The Official NBA Regular Season 07-08 Thread

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First time caller, long time listener!!!!

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6. Denver (finished the season 16-6 in their last 22)


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Let's not forget they swept the season series!!

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I'm going to take a CRAZY guess and without even looking it up say that the Nuggets went 16-7 in their last 23 games.

Seriously, you're flailing around for a point and whiffing badly. The difference between playing the Spurs and Blazers is quantitative, not qualitative(you win more often playing the Blazers, but if you can derive the quality of the Spurs and Blazers from other data each game provides the same amount of information). That's assuming that you still aren't alleging Lebron has a skillset uniquely suited to beating bad teams.

Regardless, the Cavaliers played Western conference teams 28 times during the regular season, it seems pretty silly to say that they had their eyes opened to the West by a team they had already played twice simply because they got swept in the finals. It's certainly not a basis for concluding that Kobe has to try harder than LBJ because the West is so good, the Cavs did better against the West than they did against the East in the regular season.

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Denver looked much much better against the spurs than the Cavs. As a spurs fan I was very worried for a while.

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I wasn't against Denver.

That said, I would have put any of last year's WC playoff teams as favorites over Cleveland in a 7-game series. GS being the only close one. I don't even remember the finals that well, but I distinctly remember never thinking for a minute that the Spurs were going to lose any of the games.