Posted: Wed May 07, 2025 6:33 am Post subject: changing the home/road format in a 7 game series
i believe being a higher seed and having the first 2 games at home is not really an advantage. even if the lower seed team lose the first 2 games, they still have the next two at their home to get back in the series. now if the higher seed loses any or all of the 1st two home games, then they'll losing HCA while being down in the series. first game especially, is a feeling out game, higher seed usually just come off a long rest, odds is very good for the lower seed to steal that game on the road. why not have something like this to lessen the pressure of a higher seed team even if they lose the 1st couple games at home.
game 1,2 - lower seed home court
game 3,4,5 - higher seed home court
game 6 - lower seed home court
game 7 - higher seed home court
I've always thought the NBA, for post season play, should adopt a system similar to the NFL.
Here's what I'd like to see:
A 2-3-1-1 format, with the higher seeded team getting to CHOOSE if they want to start at home, or on the road; similar to how NFL teams can choose whether they want to kick off to start a game, or receive the kick.
Benefits?
Lower seeded teams are generally hyped up and motivated to 'steal' one of the first two games, which is likely being that playoff teams are all talented enough to win against each other on any given night. This provides a psychological edge for the lower seeded team to garner home court advantage. If/when they do steal a game, the pressure immediately shifts to the higher seeded team, rendering an entire year of working hard to get the higher seed meaningless.
Using the 'steal one of the first two' mindset, if a higher seeded team would start with their first two on the road, knowing they are the better team, they could take one of the first two and come how for game 3 with the luxury of having 3 straight games at home. This rewards the higher seeded team by vastly improving their chance for a sweep. And even if they win 2 of 3 at home, they still go back on the road with a 3-2 advantage, in position to close out the series, thus putting even more pressure on the lower seeded team. And of course, they get game 7 at home.
NBA will never adopt our suggestion because they want to prolong each series to generate revenue. my proposed format will result in a lot of quick 5 game series or sweeps by the higher seed.
The thing they should change is re-seeding after rounds to give higher seeds the lower seeds. Bracketing is a bit unfair to top seeds. _________________ Trade Bronny East.
How do you finish -53 on a 50-win team?
This game today is a little bit more soft, to call anybody a GOAT nowadays is disrespectful to ... the awards and accolades [MJI and Kobe have won.
if they really want good quality basketball during playoffs, they should just get rid of east and west conferences. do the March madness style top 16 teams overall get in.
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Posted: Wed May 07, 2025 11:06 am Post subject:
Something I think would be interesting is if the higher seeds get to pick their opponents, sort of like the NBA draft. Currently not enough of an incentive to be a high seed.
#1 seed picks its opponent.
#2 seed picks out of the remaining five teams.
#3 seed picks out of the remaining three teams.
Then in the second round, the highest seed remaining picks its opponent. _________________ Damian Lillard shatters Dwight Coward's championship dreams:
First 2 at home
Next 3 on the road
Final 2 at home
Was more entertaining that way and made you actually pay for losing homecourt advantage. _________________ How NBA 2K18 failed the All-Time Lakers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxMBYm3wwxk
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Posted: Wed May 07, 2025 2:52 pm Post subject:
SGV-Laker fan wrote:
if they really want good quality basketball during playoffs, they should just get rid of east and west conferences. do the March madness style top 16 teams overall get in.
Therefore... play an equal as possible schedule. No more 4x against own division but twice against other conference. I've always been down with this. The idea of conference was probably rooted in travel, and it's antiquated based on state of the art travel we have nowadays. _________________ "The game is MORE than just one player. Without Luka, DFS would have been more than enough to replace him based on what we've seen," LakersFever714, the greatest casual of all time.
2-2-1-1-1, is as fair as it gets, play ball without whining excuses lol! If home court is lost by a split in the first 2 games then get it back by splitting the next two on the road. If a team can’t then oh well, lose then. _________________ When reasonably possible, I expect the Lakers to go after a ship like it can’t be denied. I haven’t seen a completely committed effort by the GM for the last 2 off seasons nor the last 2 trade deadlines. What is going on?
if they really want good quality basketball during playoffs, they should just get rid of east and west conferences. do the March madness style top 16 teams overall get in.
Therefore... play an equal as possible schedule. No more 4x against own division but twice against other conference. I've always been down with this. The idea of conference was probably rooted in travel, and it's antiquated based on state of the art travel we have nowadays.
What happens next century when teleportation or tubes ala Futurama become the preferred methods of transportation?
teams picking opponents? we would have 3rd pick this year- we know grizz were going 1st- we lose to everyone else. _________________ Trade Bronny East.
How do you finish -53 on a 50-win team?
This game today is a little bit more soft, to call anybody a GOAT nowadays is disrespectful to ... the awards and accolades [MJI and Kobe have won.
Should be best of 3. These 7 game series drag on too long.
I always thought it should be
Round 1 - best of 1 like nfl
Round 2 - best of 3
CF - best of 5
finals - best of 7
I do like the concept of teams picking if they want away or road
Also getting rid of conferences like others suggested though
The thing I’ve always questioned is; why schedule so many regular season games and then take more than half of the league to the playoffs? With such a long regular season it can easily be determined, by the end of the season, which teams have a reasonable chance to compete for a championship. Out of about 80 NBA champions throughout history, there have only been a couple that weren’t a top 3 seed and of that only 1 wasn’t top 4 (Houston lowest @ 6th seed), and seeds lower than 3rd rarely even make it to the finals to lose it.
I said all that to say, take only the top 6 from each conf to the post season. The #1 & #2 seeds get a bye because subjecting them to a 1 game elimination is a bit too restrictive. Let 3vs6 and 4vs5 be a 1 game elimination, then in the 2nd round, when the top 2 seeds in each conference begin play, expand it to be a 3 game series. The conf finals could then be 5, and the championship 7. That would present more competitive games but we know that authentic competition isn’t the major motivation tho, revenue is, so as long as they continue to make money with a long regular season and 20 of 30 teams making the post season plus a 7 game 1st round series, then that’s what it will continue to be. _________________ When reasonably possible, I expect the Lakers to go after a ship like it can’t be denied. I haven’t seen a completely committed effort by the GM for the last 2 off seasons nor the last 2 trade deadlines. What is going on?
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Posted: Thu May 08, 2025 1:26 pm Post subject:
Hanging from Rafters wrote:
LakersARETheGOAT wrote:
Hammett wrote:
Should be best of 3. These 7 game series drag on too long.
I always thought it should be
Round 1 - best of 1 like nfl
Round 2 - best of 3
CF - best of 5
finals - best of 7
I do like the concept of teams picking if they want away or road
Also getting rid of conferences like others suggested though
The thing I’ve always questioned is; why schedule so many regular season games and then take more than half of the league to the playoffs? With such a long regular season it can easily be determined, by the end of the season, which teams have a reasonable chance to compete for a championship. Out of about 80 NBA champions throughout history, there have only been a couple that weren’t a top 3 seed and of that only 1 wasn’t top 4 (Houston lowest @ 6th seed), and seeds lower than 3rd rarely even make it to the finals to lose it.
I said all that to say, take only the top 6 from each conf to the post season. The #1 & #2 seeds get a bye because subjecting them to a 1 game elimination is a bit too restrictive. Let 3vs6 and 4vs5 be a 1 game elimination, then in the 2nd round, when the top 2 seeds in each conference begin play, expand it to be a 3 game series. The conf finals could then be 5, and the championship 7. That would present more competitive games but we know that authentic competition isn’t the major motivation tho, revenue is, so as long as they continue to make money with a long regular season and 20 of 30 teams making the post season plus a 7 game 1st round series, then that’s what it will continue to be.
The answer is very simple, revenue. More games mean more money, be it regular season or the playoffs. _________________ RIP mom. 11-21-1933 to 6-14-2023.
Should be best of 3. These 7 game series drag on too long.
I always thought it should be
Round 1 - best of 1 like nfl
Round 2 - best of 3
CF - best of 5
finals - best of 7
I do like the concept of teams picking if they want away or road
Also getting rid of conferences like others suggested though
The thing I’ve always questioned is; why schedule so many regular season games and then take more than half of the league to the playoffs? With such a long regular season it can easily be determined, by the end of the season, which teams have a reasonable chance to compete for a championship. Out of about 80 NBA champions throughout history, there have only been a couple that weren’t a top 3 seed and of that only 1 wasn’t top 4 (Houston lowest @ 6th seed), and seeds lower than 3rd rarely even make it to the finals to lose it.
I said all that to say, take only the top 6 from each conf to the post season. The #1 & #2 seeds get a bye because subjecting them to a 1 game elimination is a bit too restrictive. Let 3vs6 and 4vs5 be a 1 game elimination, then in the 2nd round, when the top 2 seeds in each conference begin play, expand it to be a 3 game series. The conf finals could then be 5, and the championship 7. That would present more competitive games but we know that authentic competition isn’t the major motivation tho, revenue is, so as long as they continue to make money with a long regular season and 20 of 30 teams making the post season plus a 7 game 1st round series, then that’s what it will continue to be.
The answer is very simple, revenue. More games mean more money, be it regular season or the playoffs.
Yep, agreed as stated. _________________ When reasonably possible, I expect the Lakers to go after a ship like it can’t be denied. I haven’t seen a completely committed effort by the GM for the last 2 off seasons nor the last 2 trade deadlines. What is going on?
Should be best of 3. These 7 game series drag on too long.
I always thought it should be
Round 1 - best of 1 like nfl
Round 2 - best of 3
CF - best of 5
finals - best of 7
I do like the concept of teams picking if they want away or road
Also getting rid of conferences like others suggested though
The argument against that is, particularly in basketball, the better team will often lose a one game or three game series. Seven games has been the standard for determining the best team to move on.
However, the NBA should have incorporated the play-in tourney as to be more like the wild-card round of the MLB or NFL playoffs. That way the stats count as playoff games. The wild-card round of the playoffs could have best of 1 the way MLB used to do it or best of 3 as MLB now does. The NBA has done a lot of experimenting with new things. They should be tweaking it to improve as well.
Should be best of 3. These 7 game series drag on too long.
I always thought it should be
Round 1 - best of 1 like nfl
Round 2 - best of 3
CF - best of 5
finals - best of 7
I do like the concept of teams picking if they want away or road
Also getting rid of conferences like others suggested though
NBA is a business, this loses them a (bleep)-load of money.
Reason why they added the in season tourney and play in, in the 1st place. $$$
any suggestion of reduced games completely overlooks that this is first foremost an entertainment business regardless of how much we love the sport itself
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