As of 11/15/03 there is only one team in the Western Conference with a record below .500. In the Eastern conference there are nine teams with a record below .500. Imagine that out of the 13 Western Conference teams only one of them has a losing record! And next year with New Orleans (currently the second best team in the East) coming to the Western Conference it makes it all the more lopsided. Insanity.
i think its evening out slowly. i think in about 2 years you will see things equal again. and i would not have said that 2 or 3 years ago.
and why exactly do you think its going to level out in 2 years. some big trades going down i dontknow about?
scientists discover that we had directions completely backward and that in fact that the directions known as west is actually east!!
hmm for some reason it didnt let me edit my last post i was just gonna add in its also sweet to see the team below 500 in the west is the 'up and coming, young 6th seed in the west according to experts' phoenix suns
What that shows, considering the Suns basically kept the same team as last year, is that the competion in the West is still increasing.
According to the law of averages, within the next 5 years, there should be more parity between east and west. That being said, laws were meant to be broken. I don't see it happening anytime soon, at least not before 3 years. The East just cannot compare or compete.
Based on what exactly? The only way the West can is if they draft better than the West. Only NY has money and appeal to go after FAs. Maybe Chicago too.
I agree it seems to get more and more lopsided every year. Hopefully the talent will equal out between the two conferences in the next three years, but I don't see it happening BTW- Who is Tierre Brown playing with right now?
Funny that you say that, about a month or so ago we had gotten into with a Suns fan in this forum. The Suns fan, I think it was slinslin, swore up and down that Phoenix had the better young talent and was more talented then the Rockets. When we brought up that Jeff Van Gundy was going to get the most out of the talent we have, something that wasn't happening last year, slin basically called us idiots saying that a coaching change wasn't going to upgrade the Rockets that much and that the Suns were basically one step away from the elite. Guess who was right so far? The Suns don't have a frontcourt or a bench, and didn't upgrade themselves instead dumped their frontcourt depth to save cash, and now they're slipping.
He got cut by the Warriors a while back. He's probably chilling, just waiting for Mooch to break his ankles and Wilks to get hurt so he can relive the magic he had when he was a Rocket...#3 http://www.nba.com/theater/countdown_week3.html
After another full slate of games Phoenix is still the only team in the Western Conference with a losing record! I still can't get over that.
The conferences will even out...the west is good today because the East was good ten years ago...Remeber the Celtics? Magic (Penny, Shaq)? Bulls? Hornets (LJ)? Heat (Zo, Tim)? New York (Ewing, Houston)? Pacers? The conferences swing back and forth because draft picks go to the worse teams, to naturally they will improve over time. Carmelo and LBJ are the East, you don't see those teams ratcheting up in a few years? Come on, don't be so ignorant as to not see the pattern...
Actually the West have had better TEAMS than East for a long time. Perhaps not players (which you mentioned above). The Bulls were pretty much the only Eastern team that was good. Think of how many Western Teams went into the NBA Finals in the last decade and you'll see a trend of more competitiveness in the West As for Carmelo, last i checked, he played for the Western Conference Denver Nuggets.
Uh, no, the East had GREAT teams in the late 80's early 90's... The Magic vs. Bulls rivalry was amazing in the mid 90's, and even apart from the Bulls, the Eastern conference playoffs were much more captivating than anything the West had to offer between 1987-1993...Golden State? San Antonio? Dallas? Minnesota? Seattle? c'mon man, no way was the West more talented than the East...
Damn straight it's not right. It's such a waste that 5 or so of those crappy east teams will even be in the playoffs. They should make it the top 16 teams. With them making the playoffs, it makes it that much harder for the east to catch up since they don't even have lotto hopes. I don't think there are even that many teams in the east that are far enough below the cap to actually have the chance to lure a good fa. what a crock.
i disagree, the lakers lost to the pistons tonight, an east team who was #2 in the lottery last year. The lakers are a horrible team, they should trade everyone. Kobe has his problems and is too selfish, shaq is too old and unmotivated. payton is all talk and no action, he just wants to fill up his stats, and malone is no different, he just wants to get that scoring record and bandwagon on the expected champs. they should trade everyone and build around devean george and luke walton. sincerely, lakerfan0576 on Lakerfans.net after the loss to the pistons.
Um, Detroit might be a #2 in lottery but they were also in the eastern conference finals......... they're a good team.
