Their are no teams this year as good as those Lakers or Celtics. The Clippers have been top 5 on offense and defense all year, they are no slouch. People underrate them because they don't like them.

I can assure you nobody outside of the hornets fanbase considered the Hornets title contenders that year.

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Posted by LosLobos111

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Posted on 4/23/14 at 12:47 pm to Boomshockalocka

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Their are no teams this year as good as those Lakers or Celtics. The Clippers have been top 5 on offense and defense all year, they are no slouch. People underrate them because they don't like them.

Top 5 offense/defense in the regular season doesn't mean much.

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Posted by NIH

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Posted on 4/23/14 at 2:16 pm to Boomshockalocka

We finished what, one or two games out from L.A? Please. We had one of the league's best starting 5s minus Mo Pete that year and had played both Boston and L.A evenly during the season. Had we parlayed our trade deadline deal to someone more effective than Bonzi fricking Wells then whos knows what could have happened.

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Posted by htran90

Member since Dec 2012

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Posted on 4/23/14 at 3:12 pm to Boomshockalocka

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The Clippers have been top 5 on offense and defense all year, they are no slouch

1st in off and 14th in def.

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They upgraded their coaching. Jordan and Griffin are much improved.

Outside of jordan's minutes and PER36 rebounds and slight up in bpg, he didn't improve much.

Griffin's ppg went up but so did his fga per game.

So not really that much improved. Coaching is 100% guarantee.

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the trolls are the ones saying that team was a contender. And good job picking out one sentence and ignoring the rest, bitch.

you're complaining that people do that? you're a little bitch to even come back with that LOL

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How old are you? This is clearly not the case. There were 6 teams within 3 games of the top seed in the West.

Outside of SA, 2->5 ranked teams, only 5 games separate them

In '07-08 from 1->8 is 7 wins.

They would have had to go through:
51-31 dallas
56-26 san antonio
57-25 los angeles

or
potentially:
51-31 GS
59-23 OKC
62-20 SA

just to get to the finals, that path is already harder compared to '07-'08

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Every playoff team had 50 wins.

yeah, okay. Every playoff team has 49 wins this year.

Cumulatively, 07-08's playoff teams were
434-222

This year's playoff teams are:
436-220

So yeah, this year's is better, even slightly since you always want to nitpick.