NBA with major rule changes to speed up game- Less timeouts and shorter

[tremonthustler1]

The only people I saw complain about this were talking heads on ESPN. The timeouts were fine. They are just tinkering with shyt to tinker with shyt. The sports media got them to tweak the "hack a shaq" rules too by constantly complaining about one years playoffs where only 2 or three players were rightfully constantly hacked cause they can't shoot fukking free throws.

I'm not saying that the NBA shouldn't be proactive in looking for ways to improve the game, but don't change some shyt when the sports media is the main people complaining. Most these nerds never even played organized basketball a day in they life and weren't even good enough to make their high school team.

Don't give sports media more power than you think they have.

 

[Double Burger With Cheese]

Don't give sports media more power than you think they have.

I know the NBA is always looking at stuff on their own. But it seems like the media will accelerate shyt when they keep talking about certain issues. For example, the free throw shyt from like 2 years ago. All they did was fukking cry the whole playoffs, then the NBA tweaked the rule in the offseason. The fans I know that are heavily into the NBA almost are never outraged by shyt like how the media is. The main group of people who seems to be outraged at a lot of these so called problems, are media members.

 

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

I'm starting to think we won't see it and it's due to logistics the NBA can't fix

There's (hardly insurmountable) logistical hurdles to doing away with conferences, but what's the logistical hurdle to only going to 1-16?

More country crossing series actually help the NBA's desire to draw out the playoffs.

 

[tremonthustler1]

There's (hardly insurmountable) logistical hurdles to doing away with conferences, but what's the logistical hurdle to only going to 1-16?

More country crossing series actually help the NBA's desire to draw out the playoffs.

What if every game starts at the same time? It sets up a situation where the NBA would be going up against itself. It's a TV thing as well as travel stuff

 

[dh86]

The only people I saw complain about this were talking heads on ESPN. The timeouts were fine. They are just tinkering with shyt to tinker with shyt. The sports media got them to tweak the "hack a shaq" rules too by constantly complaining about one years playoffs where only 2 or three players were rightfully constantly hacked cause they can't shoot fukking free throws.

I'm not saying that the NBA shouldn't be proactive in looking for ways to improve the game, but don't change some shyt when the sports media is the main people complaining. Most these nerds never even played organized basketball a day in they life and weren't even good enough to make their high school team.

If you watch basketball to see a man horseback ride another mans back to get him on the FT line, that's you. Tv networks said ratings dropped when games turned into that, NBA adjusted. Think anyone quit watching because Deandre Jordan shoots less FTs?? Many of the issues people have with the NBA also have with college basketball. That's invalid too?

 

[Double Burger With Cheese]

If you watch basketball to see a man horseback ride another mans back to get him on the FT line, that's you. Tv networks said ratings dropped when games turned into that, NBA adjusted. Think anyone quit watching because Deandre Jordan shoots less FTs?? Many of the issues people have with the NBA also have with college basketball. That's invalid too?

How many times have you seen a man horseback ride a man to get free throws?The answer is not more than a handful. I don't believe ratings dropped because of too many free throws or flopping. I understand your point about college, but I view that as a totally different game than the NBA. They both may share similar issues, but both have their own unique problems.

My main point is that I think the media initiates a lot of these changes that we've seen in the past few years, and kind of exaggerate the problem to where they make it seem like the game is dying cause of this, that, or the third

 

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

What if every game starts at the same time? It sets up a situation where the NBA would be going up against itself. It's a TV thing as well as travel stuff

Why would every game need to start at the same time?

 

[tremonthustler1]

Why would every game need to start at the same time?

If you're in the same time zones roughly it's harder to space games out without them overlapping. In other words, with East /West you know there's gonna be a 10 or 10:30 eastern time. If most of the games are in the same or similar zone, the only way to get the games in is to schedule them concurrently

 

[FTBS]

Bout time. I never understood why they added TV timeouts without taking away some team timeouts. I say take even more of those shyts. The last few minutes of a close game are eternal and there is really no reason for it. How many timeouts do you really need? Make teams play up and coaches actually strategize without the crutch of constantly stopping the game...especially late.

 

[CarltonJunior]

What if every game starts at the same time? It sets up a situation where the NBA would be going up against itself. It's a TV thing as well as travel stuff

If you're in the same time zones roughly it's harder to space games out without them overlapping. In other words, with East /West you know there's gonna be a 10 or 10:30 eastern time. If most of the games are in the same or similar zone, the only way to get the games in is to schedule them concurrently

Well whichever team is at home wouñd have a game start at a time appropriate to that time zone. And West teams already do gameds that start around noon their time anyway like on xmas.

But that being said I can see your point, I think interest would skyrocket with 1-16

 

[Romey Rome]

how is anything of higher importance than top 16 best teams seeding for the playoffs. The east isnt even trying at all. this has been going on for 20 years when is the balance gonna come

 

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

If you're in the same time zones roughly it's harder to space games out without them overlapping. In other words, with East /West you know there's gonna be a 10 or 10:30 eastern time. If most of the games are in the same or similar zone, the only way to get the games in is to schedule them concurrently

I see what you mean. In the worst case scenario where all 1-8 teams are on the West coast, the weekends shouldn't be a problem, but during the week, there's not 2 west coast timeslots after 6pm PST (the earliest you could start a home playoff game imo) that wouldn't overlap yet still air early enough for East Coast viewers.

If they keep divisions, what if the seeding is first done by division winners, then the remaining 8 "wild card" teams are decided purely by record? Then the first round will surely have an equal number of eastern/western home teams. By the second round they should be able to space the games as needed.

Not true 1-16, and I'm sure folks will not like the notion of a division winner with a worse record than a nondivision winner getting home court advantage, but a step in the right direction.

 

[dh86]

Well whichever team is at home wouñd have a game start at a time appropriate to that time zone. And West teams already do gameds that start around noon their time anyway like on xmas.

But that being said I can see your point, I think interest would skyrocket with 1-16

"Golden State is playing MILWAUKEE in round 1! Isn't that shyt lit!"

 

[dh86]

how is anything of higher importance than top 16 best teams seeding for the playoffs. The east isnt even trying at all. this has been going on for 20 years when is the balance gonna come

Didn't Portland and Denver battle for the 8 seed in the west?

 

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