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02-09-2015, 05:40 PM | #1 |
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Had to make the long boring drive from Shreveport to Beaumont over the weekend and one of the things being discussed on talk radio was the a possible reformatting of the NBA Playoffs. The new format being touted has the 6 division winners automatically making the playoffs and then you'd seed the next 10 best teams. What do y'all think? Do you think they could ever get owners of teams in the East to ever sign off on such a plan?
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02-09-2015, 07:53 PM | #3 |
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So they're abandoning the idea of an Eastern and Western conference champion meeting in the finals? They'd pretty much have to if the wild card clubs are selected without regard to conference.
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I like it, but I would also give home court advantage in each series to the team with the best regular season record. Need to mitigate against lots of meaningless late regular season games.
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The solution is not rocket science, IMO. Just abolish the conferences, but keep the teams in their current divisions. Seed the top sixteen teams according to win-loss record. If this means that a division champion does not have home court advantage in the 1st round, that's tough. They should have won more games.
The league does not have an unbalanced schedule to the extent of that in baseball, even though the structure is identical (six 5-team divisions). I would actually tweak it a little bit to make it even more balanced, so that the split of games against western and eastern teams is almost 50/50. If it's a more balanced schedule, and the format I propose is used, then no one can complain that a deserving team has missed out on the playoffs. I don't buy into this belief that the balance of power will eventually move back to the east. Maybe it will, but in the meantime, what is the use of letting undeserving teams from the middle of the eastern conference pack be allowed into the playoffs? It makes sense that if you have more quality teams in the playoffs, your playoff series will be a better one. It's ridiculous that these woeful sub-.500 eastern conference teams, who currently play 52 of their 82 games AGAINST eastern conference opponents, are allowed into the playoffs at the expense of a +.500 western conference team that plays 52 of its 82 games AGAINST western conference opponents. Last edited by kenyan_cheena; 02-09-2015 at 08:26 PM. |
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And so they should. If the two best teams in the league are from the same conference (as the conferences currently stand), there should always be the possibility that they can compete against each other in The Finals. This isn't MLB, where the AL/NL structure has always been in place.
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Note as well the NBA currently has modified seeding for the top four spots in each conference in which the division winners are not guaranteed the top three seeds. If the highest-ranked wild card team has a better record than a division winner it will be seeded higher. (The lowest a division winner can be seeded in this system is #4; the highest the best wild card team can be seeded is #2.) Quote:
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Such an almost fully balanced schedule might mean some travel headaches though as some clubs would likely rack up a lot of miles. (It's not without precedent though since the NHL in 1979-80 and 1980-81 played a fully balanced schedule in which a club played 4 games against each of the 20 other opponents, in spite of the league being geographically spread out.) Quote:
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All i know is they could allow all the teams in the NBA to make the playoffs and the Knicks would fail to qualify.
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No, but the possibility for that to occur should always be there. In saying that, it's a bit more tricky in the NFL when you have such a short season in terms of total games as compared to MLB and NBA.
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If each NBA club played 3 games against the other 29 teams in the league that would work out to an 87-game schedule. Five clubs played only twice would lower it to 82 games. If the clubs played twice were limited to the other conference, that would work out to 42 conference games and 40 interconference games.
Such an almost fully balanced schedule might mean some travel headaches though as some clubs would likely rack up a lot of miles. (It's not without precedent though since the NHL in 1979-80 and 1980-81 played a fully balanced schedule in which a club played 4 games against each of the 20 other opponents, in spite of the league being geographically spread out.) If I'm correct, it would lead to five more road games against teams from the other conference than there are now. They currently play 15 road games against the other conference, so a 33% increase. It would be pretty simple to schedule the five teams that they would only play twice each season, as they could just rotate it on a divisional basis. Eg. '15-'16 season: Pacific plays Atlantic twice, Southwest plays Southeast twice, Northwest plays Central twice '16-'17 season: Pacific plays Southeast twice, Southwest plays Central twice, Northwest plays Atlantic twice '17-'18 season: Pacific plays Central twice, Southwest plays Atlantic twice, Northwest plays Southeast twice And then you just start over again for the next season. Last edited by kenyan_cheena; 02-10-2015 at 12:03 AM. |
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I'd be all for that. It needs to happen. The East 7-8 seeds are usually jokes. Can we just have the Wolves move to the East? Their travel schedule is beyond ridiculous. |
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Havent the NBA champion been pretty
well split between the east and west the last 10 years? Is the west dominating in the regular season matchups? |
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I just wish they would shorten the first round series back to best of 5. 7 games is too many for the NBA. Actually I think all rounds should be 5 games. It works for baseball because of the rotation setup but for basketball...
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Didn't they go to 7 games to lower the number of first round upsets?
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