Given how these meetings have gone, 2pm just means you can start waiting until 2am for some news. I've bit hard on these (now worthless) deadlines the NBA put up about cancelling games. If an 82-game schedule is still in play, we've all been had... and my guess would be they'll get a deal done before that is off the table. Speaking frankly, I'm not looking forward to back-to-back-to-backs and 4 games in 5 nights because of the greed of these two parties... and I most certainly don't want to drag it out deeper into the summer (I confess it would probably be a different story for me if I had contending hopes for the Rockets).
I'd be fine with a 62 game schedule as the regular season tends to drag for me anyways. One thing i'm anticipating is, really sloppy basketball the first month, if they do try to squeeze an 82 game schedule without also equally extending the time frame.
Seriously, cramming 82 games into a regular or slightly elongated calendar season would be stupid. Not only because they should know better from '99 that cramming and rushing leads to bar basketball but also because of interest. 82 games is already a lot to follow and cramming in back to backs and 4 games in 5 nights or the the absurd back to back to back will fatigue the fan base and lead to fewer people showing up. Space between games allows people to absorb and respond and then get interested for the next thing. I know they want 82 games for ticket sales but won't it cost more to run empty arenas for 20 takes than taking time with a fuller Peterson and having 60 games? I don't know...I think the 82 games thing makes the NBA happy and they think the fans will respond but I think basketball fans just want basketball back and for it to be good basketball. 82 games has nothing to do with that.
daldridgetnt David Aldridge Back on the clock at the labor talks...looks like everyone has arrived and things will begin (or just began) shortly.
Look, don't get caught up in the number of games, just get a deal that will help the league sustain !!! DD
How about a 72 game season in honor of the 72-10 bulls? We are a young team. Wouldn't a busy schedule help us - assuming an offense similar to Adelman's? I could see it hurting the Lakers and Spurs out west.
When the last lockout was resolved, Barkley was in the league, still with the Rox. His guards were Mobley and Francis. There were 3-game back-to-backs! He likened it to sex, saying something like, "I'm thirty-(whatever), I don't want to have sex three nights in a row." Ah, well, not to derail the thread. If nothing else, I just want this whole thing settled, now.
Christ, 82 games? the season's already too long - they should just have a short season and expanded playoffs with first-round byes. Heaven forbid they actually try something creative in this instance.
Maybe later on, but I for sure want 82 games this season, if possible. With our young players and if we keep our pace of play, that totally works in our favor. That'll give us at least 4-5 more easy W's. We want 82!
If the regular season starts on Dec 1st, give me 70 games. Maybe 75 at the most if they extend the regular season a week or shorten the drawn-out schedule of 1st round playoff games. Unless they extend the regular season 2 weeks, 82 games is non-starter IMO.
At best, that cancels out the fact that the Rockets are a mediocre team and would have a better chance of overachieving during a short season, rather than reverting to the mean over a larger sample size.
I would think that the tightly packed number of games ( including a higher number of back to backs ) would favor a young team that runs ( Houston) over a veteran team that would otherwise have a good chance at beating us on normal schedule of rest.
WojYahooNBA Adrian Wojnarowski Signs of labor optimism: Team execs cancelling scouting trips, preparing for free agency. Agents quietly reaching out to teams on players. Can't quite tell if he is saying it'll be good when/if that happens or it is happening now. Hopefully the latter.
lol its both. If a deal gets done soon, he can say he broke the precursors of good news. If talks fall apart then he can claim it was about what we would be seeing if the talks went well. From the way his sentance is structured it acutally appears like he is saying that it is happening now... but it is twitter after all.
OK, now I'm excited again. They better close this today or tomorrow. No more breakdowns. Then we can spend a couple of days tearing apart the CBA, decide how jerky the owners were being and then get back to talking about basketball.
