[Blazers wouldn't have lost to the Heat, Homer. You're sorely confused by just how much better the West is than the East, or should I say how much shittier the East is than the West.
You could throw every West Coast and East Coast team seeded in this years Playoffs, randomly select East-West Pairings, and the West would win the series 7-1. If Cleveland was so unfortunate as to match up with ANY of the the top 4 teams on the West, then it'd be 8-0.
Blazers were able to steal ONE from GSW. I bet Cleveland is able to accomplish that, but only that, before they're eliminated in 5. How's that work? The Cavs are a hand assembled (by Lebron) trifecta of "Super Stars" stratospherically head-and-shoulders above everybody else in their conference, while the Blazers are a ragtag bunch of bench warmers cobbled together at the last minute in the summer of 2015. And yet still...the Cavs are getting dry butt fucked by the Warriors harder than the Blazers did. Why is that?
Probably has something to do with the the threshing combine that is the Western Conference turning out battle hardened teams who REQUIRE REAL COACHES (wink wink, nod nod) and team ball versus the Eastern Conference, a D+ League in cruise control where there is no competition.
The Cavs are basically an Adam Sandler movie where the quirky hero shows up to some competition with an ensemble cast in cutoff t-shirts with spray painted numbers and a fighting spirit, only to find his competition dressed in all matching kit and two-ball dribbling and running cutthroats like clockwork. Up to this point you were able to overlook the overwhelming and obvious indications that this team was not now, nor ever, ready to face the type of competition that emerges from the West. Unfortunately for the underdog, this time there will be no happy ending.
Adam Sandler was so thoroughly destroyed in the immediate following scene that the film retroactively received an NC-17 rating and Sandler was forced to take a two year hiatus from acting just to regain his ability to sit again without reflexively wincing in pain. His grandmother didn't get the money she needed for her surgery. Her house was repossessed like the dreams of Cleveland fans and just like The Land, she died. Cold and alone.](http://i.imgur.com/lET082i.png)
