The league's biggest stars are in the West - SGA, Joker, Luka, .... oldsters KD, LBJ, Curry, Harden Youngsters like Chet, Wemby, Flagg, Antman Felt like every VIP is in the West. Who you got, Brunson, Cade, Ingram, Spida, Tatum, Maxey.... Gone are the days when Lebron only wanted to stay in the East.
I would give anything outside of Sengun and Amen for Maxey lol. You might be able to talk me into Amen though
I said before the Clippers took Denver SEVEN games last season in the First Round !!! Clippers would have been favored against every East team (sans BOS wTatum). Replace LAC with SA this season. Lawd have mercy it had to be San Antonio. And somehow, someway, OKC is better this year. Life on the West Side !!!
Yeah - finding a weak link in the modern NBA is more and more difficult. It used to be "oh, let's just get Shawn Bradley matched up on Tmac in the corner" and now the reality is that is much more difficult because even the modern "Shawn Bradley" is a guy like Bol Bol who has some skills to guard on the perimeter, can block shots at the rim, and even has some ball handling skills and a 3 point shot...and we aren't even talking about how team defense concepts are so much more coordinated now. You got teams running defense schemes dynamically according to who has the ball. Players have to be super smart AND super skilled to play in the league these days. You can't be good at a few things and awful at others - you really have to be at a certain level on all things just to get on the court - the "floor" is definitely higher.
...also going on the ignore list. Someone who says something that ignorant doesn't deserve any more of my time.
