NBA Season 2021-22

[gouki88]

I don’t know what the solution is, but wish the league would do something about this end of season nonsense. The hawks thunder game is not an nba game. 63-33 hawks and okc has shut down sga for the second straight season. Rockets kings would at least be interesting to see a few young guys but fox, sabonis, Gordon, Schroeder, wood, sengun and of course wall just for fun. A few of these must be actually injured, but obviously on the whole there are a lot of shanigans. Do season ticket holders just build this in expecting the last 7 games to be trash? (I’ve been considering nuggets cause I live here)

It makes for a horrific product, but I really don’t know how to address it.

[Who]

I don’t know what the solution is, but wish the league would do something about this end of season nonsense. The hawks thunder game is not an nba game. 63-33 hawks and okc has shut down sga for the second straight season. Rockets kings would at least be interesting to see a few young guys but fox, sabonis, Gordon, Schroeder, wood, sengun and of course wall just for fun. A few of these must be actually injured, but obviously on the whole there are a lot of shanigans. Do season ticket holders just build this in expecting the last 7 games to be trash? (I’ve been considering nuggets cause I live here)

It makes for a horrific product, but I really don’t know how to address it.

Get rid of the draft. Gets rid of incentive for tanking.

[liam]

I don’t know what the solution is, but wish the league would do something about this end of season nonsense. The hawks thunder game is not an nba game. 63-33 hawks and okc has shut down sga for the second straight season. Rockets kings would at least be interesting to see a few young guys but fox, sabonis, Gordon, Schroeder, wood, sengun and of course wall just for fun. A few of these must be actually injured, but obviously on the whole there are a lot of shanigans. Do season ticket holders just build this in expecting the last 7 games to be trash? (I’ve been considering nuggets cause I live here)

It makes for a horrific product, but I really don’t know how to address it.

Get rid of the draft. Gets rid of incentive for tanking.

My idea is the reverse draft. You have the lotto but the team with the best record in the lotto gets the top pick and so on. Makes all the teams play hard until the end.

[gouki88]

I don’t know what the solution is, but wish the league would do something about this end of season nonsense. The hawks thunder game is not an nba game. 63-33 hawks and okc has shut down sga for the second straight season. Rockets kings would at least be interesting to see a few young guys but fox, sabonis, Gordon, Schroeder, wood, sengun and of course wall just for fun. A few of these must be actually injured, but obviously on the whole there are a lot of shanigans. Do season ticket holders just build this in expecting the last 7 games to be trash? (I’ve been considering nuggets cause I live here)

It makes for a horrific product, but I really don’t know how to address it.

Get rid of the draft. Gets rid of incentive for tanking.

And replace it with?

[liam]

I don’t know what the solution is, but wish the league would do something about this end of season nonsense. The hawks thunder game is not an nba game. 63-33 hawks and okc has shut down sga for the second straight season. Rockets kings would at least be interesting to see a few young guys but fox, sabonis, Gordon, Schroeder, wood, sengun and of course wall just for fun. A few of these must be actually injured, but obviously on the whole there are a lot of shanigans. Do season ticket holders just build this in expecting the last 7 games to be trash? (I’ve been considering nuggets cause I live here)

It makes for a horrific product, but I really don’t know how to address it.

Get rid of the draft. Gets rid of incentive for tanking.

And replace it with?

Reverse draft, see above...


 

[Who]

I don’t know what the solution is, but wish the league would do something about this end of season nonsense. The hawks thunder game is not an nba game. 63-33 hawks and okc has shut down sga for the second straight season. Rockets kings would at least be interesting to see a few young guys but fox, sabonis, Gordon, Schroeder, wood, sengun and of course wall just for fun. A few of these must be actually injured, but obviously on the whole there are a lot of shanigans. Do season ticket holders just build this in expecting the last 7 games to be trash? (I’ve been considering nuggets cause I live here)

It makes for a horrific product, but I really don’t know how to address it.

Get rid of the draft. Gets rid of incentive for tanking.

And replace it with?

Put youngsters straight into free agency. Get rid of rookie scale contracts.

Bad teams will typically have more cap space and be able to take bigger chances on big contracts for young talent.

[gouki88]

I don’t know what the solution is, but wish the league would do something about this end of season nonsense. The hawks thunder game is not an nba game. 63-33 hawks and okc has shut down sga for the second straight season. Rockets kings would at least be interesting to see a few young guys but fox, sabonis, Gordon, Schroeder, wood, sengun and of course wall just for fun. A few of these must be actually injured, but obviously on the whole there are a lot of shanigans. Do season ticket holders just build this in expecting the last 7 games to be trash? (I’ve been considering nuggets cause I live here)

It makes for a horrific product, but I really don’t know how to address it.

Get rid of the draft. Gets rid of incentive for tanking.

And replace it with?

Put youngsters straight into free agency. Get rid of rookie scale contracts.

Bad teams will typically have more cap space and be able to take bigger chances on big contracts for young talent.

No thanks, I think this would have really bad consequences. Players would further gravitate to free agent hotspots / good teams. I think this would lock the NBA into an EPL-esque monopoly on winning, which would be horrible.

RE the reverse lottery, I think this would trap terrible teams in being permanently so.

[Goldstar88]

I don’t know what the solution is, but wish the league would do something about this end of season nonsense. The hawks thunder game is not an nba game. 63-33 hawks and okc has shut down sga for the second straight season. Rockets kings would at least be interesting to see a few young guys but fox, sabonis, Gordon, Schroeder, wood, sengun and of course wall just for fun. A few of these must be actually injured, but obviously on the whole there are a lot of shanigans. Do season ticket holders just build this in expecting the last 7 games to be trash? (I’ve been considering nuggets cause I live here)

It makes for a horrific product, but I really don’t know how to address it.

Get rid of the draft. Gets rid of incentive for tanking.

My idea is the reverse draft. You have the lotto but the team with the best record in the lotto gets the top pick and so on. Makes all the teams play hard until the end.

That is an interesting concept. I like it, Liam!

[#1P4P]

It takes bad teams years to get good with lottery picks, it might take decades for certain teams to get out of the doldrums with a reverse lottery.

I think it should be a lottery with all 30 teams participating with equal odds; with the prior years 1st ineligible to win it consecutively. The teams that win late 1sts get the incentive of an ascending exception for Free Agency with no negative impact to the salary cap.

I liked the idea more and more while I was typing.

[liam]

I don’t know what the solution is, but wish the league would do something about this end of season nonsense. The hawks thunder game is not an nba game. 63-33 hawks and okc has shut down sga for the second straight season. Rockets kings would at least be interesting to see a few young guys but fox, sabonis, Gordon, Schroeder, wood, sengun and of course wall just for fun. A few of these must be actually injured, but obviously on the whole there are a lot of shanigans. Do season ticket holders just build this in expecting the last 7 games to be trash? (I’ve been considering nuggets cause I live here)

It makes for a horrific product, but I really don’t know how to address it.

Get rid of the draft. Gets rid of incentive for tanking.

And replace it with?

Put youngsters straight into free agency. Get rid of rookie scale contracts.

Bad teams will typically have more cap space and be able to take bigger chances on big contracts for young talent.

No thanks, I think this would have really bad consequences. Players would further gravitate to free agent hotspots / good teams. I think this would lock the NBA into an EPL-esque monopoly on winning, which would be horrible.

RE the reverse lottery, I think this would trap terrible teams in being permanently so.

Bad teams would still have money to sign free agents to move up in the Lotto. No more tanking. GMs would have to make all there moves based on improvement.

[gouki88]

I don’t know what the solution is, but wish the league would do something about this end of season nonsense. The hawks thunder game is not an nba game. 63-33 hawks and okc has shut down sga for the second straight season. Rockets kings would at least be interesting to see a few young guys but fox, sabonis, Gordon, Schroeder, wood, sengun and of course wall just for fun. A few of these must be actually injured, but obviously on the whole there are a lot of shanigans. Do season ticket holders just build this in expecting the last 7 games to be trash? (I’ve been considering nuggets cause I live here)

It makes for a horrific product, but I really don’t know how to address it.

Get rid of the draft. Gets rid of incentive for tanking.

And replace it with?

Put youngsters straight into free agency. Get rid of rookie scale contracts.

Bad teams will typically have more cap space and be able to take bigger chances on big contracts for young talent.

No thanks, I think this would have really bad consequences. Players would further gravitate to free agent hotspots / good teams. I think this would lock the NBA into an EPL-esque monopoly on winning, which would be horrible.

RE the reverse lottery, I think this would trap terrible teams in being permanently so.

Bad teams would still have money to sign free agents to move up in the Lotto. No more tanking. GMs would have to make all there moves based on improvement.

The thing with bad teams is that they struggle to sign free agents in the first place, particularly if they're small market bad teams (Orlando, OKC, Indiana, etc.)

[Birdman]

Ugh Spurs loss a close one..want them to keep winning so Lakers won’t make postseason

[Phantom255x]

There's no way BKN is losing to Cleveland in the play-in tournament. So honestly, if not #1 I'm fine with the C's being #4. Face Chicago with HCA first round, then go up against Miami or the 8 seed (which wouldn't be BKN since they'd be the 7 seed). We avoid PHI/MIL as well that way until the ECF.

[Who]

There's no way BKN is losing to Cleveland in the play-in tournament. So honestly, if not #1 I'm fine with the C's being #4. Face Chicago with HCA first round, then go up against Miami or the 8 seed (which wouldn't be BKN since they'd be the 7 seed). We avoid PHI/MIL as well that way until the ECF.

I do not feel good about playing Chicago without Rob Williams. That looks a dangerous series to me.

Rob Williams is the cushion, the margin for error, for Boston that makes them comfortable against Chicago. Without Rob Williams, I see that series as uncomfortably close.

[Donoghus]

There's no way BKN is losing to Cleveland in the play-in tournament. So honestly, if not #1 I'm fine with the C's being #4. Face Chicago with HCA first round, then go up against Miami or the 8 seed (which wouldn't be BKN since they'd be the 7 seed). We avoid PHI/MIL as well that way until the ECF.

I do not feel good about playing Chicago without Rob Williams. That looks a dangerous series to me.

Rob Williams is the cushion, the margin for error, for Boston that makes them comfortable against Chicago. Without Rob Williams, I see that series as uncomfortably close.

Well, we'll get a possible preview of things next week in Chicago.