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M Dogg™:
I guess you can say the Pistons, but they were a bit older and slower, and had an inflated record due to being in the east. I mean, the Cavs got swept by the Spurs. That shows how bad the east was to the west.
Chamillitary Click:
LOL, niggas gotta chill. The Lakers & Celtics had by far the best teams in the NBA during those years.
Yeah the West has been tougher for years, but the Lakers then compared to the rest of the West is like saying the SEC this year for Kentucky was "tougher" than the Southland conference for SF Austin lol.
M Dogg™:
--- Quote from: Chamillitary Click on April 20, 2015, 08:47:17 PM ---LOL, niggas gotta chill. The Lakers & Celtics had by far the best teams in the NBA during those years.
Yeah the West has been tougher for years, but the Lakers then compared to the rest of the West is like saying the SEC this year for Kentucky was "tougher" than the Southland conference for SF Austin lol.
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2007, the year before KG and Allen came to save the day for Boston. The 2006-2007 year had LeBron and the Cavs, and the Pistons in the east, and everyone else sucked. And the Pistons were aging and not exactly doing as well as they did previously. The Cavs had LeBron, who was the only superstar of the two teams, and both teams were filled with role players and very solid pieces for a title team, but both were missing that core piece. This Pistons team was not nearly as good as the 2004 Pistons that beat the Lakers. The 2007 Pistons had 5 players and 2 of them were the aging Chris Weber and Rasheed Wallace. So in 2007, the Cavs vs. Pistons was the battle of role players starting LeBron James.
Chamillitary Click:
That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying you guys are talking about how weak the East was for LeBron to get to the Finals with Daniel Gibson, but a year later when the Lakers & Celtics put together unstoppable teams. The West featured the defenseless Suns & a hurt Spurs team & an overrated Mavs team, a clueless Carmelo trying to be LeBron, with way more help but couldn't do it. That wasn't Kobe ripping through the West by himself, he just had a far superior team around him than everyone else. & outside of the Sacramento Kings (who every reporter including Laker beat writers said was a fix in 2002) during the first 3peat it was the same way. Best roster by far, best coach by far, even had Shaq leading the way.
Kobe has yet to do anything without Phil or the best roster in the league. Other than shoot 30% & go .500.
Sccit:
lol are u serious .. that back to back laker team minus kobe doesn't even make playoffs in the west. look at what happened to Odom, Bynum, Luke, Sasha, Fisher, Farmar, Artest once they left Kobes corner.. "stacked" team lmao on a championship team where Gasol was the 2nd fiddle and Bynum barely even played due to injury .. Kobe did it with one of the least stacked teams in NBA history, so fall back wit that bs
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