Chicken Soup for the Blazer Fanatic

I repped him for you.

 

Well then I guess the only solution is to move the team to Kansas City.

 

The NBA schedule is very stupid, they should have less games. The product suffers because no team in the league can play hard every night. Remember the Spurs resting those players in the primetime game last year? The NBA should take a look at the NFL, the league makes way more money because games are intense and each one matters. How many more season ticket holders would there be if you knew 10 noncompetitive stupid games were removed from the schedule?

The NBA regular season should have games spaced out just the same as the NBA playoffs.

 

What if they did like college and have all the teams in the playoffs, with the best 2 teams with a first round bye? The series is best of 5 for the first 28, Best of 5 vs the 16, Best of 7 vs. the final 8, Best of 7 vs. the final 4 and Best of 7 in the finals.

 

Its frustrating for fans to watch NBA games when the players are clearly not at their peak. Yes the Blazers get the benefit of this too when playing home games against tired opponents. It would be more exciting to see two teams battling at their peak than to have multiple games where one team has a schedule advantage.

The owners would make more money if they used a reduced schedule in a way to market the league better. The NFL has less than 20% of the games as the NBA but makes 300% as much money. Look at all the injuries to star overworked NBA players in the last year; Kobe, Derrick Rose, Steph Curry, Wade. Many of those could be avoided with less grueling schedules and having more stars playing games would make the league money.

 

Just wait for the playoffs.

 

With more than 1/2 the teams getting a play-off birth, I don't think this is necessary. The goal is exciting/competitive basketball. Despite the 1st seed vs 8th seed being won by the 1st seed by a huge margin, it's still better than a majority of regular season games. When you're playing for something, it's always more exciting. I'd be be open to extending the play-offs to more teams before I'd give teams a bye.

 

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Draco again. This is becoming a pattern.

 

Oh what would be more exciting than all teams having the opportunity to be in the playoffs? Could you imagine the 28th seed knocking off the 3rd best team in the league? How many awesome upsets we could witness!!! And the revenue would be greater, while we could still shorten the season and have the playoffs start in March!

 

I'm not for it, but I would absolutely trade the 10 fewer games in the regular season for adding 2 more teams from each conference to the play-offs. It would be like adding 4 wild card games, 5 game series. And it would give the top 2 teams a bye, so to speak.

 

And the best two teams get a round bye

 

If the NBA is dead set on an 82 game season another idea is to begin games earlier. Say we only had 2 preseason games and a one week training camp with games beginning Sep 20th. That would add 40 rest days to space between games throughout the year.

 

I miss typed, and edited before you responded.

 

Every year, the Blazers and the Heat travel the most miles for their schedules. That isn't likely to change any time soon unless there is some dramatic tectonic plate shifting.

Yes, the Spurs have their "Rodeo Road Trip" where they player 12-13 games in a row on the road some years because a huge rodeo takes over their venue.

When did it become necessary to F... anything because of differing opinions? Does an opinion outside of what someone else thinks make them not a Blazer fan? Still fairly new to this board so learning what the board culture is like. Having played basketball at a high level and a having a best friend play at a D1 level with the #1 pick in the entire NBA, and doing some work with the Blazers for my career I find it interesting that some opinions are 'valid' and others are not just depending on whom you happen to agree with.

 

I think pre-season is an important part of improving the product though. The only solution that makes sense to me is reducing the number of reg season games, by either 6 or 10 games, and perhaps adding 4 teams to the play-offs to help counter some of that lost revenue.

 

The spurs still do that, as does Chi when the Circus is in town. Regardless of the solutions, it is a well accepted reality that 4 games in 5 nights makes for some less-than-ideal quality basketball.

If you're the guy that tells the comedian after the show, "You know, a little less cussing would really make your humor more enjoyable," then I accept your point as "valid" and will refrain from responding as the comedian would. Sorry if you were offended, but I'm not forcing anyone to read or laugh at my jokes, and it's not like I'm charging anyone either. Although I should!!!

I was a big deal in college too, and it's not relevant in this discussion, and most discussions on this forum. I also drank an entire pitcher of beer without pause to get my class ring out of it. Quite the accomplishment for a person of my stature - but again, not really relevant. Of course, people that don't agree with me are extremely stupid. And, if you didn't laugh at that, all hope is lost.

 

So if you played in college, I would submit you have a better understanding of the game, the schemes, the travel schedule, the mental fatigue, the coaching tendencies, the treatment, the training....all the things that go into the realities of the game and I would submit that makes your understanding potentially more relevant than someone who never played the game but just grew up as a fan. That doesn't invalidate their opinion but without experiencing some of those things, it's difficult to understand them. Saying someone's opinion is or is not relevant seems quite arbitrary but like I said, still learning the culture of this forum. I'm just surprised at how many opinions are dismissed as 'troll', 'hater', 'you-are-not-a-Blazer-fan' etc because they differ with someone else.

 

Did your sense of humor get stuck on a flight in Minnesota?

I think its a long ways apart from Blazer Fanatics.