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Post by shadyvsesham on Jun 9, 2018 7:08:57 GMT
I knew this was going to happen back when the season started. The NBA has become a pathetic 2 team league now. I recall a time when it was Celtics VS Lakers, year after year. Was that pathetic? Ok, show me where we saw "LA V Bos" 4 years in a row straight. Here's a quick hint, don't bother because it never happened. |
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Jun 9, 2018 7:24:17 GMT
It did gappen 6 times in 8 years from 1962-69 with Boston winning every time. 3 in 4 years in the 80s, though in fairness the last one was the rubber match. It didn't overstay its welcome like this "rivalry."
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Post by xystophoros on Jun 9, 2018 9:52:05 GMT
I don't know about that. Baseball has no cap and has produced the most different champions. One of the keys is depth of quality players. Baseball has a lot of depth in talent or at least parity of talent (by which I mean the gap between run of the mill and elite is less than other sports) whereas there's an enormous gap between an elite NBA player and a run of the mill NBA player. Fewer teams would help. In the NBA one or two guys can change the entire outlook of a team and carry them to championships. In MLB you could have the league’s best hitter or the league’s best pitcher — or even both — and still have a lousy team. There’s more parity in baseball because each player cannot impact the game as much as an NBA player. A pitcher might be dominant one game, but he can do nothing about the games in between his starts. A hitter might mash 59 home runs, like Stanton last year, and his team still sucks. Look at Mike Trout: Widely considered the game’s best player, and he has a whopping 12 postseason at bats and hasn’t appeared in the playoffs in four years. By contrast, add a guy like Chris Paul to an NBA team and they’ll rack up 15 or 20 more wins than the previous season. Or lose a guy like Lebron, like Cleveland did in 2010, and you go from first place to lottery-bound. |
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Post by wonderburstanger on Jun 11, 2018 15:59:28 GMT
 Not anymore.Cavs in 5 against Kings in 2019 NBA Finals. You heard it here. |
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Post by klawrencio79 on Jun 11, 2018 18:08:54 GMT
I recall a time when it was Celtics VS Lakers, year after year. Was that pathetic? You didn't know which one of those two teams was going to win. There's more intrigue in an episode of Gilligan's Island than there is in a whole NBA season. If you like drama, there isn't a more boring sport with possibly that Spanish soccer league where Barcelona or Real Madrid wins every single year. So fucking boring. Post of the year. |
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