eastern conference teams were only considered weak because Lebron was such a dominant force, surely you dont consider the kg pierce rondo celtics "weak". Lebron singlehandedly dismantled multiple teams that couldve put up fights in the finals.
"Rockets or jazz in the finals" both of those weakass teams couldnt touch the conference finals in the 200s trust me.
NBA players today are much better than they were in the 90s lmao, that is how sports evolution works. 40 years from now players will be more talented than today. Put kyrie in the 80s/90s he would be accused of witchcraft trust me. Also stop talking like you watch basketball, you are 100% under the age of 20 and have not watched any 90s basketball to make the generalizations. Actually watch a finals game in the 90s, the level of play was much worse than what you would see now, defense hasn't deteriorated, its just that the offensive prowess of todays game is too much to handle.