Maybe they could just use the 2-3-2 format for cross conference match ups.
If NBA had a 16 team playoffs...
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Maybe they could just use the 2-3-2 format for cross conference match ups.
Bernie Madoff
Banned
There's not only the travel issue, there's also, more importantly, TV times to consider. Having Eastern and Western brackets guarantees most of the time that the games are played at a reasonable hour for each team. Imagine a year when one half of the bracket is a bit more lopsided than the other. The league likes broadcasting games one at a time as often as possible. They're not going to first round games have East Coast games starting at 9 ET, West Coast games starting at 5PT or 8PT (11 ET). Not when they currently get almost of the games on TV partner networks and use NBATV as little as possible. They're not going to have every game on 1 given night all playing at the same time, either.
The current set up fits perfectly since you can have 7/9.30 and 8/10.30 games and you just slot one from each bracket right in.
malbaker86
Gators
yep these two post are the main reasons why it would never happen. would be nice though, it really would be
If there was a 16 seed playoff these standings wouldn't be accurate because teams wouldn't play the same schedule. And maybe for the rest of the East this would be tough but the Heat are 21-5 against the West it doesnt matter who you put in front of them.
Don't accept this bullshyt.
A) They stretch the series out so far that travel really shouldn't be an issue.
B) Travel issues could easily be mitigated by having 2-3-2 across the board.
C) You have some pretty cumbersome inner-conference matchups. I remember a few years ago when Toronto played Orlando. You had SA vs. Seattle. LA vs. MIN a couple times. You got teams pretty far spread out north and south or even east/west in some instances inside their conference.
They don't do a straight top 16 tournament becuase they don't feel like having one. It's that simple. It's probably becuase Stern and co. don't want a conference to be diminished by only having 5 teams in the playoffs in a given year as if anyone gives a fukk or wouldn't notice the disparity anyway.
street heat
merchant of death
most of those series would not even be close... theres about the same number of good matchups as you would get the way it is now
You could still work it that way with interconference matchups. You will still have your west coast games and your east coast games. Honestly if they can work out this intracite as regular season schedule ensuring that each team plays the other conference a certain amount of times, and divisions foes a certain amount of times, and taking hockey into account for some teams, and taking the Rodeo and the Grammy's into account for others, I think they can work out a schedule for the playoffs that works.
954UAlreadyknow
All Star
Damn didn't think of that...............
I wouldve never thought the East would be trash for so long though
They have months to work with to make sure each team plays each other team.
There is no point in making playoff scheduling more complex than it already is.
East game= early game
West game = late game
They have months to work with to make sure each team plays each other team.
There is no point in making playoff scheduling more complex than it already is.
East game= early game
West game = late game
And you can still do that with a top 16 team format. Whatever east team is at home is the early game. Whatever west team is at home is the late game. What is so complex about that?
Would mid season tourneys work in the NBA? March Madness style single game elims?
