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the bucks had much bigger issues but the refs are always a convenient excuse

Giannis probably would've missed both free throws anyway

kev otm lakers games are fixed

ignoring dames defense and blaming the refs is more fun

we can do both

Scoot Henderson(-58) just had the lowest +/- in NBA HISTORY 😳 pic.twitter.com/BRONATyQT6

— NBACentral (@TheDunkCentral) March 30, 2024

had a -56 earlier this year too!

Reboot the Scoot

Most FGA with 0-4 seconds remaining on shot clock:

1. Jokic: 162 FGA—49.1 EFG%
2. Brunson: 134—44.4%
3. Kawhi: 131—52.3%
3. Edwards: 131—43.1%
5. Tatum: 127—43.3%
6. Fox: 121—36.4%
7. Paolo: 120—35.4%
8. Hart: 117—36.3%
9. DeRozan: 116—40.1%
9. Kuz: 116—37.9%
9. Maxey: 116—34.5% pic.twitter.com/5Vs5QPxiYC

— NBA University (@NBA_University) March 30, 2024

this is interesting, I wonder how jokic’s number of attempts compare to previous years

poor josh hart

nikola jesus has risen: 26-18-16

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The best offenses in NBA history, relative to league average:

1. ‘04 Mavs: +9.2
2. ‘05 Suns: +8.4
3. ‘16 Warriors: +8.1
4. ‘24 CELTICS: +7.8
5. ‘97 Bulls: +7.7
6. ‘02 Mavs: +7.7
7. ‘10 Suns: +7.7
8. ‘98 Jazz: +7.6
9. ‘96 Bulls: +7.5

First new addition to the t20 since ‘17 Dubs!

— ʜᴠ (@hoopvenue_) April 1, 2024

Nash was on 4 of those teams.

nash sowing on offense: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!

nash reaping on defense: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

too soon

Every team's performance in the halfcourt since the All-Star break

Best Net Ratings:
1. Celtics – 13.2
2. Nuggets – 10.9
3. Magic – 9.2
4. Thunder – 8.7
5. Mavericks – 8.4 pic.twitter.com/v60tAlTV8a

— Shane Young (@YoungNBA) April 3, 2024

whats the magic doing in there

red flags for the knicks, cavs and clippers there esp bcuz the first two are attributable to injuries that don’t seem to be getting fixed

brunson has maybe the biggest scoring burden in the league right now among good teams. he’s the only person in their current line up who can generate a shot. ant is prob up there now too

I think they said during the game last night that the Sixers were top 5 in offense and defense when Embiid got hurt, and since then they were 29th in offense and somewhere near that on defense.

It's not just Embiid, because Maxey and Harris have been in and out (though with the latter it's hard to tell sometimes).

embiid obvs extremely good and is responsible for a big chunk of that on ability alone but also him and maxey are their only real creators so when you remove one its bad

Yeah, there has been some grim Sixers offense the last two months.

I have no idea what they will look like heading into the playoffs because Embiid was already out when they made their trades at the deadline. He hadn't played with any of them!

They needed shooting, so I get the Hield trade, but he doesn't seem like a winning player to me.

is this good

https://i.imgur.com/sdupfwh.png

no

lots of teams really trying to win still so these bottom feeders dont stand a chance

hollinger points out in the article that graph is from that on any given night those eight teams are stinking up half the games, which isnt great, then goes for a true big think with this proposal for banishing them to their own kiddie league for the last 3rd of the season

Remember when the league invited only 22 teams to the NBA bubble in Orlando and effectively told the league’s worst eight teams that they didn’t need to be around to sully the product? It was beautiful; we had nothing but matchups between postseason-caliber teams.

I’m wondering if something like that could work even in a non-bubble. The league could tell teams like the Jazz, “Look, since you’re only interested in playing the first 50 games of the season each year anyway, have we got a deal for you.”

I’m not suggesting these eight teams be shut down, but I do wonder if there’s a way to relegate them to their own little playpen where they only face each other the final month of the season and don’t have to infect the nightly schedule with their awfulness. We don’t need these hopelessly non-competitive games when the bottom-eight clubs have no chance of winning unless they’re playing Milwaukee. (Sorry).

https://theathletic.com/5393160/2024/04/05/nba-standings-spurs-grizzlies-hornets-pistons/

the logistics of that seem somewhat impossible but i do agree that 1/4 of the league morphing into the g league for the final few months is bad

the combo of injuries + teams giving some guys rest before the playoffs + 1/4 of the teams not even having real NBA rotations out there is making for bizarre basketball atm

yeah its an obvious not gonna happen but its a good and funny idea, oh youre a raptors fan enjoying playing the grizzlies five times in a row

another thing adding to it is seems like teams dont care about home court in the playoffs as much as they used to, because it doesnt matter as much as it used to, okc is sitting their two best players with minor injuries for multiple games in the middle of a "battle" for first place in the west

Add more teams to the play-in imo

denver the only team that should really care about home court in the west cos its an actual tangible advantage

Add more teams to the play-in imo

― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, April 5, 2024 3:15 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

its an interesting idea just add one more team in each conf and you could have another round

how about an in season tournament for seeds 8-15 at the end of the season for the 8th seed.

at that point youre basically half way to my idea of having the regular season champ being the nba champ and then having a separate "playoffs cup" with all the teams invited so you should just do that

im in as long as the celtics arent in first place

maybe under the new 58 game conferenceless system they wouldnt be plus the incentives for winning games would be more so idk (they would be still because they are the best)

Here's what I'll put in my email to Adam Silver: Teams 9-12 in the conference standings play a one-game wildcard round, and two of them advance to the current play-in setup. Also, they can't be in last place in their division to qualify, just for fun. Also, maybe cut the season's length by a game or two to make the schedule work.

Also, the winner of the midseason tournament is prequalified for the play-in tourney!!

this is lifted from some half-remembered proposal I saw the last time tanking was in the news, but I really don’t see any possible downside to this:
- only the teams with the 14 worst records are lottery-eligible, as it is now
- a team gets one “point” for each loss before the all star break (or the trade deadline, or game 50, etc), and then one “point” for each win after that. you add up total points and the team with the most gets the best lottery odds etc

would end tanking overnight, and incentivize winning every game for all 30 teams. would also remove the incentive to buy players out, which I agree w/hollinger is a stupid quirk

it would flatten out the lottery standings a lil bit but prob not the end of the world

that’s fine, you could also just get rid of the lottery altogether at that point since there’s no perverse incentives any more

The Gold Plan was an idea a hockey fan made up to eliminate tanking but I always thought it would work great for the NBA:

The premise is straightforward: rather than the league's worst teams entering a lottery each spring to determine the order of the upcoming draft, picks are doled out based on point accumulation starting when a team is mathematically eliminated from postseason contention. At the end of the regular season, the team with the most post-elimination points is awarded the first overall selection, followed by the team with the second-most, and so on.

https://www.thescore.com/nhl/news/2059085

That seems like it could promote tanking at the very beginning of the season? You might want to get eliminated asap to accumulate the maximum in post-elimination points.

sure, I’d love to see a team actually try that

some teams already start the season tanking i.e. Sam Hinkie Sixers. This would at least provide the incentive to field a team capable of winning games

one problem with all these schemes is theres no reward for the players, you gotta give the players a taste to keep them engaged

tanking has no reward for players either

another problem is that bad teams just lose a lot in basketball - I don't know if the Pistons or Wiz are actively trying to tank this year, they're just bad