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Message: [QUOTE="OrangeDW, post: 1777564, member: 2458"] Exactly. Very top heavy this year, even moreso than usual. In the recent past, you'd have 50 win teams missing the playoffs in the West. And you'd have more teams that while maybe nobody thought they were winning it all(Memphis, Portland, Houston, Dallas, etc.) they were good enough to make it a good series against the top contenders and occasionally knock someone off and go deeper than expected. This made for a more competitive playoffs overall. All 4 of those teams were down this year. Dallas and Memphis's lineups were completely decimated for the playoffs. And last year in the East you at least had Chicago that was loaded with talent and could push Cleveland to the limit, and Atlanta was much better last year. I give credit to Toronto for going as far as they did this year, but they really weren't all that good. [/QUOTE]