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Re: NBA Season 2023-24
« Reply #4920 on: April 15, 2024, 02:33:51 PM »

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Dalano Banton set a new NBA for most three pointers without making any. He was 0-15 last night.

The previous record was 0-12.

Re: NBA Season 2023-24
« Reply #4921 on: April 15, 2024, 02:37:42 PM »

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I thought this was interesting. It is a jpeg on a twitter post that shows the FT differential leaders year-by-year since the 1977 merger. It shows how the Lakers FT differential this year compares to league leaders in previous seasons.

https://twitter.com/georgemikan/status/1776344609838276615

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There's no recent historical correlation between the leaders in FT differential and great season success.

In the last 20 years, only 3 of the teams have won a playoff series. Over a third of them didn't even make the playoffs.

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FT differential leader since 2010: Hornets (+2,897)

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Re: NBA Season 2023-24
« Reply #4922 on: April 15, 2024, 06:42:36 PM »

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Lol ESPN is actually making the case that the Lakers should rest Lebron + AD tomorrow and tank to avoid playing Denver in the first round  :laugh:
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Re: NBA Season 2023-24
« Reply #4923 on: April 15, 2024, 06:59:15 PM »

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Lol ESPN is actually making the case that the Lakers should rest Lebron + AD tomorrow and tank to avoid playing Denver in the first round  :laugh:

What’s even funnier is that LAL is a miserable 1-7 against the Kings and Warriors this season, so winning that play-in game is far from a given.
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Re: NBA Season 2023-24
« Reply #4924 on: April 15, 2024, 07:26:54 PM »

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Yeah there is no way you tank the play-in
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Re: NBA Season 2023-24
« Reply #4925 on: April 15, 2024, 07:33:13 PM »

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Play-ins are completely random. It is whoever gets hot from 3 that night goes through.

Miserable. I hate them.

Re: NBA Season 2023-24
« Reply #4926 on: April 15, 2024, 07:49:24 PM »

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Play-ins are completely random. It is whoever gets hot from 3 that night goes through.

Miserable. I hate them.
at least on the west there isn't much difference, bit no way the East should have one with Chicago 7 games behind Miami and Atlanta is 10 games back.  Ridiculous nonsense
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Re: NBA Season 2023-24
« Reply #4927 on: April 15, 2024, 07:56:38 PM »

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Play-ins are completely random. It is whoever gets hot from 3 that night goes through.

Miserable. I hate them.
at least on the west there isn't much difference, bit no way the East should have one with Chicago 7 games behind Miami and Atlanta is 10 games back.  Ridiculous nonsense

By that logic we really should just skip the Eastern conference playoffs altogether, with the C’a up by 14 games over 2nd place.

Re: NBA Season 2023-24
« Reply #4928 on: April 15, 2024, 07:58:31 PM »

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Play-ins are completely random. It is whoever gets hot from 3 that night goes through.

Miserable. I hate them.
at least on the west there isn't much difference, bit no way the East should have one with Chicago 7 games behind Miami and Atlanta is 10 games back.  Ridiculous nonsense

By that logic we really should just skip the Eastern conference playoffs altogether, with the C’a up by 14 games over 2nd place.

I am down with that. Celtics, straight to the finals.

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« Reply #4929 on: April 15, 2024, 08:00:35 PM »

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In all seriousness, though, I don’t like the play in either. Just play the regular season and the top eight in each conference go to the playoffs. No need to make it so complicated.

Re: NBA Season 2023-24
« Reply #4930 on: April 15, 2024, 08:10:01 PM »

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Play-ins are completely random. It is whoever gets hot from 3 that night goes through.

Miserable. I hate them.
at least on the west there isn't much difference, bit no way the East should have one with Chicago 7 games behind Miami and Atlanta is 10 games back.  Ridiculous nonsense

By that logic we really should just skip the Eastern conference playoffs altogether, with the C’a up by 14 games over 2nd place.
No where near the same thing.
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Re: NBA Season 2023-24
« Reply #4931 on: April 15, 2024, 11:16:51 PM »

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In all seriousness, though, I don’t like the play in either. Just play the regular season and the top eight in each conference go to the playoffs. No need to make it so complicated.

I never liked it to begin with and I guess now am starting to like it less. To mo’s point they have to do some sort of addendum rule that if a team is like 7 games behind the other team they can’t replace them In the playoffs and don’t make the playin. If the Heat lose to the 76ers and then Jimmy butler gets food poisoning before the next game is it not terrible for the league if the hawks make the playoffs? And don’t forget something like this already happened a few years ago when Paul George got Covid before the playin game and missed it and the clippers lost. I like parts of the play in but some situations it doesn’t make sense. Perhaps just making it one game for the 8 and 9 would be better cause there are a lot more crappy 10th seeds than 9th seeds on the average year.

Re: NBA Season 2023-24
« Reply #4932 on: April 16, 2024, 05:22:04 AM »

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the problem with the play in is, generally (except for miami last year) the better team wins in a 7 game series.

in a play in type format and this "any given night" nature like the regular season. one guy on a garbage team can go off, they can shoot generational from 3 and thats it....game over...

vs having a whole season where you are 7-10 games better than that other team.

Re: NBA Season 2023-24
« Reply #4933 on: April 16, 2024, 07:03:07 AM »

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the problem with the play in is, generally (except for miami last year) the better team wins in a 7 game series.

in a play in type format and this "any given night" nature like the regular season. one guy on a garbage team can go off, they can shoot generational from 3 and thats it....game over...

vs having a whole season where you are 7-10 games better than that other team.

That's also sort of the reason that the better team advancing isn't important; most of the time they're just gonna get stomped by the 1 or 2 seed, no matter if they were the 7th seed or the 10th. Sometimes it will mean the better or more exciting team gets eliminated early, but other times it means the opposite. And from the revenue perspective, 6 guaranteed important games (plus a lower chance of tanking from some teams) offsets the potential losses
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Re: NBA Season 2023-24
« Reply #4934 on: April 16, 2024, 08:23:05 AM »

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I like the idea of the play-in tournament, but I think they should change to rules for seeding.  I think the teams should be able to pick their opponent.  The downside of being the #1 seed is that you’re the last team to know who you’re playing and be able to plan around that