Biggest Playoffs Ownage?

[J-Mezzy]

The Pistons have taken 11 out of 12 from the Magic and have beaten in all kinds of ways, close games, blow outs, playing with injuries, coming from behind in the game, elimination games for them etc.

The Spurs pretty much slammed the door to Nash' title opportunities and that of the Phoenix Suns. They have dominated Stoudamire's Suns 4 times and ended their dreams. The Suns have made moves simply to beat the the Spurs like the signing of Thomas and the trade for Shaq, but nothing has changed.

The Cavs have shown to completely dominate the Wizards. Despite the Wizards talking and talking, the Cavs have eliminated them 3 years in a row and even though one of the series was fun to watch, the Cavs have pretty much had an easy time and seem to have mental control over the Wizards big tlkers.

So which current team has the biggest ownage over another?

[Slava]

Lakers on Sactown comes to mind.

[WadeKnicks2010]

Detroit Pistons vs the NBA. Maybe the top to bottom best team in the NBA every season the past 5 years. Yet they lost to the Nets. Finally won once. Then lost to Spurs, Heat, Cleveland.

[magicfan4life05]

spurs own suns

[sp6r=underrated]

For all time it has to be the sixties and the celtics over the lakers.

[killacalijatt]

Warriors vs Dallas happened once but damn Dallas was never the same
Sjax took Dirks virginty
Baron abused the whole Mavs roster

[Alex_De_Large]

Spurs over Suns sounds pretty clear, unfortunately, it's 3 times in 4 years.

[JordansBulls]

Currently the Spurs over Suns. It is total ownage because both teams have actually had the homecourt. If one team always has it and wins then it really isn't owned as it means they were not good enough. However whenever a team loses with homecourt no excuses can be made as they were supposed to win.

[noxe]

Warriors vs Dallas happened once but damn Dallas was never the same
Sjax took Dirks virginty
Baron abused the whole Mavs roster

QFT

That 1st round exit pretty much destroyed Mavs confidence and you could easily see its after effects this year

[heh8me2]

I want to say spurs and suns but I don't want to give the spurs any credit for it. They play cheap and dirty and remind me of the guy playing pick up ball at the Y who will undercut you on the way to the rim just to win the game.

[miller31time]

The Cavs have shown to completely dominate the Wizards. Despite the Wizards talking and talking, the Cavs have eliminated them 3 years in a row and even though one of the series was fun to watch, the Cavs have pretty much had an easy time and seem to have mental control over the Wizards big tlkers.

I really never understood this. Let's actually take a close look at each of the three series.

Series one -- probably the most exciting 1st round series in the East. It only went 6 games but (and I hate to bring it up yet again) was cut short by one of the most egregious last-second travels in NBA Playoff history. Wipe that out and it goes 7 games. Who knows what happens then.

Series two -- Gilbert Arenas and Caron Butler both did not play. Should I even go on after this?

Series three -- Arenas was about 30% healthy. He tried playing, it didn't work, and he had to sit out nearly half the series, while only being able to play 20+ minutes in the games he was able to suit up for. He's unquestionably our best player and (when healthy) a top-15 player in this league. Take that away from any team and ask them to compete against a proven playoff team in a 7 game series and the results aren't going to be good.

Don't get me wrong, the Cavaliers are a good team and have proven to be able to battle with the East's elite (Detroit, Boston, etc), but they haven't "dominated" the Wizards, unless you want to look at the 3-0 and call it a day. A closer look tells a better story.

[dockingsched]

the wiz running their collective mouth just to lose for a 3rd straight is as bad as it gets.

[Tom Baker]

Any Western Conference playoff team chosen at random over the Nuggets, basically.

But yeah, Spurs over Suns = pwnage.

[KF10]

Lakers on Sactown comes to mind.

That wasnt an ownage, really. The Lakers team were good (Dynasty-level). With a Prime Shaq and a young and super athletic Kobe, that's greatness. They beat the Kings in ARCO in Game 7.

I doubt nobody in this league today would beat the Kings at ARCO in Game 7. But that shows how good was the Lakers back in 02...

Of course, factoring out all the bad officiating throughout the series. You can argue the Kings should have finish the Lakers in 5/6... But this isnt the time to argue that

[amb1ent]

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That wasnt an ownage, really. The Lakers team were good (Dynasty-level). With a Prime Shaq and a young and super athletic Kobe, that's greatness. They beat the Kings in ARCO in Game 7.

I doubt nobody in this league today would beat the Kings at ARCO in Game 7. But that shows how good was the Lakers back in 02...

Of course, factoring out all the bad officiating throughout the series. You can argue the Kings should have finish the Lakers in 5/6... But this isnt the time to argue that

GS destroyed Dallas' confidence and you can kind of see the same with the Kings. Webber wasn't the same in Philly, Christie isn't even in the league, Peja was a joke (before CP3 came along and carried him), and the only thing Bibby had going for him was TEAM DIME.

Those early 2000s Kings teams are right up there for best team to never make it to the Finals, but they never really recovered from facing the Lakers and kinda just...scattered.

[KF10]

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GS destroyed Dallas' confidence and you can kind of see the same with the Kings. Webber wasn't the same in Philly, Christie isn't even in the league, Peja was a joke (before CP3 came along and carried him), and the only thing Bibby had going for him was TEAM DIME.

Those early 2000s Kings teams are right up there for best team to never make it to the Finals, but they never really recovered from facing the Lakers and kinda just...scattered.

Eh, you can say that. But truly, their window of opportunity closed when Webber went down in that Dallas series (2003). Without a healthy Webber, we couldnt win the title. If Webber's knees didnt failed on him, we had a great shot of winning that title that year. IIRC we were actually the favorites of the winning it all in that season...

[Jalfa]

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Eh, you can say that. But truly, their window of opportunity closed when Webber went down in that Dallas series (2003). Without a healthy Webber, we couldnt win the title. If Webber's knees didnt failed on him, we had a great shot of winning that title that year. IIRC we were actually the favorites of the winning it all in that season...

No, I don't think you can. Actually, I would say that the 2003 squad was the best Kings team we ever had and was poised to win a title and, without Webber's injury, we would have. The very fact that the Kings were still contenders for two years after that, allegedly confidence destroying loss to the Lakers, tells me that there wasn't that much confidence lost at all. The only thing that forever screwed any ambitions this particular team had to win a title, was Webber's microfracture (of course he wasn't himself in Philly, he was basically a cripple).

[Lake Dynasty]

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Eh, you can say that. But truly, their window of opportunity closed when Webber went down in that Dallas series (2003). Without a healthy Webber, we couldnt win the title. If Webber's knees didnt failed on him, we had a great shot of winning that title that year. IIRC we were actually the favorites of the winning it all in that season...

ill agree with my friend here. Wouldnt call that too much of ownage of the Kings. That Lakers team owned the whole NBA thru the 3peat

[eyejayem]

Any team that faces Tracy Mcgrady owns him.

Lukily Kevin Garnett has finally passed the 1st rd twice in his career because he was in the same boat.

[UDRIH14]

how about spurs over nuggets?