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I personally think New Orleans and Memphis should be moved to the eastern conference.
The Spurs used to be an eastern conference team. I think the league could/should consider reconfiguring the Eastern and Western conferences. Teams like Denver, New Orleans and even the Texas triangle could travel east as easily as they travel to the west coast. I suppose the harder part would be determining which eastern teams would have to go west.
If you just seed according to record you may as well not have conferences or divisions at all. Just have a giant combined league and go from there.
I personally think New Orleans and Memphis should be moved to the eastern conference.
then what? just have the Eastern conference be bigger than the west?
Rofl, exellent point
Says who?
In this thread alone I read one or two plausible options to what's currently the status quo.
I'm sure other great basketball minds can come up with something that can solve what has been going on in this decade.
Let's face it, the West has been either better or much better than the East since 1999. Detroit and Miami have been the exception (and look where Miami is now). Even the 2002 Nets would've been a 5 - 8 seed in the West.
How so... in the NBA Finals teams dont travel back and forth every other day... we would have a 2-3-2 format.
nothing needs to be solved, this is just reactionary, short-sited, whining. are you a denver fan or something? you think that they are getting robbed, that despite only managing the 9th best record in the west, they have a legitimate shot at the le?
Who cares if some crappy teams from the east get into the playoffs, or if some better then crappy teams in the west don't, they are all irrelevant anyways, none of them will win 16 post-season games.
If the NBA has a problem, it's that too many teams make the playoffs, and the playoffs go on and on, they should switch to the NFL system:
12 teams make it, 4 teams get a buy, the first round is best of 5. and divisions need to mean something again, just like teams play own their conference more often, they should play their own division more often as well, 6 games per year against divisional opponents. there there's a proposal worth raising a fuss about.
Shortsited? The system sucks. Deal with it.
are you a denver fan or something?
I am. Thanks for helping me come out of the closet
you think that they are getting robbed, that despite only managing the 9th best record in the west, they have a legitimate shot at the le?
Actually, given that you are focusing on Denver (9th), they have a better record than the 4th seed in the East, and Portland (10th) has a better record than the East's 5th seed.
Atlanta is making the playoffs, for chrissakes! They are playing 42% ball! They have a worst record than ing Sac-Town
And you are telling me ther is nothing wrong with that? You are ing delusional.
Who cares if some crappy teams from the east get into the playoffs, or if some better then crappy teams in the west don't, they are all irrelevant anyways, none of them will win 16 post-season games.
Relevance?
So you are also claiming for change . . .If the NBA has a problem, it's that too many teams make the playoffs, and the playoffs go on and on, they should switch to the NFL system:
12 teams make it, 4 teams get a buy, the first round is best of 5. and divisions need to mean something again, just like teams play own their conference more often, they should play their own division more often as well, 6 games per year against divisional opponents. there there's a proposal worth raising a fuss about.
its a little unbalanced this year, that is a far cry from sucks, the system is supposed to allow the best team to win, and it does.
nothing wrong with that, a few crappy teams make the playoffs, so what? they'll get quickly dispatched, the playoffs isn't there to reward the 16 best teams, it's there to weed out all but oneActually, given that you are focusing on Denver (9th), they have a better record than the 4th seed in the East, and Portland (10th) has a better record than the East's 5th seed.
Atlanta is making the playoffs, for chrissakes! They are playing 42% ball! They have a worst record than ing Sac-Town
And you are telling me ther is nothing wrong with that? You are ing delusional.
since it is an entertainment business, shorter, more meaningful playoffs would be a change for the better, as would more divisional games, get some real rivalries going.
How is Denver, a team with the players they have and probably 50 wins this year, going to drop below .500 with the addition of a lottery pick? That makes no ing sense at all. It's like some of you people pull these arguments out of your ass to support a weak position. And how can you possibly know that Oden won't make it through a season? If you have that kind of crystal ball, you need to get your ass to Vegas, not waste it on message board prophecy.
The West will probably be dominant for another two or three years, meaning at least two sub .500 EC playoff teams, and maybe three like this year.
Says me. As in my opinion. As in I typed it.
That's what we're doing here, right? Throwing opinions around?
I'm with the lot who think you don't blow up a system that has been in place and worked well for a few decades because of a couple of statistical outliers.
oh wow, a lottery pick? really? so the 13th best player in college right now is going to save that team?
I'm sorry none of that makes any f***ing sense to you, that really is sad
You know how the lottery works, right? They could vault into the top 3. It's not strictly by record. Sorry if that doesn't make any ing sense to you.
Even if they don't, that 14th pick, the lowest in the lottery, will likely be better than the 15, 16, and 17 picks of the three EC playoff laggards.
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