Not sure I'd like having to travel across country for a first round series. But we've done first round series in Texas so what's another 1000 miles? haha
Yeah, it'd either need to be an 87-game season (3x every team) or 58-game season (2x every team). I don't see either happening, but would be in favor of 58 games.
Wouldn't we be picked first - everybody should want to play against us. It would be a bye week to the 2nd round.
All 30 teams make the playoffs. There are consolation rounds. The team that loses every round has to play in China next season. barfo
How about top two seeds from each conference get a bye round and first round series go back to best of 5? Shorten the playoffs
Take the best 16 teams. Most seasons there will be 8 teams in each conference. In these years you keep everything as it currently is. Some years there will be 9 & 7. These years, you seed all the teams 1-7 based on conference. The last 2 teams in will be from the same conference, so 1 will 'flip' and play in the oposite bracket. The #1 seed with the best record would get the team with the worst record.
Yeah I see a major problem with seeding unless the schedule is evened out. If you kept the scheduling the way it is now, then teams in the worse conference would always benefit by having an easier schedule. Although if you evened it out by playing 3 games against everyone (87 game regular season) then I would suggest that you have a few 2 game series at one location to cut down on travel. For example one year the Blazers play Boston in Boston twice in a row..........then the next year Boston plays Portland twice in a row in Portland.
please explain why you think its a bad idea?currently and ofr a while, its been widely thought that the finals is really the western comference series. Lets get back to making the finals great again.
Travel is not an issue to be honest anymore. We played Memphis a couple seasons ago, nobody mentioned the travel. LA has played Minny in the playoffs at one point if I’m not mistaken. Obviously tougher on whoever is playing a west coast or east coast team, but travel should not be the reason they wouldn’t try this.
I'd be okay with it being randomized which teams you play 2x and which ones 3x. You can't make a perfectly level playing field, but at least you smooth out the regional imbalances.
He'll no. The Eastern teams have an easier schedule and better records because of that, so what does this fix?
Bill Simmons has been clamoring for that for more than a decade http://www.espn.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/070411
