waiting for the other shoelace to drop: 2013-2014 NBA regular season thread (part 2)

yeah def relegation is the best, relegation in all things imo

i have progressed to outright revolutionary re foul shooting #hoopidea, imo eliminate foul shots altogether, if its a shooting foul or the penalty just give em the points

i like my idea of no high 5s and also stepping into the paint is an automatic technical foul

nah def don't expand, we have enough shitty teams

― surfbort memes get played out, totally (k3vin k.), Saturday, April 12, 2014 2:14 PM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

we do, seattle is not shitty tho, must expand as payback

except like what wld be the point of the regular season then

― lag∞n, Saturday, April 12, 2014 2:15 PM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what indeed? *floats*

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oh man blake just denied cousins at the rim

the regular season would suck with a strict home and home based schedule imo

i mean the playoffs would get there sooner but i would feel robbed this season if the heat and pacers or clippers and warriors only played twice

also the playoffs are not objectively fair in their current state or whatever but i think there is something to be said for the sort of year over year rivalry building you get with the heat and pacers, or heat and celtics. or the spurs and suns year back, or the knicks and pacers or pacers and bulls.

all of those mini-three year(ish) rivalries -- something that is unique to the NBA and insanely memorable -- would not happen in a system where teams go 1-32 or there are no conferences. or they would be way less likely.

anyway the west playoffs are gonna be awesome from the jump and the east will be really nice after round 1

a few of the west teams are gonna get screwed but i'm pretty alright with where things stand

jordan not down for the revolution smh

what's the most 50 win teams in a season b/c this year has to compete. spurs, okc, clips, indy, miami, hoston, portland already there, with warriors a win shy, dallas two short. chicago, phoenix, and memphis could get there if they win out but phx and memphis play each other so they can't both get to 50. that's still 7 fifty win teams and likely 9 or 10. that's a third of the league!

well there were 11 50 win teams in 2009 so maybe i'm overstating things

there is something to be said for the sort of year over year rivalry building you get with the heat and pacers, or heat and celtics. or the spurs and suns year back, or the knicks and pacers or pacers and bulls.

all of those mini-three year(ish) rivalries -- something that is unique to the NBA and insanely memorable -- would not happen in a system where teams go 1-32 or there are no conferences. or they would be way less likely.

yeah gotta second this. obv a bit ridiculous when there's such a disparity but those playoff borne rivalries and teams needing to get past specific other teams before they can really begin their era (thinking esp of pistons-celtics and then bulls-pistons back in the day) was such a vital thing. if anything i'd argue there was more of a case for blowing up the playoff system 12 or so years ago when the top of the east didn't really compare to the top of the west, at least this year you have the heat.

I'm just mad that phx would be third in the east right now and is currently out of the 'offs in the west

Third!!!!

I'm all for bisons plan otherwise though I do like how mad teams get when they have to play each other a lot, maybe some math genius can come up with a way to cut the reg season down by ~15 games and solve the east-west problem and also make sure we get good heated rivalries like heat-celtics the last few years or lac-gsw now while cutting down on the number of kings-bucks games we need to endure

Basically nba could use some flex scheduling right?

Less teams imo

And move one to Seattle obv

Obv we don't need two LA teams so since the lakers suck they gots to go

it's comparable to the ncaa in that yeah some teams will be left out that shouldn't but at the same time none of those teams would actually win the whole thing. then again that's probably not really something you can say about the ncaa anymore after this year.

if the league expanded (and i could see it happening tbh) the sonics are one team obv but who would get the other team? would they make the vegas move?

England

Oh god no

Vegas is the no brainer bc you can add them to the west and move one of the dumb "west" teams back to the east. I forget which is technically further east but Memphis or New Orleans should really be flipped

After Seattle of course and I wonder if the league would ever go back to Vancouver to 1 get a second Canadian team so drake is torn on who to root for and 2 have that nice little Pacific Northwest triangle back again instead of Portland being super-isolated

get Oklahoma City outta the nw division already ffs

st lou imo

Not sure there's a prettier finger roll than monta's

Plumdogg big impact so far.

i know alot of nba office ppl apparently think that vancouver was a missed opportunity and after vegas it definitely seemed alot more likely or attractive an option than the other cities google tells me would be expansion candidates (san diego, kansas city, pittsburgh). i've never really gotten why st. louis has never really come up in the past in talk for an expansion or relocated team (tbh based on the cardinals i've always just assumed maybe st. louis is really lame, like indianapolis but w/o the benefit of being in a hoops crazy state), maybe it was some side effect of that crazy deal w/ the spirits of st. louis owners that the nba finally bought its way out of (btw if i was those owners i would've been 'fuck you pay me' til the end of time). spirits of st. louis would be such an awesome name too.

Pittsburgh would automatically be a lame franchise, because it would not only be in the eastern conference, but an expansion team in the eastern conference, and in a football crazy city. One shudders to think.

plus theyd have ugly black and yellow jerseys also rust belt depressing not hoops

Vegas is the no brainer bc you can add them to the west and move one of the dumb "west" teams back to the east. I forget which is technically further east but Memphis or New Orleans should really be flipped

― z-time champion (agent hibachi), Sunday, April 13, 2014 1:13 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Vegas has serious traffic/parking and arena problems that they haven't solved yet. Once they can build a full fledged arena that people can actually get to from the strip they'll get a team imo.

I think Kansas City should get a team for the simple reason that their arena is gorgeous.

glad we agree nba should expand

also important rule change to make this all work: no maximum salary for players

Atlanta really should not have a team btw. They just can't fill that arena. Have they ever had a good fanbase? My most vivid memory of the 80s Fratello teams is when Bird went into Atlanta and dropped 60 and the crowd was 50% Celtics fans.

atl should keep their team, they should just sign braves players to get more ppl into the arena

H4A goes to all the Hawks games

Hawks have revenue tho, no?

Big market. Filling seats ain't everything.

Ybor City next in line to get an NBA team.

After that, Hialeah, Florida get an NBA franchise.

Atlanta was the 5th least profitable franchise last year. Loss of 7m.

and yeah it's a big market, but are they watching the games? That big market is probably watching whatever is on TNT if they want basketball.

really sucks to see the suns go out, great season

jeff hornacek coach of the year.

do the grizz have the tiebreaker?

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the grizz were the team I wanted to miss it. We all know how that's gonna go.

it is cool that dirk has shoes that say DIRK