Analyzing NBA and Stanley Cup Finals: How Was The Product?

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00:00If I'm just, again, like if I'm removing Boston bias and I would like it to be a sweep four

00:09games win by 20 points apiece, that's what you're rooting for when it's your team, obviously.

00:14But if I'm just talking purely as a basketball fan, the whole postseason was pretty lousy.

00:18But yeah, the finals were terrible.

00:20And I empathize with the people out there that was all over social media, all over Twitter

00:25going, you know, after that seven to 10 day break, whatever it was between the conference

00:29finals and the start of the NBA finals sitting.

00:32We had to wait a week, week and a half for this, for this garbage.

00:36It's true.

00:37It went five games.

00:38And honestly, most of them were not competitive at all.

00:40It was not a competitive series.

00:41You could argue that the Celtics sweeping the Pacers in four closely contested games

00:46was a more competitive, more entertaining series than obviously that NBA finals against

00:51the Dallas Mavericks.

00:52So yeah, I get it again.

00:54It's purely as a fan with no rooting interest whatsoever.

00:57You just want to be entertained for sure.

01:00And that's how a lot of people were talking, you know, three games into the Stanley Cup

01:04final.

01:05Right.

01:06Like that's that's how I felt because I didn't have a dog in that fight between Edmonton,

01:09Florida.

01:10I didn't really care who won.

01:11So I was looking at it going 3-0 like this is terrible.

01:14Who wants to watch this?

01:15And of course, you know, we see Edmonton make a run, take it to seven games, and then Florida

01:19ends up finally pulling it out and getting their heads on right and finishing the job.

01:23I mean, there were a lot of similarities between those two series, at least at that stage.