ChrisKreager
11-12-2016, 01:35 AM
In the 2000s, one of the things we heard over and over was how the West was so superior to the East.
That said, it's not like there were a ton of different Western teams in the Finals and we saw the depth rising to the occasion.
From 1999-2010, outside of the 2006 Dallas Mavericks it was the Lakers/Spurs every year.
Was the conference's Finals record vs. the East that decade (7-2 for Lakers/Spurs, not counting MIA/DAL 2006) propped up by those teams, or would other teams have held up their end of the bargain?
Do the 2002 Kings beat the Nets had they made the Finals? 2004 Timberwolves against the Pistons? Or the 2009 Nuggets against the Magic?
At the end of the day, for all the West depth, for all we heard about the Sacramento/Phoenix/Minnesota/Dallas teams of that era, it was literally the same franchises every June that decade with one blip on the radar.
Did the East get its bad rap solely because they had to play Kobe/Shaq/Duncan or would other West teams have done the same thing?
That said, it's not like there were a ton of different Western teams in the Finals and we saw the depth rising to the occasion.
From 1999-2010, outside of the 2006 Dallas Mavericks it was the Lakers/Spurs every year.
Was the conference's Finals record vs. the East that decade (7-2 for Lakers/Spurs, not counting MIA/DAL 2006) propped up by those teams, or would other teams have held up their end of the bargain?
Do the 2002 Kings beat the Nets had they made the Finals? 2004 Timberwolves against the Pistons? Or the 2009 Nuggets against the Magic?
At the end of the day, for all the West depth, for all we heard about the Sacramento/Phoenix/Minnesota/Dallas teams of that era, it was literally the same franchises every June that decade with one blip on the radar.
Did the East get its bad rap solely because they had to play Kobe/Shaq/Duncan or would other West teams have done the same thing?