The REAL Reasons Why The Eastern Conference SUCKS! 

um think again buddy there has been at least ONE eastern conference team in the finals for the last 30 years soooo

It gets ridiculous when west teams above .500 don't make it to the playoffs and east teams under .500 do

Kawhi was drafted by the Pacers but was traded to San Antonio for George Hill. Another trade that turned out to be one-sided in favour of San Antonio

Short answer: if you have the option to live in warmer climate, you will.

5:10 “at least lebron is still in the east so they’ll have at least one contender for the foreseeable future *cuts to Giannis” and they have some great young talent” Man this hasn’t aged well

I hate that it is like this. At least be like what the East was from 2008-2014. Im not asking for both conferences to be exact equals, but at least be somewhat competitive like before. Seeing Butler and PG get traded to the West made it ever worse. It seems like LeGM is the only GM in the East that can build championship teams lmao.

question: why the west is great? answer: coz the best players are drafted or traded to the west. you dont say

To add to shame, the NY and Chicago might be the 2 largest markets in the East and are the ones with the worst GMs

60's-East 70's-Tie 80's-Tie 90's-East 00's-West 10's-West

When Jordan retired that’s when it went down

Basically, it all boils down to the big man and style of play. Going back before the league was dominated by point guards, it was a big mans game. The west had all the big men while the east had all the guards(look at 2001 NBA Allstar game for reference). It's easier to build a contending team around a big than a guard. As far as style of play, the west was historically a "run and gun", finesse, offensive type of style, while the east was rugged, hard nose, defensive minded. Because of this, teams from both conferences reflected that. Eastern teams felt if they had a guard and defense, they had a shot. But once that guard gets hurt or leaves, the team suffers. A great example of this is the 2001 NBA Finals. The Lakers had not only Kobe but Shaq and a great team around him. The East had AI and that's it. It's been like that ever since. Nowadays, the west with an already better team are adding one or two superstars from the east, not only making them seem impossible to beat, but they're killing a conference in doing so. The remaining superstars left in the east feel either A: join a loaded team or B: team up with other superstars and create one.

It seems like the west always get the best front office personnel

Most underrated NBA channel. You deserve way more subscribers for all your effort!

The East was the better, stronger conference as a whole overall compared to the West during the '80s & '90s. But, since MJ retired , the East has been the weaker overall conference compared to the West the past 15 -18 years.

I've been bin watching your videos man and I think you do a great job! You don't cornball it up, curse, or make lame jokes in attempt to make your video "better". Keep it up and you gotta new subscriber bro

“Atleast Lebron is still in the East!” *Lakers enter the chat*

Another reason is that Lebron has been the best player in the league for a while as well as Jordan was for a while. That forced many players to sign with Western teams in FA.

Easy answer: better franchises in the west

The west has also has some pretty great luck with the draft. Somehow they always sneak into the 1-spot when a franchise talent like Anthony Davis, KAT, Blake Griffin, Durant/Oden or Zion comes along. Then the East has it's power house teams lose it's star players to knee injuries like KG and Rose.

I love your channel bro keep up the good work!

Welp East has better Playoff matchups Sixers vs Raptors Bucks vs Celtics Is better than Warriors vs Rockets Nuggets vs Blazers

Fast forward 2019 raptors win the championship

East is now pretty good now with guys like Giannis, Irving, Siakam, Butler, Walker, Embid and soon Durant running the show not to mention guys like Simmons, Brown, Tatum, Young, Lowry, Olodipo, Sabonis, Vucivèic, Dinwidde, Lavine, Vanvleet, Drummond, Capela, Graham, Beal, Wall, Rose, Griffin, Randle, Middleton & Adebayo

Great video and keep up the good work. God Bless.

I think it’s safe to say at this point, the East is getting closer to the West. West is still more talented but the gap is getting closer.

The East is gonna dominate the next 15 years. All the young talent is in the East now. Look at Philly, Knicks, Bucks, Bulls, Wizards, Celtics, and the Cavs just got younger and may add a lottery pick.

Love your vids, keep it Up !!!

I like the video. The one thing most videos fail to include is the lack of management in the East. They draft stars and then trade them away for nothing rather than to let them mature. One thing someone mentioned is the West Coast life and cities are much more relaxed. In the East , there may be a lot of pressure from media and fans to do something now, now , now. Notice how the west teams just rebuild by, draft , FA , etc And then emerge ?Seems like the East teams don't have the patience to do the same. 76ers have been an example but the injuries to their guys have been rough.

60's - EAST (West didn't win one time all through 1960 - 70) 70's - DRAW (from 1970 - 80 each conference got 5 chips) 80's - EAST (1980-1990 Celtics x3, Sixers, Pistons x2) 90's - EAST (Bulls 6 championships) 00's - WEST (Lakers x4, Spurs 3x ) 10's - WEST (Warriors x2, Spurs, Mavericks)

the pacers got olaldipo to build around Myles turner

nice video man... youre always on point.. as usual..

Andy Hoops - I have been involved in basketball a good part of my life as both a high school and college player and coach and I must say your analysis is spot on! I've been a strong advocate of taking 3 or 4 of the strong teams from the West and shifting them to the Eastern Conference in order to create more balance and healthy competition for the overall good of the game. After all, their are at least 7 or more teams in the West that are as good as or better than the top 2 teams in the East. But, alas, I'm afraid it will never come to pass.

The .500 teams in the west that didn't make the playoffs get lottery picks. The .500 teams in the East makes the playoffs, and don't get a lot of lottery picks.

This is pretty simple when you think about it. In the 90s all the good players left the east so they didn't have to face MJ. Then they started coming back slowly, then Lebron showed up so everyone started leaving again. And if a guy like Ben Simmons, Giannis, Michael Porter, Markelle Fultz, etc becomes the next dominant player everyone avoids ends up in the east will get even worst.

great content, keep up the great work

Nice video man. It's kind of funny that my friend and I are playing 2k19 as expansion teams and we both moved to the east. We're in 2024 and our teams are finally near the top plus the 76ers, pistons, and pacers are usually better than the majority of teams in the west. The top team in the west is the bucks (we moved them) and LeBron went back to the cavs who are also still contending. Boston and the nets are strong as well. In general the east is better and when we worry more about more teams there when we make the playoffs. I know it's a video game but with years in the future it's funny how the league has changed

From 2008 to ~2015 the east and west were somewhat balanced, at various times the celtics, cavs, bulls, pacers, heat, and even magic were title contenders. The east then dropped off when the celtics and magic traded their stars, the pacers and bulls fell off, which just leaves lebron's team.

The era of MJ on eastern was the beast day! After MJ retirement they all gone...

Andy Hoops, you make some good points with this video, but I'd like to add a couple of points to the discussion: 1) Prior to the advent of social media, marquee free agents got the most exposure by going to larger media markets. This greater exposure would lead to increasing the awareness of these players' brands. Today, players don't have to go to a market like New York because they are able to get their brands out to the masses through social media and the internet. Furthermore, the market that a player plays in is less important than playing in higher profile games. Players are looking to play for better teams regardless of where they are located because the higher profile games will raise brand awareness. 2) The NBA has a systemic problem on its hands with the way that it is currently constructed because better teams are rewarded with higher draft picks. In the 2014-2015 NBA season, the New Jersey Nets were the #8 seed at 38-44. By comparison, the 45-37 Oklahoma City Thunder, 39-43 Phoenix Suns, and 38-44 Utah Jazz were better teams (even though Utah had the same record) but they were rewarded with better draft picks for not making the playoffs in the West. This current system is what is perpetuating the Eastern Conference being the weaker conference. The NBA could solve this by playing more of a balanced schedule and having the best 16 teams make the playoffs regardless of the conference. In doing so, the best teams will make the playoffs and the weaker teams will get the better draft picks to improve. However, this will likely not happen any time soon because 75% of the NBA owners would have to approve the change, and a lot of those owners are concerned with their own self-interests rather than improving the NBA as a whole.

I love coming back to this video and seeing how well those Pacer comments aged LOL

2019 and 2020 the bucks have the best record in the nba

Man this video has aged well but hasn’t aged well at the same time😂😂😂😂

Dude. I haven’t been much of an NBA guy since the Bulls and MJ. I’m a huge Carolina guy. I do watch a bit of the playoffs. But love your videos man. Keep up the great work sir.

This channel deserves a million subscribers. Well said!

You're video was very good keep up the good work

The east has been a joke since the GOAT mj retired

The pacers have been getting players like Corey Joseph, Bojan Bondonovic (don't know how it is spelled) and olidipo from that pg trade

This video hasn’t aged.

Funny how of the 6 current superstars in the league, 5 are in the west. Kawhi, curry, KD, Westbrook, and harden while only lebron is in the east

It goes in cycles. Back in the day the east was much better. Dr J - 3 titles. Larry Bird 3. Isaiah Thomas -2. Michael Jordan -6. The East was way better than the West. The Showtime Lakers had absolutely no competition in the West during this era. Similar to LeBron's Cavs.

COOL VIDEO RANDY. THANKS

those two points are yes, not obvious but has good and solid foundations. maybe, the market in the west and reputation it built as tough and winning conference are other things. EXCELLENT JOB!

I’m glad the East improved a LOT this year. So much more fun to watch

The East has Giannis, Joel, Kristaps, Tatum, Fultz, Saric, Jabari, Brown, Wall and Irving just to name a few young stars

If you look the number of NBA champions in the three point era it's split about evenly between East and West. The overall win losses heavily favor the West though. This could have a lot to do with the time zone difference. West games starting at 7:30 and ending around 10:15 are actually 10:30 and ending at 1:15 in the morning for those East players. Of course other factors are at play too, but East will always be at a steep disadvantage on the schedule.

nice vid earned a new sub

the main reason the west is better Is because free agents want to play for big/nice cities (Oakland,LA & more). the only nice cities in the east are Miami, Orlando, and New York.

Fast forward to years later since 2019, the Eastern Conference has shown drastic improvement thanks largely to former Western Conference All-Stars Kevin Durant and James Harden among others.

Great job again Andy.

i really liked this vid. the music added to it and made it better

that's true the east need to organize their teams

The east still needs a lot of help. Sounds like bad moves by GMs

As an Orlando Magic fan, I APPROVE THIS VIDEO, and your section on Orlando was SPOT ON. We have the WORSE management and GMs in the league.

In that same span of time from when Jordan retired up to 2011, only 2 Western Teams won championships. The Spurs & Lakers. It wasn't until 2011 until the Mavericks, who were the only other Western Conference team to make the Finals in that span became the 3rd different team to win.

kawhi was never in the west he was on pacer but got traded to spurs

My dads friend is the magic GM. ☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️ he said they were badly managed 😭😭

Looking at it now you gotta put some respeck on victor oladipo the Pacers are closer to being a legit contender than we thought when this video was made lol

This dude knows his basketball.. 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽.. ur videos are dope!! U should do a video bout the goats meaning lebron and Jordan... lol

The east was god in the 80's

NOW LEbron in the west

This video was mad dope yo

A lot has to do with the Playoffs and the way it affects the draft. Teams that make the playoffs get later draft picks. The West has had teams that don't make the playoffs that would if they were in the East so those West teams that have better overall records and miss the playoffs get a higher draft pick than a East team (with a worse record) that made the playoffs. Years and years of that will cause one side to be better.

East 37 all time West 31 all time

celtics bruh really. they goin be great this season hayward from the west went to the east.

The disparity is mostly due to the fact that most of the All-NBA squads play for the West, but even draft rules are helping to keep some of the balance of power out West. Each season, 7 East teams and 7 West teams get lotto picks, unless picks were traded. So, even though a couple of those West teams are actually better than the low playoff teams in the East, they get better draft picks. In 2015, the Thunder were better than the East's 6th, 7th, and 8th seeded teams, but got to pick before any of them. In 2014, Phoenix won 48 games, and if not for trades would've picked ahead of 4 East playoff teams. In 2013, Utah was better than ATL and Boston, who had lower draft picks. Etc. Eventually, it'll turn around, but it gets pretty ugly. Just imagine how ugly it really would've looked if the NBA played a completely balanced schedule and you played every team the same number of times.

Andy hoops is one of the best youtubers

This is the main reason why Lebron has so many Finals appearances and Finals losses.

How is Bradley Beal not even an all star he averages more than 20 ppg he is THE most underrated in the east in my opinion

Please check your stats via championships from the east. There's been at least five in the time period you mentioned.... whoops, you said thru 2011-apologies. Anyway good vid -again!!

This man is putting out high quality videos but only has 149K!?!? Wow that's ridiculous man.

Looking back at this the east is really good a lot of great young players and the east is led by Giannis Antetokounmpo

It's hard not to see why the east is bad no one wants to play there cause of Lebron the GMs there are terrible at drafting and trading and plus players would rather live on the west coast the eastern conference is always dominated by one team

The thing that sucks is that both causes contribute to each other as well, the front offices sucking prevent good players from wanting to join them

Ok, Andy, this is irrelevant to the NBA but i need to know the name of the song bro. Btw love your videos. You are Awesome.

I saw this video, so I pressed it immediately.

Watching heaps of these and they're great. Smash the sub button

Is there an updated version of this, Andy?

Fast forward to 2023 the wet western conference is inferior, it is ludicrous that the nuggets only needed to finish 53-29 to get home court advantage throughout the playoffs for the first time in franchise history. The Suns only needed an abysmal 45-37 record just to be a top 4 seed.

How can you not bring up the Celtics when talking about the future of the east? I mean, they're nothing more than a team that just made the conference finals, added a top 3 draft pick AND signed an all star. No big big deal? Huh.

@andy hoops : why the east suck Raptors in 2019: hold our beer

He said Kawji has always been in the west drafted by Pacers now on Raptors

In the 4 round format, there have been 9 instances that a 1-seed has 56 or less wins. In all 9 of those instances, no team from that conference won the championship. *Worst 1-seed records in the 4-round format (1984-present)* 2000 Pacers - 56-26 2001 Sixers - 56-26 2014 Pacers - 56-26 1984 Lakers - 54-28 1999 Heat - 54-28 adjusted for 82 games (lockout) 2007 Pistons - 53-29 2017 Celtics - 53-29 2002 Nets - 52-30 2003 Pistons - 50-32 In the 4-round format, 8 of the 9 top seeds with 56 or less wins came from the East, the lone exception being the 1984 Lakers. That was the first year the NBA adopted the 4-round format for the playoffs. It is also interesting to note that in 6 of the 9 instances that a 1-seed had 56 or less wins, in the 4-round format, the team representing that conference in the Finals lost in only 4 or 5 games. In other words, the team that represents these weaker conferences in the Finals does not even put up much of a fight when facing an actual championship team in most cases. The exceptions are - 1984 Lakers - lost in 7 - 2000 Pacers - lost in 6 - 2003 Nets - lost in 6 The lowest record 1-seeds of a conference to win the championship are the 2010 Lakers and 2016 Cavs, tied at 57-25 apiece, with both those teams being the 1-seed themselves.

The east is great now (2018-2019 season) Milwaukee Bucks might be champs

Bro the east is always great a eastern team is usually always in the finals

The title of this video was a little off putting, but I found this video to be less than bias and pretty accurate. Well done!

Dude i really.like your videos

Celtics are doing well...

also with out LeBron the east wouldn't win nada

The mavs trade to get Steve Nash was basically Jason Kidd a bunch of group of players from the Suns. So it was west trading to the west.

You are great at what you do keep it ☝️