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Totally agree. But how would scheduling work though?
I haven't seen an EC playoff game in over 10 years (maybe 1 or 2 actually..) . The NBA finals always the WCF. I'm tired of this stupid bullcrap, the matchups later on would be so much better without this. Its been beaten to death but it needs to be revamped.
Totally agree. But how would scheduling work though?
randomized bracket every year (stratified on win % so you don't end up with #1 vs #2 in the 1st round).
Can't think of any better way . The only reason conferences stand is to build this false sense of allegiance. There is none. Team's hate who they hate and will cheer for who they want to.
Given that we're in the salary cap era, there really shouldn't be this dominance from one conference over the other but there is.
They didn't do it in the 80s, nor did they do it in the early 2000s(when the East was at it's lowest point), so they won't do it now..
The bottom of the East has finally surpassed the latter part of the West, the NBA will just have to wait for the top to turn..
I get the sentiment but the EC hHeat just won backtoback tiles 4 years ago ...
Harlem is right, why make a drastic change when who knows what things will look like a few years?
It is what it is ...
Besides when Baby duncan and Lebron 2.0 are leading the sixers to a le in 3 years ...
The East will be on top ...
The east is so ty this year that teams like the Pistons had an inflated win column, which makes it look like they're catching up. You put the Jazz in the east and they make the ECF easily. Instead you had the Cuckaliers and the vanilla rapper's favorite team trying to outsuck each other to see who gets raped by the west champ.
I suggested this months back:
My conferences:
WEST
Mountain or Northwest Division
Denver
Oklahoma City
Phoenix
San Antonio
Utah
Pacific Division
Golden State
LA Clippers
LA Lakers
Portland
Sacramento
CENTRAL
Midwest Division
Chicago
Cleveland
Detroit
Indiana
Milwaukee
Southwest Division
Dallas
Houston
Minnesota
Memphis
New Orleans
EAST
Atlantic Division
Boston
Brooklyn
New York
Philadelphia
Toronto
Southeast Division
Atlanta
Charlotte
Miami
Orlando
Washington
--Each division winner is a top 6 seed and last 10 are wild cards. Reseed after each round. HCA still by record.
--3 conferences of 10, divisions of 5.
--5 games against each division opponent=20 games
--4 games against teams in the other conference division=20 games
--2 games against teams in the other two conferences=40 games
--1 rotating extra game against someone from the other conferences=2 games
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82 games
there is no reason for the SW division to be the way it is. For a good portion every single team had a strong chance of making the post season.
So who would you suggest be moved? About out of options there, someone has to go out west.
Allow teams to play defense, and everything will be solved.
Just switch all Texan teams to the east and the whole thing is fixed tbh.
Do away with conferences altogether and go with five divisions of six teams apiece:
NORTHEAST: Boston, New York, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Washington, Toronto
SOUTHEAST: Charlotte, Atlanta, Orlando, Miami, Memphis, New Orleans
CENTRAL: Cleveland, Detroit, Indiana, Chicago, Milwaukee, Minnesota
MIDWEST: Denver, Utah, Oklahoma City, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio
PACIFIC: Portland, Golden State, Sacramento, LA Lakers, LA Clippers, Phoenix
Seed the playoffs 1-16 with division winners seeded by record but given automatic HCA in the first round.
How would you do the scheduling? I at least had scheduling that ended up back at 82 games.
If you play every division opponent six times and non-division opponents twice that comes out to 78 games.
If I was a Timberwolves fan (or a player) I'd love this arrangement. They're in the worst position geographically and compe ively the way things are set up now.
You could also designate a rotating extra game against an opponent from each division or do it based on their finish in the standings like the NFL. Do that and you're at 82 games. That will work.
Yo Tait, how ya feelin'?
Hope restored to Believeland?
cautiously optimistic or waiting for the bottom to fall out?
Last edited by Killakobe81; 06-09-2016 at 12:50 PM.
what if the conferences were randomized every year, like lottery style...
It'd be better just to eliminate them altogether at that point, which isn't a totally bad idea. You think the NBA doesn't want more Knicks-Lakers matchups, especially if both are good? More Spurs-Cavs and Warriors-Cavs?
I'm glad they showed they can beat the Warriors and I'm glad I can look forward to a Friday night Finals game. I still think the Warriors are the better team but I'm willing to take it game-by-game and see what happens.
Main issue is scheduling at that point, travel plans would probably be pretty crazy.
Look at baseball, which has teams on both coast in the same league. it can be done.
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