2021-22 NBA "REGULAR" SEASON THREAD

i mean maybe someday if other things happen but no not on his own

and then someone will just go five out against them in the playoffs and rudy will turn into a pumpkin

the rudy g way

fix is in in this lakers game

two blatant fouls on lebron and then westbrook the last two rockets possessions

Carmelon't

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— BBALLBREAKDOWN (@bballbreakdown) March 10, 2022

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holy shit that Porter 3...don't think I could make that shot given a thousand tries. he was twisting so hard

lakers getting smoked by the rockets in overtime.....that is a "bad loss" if i've ever seen one

I can't believe LeBron passed up that final shot. don't think I've ever seen him do that

sounds like something the worst team of all time would do

I can't believe LeBron passed up that final shot. don't think I've ever seen him do that

― frogbs, Wednesday, March 9, 2022 8:50 PM (twenty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Lebro the Savage

bron lookin old on that play

45 minutes for Lebron

Blazers are losing by 50

mavs put up 77 points on the knicks???

truly a great day for the beautiful game

6/44 from three lol. brunson/bertans/bullock combined 0/18

bron lookin old on that play

― lag∞n, Wednesday, March 9, 2022 9:28 PM (thirty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

19-year old Sengun bullies LeBron for a bucket inside and then blocks him at the other end pic.twitter.com/OhuFDZFv05

— ً (@arxanii) March 10, 2022

The Timberwolves have won 6 straight games for the first time since 2004 📈 pic.twitter.com/0WUNiKhRmq

— NBA on ESPN (@ESPNNBA) March 10, 2022

nicely done

The Blazers have lost six straight games by 194 combined points and remain one game out of the play-in in the loss column.

— Zach Lowe (@ZachLowe_NBA) March 10, 2022

lakers are gonna win the play in from the 10 seed and be the most unearned playoff team of all time

The play-in has got to go

its bad… but also its good? idk

Yah exactly

its bad, just offloads any potential excitement from the last week of regular season games to more games, at a time when we want fewer games

creates opportunities for a lame team to shoot themselves into the first round over a team tahts 5-10 wins better

you just know its gonna end with a 35 win lakers team keeping a 45 win twolves out of the playoffs

Lmao otm

it has reduced the tanking now the very worst team tank for the most part

ther e are better ways to reduce tanking like not having the lottery be by record or w/e

i like the lottery, even tho i think the play in is dumb and too many teams already made the offs i kinda support it now, they shd make the 1st round best out of five again maybe

its so weird that baseball, which has the most variance by far of any major sport, uses the 5-game 1st round, while the NBA doesn't, despite the fact that the 1 seeds basically never lose. I don't really like the play-in game either and I agree too many teams make the playoffs but it kinda works for the NBA, where you can root for your team to win a 1st round series knowing full well they have no shot at a championship and be satisfied even when they get their asses kicked in the 2nd. in the other sports there's enough variance that you still have hope which leads to disappointment. mediocre teams win the World Series all the time and the last Super Bowl featured a team that went 2-14 the year prior. in the NBA only like 3-4 teams really have a shot so I actually think the large playoff field works for them.

yeah baseball just shouldnt have playoffs, best regular season record is champ

I liked the 8 team system they had before, 6 division winners + one wild card. as someone on Twitter pointed out letting 14 teams in during a 162 season is a crime against math

There's also been work done that shows zero statistical difference (in baseball) between a 5 and 7 game series in terms of outcomes. To actually move the needle the series would need to be like 35 games lol

i support it

ive floated this idea before but now that there are 32 teams forthcoming, heres my plan to save basketball from dumbness:

-create 2 8-team divisions per conference
-play a home/away against all 31 teams (62 G)
-play an additional home/away against your division opponents (14 G)

-top 8 teams in each conference go to playoffs, division winners not guaranteed of any seed
-bottom 8 teams in each conference get put into round robin play: four 4-team groups, home/away against all 3 opponents (6 G) to determine seeding. from there, 4 rounds of single elimination to determine draft order.

this solves tanking once and for all bc the very worst teams will struggle in the offseason if they can't put out a competitive team. the best rookies will go to more competent franchises. makes the end of the regular season a legit must-watch for the non-playoff teams.

if the league wants to maintain the 82 game schedule for everyone, i guess they can try doing that little tournament thing theyre considering but idk, havent thought that far ahead.

asking players on bad teams to play hard so the team can draft the guy who is going to replace them is kinda sketchy though

i think the lottery should just be flat odds, its the halfway point between the conflicting ideas of putting the best talent onto the weakest teams and rewarding teams that tried to be competitive but didn't get there

removes all weird secondary incentives in either direction, the only incentive for every team should be to try to make the playoffs

hockey heads have proposed a draft order based on (essentially) how successful a team is *after* being eliminated from the playoffs. it has its issues — and would be a little different in hoops — but it’s interesting and keeps fans of bad teams rooting for wins rather than losses

thats pretty good but i like the simplicity of my plan more

also it makes the lottery more exciting which is cool everyone loves lotteries

tbh i don't really see the downside of the play in. it has definitely curbed tanking and extended the relevancy of the regular season. you get some extra do or die playoff style games. it's added layers to the playoff race which had typically been pretty stagnant in terms of jockeying for seeding. like if you took out the play in scenario from the west this year it would basically be a dead conference for the rest of the season except for memphis and golden state playing for 2/3 and dallas/denver for 5/6. the 1 seed is up by 8.5 games, there's multiple game gaps between several other teams... the 8 seed is up 5.5 games. at least now you have a race for 5/6/7 that is legitimately meaningful as well as one for 9/10. this year in the east w/ no play in you would have a bunch of teams fighting for 8 but i actually prefer the scenario where it's teams playing for seeding and then we have a little mini playoffs to see who gets in. that's far more interesting to me than atlanta, charlotte, toronto etc fighting it out indirectly in regular season games that aren't even on TV.

i guess the one downside i can think of is some scenario like we kinda have w/ the lakers where a team that has had injuries to its stars plays its way into the playoffs from outside the top 8 and then becomes a threat to the 1 seed which doesn't "deserve" having to play that team but deserve isn't a great way to run an entertainment product and i don't see any real argument for why having star driven teams that had rough regular seasons getting into the playoffs is bad for basketball fans

let the top seed choose which play-in winner it wants to face

removes all weird secondary incentives in either direction, the only incentive for every team should be to try to make the playoffs

― ciderpress, Thursday, March 10, 2022 1:05 PM (twelve minutes ago)

i actually think the system right now is working pretty well insofar as it's okay for the league if like 2-3 teams at the beginning of the season are incentivized to not really compete so that they can improve their rosters and then another 2-3 teams join them halfway thru the season after their teams went south for whatever reason. i would say we went into this regular season with only 2 teams in each conference who weren't trying to win (det, orl & okc, hou) and now we have another 3 more across the league (wash, ind, por) who are not really trying at this point. it still leaves 11-12 teams in each conference who are trying to win for basically the full year which is a good number, and they're actually competing for something interesting to the fans (do or die games) than something not interesting (getting the 8 seed in the regular season and then getting killed in round 1)

yeah pretty much how i feel

Did anybody else post this already: https://poeltl.dunk.town/