Houston Rox vs Washington Wizards in the first round of playoff if

I hope it can start from this playoffs!

 

WOW its actually being considered? That is crazy..


Im for it, then again im not..i don't like changing history much

 

To me this is still not fair if one conference's competition is much stronger than the other. To achieve 50 wins in the west is a lot more difficult than in the east. For example, Olando is a 50 win team in the East, I dout it would even make the playoff if it was in the West.

The most fair system is all teams play same schedule, not biased towards conference, and less games. 82 game is such a grind, and obviously games between power houses and bottom feeder are not interesting, let along 4 of them have to be played if they are in the same conference.

 

that must suck if you are atlanta, toronto, or whoever makes the 6-8th seed.

 

at least we don't have to worry about getting out of the first round if this is implemented

 

That's a good idea, though I think the top 16 teams in the league, regardless of conference, should make the playoffs and eliminate the division winners getting automatic bids. That will make it more interesting.

 

They suck anyways.

 

Even if they decide to change to this format, it won't happen this season.

 

This would kick butt. The Eastern Conference would no longer be a shortcut to the championship. No more shipping Shaq back and forth between the two conferences.

 

They need to award a playoff berth to the 6 division winners and then the next 10 best teams get in. Seed them in order according to record, regardless of conference.

I'd also like to see them do away with conference schedules. You play 16 division games and 2 more games against every other team (25*2 = 50). That's 66 games. For the remaining 16, proportion out a third game on an automatic basis among the other divisions (like football does). Example: Southwest division winner plays the Northwest division winner on the road and the third place team at home. Have a rotation since 16 games isn't divided evenly by 6.

They're going to have to go to this approach when they add a European division. Then it'll be 7 division winners and the best 9 non-division winners. There would be 60 (30*2) non-division games, leaving 6 extra games left over in an 82 game season. That's 1 extra non-division game for each of the 6 division games. That would be really easy to set up on a 2 year schedule. First place team from each division plays the other first place teams, with the home game alternating every other year.

This year's 16 game seeding would be as follows (for standings as of March 26):
1   Celtics
2   Pistons
3   Hornets
4   Rockets
5   Spurs
6   Lakers
7   Suns
8   Jazz
9   Mavericks
10  Magic
11  Warriors
12  Nuggets
13  Cavs
14  Blazers
15  Wizards
16  76ers

Rockets would get the Cavs in the first round. We'd face the winner of Spurs-Nuggets in the second round.

 

a houston fan can dream cant he??? too bad it will not happen this year. I do not like any matchup in the west!!!

 

East vs West balance is always off kilter. Its part of sports. Look at the NFC/AFC, there is a disparity. But historically its just about a dead even matchup. In the NBA the East has the historical advantage. Let the numbers balance themselves over time. It a natural cycle.

Keeping 8 teams from each conference doesn't correct the biggest problem of all! At least 2 teams out of Denver, Portland, or GS will end up with lotto picks!!!! Whereas a crappy Eastern team in desperate need of help will be denied a pick and instead rewarded with the opportunity to be diced up by Boston or Detroit.

Who needs Kevin Love more. Denver or Philly?

 

Good thought, but bad example there at the end... Philly is playing very well--I'd wager to say better than Denver at this point But I get what you're saying for sure and agree in general that it keeps the power tilted the wrong way sometimes

 

To me Philly is an up and coming team. But not a playoff worthy one. At least not by traditional standards. IMO they need to add a lotto pick to legitimately establish themselves. But the weak East has them in the playoffs. A team at their caliber would have no business in the playoffs 10yrs ago. Cheeks has them rolling but they aren't going anywhere. Funny I mentioned Denver and Philly though. Because I think Philly owns that pick anyways. But you get the picture.

 

If they change the format, then they should change it next year because I think that it would be unfair to teams like atlanta and other teams trying to make the playoffs. I know Denver deserves to make the playoffs but theres 8 better teams in the West that are more deserving.

 

Actually with Boston being the leagues best and Detroit 2nd best, at least the 8th and 7th seed would still play the same teams.

I`d say take the best 16 teams of the league no matter in which conference they play and pair them off against each other. This would make for far better playoffs, and less scary matchups for the best teams. (going against Golden State or Dallas in the first round when you have the best record in the west?)

 

I love it!!!!!!!

But it would be confusing

And would cause problems..........

It wont happen

But would be ****ing cool

 

That'll be a big change if this happens. But even after this change, I think people will still think that it isn't good enough. My prediction in the near future is that the league will get rid of the conferences all together and simply put the top 16 teams with the best overall records to the playoffs. And the regular season will be done playing each team three times, instead of the four games against your conference and two against the other conference.

 

As much as I would love to not have to roll through the west to get to the finals, I prefer the current East champ vs. West champ.