[ECSF] #2 Cleveland Cavaliers vs. #3 Toronto Raptors
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No, it really doesn't. If Celtics/Wizards were the Eastern Conference Finals this year, nobody would be talking about how "uncompetitive" the east is. The east doesn't look uncompetitive because the rest of the teams are bad, it looks uncompetitive because he's that good.
The entire western conference playoffs is a formality, because nobody out there can beat Golden State. Nobody would fix their mouths to say that the west is uncompetitive. I smell confirmation bias.
The entire western conference playoffs is a formality, because nobody out there can beat Golden State. Nobody would fix their mouths to say that the west is uncompetitive. I smell confirmation bias.
hmm...okay. well look at the type of team Bron and Durant have and you go ahead and tell me what other teams out there can field a team together to compete against that since you're smelling such confirmation bias. You can see it anyway you'd like, the way I see it though is Bron and Durant just have more all-star talent around them than their counterparts and that's why all these other teams are simply roasted duck when facing them.
But that's the point. The issue is not that the east is uncompetitive: the east is quite competitive indeed. The issue is that the gap in talent between the best team in the east and the second-best team in the east is basically the same as the gap in talent between the second-best team in the east and the tenth-best team in the east. And the same thing goes for the west.
But that's not the same thing as the conference being uncompetitive, and that's where confirmation bias sets in: on Earth-2, or whichever version of Earth there is where LeBron James doesn't exist and/or never became a basketball player, the 2017 NBA eastern conference playoffs would be quite interesting. But, since we live on this earth, and LeBron James does exist and play basketball, people want to gauge whether or not the eastern conference playoffs are competitive based on how legitimate the challenge is to LeBron. Which, IYAM, is not the most useful metric to use.
But that's not the same thing as the conference being uncompetitive, and that's where confirmation bias sets in: on Earth-2, or whichever version of Earth there is where LeBron James doesn't exist and/or never became a basketball player, the 2017 NBA eastern conference playoffs would be quite interesting. But, since we live on this earth, and LeBron James does exist and play basketball, people want to gauge whether or not the eastern conference playoffs are competitive based on how legitimate the challenge is to LeBron. Which, IYAM, is not the most useful metric to use.
I explained why I was rooting for the Raptors. Besides, I really like their mascot.- Status