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Cavs would lose every first round. NBA can't do that.
What i mean is that 1-2-3-4 seeds of each conference would have to face 5-6-7-8 seeds of the other.
Each side of the bracket would feature the 1-2-3-4 seeds of each conference. So these teams won´t play each others untill the finals.
Home court advantage given directly to the team with the higher seed no matter the record.
No team would have an advantage on travel distance as all of the teams would have to travel a lot. 2-3-2 format could also help.
Thoughts?
Cavs would lose every first round. NBA can't do that.
Yes...
Top 16 teams get in. Damn the conferences.
1 vs 16, 2 vs 15, and so on.
Best of 16 would be the best though. The finals would be the best teams and not some watered down bull .
This.
And shorten the season to 70 games and have a tournament to determine the final 2 spots ala Bill Simmons.
It'll never happen, but we can dream.
YES!!!.
LeBron better think twice about staying East, easy-riding to the finals...
Yes, I would agree on a mixed playoof bracket.
top 16 >>>
what happens to eastern/western conference champs idk. who even cares about that ? for example: "we didn't win it all but we won the east that year!"
Yes. I'm tired of Lebron getting an easy trip to the finals year after year. The quality of the Eastern conference has been for decades.
no...i favor mixing up the divisions like in the nfl...national conference and american conference that way you could do a wholesale realignment.....just doing the playoffs still means teams out west play a tougher schedule especially in the southwest
no, though playing the bucks in the 1st round would allow the spurs to rest duncan/aldridge/manu for that series and allow us to start a lineup of Marjanovic/West/Bonner/Anderson/McCallum and still sweep easily tbh
yep, top 16 records is best for NBA, fairest to the fans.
But then he'll just get a couple more HOFs to join his team for peanuts while still adding great role players by the deadline...for peanuts.
League still banking on conference compe ion evening out down the road..The start would be with Durant moving to Washington..
I like ranking them 1-16 and then having them play the first round...
1 v 16
2 v 15
3 v 14
4 v 13
5 v 12
6 v 11
7 v 10
8 v 9
Then in the 2nd round, reseed again with the final 8 teams
Then reseed with the final 4 teams
In the finals, the team with the best record gets the HCA.
What better time to unveil my playoff structure then my first post...
Here it is:
- Eliminate conferences and divisions - every team plays every other team 3 times each season (totals 84 games). I don’t love this part of it but I think it is necessary to be fair.
- The top 16 teams get ranked going in the playoffs based on regular season record.
- The matchups for the first round of the playoffs is done by way of draft.
o The top ranked team get their choice of playing any of the other 15 teams in the playoffs regardless of location or record.
o Second, the next highest ranked team(the second best record assuming they weren’t chosen to play the first ranked team) gets their choice of the remaining 13 teams.
o And so on…until all 8 matchups are finalized
- After the conclusion of the first round there is another draft for the second round matchups. Draft order is still done by way of regular season record.
- For the semis the top ranked team gets to pick their matchup.
The main objection to eliminating conferences is that travel would be unbearable on the teams in the playoffs. But in this Draft process, the teams with the choice of matchup would certainly take travel into consideration. If Golden State had their choice and thought Boston was the easiest matchup, they would have to consider whether the cross country trip for a lesser opponent would be preferable to playing an injury stricken Portland squad which would require a much shorter flight. I think this process will naturally result in shorter trips and the enhancement of regional rivalries more than the current system. The Spurs would always choose Dallas or Houston if they were close to the weakest team available because it would require less travel. It would also add a natural insult ahead of the matchup for the team that is chosen because they would be seen as the easiest out of the bunch.
The draft process would also add a lot of intrigue to the playoff process. The question of who the top teams are going to pick would be fun to contemplate and the draft process would be can’t miss television. One issue is that every matchup has to finish before the draft for the next round can occur, but I think that is a relatively small issue which will just result in a 2-3 day break between rounds. The matchup draft and the analyzing of matchups would consume ESPN for that short break in game action.
I’m sure there are issues with this structure that I am not aware of but I don’t think there is anything that couldn’t be mitigated.
Then LeBron would take his talents to DC. It doesn't solve anything.
I'd roll top sixteen seeded regardless of conference. Conferences are important for travel, so I think they stay for the regular season. If they want to award a conference champ, it could be last team standing from either conference. Honestly, looking up at 2013 conference champ banner sucks. A dark time it 'twas indeed that summer...
First round of playoffs would be too boring then..
Why not expand the season to 87 games 3 games against every team. The take the top 8 records from them and have a playoff. This would give every team 5 more games equals to a 1st round playoff series for all teams. Then you have the rest of the playoffs for the top 8 to add to their year.
Ideally it would be as many mentions here, top16 and done. The format i proposed is to at least make the east a little less easy and the west a little less difficult.
Terrible imo.
You'd lose natural rivalries.
More playoff sweeps.
it's ok for the finals but it would suck round after round for team travel and tv schedules.
That would be great man.
This is useless because it wont happen. Our only hope for improvement is division winners not automatically getting a top4 seed if a team from another division has a better record.
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