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Positive tweets on the lockout Oct 27th

I think they're sincere. Only plausible thing I see in the 'reach' is the owners giving false hope to te players, letting them taste it, then re-starting the negotiations.
Having said that, I think both sides are being sincere.
 
jazzman12 said:
I hadn't heard that there was still hope for an 82 game season and I'm not sure that I like that idea. Do we really want to see a bunch of extra games played in April/May and then watch a bunch of tired/sloppy playoff basketball?

Although, the flip side to that is it might help the Jazz make a run at the playoffs as a 7 or 8 seed. Considering how young this team is going to be, if they stay healthy (huge knock on wood) I would have to guess they're going to look much better in April than they will in November. Perhaps more games in the spring would be a good thing for them.

However, if you're an older team like the Spurs, it's probably a horrible idea.
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This may be the only way we get to play in May. I see it as great for the Jazz if Ty is like Jerry and play veterans over rookies, then hopfully our older guys will get gased out leaving no option but to play the young guns.
 
It isn't like they're all getting worn out right now. I don't see what adding time to the schedule to accommodate 82 games does to make the old guys more tired than they would be at the end of the previously scheduled 82 game season. It's not like the changing of the seasons makes them start to hibernate.
 
Gameface said:
It isn't like they're all getting worn out right now. I don't see what adding time to the schedule to accommodate 82 games does to make the old guys more tired than they would be at the end of the previously scheduled 82 game season. It's not like the changing of the seasons makes them start to hibernate.
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Your quote has almost nothing to do with the reality of using April/May as a way to recoup missed games.

You don't see the NBA scheduling 3 games in 3 nights, 4 games in 4 nights, etc. They also try to limit back-to-backs as much as possible but obviously teams have to play them in order to get all the games in. There's a reason for that type of scheduling and the reason is that playing 3 or 4 nights in a row would be very hard on a team regardless of age.

Backloading the NBA schedule for April/May is probably going to lead to a lot of 4 games in 5 nights type of scenarios and I think it's fairly obvious that the product will suffer because of it.
 
Well, scratch the optimism.

@WojYahooNBA Adrian Wojnarowski
The NBA will cancel regular season games through November 30th, a league source tells Y! Sports.

Awesome............sigh...............I hate you NBA, but please start soon, because I secretly love you.
 
I've learned to not get too excited. I've been going about my business assuming these parties haven't figured out that ****ting where you eat is not a good idea hoping I'd be wrong.

Anyway, I hope everyone realizes it's in the best interest of everyone to implement revenue sharing and a sliding scale for BRI. I don't know why that couldn't fix everything at this juncture.
 
NUMBERICA said:
I've learned to not get too excited. I've been going about my business assuming these parties haven't figured out that ****ting where you eat is not a good idea hoping I'd be wrong.

Anyway, I hope everyone realizes it's in the best interest of everyone to implement revenue sharing and a sliding scale for BRI. I don't know why that couldn't fix everything at this juncture.
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A sliding scale BRI ought to make sense if it rewards the owners for doing a good job of marketing and operations. It's not really incumbent upon the players to do anything other than play.
 
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