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Well actually... The NBA regular season/IST is BETTER than the NBA playoffs

Discussion in 'NBA Dish' started by SamFisher, May 13, 2024.

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  1. SamFisher

    SamFisher Contributing Member

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    It helps when the league has compelling - or ANY - basketball going on during its supposed most important period.

    Instead we get a random week off after a week of snooze games in series that were decided 2 weekends ago.

    Crazy idea - NBA basketball is best when there are teams playing basketball - eg, the regular season
     
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    Not a game till Thursday is insane. I get there’s sponsors and networks but good lord man, this is supposed to be a tournament
     
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  3. SamFisher

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    ABC has to pay the bills tonight, no basketball:


    8:00 pm
    Celebrity Wheel of Fortune
    Kel Mitchell, Kim Fields and Penn Jillette - Season 4 Episode 2
    9:00 pm
    Celebrity Jeopardy!
    Quarterfinal #3: Christopher Meloni, Sherri Shepherd and Katie Nolan - Season 2 Episode 3
    10:00 pm
    Press Your Luck
    It's Nacho Night!
     
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    This is where you're WRONG, Sam.

    The NBA regular season is exactly as entertaining as the NBA playoffs.
     
    #24 Buck Turgidson, Jun 4, 2024
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    I have to agree and have been feeling this way for a decade. The regular season feels more relaxed and enjoyable. The playoffs feels like you're on a deadline and you're going to get your ass chewed out if you miss it. I like competitive basketball but I don't like the intense level of frustration the playoffs bring. That's probably mostly cause we haven't won $hit since '95. It's just not fun anymore and there is really no hope of ever getting another championship anytime soon. Might as well just get the most out of the regular season.
     
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    B-Bob "94-year-old self-described dreamer"

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    It's not like interest is building. Just the opposite. People are even watching hockey, LOL.

    I choose to blame the in-season "tournament" with the seizure-inducing courts, and I won't back off this opinion. :D
     
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  7. SamFisher

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    ^posted while watching Press Your Luck: Nacho Night

    Host Elizabeth Banks and the contestants are in for one spicy night of WHAMMYs when nachos for life are on the line.
     
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    Elizabeth Banks is hot, nachos are delicious

    Not sure what your problem is
     
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    B-Bob "94-year-old self-described dreamer"

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    NBA fan poll shows 98% want Adam Silver to cancel the Finals and just have the draft already.
     
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    I am t laughing because Zac Lowe has to lead off every podcast now, which basketball wise, is basically just waiting for the Finals that was determined 2 weeks ago, with an increasingly emphatic declaration of "THIS is why we all do this!" as if he's trying to convince himself as much as he's trying to convince us.

    Here's his lead today:

    THIS, TIM MCMAHON, THIS IS WHY WE DO THIS JOB

    ALL THE TRADES, ALLTHE TRANSACTIONS ALL THE RUMORS ALL THE SMOKE SCREENS

    THAT''S FUN THAT GETS CLICKS, THAT GETS LISTENS

    BUT THIS IS ABOUT THE LARRY O'BRIEN TROPHY. THIS IS ABOUT THE NBA FINALS

    ...

    THIS IS THE WHOLE POINT OF ALL OF IT
    https://www.espn.com/espnradio/podcast/archive/_/id/10528553


    Seems increasingly desperate to convince me that the Playoffs/Finals are more important and entertaining than the regular season.

    Doesn't seem like anybody is buying it - the cracks are showing. Also I fast forwarded through the first hour of his podcast today until all the boring FInals talk (which has been discussed to death already) was over and it went to Jonathan Givony and the draft.

    You lost Zach. You lost.
     
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    Quoted for truth.
     
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    Update from last night's action, the signature period of the entire season, "what it's all about, the reason why we all do this" (h/t @Zachlowe)

    - No Games Scheduled -
     
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    How many fans would want Adam Silver to step down and announce Deputy Mark Tatum as Commissioner......that is interesting.....

     
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    How many fans would rather Adam Silver start a Smashing Pumpkins cover band that plays only at County Fairs, getting pelted with abandoned, locally-grown produce?
     
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    He tried but the tour schedule involved too much daylight
     
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    You have to give Silver credit for being able to con the tv execs to give them a billion five per season for this snoozefest.
     
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    This is definitely the NBA jumping the shark. Sucks for them but happy I was around to watch it happen.
     
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    Whelp...is it time to talk about American Soccer?

    Wuts Becky Hammond doin???
     
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    B-Bob "94-year-old self-described dreamer"

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    Seriously. The only dramatic tension in the NBA Finals:
    (1) Will Luka foul out tonight?
    (2) Will Luka get a technical?
    (3) Will the Celtics, after dominating a clearly inferior team, fritter away a big lead before they obviously win anyway?

    Fannnn-tastic!
     
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    Otoh well actually…I like when well built teams win. I can use that at practice with the jr high kids I coach!

    also was perusing old records you sent me from Alcatraz about my grandfather and holy hell what a mess
     
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