Around the NBA 2022 Playoffs: The Thread

What's he rattling on about? We've had days with no games and it's been annoying. The second Saturday of the playoffs, no games at all. It was ridiculous.

 

So the Dubs couldn’t finish this last night. So that means I’m on a 7am flight BACK to SF. And I actually got my worst airplane seat ever! C’Mon FAMS!

 

Apologize in advance does anyone know if Dish network has blazer games on it? I tried google and it looks like it was going to be offered last year and then they pulled back. I want to switch from cable to dish but only if I get blazer games. Sorry again probably not spot to ask

 

Dish does if you include certain streamers. It's why the new deal has more availability to viewers.

 

Lets hope your flight back to Dallas is better.....

 

I like this a lot, but splitting up the Texas teams into two divisions is a bit clunky. Same with Philly and the Atlantic teams. But this mostly makes sense geographically when you look at a map like this one.

How would you break down the schedule?

Divisional games:
4 games * 3 teams = 12
Conference games:
3 games * 12 teams = 36
Inter-conference
2 games * 16 teams = 32

80 game schedule would be a good start but it would create a perpetual imbalance in home/road games among conference teams not in the division. Ideally, I'd make those 2 games like the inter-conference matchups to bring the total to 68, but they'd probably never agree to the reduced revenue.

 

I like that breakdown if we really have to have that many divisions. But do we?
As of right now winning a division means absolutely nothing towards the playoff seedings. So I guess I don't see the point.

 

i absolutely still see the merit of divisions to reduce excessive travel. probably meaningless in the east when every other opponent is <2 hrs away on a flight but it absolutely matters in the west.

the current NW division is a prime example-- we have two teams in our own division who are two timezones away.

 

True but using that suggested breakdown, which is better than what we currently have, we are still only talking about 3 extra games played that are in our division.

I think they just need to do a better job of scheduling. Use the new breakdown as a guideline for all road trips. And don't have a team go on a long road trip, fly home, play one game, and then go out on the road again. That is crazy.

 

whatever the divisions, I want Portland in the same one as Vegas. Blazers, Seattle, Vegas, Sacramento. Blazer road games in Vegas would be fun

 

I believe it already is imbalanced for in conference, out of division games currently. We play each east team twice, that's 30. We play our division 4 times, that's 16. The remaining 36 games are interconference, out of division, no?

 

it is, and i don't like it. the current situation has us playing 3 games vs some teams and 4 games vs others. they try to balance it by considering multiple seasons, but it's a bit annoying to me.

 

Yeah, thankfully (in some ways) from the words being used it doesn't sound like straight up racism because she said that her heritage is from slavery and Africa before that. With that said, it highlights that the biggest problem whether it's triggered by racism and the voice that media is giving to that or any other forms of hate, is a mental health crisis and a system that doesn't address it. They're about to roll out a squad car or two with anywhere from one to four beat cops that aren't trained mental healthcare professionals or social workers and are being asked the impossible task of changing their personal settings from peaceably inforcing laws on citizens who are compliant, to dealing with everyday angry/baligerent people who aren't planning on further breaking the law but don't respect the police, to life threatening situations, to mental health crises that they couldn't have enough training on assessing if they are to be taken as life threatening or acts of community outreach. It's a fucking mess with no easy solutions. I will say that expanding our societal view on the importance of an emphasis on mental health and expanding the scope of our mental health system is a step that has to be taken immediately.

 

Celtics getting it done tonight.