4 years younger only matters if we are talking about who may end up as the best player not who is the best player and conference arguments are pretty weak when talking about the best. If you are the best you beat everyone. Indiana was as good as anyone in the West last year and Miami got by them.
The Houston-Memphis-SA (if they didn't get beat) isn't any harder than the Milwaukee-Chicago-Indiana route. Both teams had easy match-ups in the first two rounds and then a tough match-up in the CF.
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