I really didn’t want to nitpick, but that would be a 62 game regular season schedule. Chopping off 20 games leaves a lot of revenue to make up.
A problem with some of the playoff proposals is the extended break the top seeds will receive. How long is too long?
Ah yes. It sure how I made that mistake because I’ve bored a number of people already about my pipe dream with the right number.
Yeah, there is a good point on the trade off between rewarding the best teams with byes versus keeping their good thing going. I have no idea what they prefer, but by resting players in the last game or two, they certainly seem to act like the time to do the current play-in is not as much as they would like.
To make prognostications off of 3 Summer League games is a little Hot Take-y for sure, but I do agree that he’s looking pretty good. He seems very comfortable against this level of competition and has shown good court-vision and a quick first step.
It’s going to seem like a really long 3 months between the next two games the start of the season.
I was hoping to see a little more out of Sasser. Maybe it’ll happen in the final two games.
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He might not start Game 1 but I’ll be shocked if he doesn’t start Game 82 (unless they’re blatantly trying to lose again)
Ordinary 18 pts 14 rbs for Ausar
I think his athleticism was a bit underrated because everyone just compared him to Amen. He seems like a top 10 athlete on day 1. He has easy athleticism and just floats in the air.
The NBA is really going to advertise the Thompson twins’ highlights on social media.
I don’t know who Malcolm Cazalon is but i agree with him.
I’m assuming the only way this happens is if the spurs disband and wemby has to wait a year to sign with another team, but it’d be very funny for him to beat amen after being drafted behind him
Big Baby was the same guy crying on the bench once???
Even if the Spurs disband, Chet would be the front runner for ROY anyway.
Expanding the playoffs would be one thing (interesting but probably anticlimactic for a lot of first-round series) but a 32-team lottery would really change the nature of the draft, and probably not for the better.
You have to give every fanbase reason for hope. If my team loses 50 games and then ends up with only the 20th pick in the draft, why am I going to stay invested as a fan?
the draft (and lottery) is actually a very compelling point, since outcomes drop off so quickly after the first few picks - the number of players at the top end won’t expand with an expanded league. maybe that’s reason alone
I’d rather have the top pick more often than not (aside from all the losing to get a shot at it) but 2 of the top 3 players in the league are the #15 pick and a 2nd rounder.
yeah, I’m just speaking in probabilities, not saying it’s impossible to get great players or even hall of famers later.
The 3rd interview on the new Zach Lowe podcast is with an NBA front office guy talking about how the in-season tournament came together. But then they go into all sorts of ideas for rules changes that the NBA discussed in the past and some of them are really wild. Fascinating listen.
Ausar’s really won me over in, like, 2.5 games and I was thinking about how a common player comp of his is Andrew Wiggins.
It’s a pretty apt comparison even though Ausar has the feel and Barbecue that Wiggins does not. Now, remember how Wiggins’ moniker coming into the league was ‘Maple Jordan’? So if Ausar projects to be everything Wiggins promised to be….is his most appropriate player comp literally Michael Jordan?
It sounds crazy and I am sure I will end up stupid
But I’ve been vacillating between Andrew Wiggins But A Basketball Genius and Dwyane Wade But Taller all week
Really is hard to think of a good comp for a guy that appears to be elite athlete + elite brain + elite defense without getting dramatically optimistic
