Official 2013 NBA Offseason Thread

[shoeking2101]

2-2-1-1-1 Format for the Finals ayeee

Always felt that the current format gave the advantage to the lower seed with those 3 straight home games, considering it's the first to 4 who wins.

In the past, it was logical due to travel reasons with going from coast to coast and what not. But with the way NBA teams travel now, it's no big deal for them to go 2-2-1-1-1 even if its coast to coast.

 

[duba169]

Wow the nba did something right. I'm Pleasently surprised. Very happy about that

 

[7thave btn 31stn33rd st]

Is that Roy Hibbert?

 

[certifiedflyboi23]

Looks like Silvers will bring fun back to the NBA. Next he just needs to tell the refs to stop determining the winner...

 

[awwsome]

Got Duncan looking a 6'5 190 pound shooting guard in that picture, Hibbert trying to be bigger than the league

 

[ill steelo]

2-2-1-1-1 Format for the Finals ayeee

Always felt that the current format gave the advantage to the lower seed with those 3 straight home games.

Except the home team hardly ever wins ALL of those 3 home games. In virtually 30 years, only 3 teams have done it

 

[tyonenine]

I hate the 2-3-2

 

[airjordan jb23]

at the 2-2-1-1-1 format.

hibbert

 

[don ramon]

i bet the nba thinks the new finals format makes up for their sleeved jersey idea huh

 

[lawdog1]

i bet the nba thinks the new finals format makes up for their sleeved jersey idea huh

Get rid of 2-3-2 AND bring back best of 5 1st round, then MAYBE I'll try and forget how much I dislike sleeved jerseys.

 

[awwsome]

NBA don't give a **** how y'all feel about the sleeved jerseys, we still gonna watch.

 

[dmbrhs]

The problem with 2-3-2 is that it's just dated. It was implemented after the brutal 1984 Finals. It went seven games, and the last three games were all played on one day's rest, flying back and forth between Boston and Los Angeles. I remember hearing Bob Ryan talk about covering it. Nobody even had a flight back to Boston (or a hotel, for non-Boston media) for Game 7 (because if Boston won Game 6, it was over). It was also the first live NBA Finals. In order to keep up with the broadcast changes and growing media coverage, they had to condense the series into only two flights, instead of potentially four.

 

[hood17]

Wonder what else Silver will change.

 

[pepperjackchees]

 

i bet the nba thinks the new finals format makes up for their sleeved jersey idea huh

Get rid of 2-3-2 AND bring back best of 5 1st round, then MAYBE I'll try and forget how much I dislike sleeved jerseys.

 

[shoeking2101]

Except the home team hardly ever wins ALL of those 3 home games. In virtually 30 years, only 3 teams have done it

That's not the point Their are no certainties in sports, so I would never say that the lower seeded team having 3 middle home games automatically means win.

However, it gives them an unfair chance to gain an advantage in the series, to which I don't think should happen. Plus the format like I said is very outdated.

 

[Vincent Van Goat]

Just in general, there is virtually no benefit of having it 2-3-2. It's just odd and unnecessary.

 

[BIG LEEMELONE]

based on win loss record, 3 games in a row is actually a disadvantage to the home team

 

[dmbrhs]

Just in general, there is virtually no benefit of having it 2-3-2. It's just odd and unnecessary.

There was at one time though. That's undeniable.

 

[dt43]

Hibbert is a massive human being

 

[certifiedflyboi23]

I'm calling PS

TD is 6'11 and RH is 7'2.

 

[mitchellicious]

I don't check this thread for a few days, and when I do people are talking about the Lakers finishing 5th

 

[champcruthik]

Hibbert on his Phil Heath.

 

[sosmoney23]

I don't check this thread for a few days, and when I do people are talking about the Lakers finishing 5th

Bunch of clowns lol. Lakers would be lucky to finish 9th in seeding.

 

[Bert.]

wait... no way Jrich is 300 lbs... :x

 

[sooperhooper]

What would happen if the ball gets tipped into the crowd and the a fan shoots the ball? I'm thinking an adult would get escorted out. It'd be kinda cute if a kid did it. Ref would still mean mug him tho. I thought about this when I was at a hawks wizards game I went to in December and I was sitting on the fourth row. If someone were to do it, it better be in the fourth quarter and the person better be in their way to the exit. I'm sure the nba dreads such obnoxious behavior, like the guy that was playing catch with lebron.