Caroline Fenton on how the San Antonio Spurs, Oklahoma City Thunder and Denver Nuggets are the true title tier of the Western Conference, while the Los Angeles Lakers, Minnesota Timberwolves and Houston Rockets are fun but not built to win a seven-game series against the other three. (via Yahoo Sports Daily)
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And it’s San Antonio, Oklahoma City, Denver.
That’s the top tier, that’s the elite tier, that’s your title tier.
And then you have this next tier of teams that are really fun, and they have such a good personality, and they’re so sweet.
but they’re, and they’re good.
Like, they I think that the Lakers, the Timberwolves, the Rockets, they’re all teams that can make one of those title tiers feel maybe a little uncomfortable in the span of a seven-game series.
Like, Lakers, Minnesota, Houston, all of those teams could win a couple of games against any of those teams in the title tier, but they’re not good enough to contend with those top three teams in a seven-game series, or in a five-game series, or whatever it might be.
Like, they’re not beat them in the playoffs kind of, kind of, you know, competitive