"we'll dig our way out!" "dig up, stupid"
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 24 December 2019 17:40 (four years ago) link
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
They get in situations where sunk costs and the costs of changing directions of the team add up to paying Jamal Murray the max for being the leagues 14th best shooting guard
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 6 January 2020 02:41 (four years ago) link
those guys get the 25% max which is nowhere near as destructive as the contract chris paul is on.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 6 January 2020 02:54 (four years ago) link
― call all destroyer, Sunday, January 5, 2020 8:10 PM (thirty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
yeah this is terrible. all these guys that are gonna be making $50M a year when they're 36 is fucked.
― peloton for the painfully alone (m bison), Monday, 6 January 2020 02:57 (four years ago) link
iirc this was driven by cp3 who led the players association to negotiate a cba that happened to largely benefit himself
― micah, Monday, 6 January 2020 04:55 (four years ago) link
it benefitted him and his class of player. vets who are involved in the players association aren't going to pay themselves less.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 6 January 2020 04:59 (four years ago) link
cp3 is gangster, role players are fools for not getting a bigger slice of the pie
― lag∞n, Monday, 6 January 2020 05:03 (four years ago) link
it cld def use tweaking but i like generally how the nba contract situation works FWIW they set out to thread the needle between parity, teams retaining stars, and player freedom of movement which is the correct view and they kinda pulled it off imho its a good balance, and it has a high drama factor which is good
― lag∞n, Monday, 6 January 2020 05:09 (four years ago) link
def prefer it to the hard capping of the nfl or the tax disincentives of mlb, the open market of soccer is by far the worst tho
― lag∞n, Monday, 6 January 2020 05:10 (four years ago) link
one thing soccer has tho is promotion and relegation which is prob the best mechanism in all of sport m8
― lag∞n, Monday, 6 January 2020 05:12 (four years ago) link
nba relegation would be amazing
― micah, Monday, 6 January 2020 05:17 (four years ago) link
they shd work towards incorporating the g league in this scenario (will never happen but in a better universe would)
― lag∞n, Monday, 6 January 2020 05:18 (four years ago) link
nba w 20 teams plus a bunch more trying to claw their way in wld be so tite
― lag∞n, Monday, 6 January 2020 05:20 (four years ago) link
i would be elated if a ridiculous regional g league team somehow scraped their way into the league a la the red claws stockton kings or whatever
― Clay, Monday, 6 January 2020 05:35 (four years ago) link
would be interesting to see what the distribution of salaries as a percentage of the cap has looked like over time. maybe there have been times when there were lots of middle-sized contracts or times when a lot of money was going to the biggest contracts.
― circles, Monday, 6 January 2020 05:44 (four years ago) link
― lag∞n, Monday, January 6, 2020 12:09 AM (eight hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
mostly agree with this! i think the weird soft cap and associated rules add a lot of intrigue.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 6 January 2020 13:49 (four years ago) link
check out this crazy old college 3pt line
https://i.imgur.com/NbEyrsD.jpg
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 07:48 (four years ago) link
michael jordan is playing there fyi
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 07:49 (four years ago) link
In 1982, college basketball's scoring reached a low point. The ACC Tournament title game featured North Carolina using a four-corner delay offense against Virginia. The Tar Heels won 47-45 but the game made for poor viewing to a nationally televised audience.
So before the 1983 season, with the NCAA's permission, the ACC and a few mid-major conferences tinkered with their league rules to increase scoring.
Free to set its own parameters, the ACC decided to adopt a 30-second shot clock and a 3-point line that was about two feet shorter than the one used today. The current line is 19 feet, 9 inches measured from the middle of the basket.
"I can remember it wasn't widely accepted _ or unanimously accepted," said UNC coach Roy Williams, a Tar Heel assistant at the time, said of the 3-point shot.
Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski was not a supporter.
"I was not and I was dumb,” Krzyzewski said. ”The 3-point shot is excellent."
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 07:55 (four years ago) link
https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb-playoffs-new-format-nba-reseeding-053243801.html
"It introduces incremental incentives. There’s incentive to be the best team in a league, not simply a division winner, because top seeds earn first-round byes.
There’s incentive to win your division, even if you can’t reach that top seed, because doing so earns you three home games in a three-game, first-round series.
If you can’t win your division, there’s incentive to finish with the top record among wild cards, which earns you three first-round home games as well. The alternative is zero.
And of course, there’s incentive to make the playoffs – which, after expansion, would become a realistic goal for a supermajority of the league, even as the season reaches its August-September home stretch.
Because of those incremental incentives, expansion doesn’t render the regular season meaningless. It just spreads meaning far and wide, distributing it throughout the standings, creating new playoff races in new places, all while maintaining the traditional ones. Because no two playoff berths would be equal."
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 16:18 (four years ago) link
i think most of these types of pieces and proposals have the cart way ahead of the horse. philosophically the north american sports need to decide for themselves what they want to regular season to mean and what they want the playoffs to mean.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 17:07 (four years ago) link