Which team would benefit the most playing ....

JordansBulls · Post #1 » by **JordansBulls** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 3:46 pm

Which team would benefit the most playing in the opposite conference and which team would suffer the most playing in the opposite conference?

Post #2 » by **Optimism Prime** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 6:29 pm

Hornets. Bucks.

Red Robot · Post #3 » by **Red Robot** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 9:42 pm

The suns would benefit the most. They've always been good at beating up on inferior teams. Last season, they lost only six times to East teams.

The Knicks would be hurt the most. They had like 3 wins last year against the West. The Nets are next. They went .500 vs the East, but only 8-22 vs the West.

fivas14 · Post #4 » by **fivas14** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 11:03 pm

The Jazz, they play the top eastern conference teams better then they do the West. If they were in the East they'd press for 60 wins every year.

farzi · Post #5 » by **farzi** » Sun Jul 27, 2008 6:05 am

Any of the fringe playoff teams out west would benefit from playing in the EC (Denver, GSW, Portland, Clippers).

Any of the terribads out east would benefit from going west because they would probably lose more games playing 2/3rds WC teams instead of 1/3

Tekkenlaw · Post #6 » by **Tekkenlaw** » Sun Jul 27, 2008 7:34 am

Wolves would make the playoffs pretty easily in the east with their current lineup.

Wade3Iverson · Post #7 » by **Wade3Iverson** » Sun Jul 27, 2008 8:00 am

Don;t the Cavs do well against the West?

farzi · Post #8 » by **farzi** » Sun Jul 27, 2008 11:14 am

Tekkenlaw wrote:Wolves would make the playoffs pretty easily in the east with their current lineup.

They might make it, but not easily. They weren't better than the Hawks last year, and the east SHOULD be even better next year. They'd be around the 8-11 seed though

kookie_819 · Post #9 » by **kookie_819** » Sun Jul 27, 2008 12:55 pm

Tekkenlaw wrote:Wolves would make the playoffs pretty easily in the east with their current lineup.

That's doubtful. Are they really better than the Hawks (provided they resign Josh Smith)? Are they even better than the Bobcats (with Okafor)?

Post #10 » by **rsavaj** » Sun Jul 27, 2008 6:50 pm

Phoenix in the East

Post #11 » by **Schad** » Sun Jul 27, 2008 8:09 pm

Tekkenlaw wrote:Wolves would make the playoffs pretty easily in the east with their current lineup.

The Wolves were just as bad against the East last year; Love improves the team a bit, but by a dozen or more wins? They'd max out at 30-32 wins in either conference, IMO.

theGreatRC · Post #12 » by **theGreatRC** » Sun Jul 27, 2008 9:37 pm

Schadenfreude wrote:
Tekkenlaw wrote:Wolves would make the playoffs pretty easily in the east with their current lineup.

The Wolves were just as bad against the East last year; Love improves the team a bit, but by a dozen or more wins? They'd max out at 30-32 wins in either conference, IMO.

We also have Mike Miller now, who seems to be a forgotten man in the trade.

We re-signed all of the free agents that we wanted and got rid of the negatives (Jaric,Buckner,Walker)

farzi · Post #13 » by **farzi** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 1:11 am

^ Still not enough to easily make the playoffs. They'd make a run at it probably, but not this year. Within the next 2 for sure though.