"It’s never been harder to win an NBA championship."
And yet somehow a team does every year.
I agree with you though about the meaninglessness of the regular season. It's super long and tiring and only counts for playoff positioning. This means teams don't have time to scout and game plan. It means teams coast and only play hard for a few important games. That is why the basketball is so much more intense in the playoffs and also why the Jazz lose every year (they have a better chance this year.) Their greatest asset is also the chink in their armor. That's Gobert. They valued shooting over perimeter D because Gobert when someone gets through the perimeter Gobert is there to clean it up. But if a schemes to draw Gobert out of the key the Jazz D falls apart. The fact that teams have time to scheme and experiment is what makes the playoffs way more interesting than the regular season.
I would like to see mid season tournaments that counted towards championships some how.
I meant to write, "and yet a team wins ALMOST every year." Because of course in 1999 no team was able to make it to the finals and Prince and the Revolution were declared champions by unanimous consent. And then there was 2017 when the GSWarriors were disqualified and the Cavs declined the championship and so there is only an asterisk listed as the 2017 NBA champion. Which prompted the former Washington Redskins to adopt the name, Asterisk, claiming it had champion pedigree AND it was a plural where everyone just added an S to end even if it wasn't there which saved a lot of money on printing and uniforms.
"It’s never been harder to win an NBA championship."
And yet somehow a team does every year.
I agree with you though about the meaninglessness of the regular season. It's super long and tiring and only counts for playoff positioning. This means teams don't have time to scout and game plan. It means teams coast and only play hard for a few important games. That is why the basketball is so much more intense in the playoffs and also why the Jazz lose every year (they have a better chance this year.) Their greatest asset is also the chink in their armor. That's Gobert. They valued shooting over perimeter D because Gobert when someone gets through the perimeter Gobert is there to clean it up. But if a schemes to draw Gobert out of the key the Jazz D falls apart. The fact that teams have time to scheme and experiment is what makes the playoffs way more interesting than the regular season.
I would like to see mid season tournaments that counted towards championships some how.
I meant to write, "and yet a team wins ALMOST every year." Because of course in 1999 no team was able to make it to the finals and Prince and the Revolution were declared champions by unanimous consent. And then there was 2017 when the GSWarriors were disqualified and the Cavs declined the championship and so there is only an asterisk listed as the 2017 NBA champion. Which prompted the former Washington Redskins to adopt the name, Asterisk, claiming it had champion pedigree AND it was a plural where everyone just added an S to end even if it wasn't there which saved a lot of money on printing and uniforms.
3,33% of winning a championship, which when you round it out actually becomes 0,00%!!! (at least if you round it that way, and you should)
The math here checks out and I went to an Ivy League school, I would know!
This makes sense to me
This makes sense to me