International games would probably require more days off. Otherwise I dont really care. If I was in a small market or destination city I might be intertested more. The whole thing, for me, is pretty lackluster at this point. Im not really sure what would get me interested in the AS weeekend to be honest.
Things you would change about the NBA
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I'm not sure about double dribble - I don't see a lot of those - but the others definitely are graded on an Ivy League Curve at this point. Screens and lane violations could easily be brought under control. but traveling and carrying are basically part of the game now and I can't even imagine the stuff that has been established as "a player's signature move" getting called. It's a players' league, what are you going to do?
At one point there was some chatter about making the line more of (or exactly) a circle, which would eliminate the corner three. Even that would change the game quite a bit as the incentive to camp out in the corner would be essentially removed. As it is, I get where you're coming from. For years the stats geeks would scream about shot efficiency and tell you that the best strategy was to shoot everything either in the paint or behind the arc, and teams just kept going after midrange shots. Finally the NBA world catches up to the stats geeks, but it totally changes the requisite skills for an NBA player. Shoot or die.
Moving the arc out a foot or two would definitely make things more interesting - open up the paint even more, reduce the efficiency advantage of the three...it's time to think about it.
At one point there was some chatter about making the line more of (or exactly) a circle, which would eliminate the corner three. Even that would change the game quite a bit as the incentive to camp out in the corner would be essentially removed. As it is, I get where you're coming from. For years the stats geeks would scream about shot efficiency and tell you that the best strategy was to shoot everything either in the paint or behind the arc, and teams just kept going after midrange shots. Finally the NBA world catches up to the stats geeks, but it totally changes the requisite skills for an NBA player. Shoot or die.
Moving the arc out a foot or two would definitely make things more interesting - open up the paint even more, reduce the efficiency advantage of the three...it's time to think about it.
It (allegedly) changed when James Harden was discussing how traveling was officiated with a referee before a game. The story goes that he was told that he's allowed two steps before he's called for traveling and he (allegedly) asked the ref, "Do the two steps have to be going towards the basket?" The referee thought about it for a minute and ultimately said, "No," and now, here we are.
- Zero percent chance an NBA game draws 80 million.
- The interest that the NCAA draws is entirely because of gambling, and even then, only the first few rounds. By the time you get to the Final Four, even casuals want to see chalk.
- Gambling aside, I've said this before and I'll say it again: people flock to watch college basketball for reasons that have nothing to do with basketball. You can't replicate that level of interest for professionals.
need to make playing 82 games in a regular season worth it and single elimination doesn't achieve this. I think tinkering with things that aren't broke is a losing proposition and over complicating it a bit too much to draw audiences that they think they can draw with some play-in style tournaments or emulating a soccer tournament. Go back to the 3-5-7 format for the Postseason. Success.