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Silver Open To Changing The NBA Playoffs Field

I like the initial idea, but for it to make sense the scheduling would need to be adjusted. Western Conference teams would still be at the disadvantage of having to play better teams more often under the current scheduling of playing teams in your conference 3 or 4 teams and teams in the other conference twice.
 
nightmare3983 said:
I like the initial idea, but for it to make sense the scheduling would need to be adjusted. Western Conference teams would still be at the disadvantage of having to play better teams more often under the current scheduling of playing teams in your conference 3 or 4 teams and teams in the other conference twice.
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Easily done. Keep the 4 games agaisnt division foes every year. Then rotate the other divisions like the NFL does. Tweek it so you play a couple divisions maybe 4 times and the other divisions twice minus last years division winners or something to make it fit into 82 games.

Bigger intersting thing to me would be the seeding for the playoffs.

Would it be one bracket of:
1 v 16
2 v 15...
3 v 14...

Or the take every even seed into one playoff braket and every odd seed into another?
 
Stoked said:
Easily done. Keep the 4 games agaisnt division foes every year. Then rotate the other divisions like the NFL does. Tweek it so you play a couple divisions maybe 4 times and the other divisions twice minus last years division winners or something to make it fit into 82 games.

Bigger intersting thing to me would be the seeding for the playoffs.

Would it be one bracket of:
1 v 16
2 v 15...
3 v 14...

Or the take every even seed into one playoff braket and every odd seed into another?
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I agree that the scheduling would be easily done. It just didn't seem to be mentioned in the article.
 
The only downside to this is that it would make it harder for us to keep bouncing Houston out of the playoffs if meeting them there becomes less likely. . .
 
In general it would detract from rivalries. I understand the motivation for it, but am not sure it's the right thing to do.
 
colton said:
In general it would detract from rivalries. I understand the motivation for it, but am not sure it's the right thing to do.
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With the changes to the league over the years most rivalries are dead already. Players are all friends now.
 
Stoked said:
Easily done. Keep the 4 games agaisnt division foes every year. Then rotate the other divisions like the NFL does. Tweek it so you play a couple divisions maybe 4 times and the other divisions twice minus last years division winners or something to make it fit into 82 games.

Bigger intersting thing to me would be the seeding for the playoffs.

Would it be one bracket of:
1 v 16
2 v 15...
3 v 14...

Or the take every even seed into one playoff braket and every odd seed into another?
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1 v 16, etc, seems really interesting to me. We can get more interesting first round match-ups instead of games like CHA vs IND or MIA vs MIL which to me are just sooooo boring.


I almost never watch 1st round East Coast games.
 
It would be sad to say goodbye to the traditions of the past, but sometimes it's the obvious thing to do.
 
ONE LOVE said:
1 v 16, etc, seems really interesting to me. We can get more interesting first round match-ups instead of games like CHA vs IND or MIA vs MIL which to me are just sooooo boring.


I almost never watch 1st round East Coast games.
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I pulled up the 1st round match ups under both scenarios with current standings. I highlighted the most intriguing matchups to me.

One Bracket:

Warriors v. Thunder
Hawks v. Pelicans
Grizzlies v. Suns
Rockets v, Bucks
Blazers v. Bulls
Raptors v. Wizards
Clips v. Cavs
Mavs. Spurs

Two Brackets: (Odds and Evens)

Warriors v. Pelicans
Grizzlies v. Bucks
Blazers v. Wizards
Clips v. Spurs

Hawks v. Thunder
Rockets v. Suns
Raptors v. Bulls
Mavs v. Cavs

I like this idea more and more. So many potential new matchups! Doing it this way includes the Pelicans and Thunder over the Heat and Hornets
 
Stoked said:
I pulled up the 1st round match ups under both scenarios with current standings. I highlighted the most intriguing matchups to me.

One Bracket:

Warriors v. Thunder
Hawks v. Pelicans
Grizzlies v. Suns
Rockets v, Bucks
Blazers v. Bulls
Raptors v. Wizards
Clips v. Cavs
Mavs. Spurs

Two Brackets: (Odds and Evens)

Warriors v. Pelicans
Grizzlies v. Bucks
Blazers v. Wizards
Clips v. Spurs

Hawks v. Thunder
Rockets v. Suns
Raptors v. Bulls
Mavs v. Cavs

I like this idea more and more. So many potential new matchups! Doing it this way includes the Pelicans and Thunder over the Heat and Hornets
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Yeah either way it's gonna be exciting! I just like the idea of having 1 big bracket ala the NCAA tourney. I don't really see the benefit of splitting them into x2 groups, which further complicate things.
 
ONE LOVE said:
Yeah either way it's gonna be exciting! I just like the idea of having 1 big bracket ala the NCAA tourney. I don't really see the benefit of splitting them into x2 groups, which further complicate things.
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colton said:
In general it would detract from rivalries. I understand the motivation for it, but am not sure it's the right thing to do.
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I disagree.

Right now the biggest rivalries for the jazz are teams like Lakers, rockets, nuggets, etc..... what do those tabs have in common? All western conference teams.
Currently it is impossible for those rivals to ever face each other in the finals.
This would change that.

I think allowing rivals to meet in the finals actually increases the rivalry
 
Stoked said:
Doing it this way includes the Pelicans and Thunder over the Heat and Hornets
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This is the key.

Get the best teams in the playoffs...... that should be the only objective
 
Stoked said:
I pulled up the 1st round match ups under both scenarios with current standings. I highlighted the most intriguing matchups to me.

One Bracket:

Warriors v. Thunder
Hawks v. Pelicans
Grizzlies v. Suns
Rockets v, Bucks
Blazers v. Bulls
Raptors v. Wizards
Clips v. Cavs
Mavs. Spurs

Two Brackets: (Odds and Evens)

Warriors v. Pelicans
Grizzlies v. Bucks
Blazers v. Wizards
Clips v. Spurs

Hawks v. Thunder
Rockets v. Suns
Raptors v. Bulls
Mavs v. Cavs

I like this idea more and more. So many potential new matchups! Doing it this way includes the Pelicans and Thunder over the Heat and Hornets
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How are you not intrigued by Warriors vs. Thunder?
 
There would be some travel issues if the regular season schedule was adjusted. The NFL isn't a great model because one game per week is very different than a 82 game schedule. It isn't insurmountable, but coast-to-coast travel isn't nothing.
 
It be kind of cool to do it baseball style. Like travel to a place and play them twice in 4 days.
 
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