wtf, sounds like a scheduling nightmare... and whats the incentive
― four square ups... no punches thrown (Spottie), Friday, 20 January 2023 21:05 (one year ago) link
lol xp
imo lengthening the season would help to some degree but idk if we can ever turn back the clock on the concept of load management aka "lengthening guys careers is good" and "the playoffs matter way more than the regular season." those things are just kinda inarguable. if the league reduced the schedule to i.e. 72 games i'm not sure that would really change the mentalities of franchises & older stars. lebron really takes pride in playing every night and being on the floor when ppl are paying to see him. kawhi or jimmy butler or whoever don't & i'm not sure the league can legislate that out of them
one thing the league and the owners *could* do is provide a monetary incentive above and beyond salary to entice players to be on the court more. the league and the owners *could* i.e. create a fund to pay out a 10% salary bonus to every player in the league who plays x% of games or something like that. or pay max players 500k for every national TV game they play in. but i highly doubt either the league or owners would be willing to put their money where their mouth is on this issue, or would want to spell the capitalism out so explicitly. but why lie? money talks, we all know that.
the midseason tournament might be a roundabout way of doing this if the prize for winning is money instead of a trophy nobody will care about... but i bet we get a trophy nobody will care about
― J0rdan S., Friday, 20 January 2023 21:10 (one year ago) link
I think lebrons stated motivations aren’t his actual motivations… which is to break every stat record and make them unbreakable for others
― four square ups... no punches thrown (Spottie), Friday, 20 January 2023 21:14 (one year ago) link
maybe! either way in a macro sense he cares about his legacy and that’s why he plays
― J0rdan S., Friday, 20 January 2023 21:20 (one year ago) link
nobody will ever explain in a clear and clean manner to me why this in-season tournament is not an abomination to god and man that literally nobody but kia executives and adam silver will ever give a shit about
― Clay, Friday, 20 January 2023 21:42 (one year ago) link
i think the single elimination part of the tourney could be fun, a lil novelty to kick off the season before the christmas games, its a marketing gimmick for sure but could work to get people talking and interested, i see it more or less as "no big deal" and "maybe a bit of fun"
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 January 2023 22:26 (one year ago) link
if the league reduced the schedule to i.e. 72 games i'm not sure that would really change the mentalities of franchises & older stars.
Steve Kerr on the Warriors sitting their big names in Cleveland tonight“I feel terrible for fans who bought a ticket expecting to see someone play. It’s a brutal part of the business. It’s why I’m going to continue to advocate for 72-game seasons.”Full soundbite pic.twitter.com/P0ZGbv1DNE— Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) January 20, 2023
― four square ups... no punches thrown (Spottie), Friday, 20 January 2023 23:53 (one year ago) link
i think every game you reduce it by is an improvement until you reach the ideal number of games which is prob like 50
― lag∞n, Saturday, 21 January 2023 01:00 (one year ago) link
60. play every team twice and get rid of divisions/conferences
― four square ups... no punches thrown (Spottie), Saturday, 21 January 2023 01:10 (one year ago) link
yeah playing every team twice makes a lot of sense
― lag∞n, Saturday, 21 January 2023 01:11 (one year ago) link
every team twice would be 58
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Saturday, 21 January 2023 01:11 (one year ago) link
yeah i’m pretty opposed to any of this stuff that doesn’t get toward 58, and i’ll hold out judgment until i see it but i definitely haven’t seen the brilliant incentives that are going to make players care about this tournament.
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 21 January 2023 01:19 (one year ago) link
if you win you get seven fouls a game for the rest of the season
― lag∞n, Saturday, 21 January 2023 01:22 (one year ago) link
if you win you only have to play 58 games that year
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Saturday, 21 January 2023 01:30 (one year ago) link
the ultimate prize
― Clay, Saturday, 21 January 2023 01:35 (one year ago) link
the owners would shut down the league before they reduce games and give up revenue. there would have to be an entirely different economic model. maybe in like 20 years when cable TV is fully dead things will be different
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 21 January 2023 02:11 (one year ago) link
i mean they could build a more profitable business with fewer games but that would take vision
― lag∞n, Saturday, 21 January 2023 02:18 (one year ago) link
Once Elon takes over
― four square ups... no punches thrown (Spottie), Saturday, 21 January 2023 02:55 (one year ago) link
there is certainly value in scarcity and while it would take some time and thought i don't believe that 17 home games per team of gate receipts is some sort of insurmountable amount of money to recoup
but if we're thinking long-term, what happens today with back to backs has to be among the worst consumer experiences out there and could be really destructive over time, like if you want alienate a well-off casual fan in cleveland just get them to pay secondary market prices for this game against the warriors where no one is playing.
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 21 January 2023 02:58 (one year ago) link
sorry 12 home games
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 21 January 2023 02:59 (one year ago) link
turning on the tv seeing two teams playing in unrecognizable alternate uniforms and also you dont recognize the players because the stars arent playing is a bad experience
― lag∞n, Saturday, 21 January 2023 03:06 (one year ago) link
tbf i do think the nba is generally excellent tho it would be better if healthy players played and also if a teams uniforms all more or less had the same color scheme
― lag∞n, Saturday, 21 January 2023 03:07 (one year ago) link
yeah, the nba is in a good place now which is exactly why they should get after some of these issues now
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 21 January 2023 03:14 (one year ago) link
― lag∞n, Friday, January 20, 2023 10:07 PM (thirty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
the two most important issues
― k3vin k., Saturday, 21 January 2023 03:43 (one year ago) link
Making the season into a big double round robin is a great idea
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Saturday, 21 January 2023 03:47 (one year ago) link
Then you wouldn’t even need playoffs
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Saturday, 21 January 2023 03:48 (one year ago) link
that's how the EPL works but they obviously have other tournaments that their teams go to which adds interest, so you would still want the playoffs to have some kind of tourney element.
to me the big thing that does is get to the ideal of each team playing 2 games a week, you do one on weds/thurs and one on fri/sat, you give the season some structure as opposed to having no idea what each team's schedule is week to week, and every game becomes an event because it's really hard to blow off games in that format.
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 21 January 2023 04:08 (one year ago) link
i agree that would be the ideal, and each game becomes more of an anticipated “event” a la the NFLbut it’s not just 17 games’ worth of tickets and hot dogs - it’s all the ad money that goes with those games
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 21 January 2023 09:23 (one year ago) link
there would still be more than enough games for the national tv deals which is the big money. and local tv is going to look very very different in a few years anyway.
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 21 January 2023 11:49 (one year ago) link
Just someone fix league pass.
― Jeff, Saturday, 21 January 2023 12:34 (one year ago) link
538 wants in on the post-up partyhttps://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-nba-teams-are-bringing-the-post-up-back-to-life/
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 14:52 (one year ago) link
Thinking about post-ups in a vacuum, however, misses what makes them so valuable in the current NBA. The league is shifting away from static plays of any kind, and toward a fluid state of multiple actions layered on top of one another. The post-up as a primary playcall, with a ball handler dribbling downcourt and dumping the ball into the post, where a center promptly battles another center before shooting, is finished; that precise sequence has happened only twice this season.xOnce by Jokić and once by Andre Drummond.
this is wild. to think kendrick perkins used to get this play called for him to start every game!
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 24 January 2023 15:44 (one year ago) link
wasting your first possession "getting your center involved" was such a bizarre coaching conventional wisdom
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 16:29 (one year ago) link
it really was, every team did it it felt like
― four square ups... no punches thrown (Spottie), Tuesday, 24 January 2023 16:58 (one year ago) link
big advantage for teams who had good centers
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 16:59 (one year ago) link
You might know it as "walking the dog." I traced its 70-year history, from 60s legends to Chris Paul, and dug deep into how a new generation - led by @JaMorant - has found its most cutthroat purpose yet.The history of walking the dog, for @espn: https://t.co/mqGCGIsIgl— Ben Dowsett (@Ben_Dowsett) January 25, 2023
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 25 January 2023 16:11 (one year ago) link
they need to change the rule that lets you drain the clock by rolling the ball. it should only be used to extend the clock
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 25 January 2023 16:15 (one year ago) link
Disagree. The defending team should just have someone in the backcourt on the inbounds. It’s only happening because they let him do it.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 25 January 2023 16:22 (one year ago) link
I did enjoy watching peak Dwight go to town in the post
― not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 16:23 (one year ago) link
― Jeff, Wednesday, January 25, 2023 11:22 AM (one minute ago)
right, until this happens
The tactic came to an extreme head in a late October game between the Nuggets and Celtics. With about five minutes left, Denver forward Aaron Gordon slammed a two-handed dunk to pull the Nuggets within 13. As Gordon jogged back on defense, Al Horford rolled the ball to Jayson Tatum so slowly that it completely stopped before his own free throw line. As Tatum stood alongside the ball, Horford and Grant Williams guarded him like linemen blocking for a running back. Nuggets coaches called for Gordon to force Tatum to pick the ball up. Gordon barreled through Williams so hard that he was called for a flagrant.
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 25 January 2023 16:25 (one year ago) link
the fact that the main person quoted in this article crowing about the value of rolling the ball to waste the clock is chris paul should tell you everything you need to know about the legitimacy of this practice
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 25 January 2023 16:27 (one year ago) link
Oh no, a single instance of it going bad!
― Jeff, Wednesday, 25 January 2023 16:31 (one year ago) link
ive seen that clip and gordon was clearly being a dickhead
― micah, Wednesday, 25 January 2023 21:44 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU3gaffdUB8
― micah, Wednesday, 25 January 2023 21:46 (one year ago) link
If you pressure someone walking the dog, you’re going to get a wedgie.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 25 January 2023 21:50 (one year ago) link
love to have two guys set up in the backcourt playing offensive line for a third player who is watching the ball sit on the floor. that's the kinda basketball you really wanna see
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 25 January 2023 21:56 (one year ago) link
Ideally basketball will become a game where the referee tosses the ball into the air, then bounces on the ground a few times, comes to a halt, and two teams just stare at it for 48 minutes
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 22:59 (one year ago) link
changing the rules is for cowards, all sports must be allowed to become as perverted as possible
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 23:01 (one year ago) link
not good
These are the kind of fouls the league has to let go of to bring a little bit more balance to the game.What was De'Andre supposed to do here? pic.twitter.com/DoSEaFqhQq— Nekias (Nuh-KY-us) Duncan (@NekiasNBA) January 31, 2023
― four square ups... no punches thrown (Spottie), Tuesday, 31 January 2023 20:13 (one year ago) link