Wait!! There's no OKC VS Phoenix playoff thread?

[triplehate]

Yeah I’m straight with best to 7 in round 1, but there should be this type of clause. Like a 21-skunk thing yknow. The game of basketball is just hurt by seeing more of this or more of 76ers-Celtics. Just makes the product look worse

Playoffs should be single game, but y'all not ready for that conversation yet

 

[DaRock]

6 straight blowouts

adam silver is a play in merchant

@CantStop

These were the first round match up record wise sans Portland and Phoenix flipping 7 and 8..the results would still be the same.

Not sure what the play in has to do with teams are just better than others and game 1 blowouts..
If we know anything about NBA playoffs basketball a series can completely flip off of 1 game..

 

[Nero Christ]

If you go up 3-0 in round 1 the series should be over automatically. This is stupid

Just take it back to best of 5, but the owners want those 2 guaranteed playoff games

 

[Mike18jj]

I think the best out of 5 in the first round need to comeback, but I know it never will

 

[SchoolboyC]

OKC beat Memphis even worse than this in G1 last year

Swept New Orleans the year before

This series only being played because they’re required to, it’s a formality. And the same would be happening to the Warriors & Clippers

 

[Rigby.]

Playoffs should be single game, but y'all not ready for that conversation yet

Nahhh lol. You’re basically b*stardizing the history of the league doing that breh. It would be essentially a whole separate timeline for the sport

 

[Regular_P]

Villain already having 12 shots is outrageous.

 

[Buckeye Fever]

Brooks a goofy. Y'all down 20

 

[Regular_P]

nikkas hate narratives and shyt but we coulda got GS’s last worth a shyt season against the nikkas that they beat in their second most high profile series during their run. OKC tucking Steph and the dynasty in woulda been way more worthwhile than seeing Buns get that same treatment.

No, it would have looked exactly the same.

 

[Tribal Outkast]

Playoffs should be single game, but y'all not ready for that conversation yet

That def would make guys care more. If you know you’re in a 7 game series you can coast in a game or two. A one game elimination would be crazy for the nba.. nba cats need the money to pay the players tho

 

[SchoolboyC]

Playoffs not starting for OKC until the WCF

Phoenix doesn’t have a chance and neither does whoever wins between Houston & LA

 

[Rigby.]

No, it would have looked exactly the same.

Did you skip the first sentence of that post?

Hell I literally say what you just said in the end of it. The point wasn’t that the result would materially change, the level of interest that result would have does. Narratives do matter (in the NBA more than any sport)

 

[Regular_P]

Did you skip the first sentence of that post?

Hell I literally say what you just said in the end of it. The point wasn’t that the result would materially change, the level of interest that result would have does. Narratives do matter (in the NBA more than any sport)

The first quarter would have a few more viewers and that's it. Portland was the only team in the play-in who might have been somewhat competitive with OKC.

 

[triplehate]

Nahhh lol. You’re basically b*stardizing the history of the league doing that breh. It would be essentially a whole separate timeline for the sport

I mean yeah, but I'm a casual that don't really care about that part. I just know I would watch if it's single elimination like March madness

 

[Loose]

Man yall hate everythibg lol. First
Round is fine playin is fine