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even tho they do play consecutive games with the same teams in the same location now

Incredible fact: The West has had more All-NBA players in every single one of the past 25 seasons pic.twitter.com/dliCd4HP32

— Lev Akabas (@LevAkabas) February 28, 2024

they should make the east have 4 rounds before the finals or something

why is it like this

west is the best, east is the least, just geography can’t avoid it

12 to 3 in 2015 my lord

now more than ever we need the conferenceless 58 game season

if you think about some of the door a vs door b outcomes for some of these guys you can see how the conferences can get slanted for two decades. like...

duncan going to the spurs instead of philly or boston
kobe going to the lakers instead of charlotte
dirk going to dallas instead of milwaukee
luka going to dallas instead of atlanta
melo going to denver instead of detroit
the hawks passing on both chris paul and deron williams to pick marvin williams

etc i'm sure there's more

xp -ticket prices would instantly jump by about 180%

like... steph got drafted 7 overall by the warriors

the next 6 picks were all eastern conference teams

those picks were

knicks - jordan hill
raptors - demar derozan
bucks - brandon jennings
nets - terrence williams
bobcats - gerald henderson
pacers - tyler hansborough

if lebron had gone to memphis instead of cleveland they may have had to rearrange the conferences by like 2008

now more than ever we need the conferenceless 58 game season

― lag∞n, Wednesday, February 28, 2024 11:47 AM (sixteen minutes ago)

like a full-league double round robin? Clean.

memphis is already famously in the east they should let the lEast have them just as a treat

like a full-league double round robin? Clean.

― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, February 28, 2024 1:04 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is how the prem and every other major euro league does it, very tidy, obv superior

i think they should take some other stuff from them too, make the regular season champ the nba champ, then have a separate "cup" for the playoffs, also let all the teams in the playoffs so theyre longer to make up for the regular season games lost by shortening the season

hmmmm I’m sensing some ulterior motives here

what its good ive solved all the problems

i think they should take some other stuff from them too, make the regular season champ the nba champ, then have a separate "cup" for the playoffs, also let all the teams in the playoffs so theyre longer to make up for the regular season games lost by shortening the season

― lag∞n, Wednesday, February 28, 2024 5:17 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

these are all good ideas

k3vin you're wrong he's solved them

some people want championships for the regular season because they are not built for the playoffs I’m just speaking facts

there should be one champion and it should be the team with the second worst record in the west

the celtics have done very well in the playoffs except last year and even last year they got to game seven of the ecf which is not considered that bad, im tired of this story that theyve underperformed they have certainly way over performed all predictions over the jays era, last year was the first year people were even picking them to make the finals

Lagoon is pressed you hate to see it

that’s true I like them because I live here, I hope it’s celtics nuggets finals

xp

I’m moving to LA this summer though I’m going to have to brave the elements as a lakers hater

Lagoon is pressed you hate to see it

― infinite wiggles (Spottie), Wednesday, February 28, 2024 10:06 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

wow im being bullied for my visionary ideas

i feel like there is some confirmation bias happening here insofar as it seems more likely to me that already bad teams are making stopping the 3 their main strategy as opposed to being bad bcuz they’ve made stopping the 3 their main strategy. but having watched the heat not care about opponent 3 point rate for years now this is still somewhat interesting to me

The NBA teams who are trying to limit opponent 3PTAs defensively are by and large getting torched on D.

Really interesting plot. pic.twitter.com/8cwsNH9Nsi

— Haralabos Voulgaris (@haralabob) March 1, 2024

Opponents are shooting 46% from 3 against CHI? Yeesh.

the x axis is 3pt rate as a percentage of total shots (how many threes vs twos), not 3pt accuracy. the y axis is showing efficiency per possession when a 3 is attempted by the opponent

actually sorry i’m wrong about the y axis it’s just showing overall halfcourt defensive efficiency. just a basic measure of 3pt volume by opponent vs defensive efficiency

the bulls letting opponents get up a three on 46% of possessions is still insane, but their half court defense ranks in the top 12-15 or so in the league

Lol, gotcha. That upper/upper left has some terrible teams. Is IND because of their terrible D in the first half of the season or did they get better?

feel like the bad teams might be giving up fewer threes cause their opponents just dunk instead

yeah i feel like there’s some correlation/causation amiss with this

theyre also fast teams so transition leads to more dunks fewer threes too

as far as the question is giving up threes good its prob a devils in the details sort of thing thing, like the celtics give up a fair amount of threes but not very many of them are from the corners, and good defenses will be better at understanding which players to let shoot and so forth

you also don't need to take a bunch of threes when you are up by 25 points the whole game xp

if you can keep yr opponent out of the paint yr preventing the best threes which are drive and kicks out of a collapsed defense, so maybe playing off shooters a little bit is good you keep them out of the paint and dare them to shoot which leads to quasi contested threes off of swing passes, mediocre threes if you will, the sort of shots when your team takes them youre like feel like they couldve got something better

memphis is already famously in the east they should let the lEast have them just as a treat

When they expand two more teams, if they're in the west (i.e. Vegas and Seattle) I'd imagine it's an easy decision to move Memphis to the eastern conference and kill a couple birds with a stone there. However, the NBA isn't one for making logical decisions like this so I'm not holding my breath.

Times this has happened each season since 2000 https://t.co/0UVQGg0AoP pic.twitter.com/Q73poLEgNk

— Automatic (@automaticnba) March 11, 2024

wonder how much it has to do with the mid season rule changes that the refs have implemented to stop calling bs fouls?

wtf happened in 2004

they got rid of hand checking right around then

2012 is more interesting to me

prob just variance

few games get to 80 instead of 79 here and there

2007 and 2016 seem to be the years things change where 04 and 12 are outliers

would be interesting to dive deeper into that data and see if specific teams with extreme good d/bad o splits skew for particular years. i looked at the replies to the tweet and didn't say anything that spoke to that but did come across this amazing picture:

SIXERS: 79
KNICKS: 73

First time in 8 (!) years that a game has ended with both teams below 80 points. Throwback. pic.twitter.com/KGZ4ENZL03

— NBA University (@NBA_University) March 11, 2024

love that photo

bogey only played 18mins in that game and took 8 shots mightve wanted tp bump that up under the circumstances, meanwhile josh harts going 4-13

with 6 turnovers