Eastern conference is starting to REALLY dominate the west

[spicy4MVP]

ALL of the top 10 eastern conference teams have better records than the west, and its the bottom 5 teams that somewhat even out the competence but if you do the math, the record sum of the top 10 eastern team share the record of a whopping 161-98 for 0.621 pct!! vs 151-112 for just 0.574 pct in the west, which is just above brooklyn's nets record.

[The_Hater]

The inter conference records are very close right now so I’m not sure there’s a dominance either way going on. But since everyone was expecting things to be lopsided in favor of the the west once again this season, the fact it hasn’t been that way is a mild surprise.

[LloydFree]

Its way too early for this. Gotta wait until the bum squads make their west coast trips.

But if you were paying attention, it was the same thing last year. The top teams in the East beat up on the West. It all evens out because the bottom teams in the East can't beat anybody.

[spicy4MVP]

The inter conference records are very close right now so I’m not sure there’s a dominance either way going on. But since everyone was expecting things to be lopsided in favor of the the west once again this season, the fact it hasn’t been that way is a mild surprise.

its fairly lopsided in favor in the east. The records are only close because the bottom teams like knicks, hawks, cavs, bulls and wizards are getting pounded a lot more than spurs, blazers, grrizzlies, pelicans, and GSW. take away bottom 5 teams from each conference and east is a lot better than the west this season. The west this year is like Canada- everybody is a middle class, where the east is like United States- mostly the rich class or lower class.

[baldur]

Because of golden state, portland and new Orleans. They are significantly underachieving due to various reasons.

[Jstock12]

Because of golden state, portland and new Orleans. They are significantly underachieving due to various reasons.

GSW and New Orleans ARE NOT underachieving.

[baldur]

Because of golden state, portland and new Orleans. They are significantly underachieving due to various reasons.

GSW and New Orleans ARE NOT underachieving.

They are. With Steph curry they would have been much better. Russell and green missed a lot of games too.

New Orleans missed a lot of players plus Zion. Also they could have acquired a fresh, hungry coach instead of alvin gentry.

[Dr Aki]

Because of golden state, portland and new Orleans. They are significantly underachieving due to various reasons.

GSW and New Orleans ARE NOT underachieving.

I dunno, I could've sworn the warriors were missing a few HoFers and New Orleans are missing their #1 draft pick

[mihail_petkov]

Is this really a domination?

TOP 10 East vs all West - 54 - 37
TOP 10 West vs all East - 55 - 38
Overall West vs East - 68 - 71

Of course top 10 of East will have better overall record than the overall record of the West top 10. They play much more games vs trash teams in the East like Cavs, Knicks, Hawks and etc and the top 10 West teams play vs better teams from the bottom of the standing like Pelicans, Portland, Spurs and etc.

Now, think when Warriors stop tanking with Curry and Klay, Zion comes back (Pelicans had so many other injuries) and Nurkic comes back for Portland. West will be much better again.

[ken6199]

You have most of the Eastern teams performing at their expected level, but the same cannot be said about the Western conference. Outside of the Lakers and Mavs, I cannot think of a team that is over performing whether it's a contender or rebuilder.

Denver and Houston are not consistent, Utah are severely under achieving. Portland is missing key guys and losing solid role players like Zach and Rodney now Melo is their savior. Suns showed a flash of brilliance early on yet they cannot sustain consistency. Kings regressed while we thought they were going to take another leap this year (and their salary structure is a mess). Minny is Minny. NOP is missing their mini LeBron, Spurs look like they are on dead legs. Memphis in full rebuild, OKC is somewhat competent but cannot make up their mind which direction they are going.

The final two months are usually when Western teams are making charges after the teams are clearly split into two groups - fighting for post season vs tanking for lottery. The majority of talent is still in the West, so I expect them to still turn around after ASB.

[Pachinko_]

The main difference between conferences was always the warriors. No Warriors no main difference.

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[The_Hater]

The inter conference records are very close right now so I’m not sure there’s a dominance either way going on. But since everyone was expecting things to be lopsided in favor of the the west once again this season, the fact it hasn’t been that way is a mild surprise.

its fairly lopsided in favor in the east. The records are only close because the bottom teams like knicks, hawks, cavs, bulls and wizards are getting pounded a lot more than spurs, blazers, grrizzlies, pelicans, and GSW. take away bottom 5 teams from each conference and east is a lot better than the west this season. The west this year is like Canada- everybody is a middle class, where the east is like United States- mostly the rich class or lower class.

The east has currently won 4 more games than than the west, if you think that makes things lopsided then we have different definitions of the word. That deficit could be erased in one day.

I also predict that by the end of the season, the west will win the inter-conference record once again

[picko]

Dominate is too strong a word this early in the season. But the top half dozen teams in the East do seem to be of higher quality than the top half dozen teams in the West. In the West there are really only two contenders - the two LA teams - while in the East there is three or four teams who could make the finals depending on playoff match-ups.

[Wizop]

Top 7 playing well with 6 and 7 missing stars.

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[Edrees]

All that matters is the record. Who the hell cares whether its the top teams or the bottom teams? When people say one conference is better or the other, they are talking about the cumulative sum of every team in the conference. You guys are just ignoring some teams to suit your narrative, but all that matters is the head to head records of EVERY team. Because if there are more BAD teams in one conference it means the good teams in that conference get more easy wins. It's a tremendous advnantage. You get to take more nights off and relax, and then when they play teams in the west they can try much harder. I feel like you can't just ignore some teams. Gotta look at the total record.

And the record looks pretty even to me.

The main difference between conferences was always the warriors. No Warriors no main difference.

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The differences were just as strong for 13-15 years before the warriors were good. Also, I could say the only reason the east even had a shot was because Lebron (and then Kawhi for a year) who aren't even in the east anymore. You can't just ignore the warriors because they do play in the west. Unless you also ignore the best team in the east each of the last 5 years and do a comparison of the remaining teams.

You guys are just trying to draw the lines the way you want them to suit your narrative. It's the line of reasoning that says a triple double is a great achivement but scoring 50, 19 and 9 isn't a big deal because it doesn't satisfy some arbitrary guideline. And this time the arbitrary guideline you are creating is "Only look at the top 10 teams" Why top 10? Why not top 8? or Top 13?

[NoDopeOnSundays]

A lot of excuses in here, the east is just better this year.

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[Edrees]

A lot of excuses in here, the east is just better this year.

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The people saying the east is better are the ones making up excuses as to why half the teams in the east don't matter.

i agree lets ignore the excuses, all that matters is the 68-71 record, which is nearly even, and a slight advantage to the east that could change in 24 hours.

[JShuttlesworth]

I wouldn't say dominate the west, but I was looking at the standings today thinking it's pretty even. I still think the West has two of the best three teams though.

The floor is the west has really come down with the Warriors, Blazers, Spurs seemingly falling off this season.

[PhilBlackson]

The Lessthan Conference amirite?!

[NoDopeOnSundays]

i agree lets ignore the excuses,
all that matters is the 68-71 record,
which is nearly even, and a slight advantage to the east that could change in 24 hours.

"Lets ignore the excuses, while I add a bunch of qualifiers rather than just saying the East is better"