was in the east, would the cav's even make it out? if they didnt, expect excuses. but no points out the cake walk the cavs have, but are quick to point out everyone elses cake walk
this is why stan's and dick rider opinions shouldn't matter, but unfortunately some of them have voices in high places
Leo Green
The Spurs just got beat by OKC lmao
Ryan Lopez
no way!!!
Camden Parker
the east was stronger as a whole this year tho
the west is just top heavy
Tyler Roberts
Daily reminder the 76ers beat more West teams than East teams and almost beat the Memeiors
Christian Rivera
its all about match ups newfriend
keep watching sports for another 5 years or so and you'll learn more brother
Chase Clark
LeBron would fucking Monster mash them wirse than Westbrook you dipshit.
Steven Adams had that team quaking.
You're fucjing retarded if you think Suoerstars don't actively avoid the East so they don't rot away like Melo.
Thomas Scott
>the east was stronger as a whole this year tho nah. the 8th seed in the west was better than every team in the east except for the cavs. the east was much improved this year, but still shit-tier compared to the west. the win/loss records don't mean shit
Brandon Miller
Dumbest post of the day
Nicholas Phillips
You do realize you're talking about the Rockets right? Holy shit I really hope you're trolling. Portland was the only team in the bottom 4 playoff teams of the west that was better than any of the bottom 4 in the east.
Gavin Cook
if you don't think the rockets could beat any one of the 8 playoff teams in the east on any given day, you don't watch much basketball. the rockets were the 8th seed because they had awful coaching, but the talent was there. same with the 7th seed, the grizzlies could beat any team in the east on any given day when they're healthy. you can't say that about every team in the east. the west top to bottom is a dangerous conference. if they put an east team and a west team in a building and say "losing team gets killed", i'm putting my money on the west team to make it out alive unless it's the cavs playing
Jason Richardson
let me clarify before everyone's autism kicks in- i mean i'd take a western conference playoff team over an east team unless it's the cavs
Mason Price
Gotta make Lebron look strong.
Jose Evans
adams and james are two different players m8 lel
and melo isn't rotting because the east is soo rough and tough, its because the knicks are a hilarious organization m80cakes
like i said, keep watching more sports friendbro, will help you understand math ups
Connor Nelson
so the NBA is like WWE now?
Charles Phillips
>now
Zachary Smith
Is this the 6th or 7th year in a row with lelbron in the finals? Jesus Christ thats boring
Colton Walker
>the rockets were the 8th seed because they had awful coaching,
so they can't beat any of the teams. you're admitting it right here.
Austin Nelson
>now
M8
Isaac Martin
>now
Easton Wilson
Yeah, Lebron is the Roman Reigns of Basketball
Wyatt Thomas
The pistons rekt the rockets 2-0 as did the hawks
Aiden Thompson
LeBeta = Roman Kobe = Cena Iverson = The Rock Jordan = Stone Cold Magic = Bret Hart Byrd = Hulk Hogan
Ethan Nguyen
I thought elite John Wall and the Wizards were supposed to be the surprise of the Eastern Conference
Wizards with Arenas was LeBron's rival Celtics was made for ring chasing 4 allstars vs 1 bullying LeBron.
Mason Stewart
whos Tim Duncan
Adam Edwards
2011 Celtics, 2011 Bulls and 2012 Celtics were formidable enough opponents. But yeah he hasn't had a formidable Eastern conference opponent in 4 years.
Caleb Powell
didnt he beat the celtics in 2011?
Ian Baker
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Christopher Fisher
They do, but it's not like Lebron has just crawled up and die every single finals. The spurs team in 2014 was just too good.
Ryder Cook
pretty good
Dylan Collins
>Tim is Undertaker user, you're a good guy.
Hudson Davis
Undertaker
Dominic Gomez
define big enough
this is frequently brought up
Benjamin Wood
hard to be competition for legod desu senpai
Jayden Butler
WTF is this weeaboo shit.. I DIDNT TYPE THAT T B H
F A M
Anthony Cruz
this makes so much sense
is KG mankind?
Jonathan James
You've been gone for that long dude? That filter has been applied for a while
Levi Russell
The people arguing in this thread need to realize this isn't 20fucking14 anymore. The east has improved and the bottom western teams have declined to some extent. But like an user said the west is extremely top heavy and no team in the east except the cavs would be able to compete in a best of 7
Ryder Gray
today is like the 3rd time ive been here this year lol
HOW THE FUCK DO I THIS CAPTCHA
WHEN I CLICK ON SOMETHING IT DISSAPERS WHAT THE FUCK
ID RATHER KILL MYSELF THAN DEAL WITH THIS SHIT
Owen Harris
I'd have to think about it. I couldn't think of anyone good for HHH, CM Punk, etc when I made that
Jace Miller
had to do the audio shit
what a garbage captcha
David Barnes
Yeah don't bother, this place is dogshit. Captcha never works for me either.
Eli Nguyen
2011 Celtics were too old just like 2012 Celtics.
The 2011 Bulls were a regular season meme like the Hawks were last year.
Caleb Foster
joins twitsp
Robert Evans
What about the 10 Celtics that BTFO Lebron out of Cleveland the first time?
Adrian Martinez
Say no more OP. I gotchu. This pic really show his water down competitions.
Jeremiah Adams
Has any of the Eastern conference series been good? I know some have been close but the basketball being played in them has looked so bad from what I've seen.
Evan Barnes
Hey man, the Raps or the Heat could still... haha just fucking with you, yeah you're right.
Sebastian Thompson
Cavs/Pistons was pretty good. Cavs swept but the games were all pretty close.
Asher Lewis
if the west is so good how come the same west teams win it every year?
truth be told, east/west, they're both dogshit and there are only a small handfull of good teams each season, usually the same ones for several seasons.
Colton James
that pic says everything that needs to be said
Noah Murphy
There are 3 good teams in the west, would have been 4 if the Clippers weren't hurt. There is 1 good team in the East. Imagine if the Cavs had to face a team as good as the Thunder/Spurs second round, then go on to face the Warriors before even getting to the finals? Compare that to their actual run to the finals this year.
Jacob Nelson
Where's Kareem on that list? Shouldn't he be on it?
Parker Adams
yes lebron controls how good the teams in his conference are
Bentley Moore
people will make excuses for lebron, but lebron could exist in the west and probably come out of it once and awhile, but truth is if you plugged the cavs into the west they'd be like the 4th or 5th seed, you can't deny this.
the warriors woulda been undefeated without curry in the east, lebron didn't play fucking anyone in the east, he played the pistons (lol), and an atlanta team that was almost as fucking awful as the celtic team they just beat, and he won't play anyone in the ECF either, neither the heat nor the raptors are going to do anything against the cavs except maybe lose in 5 at best.
Zachary Martinez
Why doesn't he just go and play in the basketball Premier league or whichever the top league is?
Levi Watson
>a 50-win team is sooo much better than a 48 win team, look at Kobe, he is so awesome, i want to suck his dick, pls Kobe come back
Tyler Torres
if the east is so easy why don't all the top players just move to east teams?
Henry Peterson
what a shit post lol
John Bailey
because they don't want to be known as an east baby.
the only person who is excused for being an east babby is jordan, but he was the same as lebron honestly, really good but heavily overrated player, and could be argued that kareem is the best ever because he too has 6 rings and the most unblockable shot in the history of the game.
but more people are nostalgic about jordan for some reason, and that he made the game popular worldwide so hes the best ever cause he was 6/6 in the chips.
Jonathan Parker
good points all around, australia
Jack Collins
except the east was better back then than the west dumb ass. You had: Ewing/Knicks Shaq/Penny Jordan's Bulls Hornets
You also had lower tier teams like the heat/pacers with reggie.
You are literally retarded
Jordan Gonzalez
Lebron suffers from a rare condition that affects and disfigures his face from time to time.
Wyatt Reed
the east has never been better, also good job on forgetting the rockets and utah jazz and even the early duncan era spurs, lmao
if jordan didn't go into hiding after getting his father killed, it woulda been interesting to see him actually lose chips those 2 years the rockets won it, but coming out the west isn't as easy as the east so they didn't make the finals every year :^)
also that doesn't change the fact that jordan was heavily overrated anyway, fucking pippen took them deep alone, I dare say they probably woulda won 1 or 2 chips WITHOUT jordan over that period
Daniel Miller
the cavs fired the coach who got them to the finals last year, hired some literallywho off the street, and are still favorites to go to the Finals
LEASTERN E A S T E R N
Andrew Gomez
>early duncan era spurs >having to go all the way to 1998 to make a weak point, Jordans last year
Also how has the east never been better, when the east was top heavy with celtics/bad boy pistons/hawks and the lakers were getting to the finals like it was nothing because the west was weak AF.
The eastern conference in the 90s was the deeper, more physical conference.
Isaac Price
Only 4 Eastern Conference players have finished in Top-6 in MVP voting this decade:
* LeBron * J. Noah (2014) * Melo (2013) * D Rose (2011)
The East is literally Lebeta
Ryan Nguyen
>the top west teams would burn through the east
wow, this meme again. You must've forgotten that the GOAT of all time warriors lost a game to the trashcan rockets as well as the projected lottery rebuilding blazers, not to mention blazers played 3 games close. Pistons or hawks would have beaten both of those teams. Cavs are going to sweep toronto as well, while warriors GOAT of all time in the universe will probably lose to OKC. Going to be so rich when Bron brings one to da land and everyone making excuses for warriors when in reality they only won because they were playing against Lebron and a D league team. *Asterisk for the gimmick state warriors 15'
Oliver Gray
Underrated post that doesn't get responded to because the person you replied to is BTFO and talking out of their biased ass hole
Levi Wilson
>Clippers
Kek stopped reading, you're delusional. Clippers are not shit and never are shit. Toronto, Heat, and Hawks would beat clippers. And worse, Cavs are beating better teams than warriors are beating and not losing to them.
Luke Nelson
(you)
Connor Lewis
>doesn't get replies because BTFO: the post
>voting >muh unanimous curry That should tell you all you need to know about that farse of an award
Jacob Miller
remind me why the pants on head retarded conference system is still used instead of just 1-16?
Aaron Anderson
basically so the playoffs/finals appeal to the broadest possible audience.
Angel Taylor
>You must've forgotten that the GOAT of all time warriors lost a game to the trashcan rockets as well as the projected lottery rebuilding blazers, not to mention blazers played 3 games close. Lol did Curry play any of those losses?
Adam Smith
basketball is a joke once yo figure that out you will be watching Hockey
Grayson Watson
relic of when high travel costs forced teams into regional conferences
Joseph Lewis
no promotion/relegation system in america
Aaron Cooper
but why is it still used? Divisions have pretty much been phased out, so why not do the same for conferences? Just keep it for meme shit that no one cares about like the all star game.
why would promotion/relegation affect it in any way?
Lincoln Gray
>Divisions have pretty much been phased out, so why not do the same for conferences?
Because division titles make good participation trophies for casual fans
Camden Fisher
but literally no one cares about those titles (which is kind of a shame honestly, I wish stuff other than the championship held more prestige like in divegrass)
Jack Miller
The bottom seeds in the East are better than those in the West but the Powerhouses are better in the West than the East
Thomas Jackson
>Feces !UMAD3g8LVU
Sebastian Bell
t. LeCuck James
How's that hairline pham?
Jackson Anderson
Can someone explain to me this hairline shit, Curry's is horrible too but no one brings that up?
Jack Cox
At least he's beating predictions.
Jordan Turner
>be Spurdora >get BTFO >start hyping da Wess to make myself feel better
Blake Rodriguez
Timing of the games because of the different time zones
Zachary Richardson
Curry is an ugly mutt so nobody cares.
Michael Cruz
define "good".
spurs lost a game to the bulls, pacers and hornets.
thunder lost to the bulls twice, celtics, knicks, hawks, heat, nets, pacers, pistons
that only leaves the warriors. and the east has the cavs. west ain't shit. just like i said, there's a few good teams IN THE ENTIRE NBA, west/east is irrelevant.
Josiah Collins
i also left out the raptors probably a few more east teams as well but they had wins against the thunder, clippers and spurs.
almost any east coast team would be more competitive than the bums in the west against any tean besides the warriors, whom nobody in either conference was competitive against.
Gavin Campbell
>Curry as Daniel Bryan
Get the fuck out of here. At least people liked Bryan.