#1 LA Lakers vs #8 Utah Jazz

[MoFlo]

Can this thread be closed? What a useless thread with a bunch of trolling going on now...

Agree 110%

There seems to be 3 or 4 Laker fans in here looking for excuses & turning this thread into an East vs West thing now

 

[eureca]

Its not an east vs west thing its a fact that the East is way weaker after the Cavs. It was suppose to the stronger, but obviously KG being out made it weaker. You are just delusional to try to deny it. How is it trolling its just stating the a fact. Nobody said the Cavs couldn't contend with a tougher conference they are just in the conference they are in.

 

[MDLT]

Trollin', Trollin', Trollin'.........

 

[The Oi]

Even as a Cavs fan, I'm not sure how this is a debate. As a whole during the regular season, the East had better records, mainly because the West had so many awful teams. For every horrible team in the West (Clips, Kings, OKC, Memphis, Minnesota) the East had a few below average but still competitive teams (Pacers, Nets, Charlotte, Milwaukee). The non-playoff teams in the East were far better than the non-playoff teams in the West.

The PLAYOFF teams in the West are much better than the playoff teams in the East. Aside from the Jazz, Hornets, San Antonio and Dallas every team in the West could give the Cavs a run for their money and could probably beat any other team in the Eastern Conference playoffs right now.

The Bulls and Sixers are peaking right now, but is there anyone that thinks we'd have more trouble with them than say...Houston or Portland?

The Lakers will have a tougher go of it in the playoffs and have a much better chance of getting knocked out than the Cavs. In the end, there's probably only one or two teams in each conference that could beat the favorites (Cavs, Lakers) and those are Houston and Denver in the West and Orlando, and (MAYBE) Boston in the East.

With all that said, I still think the Cavs beat the Lakers with homecourt in the NBA finals this year. If they DON'T play the Lakers, I'm willing to guarantee a championship.

 

[kookoo]

Yeah its definitely incredibly weaker. Cavs played the worse team in the playoffs while Jazz would be the 4th seed in the East with homecourt even with Boozer missing like most of the season. It is what it is. Celtics and Magic were gonna be the only other real good teams in the East and obviously Celtics are without their best player and Magic are stumbling with a sub par team. Not that I mind if the Lakers are gonna win it all they will beat who ever is in front of them. The only downside is possible longer series and injuries being more likely the more games you play.

Oh yea, the east is wayyy weaker because only one team has won more than 2 game vs the lower seeded team while all the west series are 3-1? Lets face it, the east is stronger, the lower seeded playoff teams are actually putting up a fight against teams that should be better. We have -.500 teams putting up more of a fight than your 'supposedly' amazing west teams. Anyway, Lakers suck and your narrow minded ways should get you booted pretty soon.