A first round Lakers/Celtics matchup seems weird to me.
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Maybe not the 1st round but he'd have a lot more challenging match-ups in the 2nd.
Like Goldie said it would have been more Western Cnof teams and them 4/5/6/seeds were much better than the ones in the East.
Shaquille Sunflower
Naji Ramba
If we just used the standings from last year top 16 teams first round would’ve looked like
1 Mil vs 16 Detroit
2 Tor vs 15 Orlando
3 GS vs 14 Brooklyn
4 Denver vs 13 San Antonio
5 Houston vs 12 LA Clippers
6 Portland vs 11 Indiana
7 Philly vs 10 OKC
8 Utah vs 9 Boston
3 of those series actually happened. A GS vs Brooklyn and Utah vs Boston first round series logistically is wack though lol. Portland v Indiana too.
1 Mil vs 16 Detroit
2 Tor vs 15 Orlando
3 GS vs 14 Brooklyn
4 Denver vs 13 San Antonio
5 Houston vs 12 LA Clippers
6 Portland vs 11 Indiana
7 Philly vs 10 OKC
8 Utah vs 9 Boston
3 of those series actually happened. A GS vs Brooklyn and Utah vs Boston first round series logistically is wack though lol. Portland v Indiana too.
So what makes this more appealing than what we already have in place?
Make the the 1st 2 rds best of 5 (I miss that like MF)
And them niggas will be iight w/ the travel. It's private charter anyway. They ain't slumming in coach on Southwest.
K
King Freeman
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It's not sustainable. Especially if you trying to globalize.
DMorgan
You niggas is EXCOMMUNICADO!!!
A lot of east coast people not staying up on weeknights for 10:30pm west coast game start times for 1st round playoff series especially if it ain't their team.
Shaquille Sunflower
Naji Ramba
owners won’t give up that revenue
Shaquille Sunflower
Naji Ramba
Im guess the idea behind it is to try to get the best 2 teams in the finals.
Prime example was in 17 and 18 instead of clearly overmatched cavaliers teams in the finals you get a spurs team with a healthy kawhi in 17 and the rockets in 18 which turned out to be a great 7 game series vs 4-1 and 4-0 nba finals
It’s been this way forever how is it not sustainable
But wouldn’t the 17 Cavs beat the Spurs that year though? How about the rest of the western conference, would Houston beat the Cavs? The Jazz? Etc. See where I’m going?
Cavs matchup better with the 18 Rockets than they did against the Warriors. Cavs/Rockets would’ve gon 6-7 games imo.
Shaquille Sunflower
Naji Ramba
I agree about Cavs rockets but I don’t think the Cavs would’ve beaten the spurs
Can’t quantify that either way but it might’ve been a more competitive series. Those Warriors teams were a cheat code.
Outside of the Warriors the rest of the NBA was balanced.
Big Lurko
Im not here to read more than 2 lines..
This was a turrible take. Worst ive read in a long time.
MallyG
Active Member
Let’s play hard for the right to help our team replace us with a rookie next year.
O.G.
GUILTY BY AFFILIATION
Or a free agent that is playing vs a team in the tourney that he plans on signing with. Why would you want your current team to win?
The Lonious Monk
Celestial Souljah
Somewhat related, but i see a video where they were talking about the NBA was thinking about a 4 pt. line.