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Well think about the East. You got Milwaukee, Indiana and Chicago battling over who wants Detroit, Miami, and Jersey.
Clipper vs Grizzlies loser is the winner. Winner gets to play Dallas on the road with San Antonio in the 2nd round. While the loser gets home court in the 1st round and will avoid the champs in the 2nd round.
Do you miss shots on purpose? If I were the coach I would make sure my team didn't score a point.
Well think about the East. You got Milwaukee, Indiana and Chicago battling over who wants Detroit, Miami, and Jersey.
Difference in the East, those teams are trying to WIN their games so they can play Cleveland and avoid Detroit or Miami.
stuff like that happens every year, but have you ever heard of a team having to lose to get home court advantage?
Ya. Just noticed Washington has 2 games left.
Looking at the schedules, Memphis seems to be playing with a bit more pride; looks like they'll be the fortunate ones to lose home-court & play the Mavs; ridiculous, and no, I don't ever remember such a blatantly unjust scenario.
The WINNER gets the team with a SIXTEEN game lead over the team the LOSER draws.
I am loving this in that David Stern will be forced to change this stupid 3 division setup per conference.
We should have vbookie for this game... I say the game ends 4-3 with the Clippers trying to miss a free throw, the ball bouncing off the rim, hitting a player on the head and somehow going through the net.
I'm smarter than the head of the compe ion committee. I predicted this in October 2004.
There will still be three divisions; the differences will be as follows:
1) Rather than being guaranteed one of the top 3 seeds, a division winner will only be guaranteed one of the top 4. Otherwise, seeding will be done by record.
2) HCA will be determined by seeding rather than by record. That way, a division winner always gets HCA in the first round.
Were that in place today, the West would be seeded as follows:
1) San Antonio
2) Dallas
3) Phoenix
4) Denver
5) Memphis
6) Los Angeles Clippers
7) Los Angeles Lakers
8) Sacramento
That would make sense.
Dude I wish I could play because I know I could score 40 points because no one would stop me except maybe my own team.
I like how the NHL does it in terms of re-seeding.
Have the first round the way it is now.
But, in the second round, teams are re-seeded in the order of record. So, the team with the best record plays the team with the worst record still remaining in the playoffs.
It doesn't change the first round match-ups, but I don't think it's that big of a deal. I think what's more important is that the top two teams in a conference could face before the conference finals.
So, if re-seeding were to happen, Dallas would remain the 4-seed, but after the first round if all the top seeds win their series, Dallas would match-up against Phoenix and San Antonio would match-up against Denver.
^ Yup.
Do what the NHL does. Just re-seed after each round. Its very simple. This bracket crap the NBA uses is more confusing.
I never knew this is how it worked until someone said on this forum "...6th seed with HCA"
I was like "whaaaaat?!"
I don't get why they don't have it so the top 8 teams are the top 8 seeds in order from best record to worse. That is the most fair way of doing it.
Sternie needs to get his head out of sand and change this flawed system of ranking seeds. He had fun with Phoenix's run and gun till the conference finals. It's time to give it up. We get the best 8 teams in the playoffs and prevent weakling division leaders to have a sniff at the playoffs.
i think that's the only case a major sporting league should do what the NHL does.
What I don't understand is why the league didn't change the system DURING the regular season.
They've done it before, when they changed the first round to best-of-seven during the 03-04 season, and everyone at the time figured that was going to help the Lakers.
they should change it tonight to protect the integrity of the game. this mistake is way too amateurish to come from the NBA.
How Clipper-like would it be for them to actually win this game tonight and seal their dooms?
I love Kaman's quote. "Nobody's going to do anything intentional. Mike [Dunleavy] has way too much pride for that."
( http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/column...ark&id=2412483 )
The coach who, down 10 with five minutes left, went to intentional fouling on Ben, has "too much pride" to tank his way out of facing Dallas? Riiiiiiight. Pull the other one, Chris.
Guaranteed Donald Sterling has threatened to fire everyone if the Clips score more than 3 points. Can you blame him, a loss probably puts a few extra million in his pocket.
Ok It's a little too late for a rule change. I want someone (the leader) of either team to man-up and say that they are going to put in the effort and try to win this game AND say they are ready for the challenge against Dallas.
MAN UP!!
I think he just wanted people to talk about this. Because I remember during the 2004 playoffs when they announced the new alignment specifics that the Pistons would've been the 4th seed, not the third, if those rules applied to the 2003-04 standings.
That's the only reason I can think of for the NBA allowing it to get this far in the process without thinking about this. We're two years in, and Indiana had to collapse to not have this debate last season.
Holy I just spilled my drink.
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