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re: NBA Considering Changing Draft Format
Posted on 12/23/13 at 11:03 am to craigbiggio
Posted on 12/23/13 at 11:03 am to craigbiggio
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That's a great point. Imagine if the Raptors have the #1 pick your freshman year, but the Lakers have it the next year. What to do?
Stay in school at least two more years because I don't want to play for either franchise
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Posted on 12/23/13 at 11:11 am to ballscaster
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That's exactly fair.
Drafts in sports leagues don't operate to be "fair" to good teams. They operate, collude, etc to try and give bad teams a chance to be competitive to increase the competitiveness of the league. They are essentially mini-socialist regimes.
Its all about TRYING to create, manufacture competitive balance and give bad teams/small markets a chance in hell.
Posted on 12/23/13 at 11:15 am to Fun Bunch
Honestly, the only problem in the NBA is the Eastern Conference right now. The West is as competitive as it's been in a long time. Might be time to get rid of East/West and come up with something a little more balanced.
Posted on 12/23/13 at 11:16 am to hendersonshands
quote:Why?
Honestly, the only problem in the NBA is the Eastern Conference right now. The West is as competitive as it's been in a long time. Might be time to get rid of East/West and come up with something a little more balanced.
Those things are cyclical.
I heard folks on the MSB saying the NFL divisions should realign because a 7-9 team made the playoffs. Now just, what, 3 years later, that may be the most complete division in the conference.
Posted on 12/23/13 at 11:22 am to hendersonshands
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Might be time to get rid of East/West and come up with something a little more balanced.
Get rid of conferences. There is no need to handicap teams into regional schedules in 2013.
1 League- 16 teams make the playoffs - the end
Posted on 12/23/13 at 11:26 am to rocket31
I definitely think they should at least start by getting rid of Divisions, which are stupid.
Posted on 12/23/13 at 11:26 am to rocket31
quote:
1 League- 16 teams make the playoffs - the end
Whatever gets the Pelicans out of the West.
Posted on 12/23/13 at 11:42 am to Fun Bunch
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Whatever gets the Pelicans out of the West.
Well, yeah, pretty safe to assume the Pels are included in the top 16 teams in the entire league - pretty much a travesty that if as one of the top 16 teams they will get no playoff chance. Anyways, its silly to keep the league structured around historically inane geographic ideologies Fuarrk, New Orleans isnt even on the West Coast - just lol.
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Posted on 12/23/13 at 11:42 am to Ed Wuncler III
quote:This is either untrue or inconsequential. The smallest market teams have been better than the largest market teams in the past decade.
Small market teams rarely get high level free agents,
quote:If giving everybody the same draft picks over a 30 year period is what keeps a small market team from succeeding, then there is no reason for its market to have an NBA franchise.
This is so unfair to small market teams its ridiculous.
Posted on 12/23/13 at 11:44 am to Fun Bunch
quote:You brought up fairness.
Drafts in sports leagues don't operate to be "fair" to good teams.
quote:The smallest market teams usually get worse draft picks than the largest market teams because the smallest market teams win more games.
Its all about TRYING to create, manufacture competitive balance and give bad teams/small markets a chance in hell.
The "woe is the small market team" argument is bogus.
Posted on 12/23/13 at 11:48 am to ballscaster
You are incredibly naive about the NBA. I don't know what to tell you if you think this is a good idea.
Posted on 12/23/13 at 11:50 am to tom
quote:
I wish they would just cut the season in half. Problem solved and no complicated draft format needed.
I personally loved the strike shortened season where they would sometimes play 3 straight
Posted on 12/23/13 at 11:56 am to Fun Bunch
quote:a) you didn't know that the small market teams are usually better than the large market teams
You are incredibly naive about the NBA. I don't know what to tell you if you think this is a good idea.
b) eliminating tanking is a good idea, and this is one way to do it. I don't know if this is a good idea or not.
Posted on 12/23/13 at 11:59 am to ballscaster
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you didn't know that the small market teams are usually better than the large market teams
What? Are you kidding? Traditionally that is not even close to the truth, this year and the Spurs not withstanding.
The Spurs are the only small-market champion in the past like 40 years, unless you count Detroit.
Posted on 12/23/13 at 11:59 am to Fun Bunch
quote:bad? yes. small markets? frick OFF!!
Its all about TRYING to create, manufacture competitive balance and give bad teams/small markets a chance in hell.
listen, salt lake city will never be NYC. milwaukee wont be LA. we cant legislate fair amoung cities. and the truth is-- its about being well run. i never hear people raving about living in san antonio, but they are perennially great. why? b/c they are run fantastically. the knicks are a dumpster fire despite signing huge free agent amare staudamire and melo forcing his way there. they are run poorly. despite being a major market.
i dont love this proposed system, but i love any idea that doesnt reward tanking. having any team in your league trying to be bad if awful for the league. and whats worse is it is completely beneficial for the team to do it, b/c it does pay off.
Posted on 12/23/13 at 12:04 pm to LSUTIGER in TEXAS
Then give everyone "in the lottery" and equal chance to get the number one pick.
Or the bottom 7 teams get an equal chance, and the next 7 get an equal chance for 8-15. Something like that.
Or the bottom 7 teams get an equal chance, and the next 7 get an equal chance for 8-15. Something like that.
Posted on 12/23/13 at 12:15 pm to Fun Bunch
This idea is fine and dandy until the league decides to expand or contract within the next 30 years.
Posted on 12/23/13 at 12:30 pm to Fun Bunch
quote:Traditionally there was no such thing as a tv market, much less its influence on the NBA.
What? Are you kidding? Traditionally that is not even close to the truth, this year and the Spurs not withstanding.
quote:Top 5 market teams (NY/BRO/LA/LA/CHI), 2006-2013: .500
this year and the Spurs not withstanding.
Bottom 5 markets (NO/MEM/SA/OKC/MIL), 2006-2013: .509
Top 5 market teams in today's standings: 62-75
Bottom 5 market teams in today's standings: 71-61
quote:Miami is a smaller tv market than Detroit.
The Spurs are the only small-market champion in the past like 40 years, unless you count Detroit.
This post was edited on 12/23/13 at 12:32 pm
Posted on 12/23/13 at 12:30 pm to reddman
Awful awful idea. Tanking is a bad team management problem, not a league problem. This type of nonsense is so unnecessary and a massive over correction.
...Miami's big 3 can be free agents after this season. They all opt out and sign with the franchise that they all know, in advance, will be drafting Wiggins or Parker. People bitch and moan about how unfair that was for the next decade.
...Miami's big 3 can be free agents after this season. They all opt out and sign with the franchise that they all know, in advance, will be drafting Wiggins or Parker. People bitch and moan about how unfair that was for the next decade.
This post was edited on 12/23/13 at 12:37 pm
Posted on 12/23/13 at 12:34 pm to LSUTIGER in TEXAS
quote:Absolutely. The Lakers don't have championships because Los Angeles is big, or else the Clippers would have titles, too. The fact is that the Lakers are historically well-run.
and the truth is-- its about being well run.
The Grizzlies have no titles not because Memphis is small, or else the Spurs would have no titles as well. The fact is that the Grizzlies, though well-run currently, are historically poorly-run.
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