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The Play-In: Should it Be Permanent?
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Thing is, Washington may actually get the 8th seed outright and wouldn't have needed the play-in. But I'm def for the play-in.
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They did after all,but i believe they would have quitted mentally way earlier if the didn't have to hope for the playin. Pacers collapsed though and Hornets got many injuries so Wizards managed to get 8th.
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Hard to believe Beal and Westbrook would've quit but we'll never know.
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No. Made sense this year with short schedule. Normally every team in a conference has same schedule. True, Team A might play the Lakers with LeBron and Team B without but still schedules are equivalent. With short schedule not so play-in rectifies any statistical anomalies. In an 82 game season you have a pretty good idea who the top 8 teams are. Only modification I could consider is top 16 teams regardless of conference, to eliminate situation where one conference can have two losing teams in playoffs and the other have two winning teams in lottery.
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It’s even. Every team played every team in their conference 3 times, and every team in the other conference twice. That’s actually more fair than 82 games schedule where you play some teams three times and others 4 times.
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So they just showed the schedule on ESPN. Warriors/Lakers or Blazers and Grizzlies/Spurs will be on Wednesday. The game to decide the 8th seed will be on Friday. I guess the East games will be on Tuesday and Thursday.
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I'd bet that it's here to stay.
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THIS!!!!!
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not only do I like the play-in concept, I really like the 72 game season and the tiebreak system. Keep both and modify the draft lottery
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agree on 72. just spread that out over a normal 6 month schedule unlike this abbreviated stuff.
play in is here to stay. the only way i see them nixing it is LA somehow ends up getting bounced before the playoffs.
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This is a great idea for player longevity and quality of product but as the NFL just showed us, no league is going to play less games than they have before if those games can make them extra money.
I expect next season to be 82 games followed the play-in before our all 7 game series playoffs.
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We’re gonna miss the playoffs this year, right? Morale is down after loss to Suns, right?
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Don't misquote me. We could have missed the playoffs. The Nuggets just threw us that game and if we hadn't won it (yes we could have won it even if the Nuggets tried) then we would have been in a play-in game against a surging Warriors team and then if we lost that a play-in that would have likely been against a Memphis team that we're 1-2 against. We just weren't that far away from missing the playoffs but I was always leaning towards this being the outcome.
You were sure that Utah, Phoenix and Denver would throw games to us... I wasn't. I wasn't even sure about tonight. That being said... we're in and have three losses that we can afford and still get to the next round. Go Blazers!!!
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Utah, Phoenix, and Denver all rested players as I predicted. Also- yes we COULD have missed the playoffs, but the Hornets COULD win the championship. Get it? Have some faith in Dame, man.
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Who knows? Next year we may have to participate in the "play in" seed. An important player for a team may return during this period. A team may be on a hot streak. Currently, a Lakers Warriors series is what the league wants this year too. So, it should always be a part of the system for any team that may end the season with a hope.
It gives more teams a chance, a longer NBA post season and more fan participation at the bar.
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Sadly it's here to stay but the league needs to make some tweaks to it. For those trying to hype up the GS/Mem game as a reason why the play-in is a good thing, it would have been so much better under the old format where it was win or go home. Both teams knew they had more games to play. The only team it might have kept involved this year in the west is the Spurs and that team has been coasting for the better part of a month, not looking real interested in putting up any kind of fight. The league struck gold this season with it being GS/LAL ... if the Lakers and Warriors are healthy and this is a Blazers/Mavs game, then it isn't getting nearly the kind of hype that is. And for all the talk about teams not resting players down the stretch, sure seemed like some lengthy injury reports before games. I get that people are excited for something new, but I really don't think the actual net gain for fans was nearly as much as just six extra basketball games.
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I think the play in stays and I think that is great.
It provides a larger incentive to be the 5th and 6th seed.
It also gives the 11th and 12th place teams a chance to have more meaningful games in the later part of the season. I can't stand the last few months of the NBA season when a dozen teams are trotting out DLeague lineups.
In a future season we might see a really good team that is ravaged by injuries go on a tear at the end of the season to make the 10th spot, and even compete for a title. That is great. Its still a hard road to do that from a playin spot, so such a team will definitely deserve a title if they can pull it off.
Get rid of divisions entirely, it stupid Dallas got a tie breaker this year as a division winner.
I would like to see the league get back to backs down to under 5 a season. Maybe stick to the 72 game season, or have the finals go into July. Have free agency before the draft.
Have the higher seed pick their opponents. Its stupid teams might prefer the 4th seed to the 3rd seed with a matchup, but if they would have first pick of opponent as 3rd seed the team would always want that higher seed. It also provides a better reward to 1+2 seeds since they could avoid a hot stacked playin team in round 1 if preferred. Lastly it provides a great underdog locker room material to the lower seed as the team wanted to play them.
It provides a larger incentive to be the 5th and 6th seed.
It also gives the 11th and 12th place teams a chance to have more meaningful games in the later part of the season. I can't stand the last few months of the NBA season when a dozen teams are trotting out DLeague lineups.
In a future season we might see a really good team that is ravaged by injuries go on a tear at the end of the season to make the 10th spot, and even compete for a title. That is great. Its still a hard road to do that from a playin spot, so such a team will definitely deserve a title if they can pull it off.
Get rid of divisions entirely, it stupid Dallas got a tie breaker this year as a division winner.
I would like to see the league get back to backs down to under 5 a season. Maybe stick to the 72 game season, or have the finals go into July. Have free agency before the draft.
Have the higher seed pick their opponents. Its stupid teams might prefer the 4th seed to the 3rd seed with a matchup, but if they would have first pick of opponent as 3rd seed the team would always want that higher seed. It also provides a better reward to 1+2 seeds since they could avoid a hot stacked playin team in round 1 if preferred. Lastly it provides a great underdog locker room material to the lower seed as the team wanted to play them.
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I like it. I think that it rewards deeper teams, keeps more teams (and fans) involved longer, and gives teams with early injuries a chance to make the playoffs.
The worst-case scenario is that a top seed gets a really hot team who barely squeaked in, but that's just part of the game.
The worst-case scenario is that a top seed gets a really hot team who barely squeaked in, but that's just part of the game.