2021-22 NBA "REGULAR" SEASON THREAD

Yah you should def have to meet some type of threshold

Fan vote in for last spot lol

you should have to be within 5 games of the 8 seed or you auto-forfeit your play-in game

yeah something like that would be good

tbh i don't think teams under .500 should get play-in games at all unless they are tied with the 8 seed. you could simply win half your games if you want to make the playoffs it doesnt seem like too much to ask

i know this is gonna sound like a crazy concept but if a play in game is happening w/ a team that is too far under .500 for your liking, you can just choose to not watch it

its not that it's that the Lakers probably would find a way to win it which means we'd be in for a miserable series vs. the Suns or whatever. though I guess it might be fun to watch the Lakers get housed 4 games straight

This seems like it will correct itself. Like you can flip it around and say the team above .500 in the play-in should just win their game.

its not that it's that the Lakers probably would find a way to win it which means we'd be in for a miserable series vs. the Suns or whatever. though I guess it might be fun to watch the Lakers get housed 4 games straight

― frogbs, Thursday, March 17, 2022 2:06 PM (two minutes ago)

as opposed to the less miserable option of the clippers? i don't really see the issue

idk I guess it goes back to the issue every sport now has which is why are we giving mediocre teams playoff berths. the last NFL playoffs were really plagued by this. I guess its not too big a problem in the NBA where bad teams can rarely beat a 1-2 seed 4 times

The 1-8 and 2-7 series should be 5 games

(All 1st round series should be, but esp those)

eh that increases the likelihood of a stupid upset

i've always liked the idea that if a first round series goes 3-0 the series ends, but the teams would never agree to give up a playoff game

If a 1 or 2 seed can't win a 5 game series, they deserve to be upset and I wouldn't deem that stupid.

i don't think there's actually much difference between 5 and 7 games in terms of statistical likelihood of a much worse team winning, you have to go down to 3 to move the needle

like 99.9% isnt that much more than 99% whereas 90% is a lot less

Right and I can't recall any "dumb upset" happening when it used to be 5 games. Dikembe and Nuggets beating the 1 seed is all I can think of and that was a classic moment.
If you want to make it nearly impossible for a 1 or 2 seed to get upset in 1st round, just give them a bye. What's the point in going through the motions.

If you want to make it nearly impossible for a 1 or 2 seed to get upset in 1st round, just give them a bye. What's the point in going through the motions.

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, March 17, 2022 3:28 PM (one minute ago)

well this is a money concern on the part of the teams and the leagues so it's really not even worth talking about. we might as well be talking about what happened if they decided to play the first round on the moon.

the calculus doesn't make sense to me anyway. we're talking about potentially eliminating one or two first round playoff games between 1 and 8 that are boring w/ the risk of having a whole second round series between 4 and 8 which is far less entertaining than having the 1 seed continue on, and then likely the 4 seed in the conference finals which again in most years will make for basketball that is much less compelling than if the best teams win out. think of the hawks/bucks ECF from last year which had no juice to it at all. if there's a few first round games that aren't that intriguing to you just don't watch them. the second round comes around soon enough

everyone remembers the "we believe" warriors, but not so much when they lost 4-1 to the 4th seeded jazz in the next round or when the jazz lost to the spurs 4-1 in the conference finals

You're making different arguments based on how you want the end result to be. If a 4 vs 8 series doesn't interest you, you don't have to watch it either! I think a lot of people would like to see an underdog who just beat a 1 seed try to make it thru the next round. I'm not buying that it's inherently less entertaining. Plus I just feel like a 1 seed that needs a game 7 to win 1st rnd doesn't deserve to go on.

Do you think that series would've been remembered if the Jazz had played someone else?

second round series are more entertaining than first round series, i don’t think that’s really up for debate. if i’m gonna ignore a playoff series i’d rather it be 1/8 than anything in the second round. trying to improve the first round at the potential expense of the rest of the playoffs doesn’t make sense to me

Idk if you just want the team that was better in the reg season to win the 1st 2 rounds every time I don't know what the purpose of those rounds are

the purpose is to get the best teams playing later in the playoffs

can we please get back to how bad teams playing in the play-in is bad, this silly discussion is polluting that good idea

It's not improving the 1st rnd it's just shortening it. And like ciderpress said, the number of series where a different winner between 1/2-7/8 seeds would happen if a series was 5 games vs 7 is incredibly tiny. IOW your suboptimal outcome would almost never happen whereas my suboptimal scenario happens multiple times a year.

No one's forcing you to read our silly discussion nor is it preventing anyone from having your preferred discussion kev

first round should be round robin like in footie

Idk if you just want the team that was better in the reg season to win the 1st 2 rounds every time I don't know what the purpose of those rounds are

second round upsets of the 1 seed are cool to me, hawks vs sixers was a really memorable series even if it kinda ruined the east finals. less cool would’ve been wizards vs hawks tho

The teams and their owners love playoff games. They make money. They excite fans. They sell merchandise. The play-in bumps the number of 'playoff' games, if only slightly, but they won't ever go away as long as they generate some extra interest and revenue.

I think its been long established in the NBA that the regular season & playoffs are different things and that teams don't really show everything until the playoffs start. its not like the NFL where random Sunday Night games have major implications, or MLB where there's a real set way to manage your team. I think those two sports have a much bigger issue with this than the NBA does.

Seems not good:

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/33527472/ex-gm-donnie-nelson-sues-dallas-mavericks-says-was-fired-reporting-sexual-misconduct-team-denies-claim

thats pretty bad

Best organization around

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— James Ham (@James_HamNBA) March 18, 2022

Credit where it’s due Russ made a sick steal/3 to tie at the end of regulation

It was an ugly as hell jumper that looked like it could’ve airballed & it kinda looked like his foot was on the line but hey. It went in

scott fucking foster man

Bulls not a very good team right now. Derozan seems to be tired out from his epic run before AS break. Bench has been pretty bad. Lavine not being aggressive.

1st time since I moved to AZ in 2012 that I haven't gone to see Bulls come to Phx. Prices were ridiculous!

makes sense that it would be a hot ticket!

chris was sitting on the bench talking to cam while clenching and unclenching his fist, looks like he doesn’t have any kind of support on his thumb now

1st time since I moved to AZ in 2012 that I haven't gone to see Bulls come to Phx. Prices were ridiculous!

Jimmy couldn’t rub off on kat but it’s looking like pat bev is lol

https://t.co/JuXw5Ajyi0 pic.twitter.com/4jEWCXVKPG

— .🫥. (@philfanacc) March 18, 2022

Hawks beat the Grizz without Collins and Trae last night. Not sure how that happened

if you look at the standings and the law right now regarding the play in games nets would play the raptors in toronto without kyrie then if they lost they would play the winner of the 9-10 game in brooklyn without kyrie

yeah & then if the raptors move up to 6 we’d get a kyrie return to cleveland game

Between places he is not allowed to play and cities where he has burned bridges, hope everyone is ready for plenty of Kyrie drama and things of that nature in the coming weeks

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— Wizards Nation (@WizardsNationCP) March 20, 2022

ilh bowl bout to tip off here

uh knicks jazz is about the hit the second quarter my man, time to ffwd the dvr

lol