letting fewer teams into the offs wld increase the intensity of the regular season im thinking
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 November 2019 21:55 (four years ago) link
would also give even less teams hope or a shot at even one round of playoff revenue.
― de-mamba mentality (Spottie), Tuesday, 26 November 2019 22:17 (four years ago) link
The spurs and nuggets went to 7 games last year
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 26 November 2019 22:32 (four years ago) link
The Cavs who made the finals in 2018 won their first round series in a game 7 by 4 points over the pacers.
― de-mamba mentality (Spottie), Tuesday, 26 November 2019 22:34 (four years ago) link
not only this but the shorter the series, the more important home-court is
― Screamin' Jay Gould (The Yellow Kid), Tuesday, 26 November 2019 22:37 (four years ago) link
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, November 26, 2019 5:32 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― de-mamba mentality (Spottie), Tuesday, November 26, 2019 5:34 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
i'd happily give these up if we could lose the 1-8 every year.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 27 November 2019 01:38 (four years ago) link
I do think it’s cool that the NFL has byes
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 27 November 2019 01:44 (four years ago) link
more than half of teams making the offs is too much imo
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 27 November 2019 01:47 (four years ago) link
i like the idea i heard somewhere that in the first round, a team that goes up 3-0 wins the series
― jesus is zing (symsymsym), Wednesday, 27 November 2019 03:27 (four years ago) link
one of the best features of the premier league which is that each team plays a home and home and every game feels like an event.
otm, the one home/one away game for each team is def a very good thing
― gbx, Wednesday, 27 November 2019 04:14 (four years ago) link
jfc
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EK9DIJsU8AEPd3m?format=jpg&name=medium
https://www.theringer.com/nba/2019/11/26/20983584/luka-doncic-giannis-antetokounmpo-lebron-james-schedule
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 15:53 (four years ago) link
can we fucking not? again, what problem are we solving??
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 4 December 2019 15:55 (four years ago) link
too many regular season games, which will be addressed by adding more games
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 16:00 (four years ago) link
Clarity will come soon—
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 16:04 (four years ago) link
anyone want to tell these guys that the points system only makes sense for sports with a lot of ties?
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 16:14 (four years ago) link
theres nothing that will motivate players more than the prospect of another guy trying to take their job
The NBA continues to discuss draft compensation, potentially in the form of an extra first-round pick, as a reward for the winning team in the proposed in-season tournament for the 2021-22 season, sources tell @NYTSports— Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) December 24, 2019
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 24 December 2019 16:51 (four years ago) link
it’s such a dumb idea all around
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 24 December 2019 17:06 (four years ago) link
i hate it
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 24 December 2019 17:16 (four years ago) link
its like when mlb decided to give world series home field to the winner of the freakin allstar game
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 24 December 2019 17:17 (four years ago) link
"too many regular season games, which will be addressed by adding more games"
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 24 December 2019 17:40 (four years ago) link
"we'll dig our way out!" "dig up, stupid"
So Dumb. What will teams that are in the tax going out do, tank the tournament because they don't want the pick ? Or teams trying to build cap room ? Be forced to trade it ? Draft and stash ? https://t.co/laxHWd9YMy— Mark Cuban (@mcuban) December 24, 2019
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 24 December 2019 18:10 (four years ago) link
if theyre really gonna do it just give the winners of the tourney a million each and call it a day
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 24 December 2019 18:14 (four years ago) link
end of the bench guys wld be rooting so hard lol
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 24 December 2019 18:16 (four years ago) link
tourney is only for players who avg < 20mpg
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 24 December 2019 18:34 (four years ago) link
this is the dumbest idea, like really who wants this
― Clay, Tuesday, 24 December 2019 18:40 (four years ago) link
listen what if they give every winner $1m, refs swallow their whistles so it gets super physical, and theyve got live mics on the players who are encouraged to talk shit
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 24 December 2019 22:56 (four years ago) link
oh and what about if the teams are different 8 teams total sort of an allstar+ type scenario
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 24 December 2019 22:57 (four years ago) link
have captains who do a draft
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 24 December 2019 22:59 (four years ago) link
Tallest v Shortest
― Fetchboy, Tuesday, 24 December 2019 23:00 (four years ago) link
im obsessed w my gritty allstar tourney now sorry in advance everyone
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 24 December 2019 23:02 (four years ago) link
mb it shd be streetball...........
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 24 December 2019 23:03 (four years ago) link
congratulations to lagoon who just invented the all star game
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 24 December 2019 23:17 (four years ago) link
problem is none of the all stars care about a million bucks and probably do not want to play another x amount of games
I think it’d be best if we just forgot this idea got floated
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 24 December 2019 23:20 (four years ago) link
― k3vin k., Tuesday, December 24, 2019 6:17 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
cld be the new allstar weekend get rid of everything else besides dunk and 3pt contests
lol xp wld be so much better thooooo
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 24 December 2019 23:28 (four years ago) link
Winning team gets marijuana excluded from their drug testing AND an extra first round pick
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 24 December 2019 23:56 (four years ago) link
First pick of this system gets nicknamed “big edible”
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 24 December 2019 23:57 (four years ago) link
imo supermax contracts should be negotiated outside of the cba
the current cba is fine for the average player, but player contracts are open to abuse by the biggest stars because owners are unable or unwilling to enforce penalties for trade demands or other contract breaches. it is bad for parties to become accustomed to operating outside of the cba as it encourages uncle dennising and like behaviours.
imo a new form of contract should be available to a limited number of players which allows for much higher pay, better reflecting the true value of a lebron or other superstar. in return for the increased compensation the player would accept more risk eg the majority of the contract being contingent on performance criteria.
― micah, Sunday, 5 January 2020 00:22 (four years ago) link
eliminate max contracts
― peloton for the painfully alone (m bison), Sunday, 5 January 2020 01:09 (four years ago) link
max every contract(tj) ford every stream
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 5 January 2020 14:36 (four years ago) link
It seems to me the obvious problem is that they give max contracts to players like Andrew Wiggins, almost as a matter of course. This reduces the value of the max deals.
― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, 5 January 2020 23:31 (four years ago) link
Maybe something similar to the nfl’s franchise tag would be better.
― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, 5 January 2020 23:36 (four years ago) link
the franchise tag is awful for players, absolutely one of the worst mechanisms in existence.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 6 January 2020 01:42 (four years ago) link
as long as the NBA has a salary cap (and it always will) the lebrons and kawhis and stephs will never be properly paid or valued. wiggins was actually prob fairly paid/valued on his max deal, the problem is that a bunch of other guys on the max are way better than him and underpaid. in some free market uncapped scenario i bet wiggins would still be making roughly what he is now, but it wouldn't look as insane bcuz lebron would be making $50 million per year or whatever
― J0rdan S., Monday, 6 January 2020 01:54 (four years ago) link
what's interesting to me is that the CBA has not been able to accurately predict or account for shifts in player priorities. the owners really fucked up in the last negotiations... they implemented all these crazy rules to prevent player movement and they've all backfired. it turns out that being able to offer your best player $200 million a year before any other team doesn't mean that the guy is just going to say "ok :)" and then he's on your team for life... and if he does say yes your reward is an albatross contract that can sink your franchise with one bad injury.
i don't see a way for the brons or kawhis to ever be properly valued... their importance is just far too skewed, and ultimately capping their salaries allows money to flow to other players in the league, which can be bad for teams when they spend money on bad players but is good for the players. i think a good fix would be implementing some sort of permanent amnesty clause that you can use once every x number of years so that what's happening w/ the wizards basically is a bit more preventable.
― J0rdan S., Monday, 6 January 2020 02:05 (four years ago) link
also exceeding the salary cap for certain players has been built into the CBA for a while now, i feel like they could institute some sort of 1 use-only mega max that is capped at i.e. $25 million or w/e for cap purposes but above that the team can pay the player whatever amount of money they want.
― J0rdan S., Monday, 6 January 2020 02:07 (four years ago) link
the other big problem is that the contracts that are coming closest to properly paying the best guys are doing so on the downslope of their career. it's silly to me that various versions of the max contract (25%, 35%, etc.) are tied to service time.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 6 January 2020 02:10 (four years ago) link
Yah that big max should be available on those early prime years
― championship winning vibration (Spottie), Monday, 6 January 2020 02:19 (four years ago) link
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 6 January 2020 02:39 (four years ago) link
The league has a policy of paying top 5 picks the max if they don’t completely shit the bed in their first 4 years and that doesn’t make sense.
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 6 January 2020 02:40 (four years ago) link