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R.D. Mangles posted:i am going to watch a football game between iowa and northwestern Mods
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leftist heap posted:I watch virtually no basketball now but I watched about 1.5 quarters of the blazers last night and Shaedon Sharpe did some fun looking stuff All other guards getting hurt seemingly unlocked his rear end
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Spacebump posted:Tournament remains dumb. They should have had a multi week break in the season, reduced games, and had a big single elimination tourney either with a few foreign pro teams invited or with the winner being guaranteed a playin spot. Yesterday's games were way better than average, what are you talking about? If it makes you feel better just pretend there's no tournament, if you don't care then the games count exactly like regular season games.
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Nov 4, 2023 20:42
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Lockback posted:Yesterday's games were way better than average, what are you talking about? If it makes you feel better just pretend there's no tournament, if you don't care then the games count exactly like regular season games. The Mavs Nuggets game felt like a normal regular season game with a worse court. The tournament is just branding designed to get people who don't watch the NBA until football ends to watch earlier. https://twitter.com/TheDunkCentral/status/1720494938905792633
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He is a bad example tbf
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Nov 4, 2023 21:07
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He’s just being honest, it’s real dumb and who cares
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Nov 4, 2023 21:08
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Spacebump posted:The Mavs Nuggets game felt like a normal regular season game with a worse court. The tournament is just branding designed to get people who don't watch the NBA until football ends to watch earlier. It was literally the only game that wasn’t great last night and you’re just grumpy that your team got shrugged aside
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Nov 4, 2023 21:08
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The NBA gdt thread had like 500 posts for a Friday night in November which is kinda crazy, so I guess we're just a bunch of NFL fans who don't really watch the NBA.
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Nov 4, 2023 21:09
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Imo the in season tournament should just be division tournaments. The cascadia cup during the mls season is at least fun and different from playoffs. Also you'd have a winner for each division, spread out the love a little.
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Nov 4, 2023 21:10
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I watched 3 games last night (Milwaukee, okc, Portland) and they were all incredible
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Nov 4, 2023 21:12
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Wow this is taken out of context. He was being asked about basic principles of team defense.
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Spacebump posted:The Mavs Nuggets game felt like a normal regular season game with a worse court. The tournament is just branding designed to get people who don't watch the NBA until football ends to watch earlier. Luka and Jokic go for 34/10/8 and 33/14/9 and you're complaining?? It wasn't exactly ~playoff atmosphere~ but it wasn't quite a normal regular season game either.
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Ghetto SuperCzar posted:Imo the in season tournament should just be division tournaments. The cascadia cup during the mls season is at least fun and different from playoffs. Also you'd have a winner for each division, spread out the love a little. Sure but it's cool they're trying something, they can always adjust it even set it up differently every year. Early results seem like it's slightly more interesting basketball which is a great result.
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Speaking of Dallas @ Denver, I thought an interesting narrative from that game was Luka getting MPJ switched on him a million times and it just not working at all. dnvr put out a quick article about it: https://thednvr.com/how-michael-porter-jr-shut-down-luka-doncic-and-the-mavs-offense/ edit: the first clip in this is really egregious on Luka, he misses a shot and just turns around and stands there while the guy who contested his shot gets the two most free points of his career: https://twitter.com/MattBrooksNBA/status/1720685546253480161 kingcobweb fucked around with this message at 21:26 on Nov 4, 2023 |
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Ghetto SuperCzar posted:Imo the in season tournament should just be division tournaments. The cascadia cup during the mls season is at least fun and different from playoffs. Also you'd have a winner for each division, spread out the love a little. Yeah I have no idea why you'd make new east and west "groups" when that's literally what divisions are already. Play up those rivalries!
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Nov 4, 2023 21:22
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kingcobweb posted:Luka and Jokic go for 34/10/8 and 33/14/9 and you're complaining?? It wasn't exactly ~playoff atmosphere~ but it wasn't quite a normal regular season game either. That's basically what Luka is averaging rn.
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embiid trying to flop on a play where he elbowed a guy in the face, today, was very funny
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kingcobweb posted:Speaking of Dallas @ Denver, I thought an interesting narrative from that game was Luka getting MPJ switched on him a million times and it just not working at all. dnvr put out a quick article about it: https://thednvr.com/how-michael-porter-jr-shut-down-luka-doncic-and-the-mavs-offense/ thanks for this, definitely impressive. mpj stays down and his length really bothers luka. He also forces him left a lot
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The answer to fixing the tournament is a guaranteed playin spot. Playin teams are already below 500 on the season, so if a team wants to win and coast all season, let them. BUT the playin token should be tradable including post deadline. Good teams who will make the playoffs can use it to make a trade that bolsters their playoff roster and bad teams can use it to shock the world or get a draft pick or whatever.
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a new study bible! posted:The answer to fixing the tournament is a guaranteed playin spot. Playin teams are already below 500 on the season, so if a team wants to win and coast all season, let them. BUT the playin token should be tradable including post deadline. my thought was to have the incentive be tied to end of season record: teams 1-6: pick your first round opponent teams 7-10: guaranteed playoff appearance (knocks team 6 into play in) teams 11-15: guaranteed playin spot (and you keep your lottery pick/odds even if you win the play in)
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Nov 5, 2023 00:11
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Guaranteeing a playin spot will add stakes and tension but that’s how you get the Washington Wizards in the playin tournament. Do you want the Washington Wizards in the playin tournament poo poo, I’m imagining some galaxy brain strategy of the Clips going all in on the tournament and then shutting down Leonard and PG for 4 months
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aBagorn posted:my thought was to have the incentive be tied to end of season record: This is a good idea. Being able to trade a playoff spot is a very bad idea. I think this early even good teams would be happy to lockin at least a play in spot, and it's not like they'd coast.
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How do you convince the playoff teams to try harder though?? My idea: you get an extra home game in the first round. So if a team wins then they’re seed five through eight, they have HCA; if they’re seed four through one, they have five home games out of seven in the first round
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WhyteRyce posted:Guaranteeing a playin spot will add stakes and tension but that’s how you get the Washington Wizards in the playin tournament. Do you want the Washington Wizards in the playin tournament yes, as soon as i read that post my first thought was "it'd be so cool if someone won the tournament then traded the token to Washington"
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Why are you guys all trying to fix something that we've seen about 5% of, and that 5% was really fun?
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because all of those people hated it the minute it was announced and then spent 3 months preparing to hate it once it actually launched
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Don't understand why the prize is never money. There are guys on 10-20 mil a year contracts that would still ball the gently caress out if there was like 20 mil on the line for every team.
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The prize is money
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Doltos posted:Don't understand why the prize is never money. There are guys on 10-20 mil a year contracts that would still ball the gently caress out if there was like 20 mil on the line for every team. the team owners should pony up the money and have to personally pay each individual member of the team that beat them after every game.
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xbilkis posted:The prize is money I know nothing of the in season tournament, it is revealed
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xbilkis posted:The prize is money
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https://youtube.com/watch?v=IiFUt5jtwlY here’s a vlog from a french blogboy traveling to see wembys debut
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The final should count as a chance for an extra win on the season instead of existing in purgatory. Also, the final should have all in arena tickets paid for by the nba and given out by raffle to fans of both teams.
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When LeBron won in Cleveland it was revealed that he still used a free pandora account. Tournament winners get free Spotify premium accounts
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tanglewood1420 posted:Why are you guys all trying to fix something that we've seen about 5% of, and that 5% was really fun? I think it’s fun and think it should be even more so
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kingcobweb posted:I think it’s fun and think it should be even more so yeah this basically. i'm hype for the nba cup. the more we get soccer type poo poo in the US the better. i just think some tweaks to the incentives would get more buy in from teams and players, which will filter out to how they promote it and get that excitement out to the fans
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Teams should make the most gauche, ugly jerseys and court they can for the tournament because history shows that people eat that poo poo up Yes, I have a neon lime green Atlanta jersey why do you ask
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WhyteRyce posted:Teams should make the most gauche, ugly jerseys and court they can for the tournament because history shows that people eat that poo poo up exactly, the pelicans understood the assignment, idk why nobody else did
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A guaranteed playin token that is fully tradable to until that trade deadline and expires immediately after is actually a really good idea from a chaos perspective and makes the playin even more intriguing and gets good teams trying hard early on because of the new tax aprons True harmony with everything the league is trying to do
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WhyteRyce posted:A guaranteed playin token that is fully tradable to until that trade deadline and expires immediately after is actually a really good idea from a chaos perspective and makes the playin even more intriguing and gets good teams trying hard early on because of the new tax aprons It will be so funny with the Knicks or Wizards trade the pick that becomes the next Kawhi or Jimmy Butler for the privilege of getting swept in an obliteration not seen since the Dream Team.
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