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SB Nation's NBA divison realignment
Posted on 11/26/14 at 3:16 pm
Posted on 11/26/14 at 3:16 pm
Looks pretty damn perfect to me:
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My central issue is that because the East has been so shallow for so long, you rarely get the 16 best teams in the league into the playoffs. Beyond that, teams in the West have a much tougher road to the Finals than their counterparts in the East every single year. A fairer system would simply take the 16 best teams and drop them into a playoff bracket
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Posted on 11/26/14 at 3:18 pm to okietiger
If you still play division teams more, frick the Big West.
Posted on 11/26/14 at 3:19 pm to okietiger
get rid of divisons. top 16 teams get in and be done with it
Posted on 11/26/14 at 3:19 pm to okietiger
Aww with that Suns don't get to play the Lakers. That's a lot of easy wins missed
It does make a lot of sense though. Always felt suns were out of place in the pacific
It does make a lot of sense though. Always felt suns were out of place in the pacific
This post was edited on 11/26/14 at 3:23 pm
Posted on 11/26/14 at 3:21 pm to okietiger
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Posted on 11/26/14 at 3:22 pm to wildtigercat93
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get rid of divisons. top 16 teams get in and be done with it
Yup. Tired of seeing the bullshite 5-8 East teams make it and teams like last years' Suns teams left out.
Posted on 11/26/14 at 3:22 pm to okietiger
looks good to me, but the "Big West" looks tougher than the current Southwest Division
Posted on 11/26/14 at 3:24 pm to okietiger
Terrible. If you can't make the top 8 in your conference you weren't good enough to make the playoffs and not good enough to win it all.
Posted on 11/26/14 at 3:25 pm to okietiger
Upvote - is this hypothetical or is the league really thinking of changing the conferences around?
Posted on 11/26/14 at 3:26 pm to idlewatcher
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idlewatcher
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hypothetical
Posted on 11/26/14 at 3:26 pm to okietiger
Seems legit, so it will not happen.
Posted on 11/26/14 at 3:27 pm to okietiger
I like it
Posted on 11/26/14 at 3:28 pm to Boomshockalocka
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Terrible. If you can't make the top 8 in your conference you weren't good enough to make the playoffs and not good enough to win it all.
Posted on 11/26/14 at 3:31 pm to quail man
The biggest thing to me is back-to-backs…
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The NBA has 160 days to play 82 games per team. (That includes taking Thanksgiving and one week in February off.) If every team played every other day, you'd only need four back-to-backs per team per season. Of course, this is impossible -- teams are going to need two days off to handle long travel, work around arena availability and to match up with the opponents' scheduling needs.
But by minimizing the number of two-day breaks while on the road or at home, you can reduce wasted days within the season. (If the Lakers are doing their only Southeast road trip of the season, they don't need two days off in between Orlando and Atlanta, unless they are hitchhiking.) Perhaps I'm underrating the difficulty of matching up schedules, but I think you can cut out five back-to-backs per team just through this improved realignment.
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There's another way to pick up some schedule breathing room and cut down on back-to-backs: shorten the preseason to five games max and start the regular season in mid-October. FIBA is committing suicide anyway by switching to a FIFA-style qualification system. The NBA Board of Governors has no allegiance to the international body, which holds some its tournament in September. Moving training camp up to mid-September and tip-off to around October 14 or 15.
You might cringe at expanding the season to cover even more of the calendar, but every day of breathing room at the front end means one more rest day during the season. If my math is right -- don't you roll your eyes -- you could eliminate back-to-backs by starting two weeks earlier and avoiding multi-day breaks when major travel isn't involved.
This post was edited on 11/26/14 at 3:33 pm
Posted on 11/26/14 at 3:32 pm to quail man
The big west winning percentage in interconference games would be much higher than the west is now.
Posted on 11/26/14 at 3:32 pm to quail man
Boom.
All that needs to be said/shown.
All that needs to be said/shown.
Posted on 11/26/14 at 3:33 pm to CocoLoco
That would be unfair to 6 teams there aren't 6 western teams that miss the playoffs each year to have a legit beef.
Posted on 11/26/14 at 3:34 pm to Boomshockalocka
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The big west winning percentage in interconference games would be much higher than the west is now.
false. there would be no more conferences.
Posted on 11/26/14 at 3:35 pm to Boomshockalocka
Do you not agree that the western conference is ridiculous overall? Look at our division for fricks sake.
Then you look at the eastern conference where majority of the western teams could make the playoffs, and any in our division could. Maybe you don't like that realignment, but something needs to be done about that the way it currently is.
Then you look at the eastern conference where majority of the western teams could make the playoffs, and any in our division could. Maybe you don't like that realignment, but something needs to be done about that the way it currently is.
Posted on 11/26/14 at 3:38 pm to CocoLoco
If you can't make the top 8 you don't have an argument. Can't beat out half the teams? Too bad.
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