Driest playoffs in recent history? West is too down this year

[Lala870]

Im trying to remember a year where the playoffs were this boring. You have both LA teams in the Clippers/Lakers out, no star players on multiple teams due to injuries including Luka, Zion, Jamal, etc... spurs suck, houston/portland rebuilding, etc etc

Outside of Philly/Nets no real interesting teams out east. The clear favorite is Phoenix (yawn) and I'm having a hard time seeing any potential matchups that are remotely interesting. Golden State/PHX or possibly Utah / Phx might be the best western matchup which I'm not too keen on.

western conference fell off way too hard. Clippers could have made things interesting but ...ya know...PG/Kawhi had to miss the whole season

[chilluminati]

I just watched two pretty good days of playoff basketball. I really don't care about the names, if it's good basketball I'm happy.

[MrGoat]

Suns Pels looks like a typical 1 vs. 8. Denver doesn't have the depth to hang with Golden State. Dallas look like a dead team walking because they stopped Tony Brothers from magnanimously attempting to get Luka load managed for their final regular season game. Minnesota-Memphis has potential though

[damanick10]

The playoffs will be great this year, no Lakers and Lebron is a good thing so it's not shoved down our throats 24/7. It will be interesting to see if Phx can take it this year.

[MrBigShot]

Im enjoying it. The nets/celtics game was fantastic, and it's been fun seeing young guys like Ant, Maxey and Poole go off.

[OfficialRef]

West has always been just Suns vs GSW.

East has potential to be the most competitive in it's conference of all time.

[dockingsched]

You start to feel it even more in further rounds when teams that really have no business advancing get to keep playing cause of injuries to their opponents.

[LarsV8]

Its a pretty weak season to be honest.

Not very many really good teams.

[life_saver]

too many injuries to star players in West.

[jfs1000d]

Who cares about LA teams .national nba media decided to all relocate to Los Angeles for nba seasons because they thought clippers and lakers were gonna dominate nba. Lol. Serves national media right .


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[Chuck Everett]

Clearly, you are a player fan. If you rooted for a team, you wouldn't give a damn. You just want to see your team win.

[Tempe]

Why is Phoenix a “yawn”? They play a fun style of basketball and execute very well with a good mix of stars and role players. The home crowd is always loud which makes it more exciting to watch on TV.

Are the Suns boring to you just because they aren’t a drama-filled soap opera like the LA retirement homes?

Memphis, Minnesota, and GSW are all also interesting for me to watch.


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[levon]

I'll have to be honest, I'm bored this year and feeling jaded. But it's way too early to judge. Every year creates classics.

[DoctorX]

Historically the first round tends to be boring. You don't usually get many good matchups in the first round. It looks like in the east Nets-Celtics will be a good matchup and, in the West, I would say Twolves-Grizzlies. I think the second round will be great. The only match up in the second round that I think will be boring is Suns-Jazz.

[Tracymcgoaty]

Too early to say. Minny-Grizz is fun.

BRK-CEL as well.

After that it kinda dips in quality.

Chicago could make it a series if Derozan and Lavine could hit one shot maybe.

[LegendOfSalmons]

Pretty casual take to be honest.

[xdrta+]

Probably is boring for a Clippers fan. But for a basketball fan, not so much. There have been some pretty good games already with the promise of some great series to come.

[Jakay]

When is the first round ever good? Maybe a couple series out of eight, typically. Game sevens are fun but there have been a lot of back and forth blowouts to get there over the years.

But I'm still hoping to see five games come back, which I know will never happen.

[Pachinko_]

Why is Phoenix a “yawn”? They play a fun style of basketball and execute very well with a good mix of stars and role players.

Media struggles with the concept of team basketball, because you need time and numbers and charts to even start discussing it, and those things are bad for TV and youtube. Viewers just switch their brain off after 10 seconds. Never mind it's actually hard, you can't just have a couple of funny talking heads throwing up tropes and stereotypes, which is their favourite sell (because it's easy and quick).

Media much much prefer and try really hard to boil all basketball down to duels between superstars, like tennis, and when you have well-oiled teams like Miami and Phoenix this just doesn't work. So media hates it, and as a result casuals don't understand it or see the beauty in it.

But you're right, you'd expect better from a hardcore basketball forum.

[celticfan42487]

I mean it's better than the regular season where the 2 or 3 boomers in control of television force us to watch a **** Lakers team every night.

It's great seeing competitive matchups and actually having to pay attention to the playoff series as opposed to the crap years of just every season being a waste outside of 5 games of the finals of GS vs LeBron.