GolfHos

such as :
if your conference can't field 8 .500+ teams and the other can,  the 9th(or whatever applies) seed from that conference replaces your 8th seed.. (and so on)

Best sixteen teams in the NBA, regardless of division or conference, seeded accordingly.

uh...no!

Free agency allows the East to get the players they need to compete against the West.  Why it hasn't happened
is beyond me.

[thread jack] Denver may miss out b/c they didn't take advantage of the trade deadline.  [/thread jack]

I'm gonna LMAO if the 8th seed in the East finishes below .400.

then get rid of the divisions/conferences

I'd be fine with that too. I also think the regular season schedule should be adjusted so that instead of playing teams in your conference 4x/year and non-conference teams 2x/year, each team should play each team 3x/year.

Teams like Boston and Detroit, good though they might be, have (IMHO) artificially inflated win/loss records because they play in the East.

Extend the season to 87 games.  Each team plays all the other teams 3 times.  Then take the top 16 teams for a playoff.

Spacey beat me to it!!!

Agree with Teed.

You have to play a balanced schedule. If the West is so tough, then a .400 team may be (probably is) better than a >.500 team from the East.

I have no problems putting the best 16 in the playoffs but there will always be issues if you try and do it in the context of Divisions and Conferences.

Plus it's all cyclical. 10 years from now we'll probably be having the discussion that the East is too tough and the West sucks.

Too many teams playing too many post season games anyway.

budweiser.rejoices.

team 16b* "waaah, but we played boston twice in boston and they only played them once in boston"
(* denotes same overall W-L record and playoff assignment based on tiebreaking criteria)

 

How about reducing the regular season? Nobody would go for it because it means less $ but how about home-and-home against everyone for a 58 game regular season.

Then the friggin' playoffs wouldn't reach into June when even NBA fans don't give a *feces* anymore.

i like it.  then again, what else am i gonna watch in june ?

Eldrick winning the U.S. Open?   [sm_devil] ;) ;D

*fiddlesticks*offnowadaysnbawhogivesa*feces*anymore

 :redcard:

 [sm_laughing] [sm_beertoast]

 ;D

It has already happened Captain.  It will happen again.

(http://us.ent4.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/paramount_pictures/star_trek__nemesis/brent_spiner/nemesis3.jpg)

euro 2008  FTW  while  tiger zooms through the open
 [sm_devil]

 :redcard: [sm_bs]

Pistons are 16-7 against the west.  ;)

IIRC, 16-8 .. although  6-4 against  the west's top 6 with 2 to play.

.756 against East, .666 against West.  8)

if you take the pist-ons and the spurs and you swap their conference affiliations, then extrapolate total season W/L records based on aggregate OOC performance (ignoring factors like intraseason head to head against teams from those divisions etc because it takes wayyyy toooo much time for me to look up, granted, it should be done)

projections:

spurs 62/20   .758
pist-ons 57/25  .699

 8)


not even f'n close.  [sm_devil]

so what!  Shaq FT% sucks both at home and on the road.  they're pros, home court advantage shouldn't matter to these guys.

We're going to see what the East's best are made of in the coming weeks:

3/14 Utah
3/17 @SA
3/18 @Houston
3/20 @Dallas
3/22 @NO
3/26 Phoenix
3/28 NO

If they can get through the TX-LA stretch with 2 wins out of 4, I'll be impressed.

Of course, the remaining schedule after that is a complete joke with at least one game against each of the bottomfeeders in the East (Miami, Chicago, Indiana, Charlotte, Milwaukee x 2, Atlanta, and NY). Washington and NJ are the only two playoff teams they'll be playing after the brutal stretch against the WC.