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Season starts tonight!

New season = new thread.

Get your predictions in and what not. Some of you have done that already in the off-season thread.

Tonights predictions:

Wizards at Cavs
Celtics at Heat
Mavs at Lakers
 
#7,836 · (Edited)
Re: DIRK

Oh please.

The Blazers aren't better than the Pacers or Knicks. And neither are the Warriors. The only teams in the West that would be top 3 seeds in the East are the top 5 teams.

The West is overrated IMO. It's better than the East, yes but the teams are really not as good as people make them out to be. It's just full a bunch of teams that are great in the regular season but don't translate that success to the playoffs. See Spurs in recent years. See Grizzlies. See Clippers. See Nuggets. The Warriors & Rockets won't do anything in the playoffs, and the Blazers & Jazz wouldn't either if they made it. I really don't know what to expect from the Lakers.

The gap between the East & West really isn't that large either when the teams are healthy. But the East has been decimated by injuries and that's main reason for the gap. Boston without Rondo and dealing with nagging injuries for other players, Chicago without Rose and dealing with nagging injuries from other players, New York dealing with nagging injuries, Indiana without Granger, Atlanta without their best guard in Lou Williams, Philly without Bynum and Washington without Wall for the majority of the season.

The West has had injuries too, don't get me wrong. But they haven't been affected as significantly as the East has.
 
#7,839 · (Edited)
Re: DIRK

How does it prove that the West is better? The East has had more parity than the West over the last 15 years meaning the East has been the more competitive conference. For the majority of the last 15 years it's been the same three teams going to the Finals every year in the West. The East has had more teams make it to the Finals than the West since 2000, more teams make it to the Conference Finals and more teams have finished with the best record in conference than the West.

I don't even think the East is better than the West but I don't think it's the more competitive conference, well at least it has been over the last 15 years.

Like I said before, the West is full of a bunch of teams that are great in the regular season but don't translate their success to the playoffs. The East this year has been decimated by injuries plus they have more rebuilding teams. The East is just growing through a rough period as far as quality of teams. The West went through it too. Or did people just forget the 90's when there were under .500 teams making the playoffs every year for the West? One year there was two that made it.
 
#7,845 ·
Re: DIRK

Eh, that's not correct. Last year the 7th seed in the East had the exact same record as the 7th seed in the West and the 8th seed in the East had one more loss than the 8th seed in the West, but was still 4 games over .500. There was only one team in the league that had a winning record and didn't make the playoffs which was the Rockets.

But yeah in years past it was applicable.

It was like that in the 90's with the West, expect it was worst. During the 1996-97 season, there were 3 teams that made the playoffs in the West that had a below .500 record.
 
#7,854 · (Edited)
Re: DIRK

Damm that sucks Clippers lost by two and had the lead and blow it, partly Griffin's fault oh well still makes me proud how far we have come in 2 years from being 3rd bottom in the West to 3rd is awesome. Also being ahead of the Lakers and beating them 3 times already this season, it's all not too bad being a Clippers fan then it used to be.
 
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I think it will be out of you and the Thunder of who will get to the finals, sadly I don't think were good enough for a on form Spurs or Thunder as they would kill the Clippers with ease. Although next season if we can get Al Jefferson I think he would be the last piece in the jigsaw, he's a better center than Deandre and would be a great addition to the side.
 
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