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Silver Open To Changing The NBA Playoffs Field

NAOS said:
not bad.

Whatever the scenario, it would also help to lengthen the regular season (in terms of time, not adding games). If players have longer road trips, then they should get more down time. Adding 10 days would cut down on the 5-games-in-7-nights kind of nightmares.
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I read somewhere that they thought of doing a shorter preseason to lengthen the regular season by a few days. I think they should just have like 4-5 different preseason locations, where they do 2 games a day for each team, and you can have an expanded preseason roster. Have it be 3-4 days, and everyone gets a little playing time. Kind of like summer league, but a little more organized.


I also like the baseball idea of having a series.
 
I think I remember Locke talking about a cool idea that was proposed. There would be a divisional "cup" during the season that teams would play in a round robin style tournament for. For example, they could have a Pacific cup, where all the Pacific teams play in one city for a week, and whoever wins the tournament gets the banner for the season. I guess it's kind of like soccer cups, but I have no idea how they work in soccer.
 
I think they should have a "wandering" East west border for the playoffs. Take the best 16 teams and then split them in half geographically. That way you still get the best teams but you don't ever have New York playing LA in the first round.
 
Stoked said:
I see no reasont hese cannot be done. Only adds 10 days to the season. I wonder how the players union feels about it.
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I think it's a question how you present it. If you present a correlation between rest and injury susceptibility and more importantly rest and individual player performance. Injury impact on earning potentials may be nice as well.
I can see the players agreeing to it as it protects them and their careers.

With travel problems looming: 1 thing I always liked was the 2-3-2 structure of the finals. This was really fun to me. Put a lot of urgency into the series.
Hometeam loses one of their first games -> Must win one of the away games or the're out 4-1.
Hometeam saves their homecourt through the first two -> Roadteam has pressure to protect their homecourt just as fine.
I just like it. I don't know how home field advantage winning %s are.
But I'd bet if we looked into series that ended 4-2 or closer we'd see some advantage for the home team that's not easily explainable with: "They were better in the regular season so they're clearly a better team duh"

This structure pressures both team and it significantly lowers travelling. 2 flights for the home and 3 for the road team.
2-2-1-1-1 are potentially 4 for the home and 5 for the road team. Also less flights mean more practice. More practices mean better quality of basketball.
 
NAOS said:
The more I think about it, the more I like this. I think it would create the conditions for more tactical/strategic/scouted game plans.
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It would probably create for some intense games 3 and 4s. Playing the same guys and remembering that defeat or the flagrant foul that guy laid on you in game 2...
 
heyhey said:
I think they should have a "wandering" East west border for the playoffs. Take the best 16 teams and then split them in half geographically. That way you still get the best teams but you don't ever have New York playing LA in the first round.
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For me that takes out the biggest appeal. New matchups.
 
Stoked said:
For me that takes out the biggest appeal. New matchups.
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I'm not worried about new matchups. The teams are always changing. Young guys come in, old ones retire, new ones are acquired. I'm just concerned with seeing good basketball. The best teams traveling reasonable distances.
 
Naos killing it in here.
I agree with all of his posts in this thread.
 
Cy said:
It be kind of cool to do it baseball style. Like travel to a place and play them twice in 4 days.
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The problem with this would be injury issues. It would kind of suck for fans that the only weekend that we get the Thunder, Durant is out both games. . .
 
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