Last Friday, the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) approved Adam Shawhaw's plan to continue the season at Disneyland in Orlando. Since the team owners signed the agreement the day before (last Thursday), the NBA will officially return seven weeks later, which is expected to be on July 31 (August 1 Beijing time).
Xiao Hua's plan is to send 22 teams to Orlando, each team will play 8 "seed team selection matches" (officially called "qualifying matches"), and then calculate the winning rate based on the results before the suspension to compete for the playoffs. After the queuing match of
, both divisions of the league will lock at least the top seven seed teams. Then, if the 8th team in the division leads the 9th team by more than 4 wins, the team will also directly participate in the playoffs. Otherwise, the two teams will play in the playoffs, and the 8th team can participate in the playoffs as long as they win one game, and the 9th team must win two consecutive games before they can advance.
Once the seed team is selected, eight teams from both east and west will start four rounds and seven games series until the NBA Finals that end in mid-October.
This solution is safe, but a bit disappointing.
To be honest, the design before the playoffs is quite interesting, especially the rules of the playoffs, which make people feel exciting and fair. So why can't the playoffs continue this innovative spirit? This is a rare opportunity!
As mentioned before,
2020 is destined to be an extraordinary year, and the whole world will change for it. I think the NBA cannot escape the arrangement of fate. In fact, since taking over David Stern's class, Adam Xiaohua has been committed to the reform and innovation of the NBA, from revising the game rules at the beginning to adjusting the length of the season later, and completely revising the All-Star Game. Last year, I heard that there would be two championships to coexist with the league division and playoffs, and adding a championship in the middle of the season, which is a bit addictive... So Boss Xiao has been scolded a lot... However, this year is really an excellent opportunity for the NBA to do experiments. As the saying goes, "The wheels of history roll forward, and it depends on what new era you will start."
In fact, the playoff model can also be drawn and eliminated in groups like the Football Cup, or breaking the east and west parts of the area, ranking 1-16, and even adopting the NCAA single-game knockout system, just like the CBA's rematch plan.
As we all know, the four major professional sports leagues in North America, among which the playoffs of NFL, NHL and MLB are highly unpredictable due to different reasons and degrees. Only the playoffs of NBA... In the words of the Americans, he and his children can play baseball while watching the NBA playoffs... they can play thousands of goals.
The most interesting thing about sports is unpredictability. We don’t know what will happen, but there is always no suspense in the NBA in recent years. So, when the league, bosses and players carefully discussed the current situation (mostly economic factors), they conservatively chose the traditional model, which means they forget the sports and entertainment side.
In other words, they chose to temporarily ignore the issue of increasing everyone's interest in watching football. Whether it is through broadcasting or going to live to watch, this is a longer-term economic factor. Of course, some people and groups will even vote to keep the league unchanged. Why not ask the Milwaukee Bucks if they want to compete for a playoff spot in the Western Conference?
We might as well assume that the NBA's playoffs are changed to a 1-16-ranked East-West chaotic battle. Perhaps there will be a greater probability that Durant will lead the Nets to the Warriors or the Thunder. If it were reformed in the early years, we might also see Kobe and LeBron face each other seven games in the battle. There is also an indisputable fact that traditional competitions that conservatives never forget, such as the Pistons VS Bulls, Celtics VS 76ers, can still happen in the new competition system.
Speaking of the playoffs, the opponents always make a fuss about the increase in the team's long-distance travel. But don't worry, just change the schedule of the series back to 2-3-2 mode.For example: the furthest battle cities that may occur in the cross-district competition system are Miami and Portland, with a full seven games of 2-3-2, with a maximum flight of 15,730 kilometers (9,774 miles); the furthest battle cities of the two furthest battle cities of 2-2-1-1, with a full seven games of 2-2-1-1 (two more flights) can have to travel 18,073 kilometers (11,230 miles). What's more, the rematch plan has concentrated the team in one place, and there is no need to consider the issue of long-distance travel.
In short, this is the best time to try new things. Some people are already debating whether this year's champion has an asterisk, which means that this rematch has become too different in people's minds. If qualifying, comprehensive ranking methods, and play-offs are all new, why don’t the playoff model try to innovate?
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