re: Tim Legler calls out lack of effort in NBA: Teams are ‘borderline disinterested’

The regular season is about 15 games too long but they’re never going to give up the money they get from those games.

There's too much racism in today's NBA. I don't blame the players for not caring

Nba threads always turn into “whats wrong with the Nba” threads.

Ok. The players are much more athletic these days so game becomes dull. 3 point shot needs to be removed or dramatically changed. Games should be the same time length as college games. Season is too long. 55 to 60 games tops. Playoffs should keep same number of teams but have no series longer than 5 games. 7 makes no sense when you’re throwing out the same 5 guys every night. If 7 is necessary, why not 9 or 11?

Any shortening of games, season, playoffs will probably never happen anyway. Too much money involved.

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in his defense, he took over a league with an image problem.

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In the NBA players defense from the 70s for their lack of effort and selfish schoolyard play, half the League was on drugs.

What's today's players excuse for disinterest, laziness and zero drive to actually give the paying audience their dollar's worth of giving a crap?

That's one criticism you can never lay on the 80s Bird/Magic/Jordan/Bad Boy NBA...they came to play, they came to win like it meant everything and they gave the fans their moneys-worth.

the nba is a bunch of middle class and better private scool kids now and most of them are opulently wealthy by the age of 26. kyle kuzma has made over 100MM in contract money.

role players see themselves as moguls and influencers.

most 2000s nba stars were ghetto as frick and it was great.

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Silver isn’t interested in defense, utilizing the inside of the 3 point arc, making the game appealing to people above the age of 35, or creativity on the floor.

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silver’s opinions on those things have no bearing on the product on the floor. Those are all team building decisions made by individual teams looking at and analyzing data and efficiency models. If the NBA wanted to though, changes could be made. They could move the 3pt line back for example, using real data to determine the distance where the 3pt shot becomes similarly effective as the 2pt shot. And they could widen the lanes. And they could add a foul to the penalty limit. And they could do a myriad of other things relative to player behavior…

but the teams would have to vote and approve those things. Adam Silver would only be able to lead and suggest

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don’t watch regular season anymore but will be tuned into playoffs like usual.

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I sure wish the playoffs weren’t as long as they are. If they could go to a best of 3 for the playoffs and then the Championship game is best of 5 then it would help. The season ends and almost 2 months later is the finals. Ridiculous how long it takes.

The easiest thing to fix the 3pt line issue is to cap the reward of 3pt shots. Don’t move the line. Just make it where after so many makes it turns to 2pt shots. You can still shoot out there for spacing; however, you will not get the extra point.

Make it 2 made 3s per quarter that result in 3pts up until the last 3 minutes of the game. The last 3 minutes of the game there is no cap. That way until the last three minutes of the game you could only have 8 made 3s worth 3pts. At a 35% rate that is only 23 attempts at that point until maxed out.

It isn’t that crazy of a change as they have changed fouls results and foul limits over the years based off of time in the game.

The NBA should like it, as neutralizing perimeter shooting gives them more influence over the officiating and outcome of the game.

This change would end this nonsense with a quickness.

that’s a very good idea. Teams taking 50+ threes a game (sometimes, each team) is not a good watch