This NBA play in shyt is corny.

[IllmaticDelta]

Going back to the best of 5 in the first round and the play in tournament is the best thing the league has done in a while. The winning teams are rewarded but at the same time, they can't get too cozy once that first round starts.

when did this happen?

 

[G-Zeus]

One morenlogic can fix the play in...

Something like.. team 9 and 10 gotta win 5 outta last 10 or the top 8 goes in....

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

The bottom feeding teams are going to tank no matter what.

 

[FTBS]

I just said what my issue was. Those teams had their shot and didn't make it, what's the point of giving them a second chance? 72 games isn't enough time? Why not just go baseball and play 162 to make sure we get it right? Or would that still not be enough time to decide who should make the cut? Should we give the top seed in each conference a first round bye and let all 30 make the playoffs? The reality is that everybody can't make it and that's just what it is. It's an overcorrection to an overblown problem. Adding the play-in hasn't ended tanking, it hasn't ended load management, and regular season ratings being up this year has more to do with Steph Curry being healthy and New York teams being relevant.

Basketball is entertaining in general. I'm not going full LeBron and saying that adding the play-in is a fireable offense. But I just don't see why it's necessary. That doesn't mean the teams that are in it aren't capable of having entertaining games. I'm sure if they changed the rules so that only the lowest seed in each conference isn't in the play-in and we got the likes of Minnesota & Sacramento involved in a win or go home format there would still be good games. But does that mean they should do it?

The thing is we are actually on the same side. I'm actually more extreme than you. I look at having 7 and 8 seeds the way you look at the play-in. So I don't see that issue, as I think it's already way too many playoff teams and teams getting a shot that they really shouldn't be getting. They are never gonna have fewer playoff teams so why not have some entertaining fukkery with the seeds that mean nothing

 

[FTBS]

Yes we acknowledged it, but I don't agree with it. It should stop it in the playoff because your record is based on this geographic limitation. If they can't change the format of the league then leave the postseason the way it is.

Baseball still has divisions but their conferences are not geographically restricted. The Yankees will play a series in Tampa, come back host the Tigers, go out and do a series in Houston, and there's twice as many games in baseball.

If you don't want a geographic slant or divider in the postseason then your conferences shouldn't be limited by geography.

Edit: Not a perfect 41/41 but all leagues do intraconference play more so I was wrong on that anyway.

Intraconference:
4 games x 4 divisionals: 16
3 games x 6 conference: 18
2 games x 4 conference: 8
You play your 14 conference rivals 42x

Interconference:
3 games x 8 teams: 24
2 games x 7 teams: 14

You play out of conference 38 times. The league loses 2 games but the biggest stars take 10 games off anyway and schedule contraction has been talked about. But as long as you play your geographic conference 52 times and the other conference just 30, play your own conference in the postseason.

We view this differently and that's okay . That said, I don't even really have an issue with changing the regular season I just don't think it's necessary to change the playoffs and I doubt the players would go for it.

 

[aceboon]

As an objective fan of the NBA I don't know how you can watch these late season games, see the intensity these teams are playing with and think this shyt was a bad idea

 

[Saint1]

As an objective fan of the NBA I don't know how you can watch these late season games, see the intensity these teams are playing with and think this shyt was a bad idea

Exactly. Sunday is do or die now between Grizzlies and Warriors.
I have never in my life wanted to watch a grizzlies warriors game.

 

[100Percent]

Why should a team that’s been worse throughout the season get to jump ahead of another team that’s been better because of a stupid game?

it’s basically saying standings don’t matter

Because basketball is for entertainment at the end of the day and this makes the product more entertaining. More teams are actively competing this year than basically ever.

It's not exactly fair, but it is what it is

At the end of the day we talking about the 7th and 8th.... not exactly title contenders. They getting bounced in the first round regardless.

 

[El Guapo]

Seeing the Mavs and Blazers the past few weeks going all out to avoid going into the play-in and try and get that 5 seed against the Nuggets with no Jamal Murray has been interesting

I keep going back and forth if I like the play-in and as of right now I kinda like it.

 

[nieman]

Exactly. Sunday is do or die now between Grizzlies and Warriors.
I have never in my life wanted to watch a grizzlies warriors game.

It's always been like that for the last few teams. The play-in didn't change that. Sometimes the battle for 3-6th is just as tense.

 

[High quality poster]

when did this happen?

It didn’t. Homie playing too much 2k

 

[murksiderock]

Something to watch, if all the seeds or 3/4 seeds hold, it will hopefully dead this dumb shyt from being done again. The East 7 beat the 8, and the 9 beat the 10...

So if all or most of the seeds are gonna hold, what the fukk was the point of the fukking play-in?

 

[tjax03]

Play in has been a failure so far

No competition at all.

 

[tjax03]

The bottom feeding teams are going to tank no matter what.

Yep this didnt stop OKC or Pistons at all.

an 8-9 seed should not be getting spotlight like this.

 

[tjax03]

What needs to happen is they need to scrap the 7 seed. Just have 8-9 or if its a 3 way tie like how it was in the bubble have them all play each other