Joshyjosh31
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You’ll never guess who Indiana plays tonight
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You’ll never guess who Indiana plays tonight
iowamcnabb
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30 game to go and there are 8-10 teams intentionally trying to lose. Bad teams are fine, developing young players is fine. Sitting vets, faking injuries, playing 2 way players over rostered players, trading players that help you win. It’s heightened this year because it’s a historical draft and several teams have pick protections but this can’t be how the NBA operates
gunks
Hall of Famer
Not every team has Ethical Tank Gods like Deebo, Zach, and Westbrook.
iowamcnabb
Hall of Famer
Indeed, I just think it’s crap. I can’t think of a time when a third of the NFL or any other league is trying to intentionally lose. I know it’s different but still
Gotta hope there's some karmic justice headed for these shameless teams. The Wiz sitting Bilal/Bub/Kyshawn in the 4th vs us was just truly one of the more baffling things I've seen.
Andrew Luck maybe. Maybe the long hair pretty boy QB from Clemson.
iowamcnabb
Hall of Famer
For sure team tanked, I don’t think 10 teams did though right?
iowamcnabb
Hall of Famer
Where did you hear that?
Kingster
Hall of Famer
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LoungeLizard
Starter
It’s a bad bad look.
sactowndog
Hall of Famer
Watch out for Memphis tanking and the Clips. That is 5 more games we have to navigate.
With no lottery NFL is a different beast but it was closest thing.
Caccia
Starter
The Grizzlies have only nine players available tonight, although that is a temporary situation.
sactowndog
Hall of Famer
Quite frankly the lottery in my opinion makes it worse. You have teams tanking late to get into the 7 - 5 slot that wouldn’t bother if no lottery existed.
sactowndog
Hall of Famer
OKC did this for years and never got penalized.
Yeah that's what I meant, when it becomes clear that there are only 3-4 teams with a chance at #1 overall you don't see 10 teams throwing games. NFL also has the ability to turn things around in a single year and probably the roster size and contracts that can terminate easily have to do with that. On the flip side it seems due to all of that coaches and GMs get less time than other sports often do.
The CLips don't own their own draft pick. They are still going to try to win, even without Harden.
LPKingsFan
All-Star
If they went back to even odds among the 14 lottery teams, would we still see that? I could see teams declining to go for the play in (as I believe Dallas did a couple years back) but the playoff ticket revenue would be too tempting to pass up. The risk would be that he 14th worst team gets the first pick, but it removes the incentive to lose among lottery teams. At this point, the weighted odds cure may be worse than the disease.
Tizzy Flip
Starter
NBA needs to modify their rest rule to no more than 1 player per game, only applies for back to backs, and increase the fine for violating the rule. Pacers are able to game the rest policy since their 2 designated stars are Siakam and Hali. NBA didn’t change their “star” player in spite of Hali being out the whole year.
It's ridiculous for fans that pay tickets. Especially STH and people who are locked in to a certain date and then don't get to see the players they paid to see.
eleventy
G-League
if you look at the earlier start dates for nba play and the fact that they could extend the regular season a week or two, there is absolutely NO reason that you could not have an 82 game season with NO unequal back to backs for ANY team.
(i'll give silver a partial break in that he will need a different schedule after expansion, so, why come up with a short term solution yet).
in the old days, the schedule was done by hand by a new jersey couple.
in today's world, one should easily be able to use AI to posit an "equal" schedule.
there could be as few as 6 sets of back to backs per team per season, set up as h/r b/b''s, so that if a team needed to "rest" a player, they could do so at HOME (so that road fans don't get screwed).
the only "problem" with this "solution" is the emirates cup, which SHOULD be eliminated, but won't be.
really, the solution is SO simple that silver must know it exists, but chooses to keep it this way to increase (emirate) income - screw the "fans".
sactowndog
Hall of Famer
Yes they will but Garland isn’t playing and their roster is depleted.
gunks
Hall of Famer
If they change up how odds work this season, y'all already know that we'll fall the furthest away from #1 somehow.
The CORRECT thing for the NBA to do would be reward us with a top 2 pick and THEN change how the lotto works next season!
