WiggyRuss
Well-Known Member
how many of those champions are just a team of dudes and dont have stars?Whats ‘anywhere’?
More then half the teams make the playoffs.
Before the season ever begins, if you were given only 3 picks, most years you would get the eventual champion correct.
What are the best teams in the East?
Cavs--- star power- LeBron and Love- LeBron is LeBron- Love is a 5 time all star
Toronto- star power- DeRozan and Lowry- multi time all stars the both of them
Boston--- star power- Kyrie Irving, obviously Hayward when healthy, Tatum- #3 overall pick sure does look pretty damn good as well- like its the kind of guy you are just thrilled you drafted.
Milwaukee?--- Giannis- star power
Wizards--- WAll and Beale
I mean out West its just more of the same.
the teams that are gonna advance--- Utah, GSW, HOU and NO---- GSW- of course 4 stars--- HOU- all of a sudden they are considered a possible GSW upset candidate since they added star PG CP3 to Harden. New Orleans has one of the games biggest stars and top 10 players in Anthony Davis----- Utah just drafted Donovan Mitchell who looks like a bonafide All NBA player someday. Drafting a guy like him outside the top 10 is just so insanely rare Utah has to be thrilled- not too mention Rudy Gobert- def. top 5 and maybe the best defensive player in the league.
Teams without stars just dont go anywhere in the NBA. How many times in the last 5 years have teams without stars won a playoff series? It just really doesnt happen. The NBA has always, is, and will always be a star driven league.
I mean I look at that NBA and the only teams without a big time star to make the playoffs are maybe Indiana if you dont consider Oladipo a star yet, Miami who I guess the closest to a star is Dragic and thats pretty much it if you ask me----and i guess you would have to say San Antonio since Leonard barely played....Portland all they really have is Lillard- and to acertain extent McCollum. The Knicks were not good- but after Porzingis went down they lost like every game- the Knicks won 5 freaking games after January ended.
the teams without stars are teams like Hawks, Bulls, Kings, Nets, Spurs (i dont really consider Alrdidge a star...is he?) without Leonard, Miami, Indiana, Clippers, Lakers, Suns (Booker isnt a star yet), Dallas, where would you put the Grizz?--- are Gasol and Conley "stars"?- i dunno about that one tough to call, maybe the Nuggets as well are starless....
I mean- its pretty clear the starless teams are by and large must weaker then teams with legit NBA all stars.
Indiana, Miami and SAS were the only decent teams without traditional stars this year and none of them are gonna win a playoff series
because in the NBA star power is what matters- more so than any other sport by a very very large margin.