For me, the simplest solution for the league is to put a minimum floor on % of games played for players to be eligible for mid, max or super max contracts and extensions - while at the same time hitting their teams with equal % dead cap to push them into and over the cap and second apron levels. If players like Embiid and owners in general care about anything, its money.
This of yours is a nice idea! Actually I (vaguely interested in the NBA, so I don't count as a true fan) find difficult to think that a player MUST play if he CAN; as far as I understand, it's for the quality of the show (if I pay a ticket to watch two teams play, I have a bunch of player in mind I would be upset to not see), but what dedication can a player who's forced to play have? I think in every sport calculations on resting are made... why is the NBA so focused on "must-play"? Isn't this narrative detrimental to a true team sport?
Would this idea be based on the previous season or contract? Some players get legit injuries and it feels wrong to cut their money when they were legitimately injured.
Nah, the league should do a quick training for all GMs so they don't get bamboozled that much, also it'd be nice to have relegation relegation so we don't reward bad teams. Let's go the capitalist way.
Don’t shorten the season it’s called “pay cuts” we need to stop over paying players who can’t perform and for fill certain games. You not eligible to for a super max if you never won a major season award and cannot complete 65 games
The whole championship thing is fine but I think people forget the league exist because of the fans . Sports are literally ENTERTAINMENT. If it was all about championships they’d just have a tournament every year and call it quits. But it’s an opportunity for them to go city to city get paid super well and provide something people enjoy.
Guys, please pay me 1 million per year, and i will come and sit at the bench and smile while clapping. I'm far cheaper compared to others...just think about it for a sec. 😘
Except “load management” doesn’t actually lead to any real post-season success. It’s the guys who do play every game like Tatum, Luka, and Jokic who are regularly making deep playoff runs. Whereas Embiid has never made it past the second round.
There have been a couple of title and Finals runs afforded by load management. 1. Boston, in 2010 did soft loaf management because they had so many injuries to their older big 3 that sunk their title hopes in 09. SA and toronto make up another 3 Finals appearances and 2 title wins through load managing star players. It works when done right. Especially when the team can tally wins consistently without any 1 of their top players healthy. But, by nature, it's also not a guarantee that a player will be healthy either.
Even when Embiid is healthy in the playoffs, he chokes. It isn't like he's played lights out when healthy. In his last four years, age 37-40, John Stockton played 82, 82, 82, and 82 games. As a 39 year old, MJ played 82 games. In his age 40 and 41 seasons, Kareem played 80 and 74 games. It was unusual for stars to play fewer than 70-80 games per season unless they had significant injuries.
@@thebighoney9034 a dude named lbj. You've heard of him? Broke a few records in his time. Yet a chunk of the internet calls it "stat padding" or "useless longevity"
They should simply have playoff suspensions for those who sit out regular season games. Have the league investigate when star players sit out healthy and make it have real world changes on the playoffs. Embid would have been on the court if it would cost him a playoff game suspension.
Suspend them for playoff games. If a player is found to have 'load managed' five games that they could have played, they get suspended for one game in the first round. The competitive advantage for resting players in the regular season would disappear real quick.
The problem with this tactic is that the FO is acting as Embiid is young LeBron who can singlehandedly take a mediocre team to the ECF. He is just as guilty of blowing a series as anyone over the last 7 years and letting him sit out of high pressure regular season games isn't going to help develop those clutch instincts. It seems like a classic Morey/Process era 76ers move to overcomplicate team dynamics.
Since the NBA doesn't really have an injured reserve list, would inventing one fix this. In the NFL you have to miss 8 games or half the season. You could do something similar in the nba. Just food for thought.
This is a stupid idea but i'll post it anyway. Just take the player's salary and divide that by 82. So for Embiid it would be around 627K a game. Every game he misses due to "load management" or what ever they want to call it, and not due to legitimate injuries as determined by a medical professional paid by the NBA and not the team. Just dock that amount of money off of his salary. Or better yet its that and deduct 10% off of every roster spot and couches and training staff salary. As for the team you multiply that amount by say 10 and that goes against their available cap in some form, the punishment should be severe enough so that the team stops putting their hand in the proverbial cookie jar.
Give fans a full refund if you plan on load managing a star that night. If the owners start losing money they may have a different perspective on the load management idea.
As a Suxxers fan since 1975 I can confidently tell you that when I heard they used their cap space for Paul George I instantly knew this was a waste of money since he can't stay healthy and that he and Embiid would likely play less than 25 games together all year.
@@bpdmf2798 Yes that's the propaganda for what's proven to be a LOSING formula "trust the process". It failed. Miserably. The common denominator all this time was Embaad. Didn't work with Jimmy Butler nor James Harden and headcase Ben Simmons was a waste of 4 years ... a guard that can't shoot (SMDH).
I think the solution to this problem is pretty simple just added a rule to all players who took the max contract as of right now who making 50 million+ dollars should played atleast 65 game for at least 3 minutes each per season, if not the players will be fined with 5 millions dollars per game they played under 65 games. I think that we should treat them well but people are also working hard and pay 350 + dollars every time to watch these star play too and also 65 game is the standard to qualify for a reward which is reasonable also being payed a lot and not trying is really gonna to make a lot of fan quitting the NBA
I know Embiid said he doesn’t want to win MVP, but can we just talk about if he misses 17 games consistently for the rest of his career, he’ll never make All-NBA ever again? It just sounds weird to me.
He's never played more than 68 games in a season even when he was doing back to backs. And people will act all suprised when he's injured for the playoffs again, because load management DOES NOT WORK.
@@HoopEnthusiasts Well, he can also get injured in the playoffs. He’s just too injury prone to predict if he’ll play fully even though he doesn’t play 65+ games on purpose.
Part of problem is league and fans staring into box scores. You could easily load manage by playing 20 minutes per game, but that isn't an option because that would affect the box score and per game average numbers.
We all act like this load management stuff works but no team that has load managed has ever won anything of note. I’m not buying the load management argument, I just don’t think it’s worth jt
Just cap the percentage of games available in the playoffs to the regular ... If you're only available for 50% of the games during the regular season for health reasons, then you're capped at 50% of playoff games
Embiid has this luxury because he’s on a top team in the Eastern Conference. If the Sixers were in the West they’d absolutely miss the playoff cut entirely a couple seasons
by not dealing with the hardships of the regular season you’re just not going to be built for the competitive toughness of the playoffs, whether that to do with injury or just team chemistry
They could change the first round of the playoffs to be all games played at the higher seed's city. Could use the excuse that it is to shorten the least important round of the playoffs and owners would care more about having all of those games at home and teams would care more to not have that disadvantage of playing all the games away. It also makes being a top 4 team extremely important compared to being a 5+ team.
In Europe season means the number of matches = 2*(n-1) teams in the league i.e. 30 teams means 58 matches and that it should be. You can throw few games for the in-season tournament for good measure
There’s two solutions I can think of but neither are very good. 1. Make it an actual league 82 games most points wins i.e no playoffs but every game matters. Thats obviously not good but yeah. 2. Halve the amount of play off teams to top 4 from each conference. Means you can’t come 10th and still win the championship in theory. Again, not very good but stuff like that to make it less rewarding to essentially sit players. You could also make the bottom teams better somehow.
You guys don't realize at this point the sixers are only concerned on if Joel and PG can play in the post season. The teams good enough to be in the 4-8 range with those two on and off. They made the playoffs with An improved maxey, a quarter of the season of embid, and with way less help last year
One of the solutions is to get rid of the stupid play-in tournament. It gives too many teams hope that shouldn't be in the playoffs. Either you are good enough to be 1-8 or you aren't. The lottery should be set once the playoffs start without the play-in. They can add 2 more teams or 4 more teams over the next decade and I will still feel the same way. Either play good enough to get in, or go home. They have 30 teams and 2/3 of the league getting a chance to play post season basketball. If they do add 4 more teams eventually (Seattle and Vegas the obvious 2 who will be first, with I think probably Kansas City and either Louisville/Cincinnati or Pittsburgh being the other). I still think it should be 16 in the playoffs and 18 in the lottery. Now, I would be okay if they expanded the playoffs at 36-40 teams if they ever try to expand the league that far. I wouldn't be against the play-in tournament at that point. Right now, I am just not a fan of it. I think it helps give guys an excuse to miss more games because they have more of a chance to be in the post season. If they never go past Seattle and Vegas for expansion, I am not a fan of the play-in. Guys use it as an excuse to be divas.
To win a championship you need to make the playoffs. It also helps to have consistency and time together playing with your teammates. Not playing some random game doesn't make it less likely his flopping will injure him in April or May.
They should really just make the season 72 games instead of 82. Play every team in the opposite conference twice and every team in your own conference 3 times. Take out the back to backs to better distribute that 72 over the season so guys can also get more rest between games and lower the 65 game rule to 55 to match.
They’re going to play back-to-back in the playoffs. Therefore, he won’t be properly CONDITIONED & will be GASSED by GAME 7. Just to play back-to-back the very next series. INJURIES ARE ALMOST GUARANTEED at this point. CONDITIONING MATTERS
I respect alot of perspectives on this issue, but I have to say its like people magically forget that for w.e. reason these players have consistently proven that their bodies don't last the full season grind, and when they are always struggling thru injuries in the playoffs everyone's running around like a chicken with their head cut off wondering why? So by dealing with that issue, they have to sacrifice somewhere, yet each choice carries the same response, it makes no sense. I don't fully love "load management" but I think it has to be said that the Raptors with Kawhi were a big part of it being a thing and we got the most inarguable result you could imagine out of it. I guess general fans and/or the media/league didn't care about it as much because it wasn't trending yet and it was a star player in a "small" market team (Toronto Raptors are the 4th largest market behind NYC, LA, and Chicago). It came up here and there in the mainstream discussion, but as a fan watching Kawhi for the first time it made me disappointed to not see him in games in the regular season, and I wondered how the guys on the team felt about a sort of "favouritism" for their replacement star. But everyone acknowledges that he would not have been able to deliver one of the greatest playoff performances of all time and a championship if we hadn't done that, let alone be available for all the games. He was even labouring thru alot of the games thru out the run, if he had to do that same labouring thru out the season, he may not have made it to the playoffs for real. I argue that the Raptors laid the model down for how to do it without completely destroying the product because we went all in on getting that championship with Kawhi and there was no way we were gonna mess that up. Maybe Nick Nurse is in the best position to handle that trajectory once again in Philly. Keep in mind, I don't care for Embiid or Philly, but that just might be the best example.
I don't understand why Daryl Morey is praised for his work. With such a high turnover in the squad, it is difficult to develop a successful team structure. We often celebrate trades and those who make these trades, but continuity is greatly underestimated for success.
Everyone is looking over the fact that fans are the one's who get shafted when they go to these games to watch players like emiid only to find out he's sitting out for no reason.
ALL problems with the league can be solved with fair reffing according to the rules of basketball. Thats it. Fair reffing means seeding matters, means regular season has importance, means players culture of laziness ends
Honestly, as a Celtics fan, I don't get why Philly sees Embiid as being so untouchable. I'm not saying just trade the guy to trade him, but they should see what's available on the market. It just makes sense. Embiid struggles to be able to play in the playoffs. More importantly, when Embiid does play, he can't even get his team to the ECF. Even when Embiid is playing, the Sixers get bounced to Cancun by the Celtics, Raptors, etc. So what is the point of acting like Embiid is untouchable when he's almost never healthy in the playoffs and when he is he can't get you to the Conference Finals? Once again, not saying to trade him just to trade him. But I'd actively see what the market has on offer. Embiid is a very good player and I'm sure there'd be some return, the question is whether or not the return is worth it.
Meanwhile Freddy Freeman going through 4-5 hours of grueling rehab on an ankle and hitting a HR in games 1-4 of the World Series...Kirk Gibson level stuff. WNBA players are tougher and more determined than these current NBA players
The Sixers have put together a very good team with Embiid, PG and Maxey leading the way. Complementary players like Martin, Oubre, Drummond and Lowry are also valuable. They'll need to do all they can to stay fit for the play-offs.
The expectation is that barring severe injuries these guys should be on the floor every night. It’s their job. You don’t get to call out of work cuz you don’t fell 100%, they shouldn’t either. Adam silver let the players run the league and now he’s dealing with the consequences.
I cant stand so called basketball fans who advocate for a shortened season. Outside of lockouts and COVID, the NBA seasons have been 82 games since the late 1960, and in that time the amenities for NBA players have gotten better, the science for injuries and recovery has gotten better, the paychecks are much larger, hell even the groupies are better yet these players are asking to do even less work while collecting an ungodly amount of money. This is why Shaq is such a hater and I cannot blame him.
What if a new rule said that unless a player played at least X regular season matches, he couldn’t play in the playoffs? (With exceptions due to specific situations) Would that be silly?
Here is a solution 1). Fans should be able to buy insurance on tickets. Select idk the top 20 players. If you show up and the player is a healthy scratch. You can get your money back or go to another game 2. Reduce the 1st two rounds to best of 3. Puts more pressure on the regular season to matter. No one wants to see rhe Celtics or nuggets in best of 3. 3. Reduce the season to 70 games. And thus reduce the amount of games needed to win an award to 55. 4). If you dexided to be a healrhy scratch you forefit the money for that game.
Low management disgusting. I say every game miss fine the player the same as game check for that miss game. Plus fine the team $100,000 per player miss the game. It didn't happen back in the back. Now common practice. It started with Spurs with there old players like Tim Duncan. Throw the hammer on this practice.
I dont Get how «only playing 50-60 reg.season games» is a bad thing. More young players will Get the chance to play, and the league as a whole will become a lot more competetive as a Direct consequence.
The Sixers are talking as if they're going to be able to hold on to a decent seed in the playoffs with all this rest. But this Eastern conference isn't that weak anymore; they won't be able to sleep walk their way into a top four seed this year. We'll see how things look in February when they're a play-in team.
Just make it so you have to play 65 games to play in the play offs 😅. If you start the season injured you're still able to go into the play offs with 66% attendance since your return.
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I'm a sixers fan and really like Joel but he tries to dribble too much losing the ball tries to shoot too many 3s and is always hurt when it matters regardless of load management, he could be one of the best, he's obviously a difference maker when he's on the floor, but if he's always hurt he's not helping the team
All you have to do is take away these massive guaranteed contracts and I bet all these little maintenance injuries magically disappear and players become more durable all of a sudden.
Play for pay miss 31 games unexcused for the season and a team can void your whole contract for that year and you will not get a payday at the end of the season play all 82 games and the league will reward you with a 50% bonus to your contract no more paying throughout the season make it one big paycheck at the end of the season
I think they should load manage tbh. Nobody cares if Embiid and PG are playing November games or not, if they don’t make the playoffs healthy what’s the point of all the new acquisitions
Load managing Kawhi and PG and Embiid and other players is what is ruining the NBA. If we are g9nna load manage the stars, might as well skip the regular season and just have the playoffs
@@jonnygalante3623 or maybe they should just change the schedule, because 82 games is absolutely crazy and every single year at least half of the teams in playoffs have injury problems. Makes no sense to me to play 4 times against 10 teams in a season.
I never want to see Sixers have success. Between the tanking and the excessive load management, they are a shithouse organization and team that deserves all the bad karma
The funny thing is they're gonna get hurt later in the year anyway
And get owned by their daddy the Celtics
@MihoyMinoy-si8fb you just wanted to sneak the Celtics in did you?🗿🗿🗿
@@youngty7174 “It’s not a rivalry, they always beat us.”
Joel Embiid (straight from the horses mouth 😅)
They’ll choke a series away either way it goes.
Yea we have seen how load managing does not work. Kawhi, pg, etc have all proved this
For me, the simplest solution for the league is to put a minimum floor on % of games played for players to be eligible for mid, max or super max contracts and extensions - while at the same time hitting their teams with equal % dead cap to push them into and over the cap and second apron levels. If players like Embiid and owners in general care about anything, its money.
This of yours is a nice idea! Actually I (vaguely interested in the NBA, so I don't count as a true fan) find difficult to think that a player MUST play if he CAN; as far as I understand, it's for the quality of the show (if I pay a ticket to watch two teams play, I have a bunch of player in mind I would be upset to not see), but what dedication can a player who's forced to play have? I think in every sport calculations on resting are made... why is the NBA so focused on "must-play"? Isn't this narrative detrimental to a true team sport?
yeah for sure😊
Would this idea be based on the previous season or contract? Some players get legit injuries and it feels wrong to cut their money when they were legitimately injured.
I mean neither the owners or the players would agree to this and they would need to for it to be approved.
Nah, the league should do a quick training for all GMs so they don't get bamboozled that much, also it'd be nice to have relegation relegation so we don't reward bad teams. Let's go the capitalist way.
Don’t shorten the season it’s called “pay cuts” we need to stop over paying players who can’t perform and for fill certain games. You not eligible to for a super max if you never won a major season award and cannot complete 65 games
That's already the rule for supermax contracts
The whole championship thing is fine but I think people forget the league exist because of the fans . Sports are literally ENTERTAINMENT. If it was all about championships they’d just have a tournament every year and call it quits. But it’s an opportunity for them to go city to city get paid super well and provide something people enjoy.
Guys, please pay me 1 million per year, and i will come and sit at the bench and smile while clapping. I'm far cheaper compared to others...just think about it for a sec. 😘
Bro ain't even smiling on the bench lol
On everything Imma avg 30 claps a point 4 high fives a quarter and 6 LETS GOOO a game
I'll hustle to pass them their water and towels bro. I'll do it for 500k
@@MrE_ 😂
Bro for a ticket on the bench I'll accept minimum wage
Except “load management” doesn’t actually lead to any real post-season success. It’s the guys who do play every game like Tatum, Luka, and Jokic who are regularly making deep playoff runs. Whereas Embiid has never made it past the second round.
Crazy huh, guys who are always playing, always keep playing. Who would've thought.
There have been a couple of title and Finals runs afforded by load management.
1. Boston, in 2010 did soft loaf management because they had so many injuries to their older big 3 that sunk their title hopes in 09.
SA and toronto make up another 3 Finals appearances and 2 title wins through load managing star players.
It works when done right. Especially when the team can tally wins consistently without any 1 of their top players healthy. But, by nature, it's also not a guarantee that a player will be healthy either.
Even when Embiid is healthy in the playoffs, he chokes. It isn't like he's played lights out when healthy.
In his last four years, age 37-40, John Stockton played 82, 82, 82, and 82 games. As a 39 year old, MJ played 82 games. In his age 40 and 41 seasons, Kareem played 80 and 74 games. It was unusual for stars to play fewer than 70-80 games per season unless they had significant injuries.
Name the playoff games he was healthy in please. Seriously, I want you to name them. They don’t exist.
That’s why you try something new
Embiids never been healthy in the playoffs.
@JFP95 Name the regular season games Embiid has been healthy for. He's just as banged up all season every year.
@@bpdmf2798 exactly. That’s why it’s smart that they’re finally trying a different approach to it.
@ColdHoopsbut Embid literally carry the team
todays "bigger faster stronger" athletes need to play LESS games? smh
But when they do play and pass ya'lls idol's records, ya'll call it "stat padding"
@@DiversityJackson when do they play and break records though? In your delusional world?
@@thebighoney9034 a dude named lbj. You've heard of him? Broke a few records in his time. Yet a chunk of the internet calls it "stat padding" or "useless longevity"
@DiversityJackson yes we’ve heard of Lyndon B Johnson. He was the 36th president
That’s what I’m saying 😭
They should simply have playoff suspensions for those who sit out regular season games. Have the league investigate when star players sit out healthy and make it have real world changes on the playoffs. Embid would have been on the court if it would cost him a playoff game suspension.
they would just play their stars for 30 seconds and sub them out 😅
@@w00t777 So just mandate a certain number of minutes! It’s not that hard!
“It’s not like the home opener snuck up on you” is such a bar 😭😭😭😭
We Need More reporters Like Him !
I’d be so pissed/sad if I were a Sixers fan, like how you supposed to believe in this franchise?
I feel your pain.
- Dolphins fan
How about treating it like a job you don't play? You don't get paid
We went from mfs complaining about AI missing practice to Joel missing actual games lol
Not even games, portions of seasons.
Suspend them for playoff games. If a player is found to have 'load managed' five games that they could have played, they get suspended for one game in the first round. The competitive advantage for resting players in the regular season would disappear real quick.
Fuck that, force them to slash ticket prices. That should scare the teams abusing the system.
It's not like the Clippers haven't tried this strategy with Paul George
The problem with this tactic is that the FO is acting as Embiid is young LeBron who can singlehandedly take a mediocre team to the ECF. He is just as guilty of blowing a series as anyone over the last 7 years and letting him sit out of high pressure regular season games isn't going to help develop those clutch instincts.
It seems like a classic Morey/Process era 76ers move to overcomplicate team dynamics.
The NBA. needs to start taking it out of their salaries!!
Embiid's knees made out of jelly
More like blubber 😂
I’ve seen jelly hold its weight. More like wet tissue paper.
Since the NBA doesn't really have an injured reserve list, would inventing one fix this. In the NFL you have to miss 8 games or half the season. You could do something similar in the nba. Just food for thought.
This is a stupid idea but i'll post it anyway. Just take the player's salary and divide that by 82. So for Embiid it would be around 627K a game. Every game he misses due to "load management" or what ever they want to call it, and not due to legitimate injuries as determined by a medical professional paid by the NBA and not the team. Just dock that amount of money off of his salary. Or better yet its that and deduct 10% off of every roster spot and couches and training staff salary.
As for the team you multiply that amount by say 10 and that goes against their available cap in some form, the punishment should be severe enough so that the team stops putting their hand in the proverbial cookie jar.
3:31 Embiid’s injury is the same one he’ll always have…a weak heart.
Off topic but that first clip I did not recognize as nick nurse. They done aged this man 10 years in half the time
Philly for ya 😂😂
Fans have to pay hundreds while Embiid gets s front row seat for free lol
Bro is getting paid $726,000 to sit on the bench each game
Give fans a full refund if you plan on load managing a star that night. If the owners start losing money they may have a different perspective on the load management idea.
As a Suxxers fan since 1975 I can confidently tell you that when I heard they used their cap space for Paul George I instantly knew this was a waste of money since he can't stay healthy and that he and Embiid would likely play less than 25 games together all year.
But you're gonna hear "they were 20-5 when they played together" and supposed to forget they rarely played together.
@@bpdmf2798 Yes that's the propaganda for what's proven to be a LOSING formula "trust the process".
It failed. Miserably. The common denominator all this time was Embaad. Didn't work with Jimmy Butler nor James Harden and headcase Ben Simmons was a waste of 4 years ... a guard that can't shoot (SMDH).
I think the solution to this problem is pretty simple just added a rule to all players who took the max contract as of right now who making 50 million+ dollars should played atleast 65 game for at least 3 minutes each per season, if not the players will be fined with 5 millions dollars per game they played under 65 games. I think that we should treat them well but people are also working hard and pay 350 + dollars every time to watch these star play too and also 65 game is the standard to qualify for a reward which is reasonable also being payed a lot and not trying is really gonna to make a lot of fan quitting the NBA
I know Embiid said he doesn’t want to win MVP, but can we just talk about if he misses 17 games consistently for the rest of his career, he’ll never make All-NBA ever again? It just sounds weird to me.
Ehh, playoffs matter more, Kobe has bunch off all defensive selections and isn’t even a top 5 perimeter defenders for like 2/3 of his career.
He's never played more than 68 games in a season even when he was doing back to backs.
And people will act all suprised when he's injured for the playoffs again, because load management DOES NOT WORK.
@@HoopEnthusiasts Well, he can also get injured in the playoffs. He’s just too injury prone to predict if he’ll play fully even though he doesn’t play 65+ games on purpose.
@@HoopEnthusiastsif you do that Jordan don’t deserve his dpoy 😂
Exactly I think they should lower it 55-60 because guys are just getting hurt
Part of problem is league and fans staring into box scores.
You could easily load manage by playing 20 minutes per game, but that isn't an option because that would affect the box score and per game average numbers.
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We all act like this load management stuff works but no team that has load managed has ever won anything of note. I’m not buying the load management argument, I just don’t think it’s worth jt
Just cap the percentage of games available in the playoffs to the regular ...
If you're only available for 50% of the games during the regular season for health reasons, then you're capped at 50% of playoff games
Embiid has this luxury because he’s on a top team in the Eastern Conference. If the Sixers were in the West they’d absolutely miss the playoff cut entirely a couple seasons
by not dealing with the hardships of the regular season you’re just not going to be built for the competitive toughness of the playoffs, whether that to do with injury or just team chemistry
They could change the first round of the playoffs to be all games played at the higher seed's city. Could use the excuse that it is to shorten the least important round of the playoffs and owners would care more about having all of those games at home and teams would care more to not have that disadvantage of playing all the games away. It also makes being a top 4 team extremely important compared to being a 5+ team.
In Europe season means the number of matches = 2*(n-1) teams in the league i.e. 30 teams means 58 matches and that it should be. You can throw few games for the in-season tournament for good measure
What if they make a rule that if they violate the rules 1-5 times with a player, they have to sit that player for 1 game in the opening playoff series
There’s two solutions I can think of but neither are very good.
1. Make it an actual league 82 games most points wins i.e no playoffs but every game matters. Thats obviously not good but yeah.
2. Halve the amount of play off teams to top 4 from each conference. Means you can’t come 10th and still win the championship in theory. Again, not very good but stuff like that to make it less rewarding to essentially sit players. You could also make the bottom teams better somehow.
You guys don't realize at this point the sixers are only concerned on if Joel and PG can play in the post season. The teams good enough to be in the 4-8 range with those two on and off. They made the playoffs with An improved maxey, a quarter of the season of embid, and with way less help last year
One of the solutions is to get rid of the stupid play-in tournament.
It gives too many teams hope that shouldn't be in the playoffs.
Either you are good enough to be 1-8 or you aren't. The lottery should be set once the playoffs start without the play-in.
They can add 2 more teams or 4 more teams over the next decade and I will still feel the same way.
Either play good enough to get in, or go home.
They have 30 teams and 2/3 of the league getting a chance to play post season basketball.
If they do add 4 more teams eventually (Seattle and Vegas the obvious 2 who will be first, with I think probably Kansas City and either Louisville/Cincinnati or Pittsburgh being the other).
I still think it should be 16 in the playoffs and 18 in the lottery.
Now, I would be okay if they expanded the playoffs at 36-40 teams if they ever try to expand the league that far. I wouldn't be against the play-in tournament at that point.
Right now, I am just not a fan of it. I think it helps give guys an excuse to miss more games because they have more of a chance to be in the post season. If they never go past Seattle and Vegas for expansion, I am not a fan of the play-in.
Guys use it as an excuse to be divas.
To win a championship you need to make the playoffs. It also helps to have consistency and time together playing with your teammates. Not playing some random game doesn't make it less likely his flopping will injure him in April or May.
They should really just make the season 72 games instead of 82. Play every team in the opposite conference twice and every team in your own conference 3 times. Take out the back to backs to better distribute that 72 over the season so guys can also get more rest between games and lower the 65 game rule to 55 to match.
They’re going to play back-to-back in the playoffs. Therefore, he won’t be properly CONDITIONED & will be GASSED by GAME 7. Just to play back-to-back the very next series. INJURIES ARE ALMOST GUARANTEED at this point. CONDITIONING MATTERS
I mean the fans complaining also need to stop saying the only thing that matters is a championship.
I hate the idea of lowering the amount of games because I really want to see the 73 W record by GSW broken.
I respect alot of perspectives on this issue, but I have to say its like people magically forget that for w.e. reason these players have consistently proven that their bodies don't last the full season grind, and when they are always struggling thru injuries in the playoffs everyone's running around like a chicken with their head cut off wondering why? So by dealing with that issue, they have to sacrifice somewhere, yet each choice carries the same response, it makes no sense.
I don't fully love "load management" but I think it has to be said that the Raptors with Kawhi were a big part of it being a thing and we got the most inarguable result you could imagine out of it. I guess general fans and/or the media/league didn't care about it as much because it wasn't trending yet and it was a star player in a "small" market team (Toronto Raptors are the 4th largest market behind NYC, LA, and Chicago). It came up here and there in the mainstream discussion, but as a fan watching Kawhi for the first time it made me disappointed to not see him in games in the regular season, and I wondered how the guys on the team felt about a sort of "favouritism" for their replacement star. But everyone acknowledges that he would not have been able to deliver one of the greatest playoff performances of all time and a championship if we hadn't done that, let alone be available for all the games. He was even labouring thru alot of the games thru out the run, if he had to do that same labouring thru out the season, he may not have made it to the playoffs for real.
I argue that the Raptors laid the model down for how to do it without completely destroying the product because we went all in on getting that championship with Kawhi and there was no way we were gonna mess that up. Maybe Nick Nurse is in the best position to handle that trajectory once again in Philly. Keep in mind, I don't care for Embiid or Philly, but that just might be the best example.
What about adding a first round bye for the top two seeds in each conference?
I don't understand why Daryl Morey is praised for his work. With such a high turnover in the squad, it is difficult to develop a successful team structure. We often celebrate trades and those who make these trades, but continuity is greatly underestimated for success.
Why not start the season a month earlier!? The break between seasons is sooo long in the NBA
Everyone is looking over the fact that fans are the one's who get shafted when they go to these games to watch players like emiid only to find out he's sitting out for no reason.
ALL problems with the league can be solved with fair reffing according to the rules of basketball. Thats it. Fair reffing means seeding matters, means regular season has importance, means players culture of laziness ends
Honestly, as a Celtics fan, I don't get why Philly sees Embiid as being so untouchable. I'm not saying just trade the guy to trade him, but they should see what's available on the market. It just makes sense. Embiid struggles to be able to play in the playoffs. More importantly, when Embiid does play, he can't even get his team to the ECF. Even when Embiid is playing, the Sixers get bounced to Cancun by the Celtics, Raptors, etc. So what is the point of acting like Embiid is untouchable when he's almost never healthy in the playoffs and when he is he can't get you to the Conference Finals? Once again, not saying to trade him just to trade him. But I'd actively see what the market has on offer. Embiid is a very good player and I'm sure there'd be some return, the question is whether or not the return is worth it.
Meanwhile Freddy Freeman going through 4-5 hours of grueling rehab on an ankle and hitting a HR in games 1-4 of the World Series...Kirk Gibson level stuff. WNBA players are tougher and more determined than these current NBA players
The Sixers have put together a very good team with Embiid, PG and Maxey leading the way. Complementary players like Martin, Oubre, Drummond and Lowry are also valuable. They'll need to do all they can to stay fit for the play-offs.
The expectation is that barring severe injuries these guys should be on the floor every night. It’s their job. You don’t get to call out of work cuz you don’t fell 100%, they shouldn’t either. Adam silver let the players run the league and now he’s dealing with the consequences.
I cant stand so called basketball fans who advocate for a shortened season. Outside of lockouts and COVID, the NBA seasons have been 82 games since the late 1960, and in that time the amenities for NBA players have gotten better, the science for injuries and recovery has gotten better, the paychecks are much larger, hell even the groupies are better yet these players are asking to do even less work while collecting an ungodly amount of money.
This is why Shaq is such a hater and I cannot blame him.
wonder if synergy will be a concern
Player salary should be tied to number of games played. They got lazy
What if a new rule said that unless a player played at least X regular season matches, he couldn’t play in the playoffs? (With exceptions due to specific situations)
Would that be silly?
Here is a solution
1). Fans should be able to buy insurance on tickets. Select idk the top 20 players. If you show up and the player is a healthy scratch. You can get your money back or go to another game
2. Reduce the 1st two rounds to best of 3. Puts more pressure on the regular season to matter. No one wants to see rhe Celtics or nuggets in best of 3.
3. Reduce the season to 70 games. And thus reduce the amount of games needed to win an award to 55.
4). If you dexided to be a healrhy scratch you forefit the money for that game.
The first 20 seconds man.... his body language and his eyes tell you everything. 😢
How are owners okay with their big investment not playing in front of paying fans. Those fans interests pay his contract basically.
Another banger from my boy Tucker
Low management disgusting. I say every game miss fine the player the same as game check for that miss game. Plus fine the team $100,000 per player miss the game. It didn't happen back in the back. Now common practice. It started with Spurs with there old players like Tim Duncan. Throw the hammer on this practice.
Better them use the regular season to look for a four leaf clover and any other lucky item.
No, they're not bussyboy. Get your clicks and views, though. 👀
Yes, you need to be on top6 at the of regular season. 1st or 6th, it's not so big differents.
They're doing all this for a 1st round exit
I dont Get how «only playing 50-60 reg.season games» is a bad thing. More young players will Get the chance to play, and the league as a whole will become a lot more competetive as a Direct consequence.
Finally somebody gets it thank you
The Sixers are talking as if they're going to be able to hold on to a decent seed in the playoffs with all this rest. But this Eastern conference isn't that weak anymore; they won't be able to sleep walk their way into a top four seed this year.
We'll see how things look in February when they're a play-in team.
You don't play you don't get paid.
It's so easy.
Dudes just resting up for this in season tournament
Hell no record would be destroyed and their is no point players would stoll sit even if the games are lowered
Just make it so you have to play 65 games to play in the play offs 😅. If you start the season injured you're still able to go into the play offs with 66% attendance since your return.
Genuine question, is he an mvp candidate if he’s not going to be eligible for mvp?
Is the Paul George free agent signing the first free agent signing where both teams involved are worse off than before?
I think the league should eliminate the play in
I say if you are healthy enough to play and you don't then you shouldn't get paid for that game.
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Instead of fines take draft picks.
I'm a sixers fan and really like Joel but he tries to dribble too much losing the ball tries to shoot too many 3s and is always hurt when it matters regardless of load management, he could be one of the best, he's obviously a difference maker when he's on the floor, but if he's always hurt he's not helping the team
Make the playoffs 6 teams instead of 8. No play in. The regular season immediately means more.
All you have to do is take away these massive guaranteed contracts and I bet all these little maintenance injuries magically disappear and players become more durable all of a sudden.
it should be random who u play in the playoffs then your seeding doesnt matter😊
There is an easy solution tho, if you dont play you dont get payed, like any normal job. You play 41 games? Half your salary is gone
If all else fails ngl build around Tyrese in a couple years
Play for pay miss 31 games unexcused for the season and a team can void your whole contract for that year and you will not get a payday at the end of the season play all 82 games and the league will reward you with a 50% bonus to your contract no more paying throughout the season make it one big paycheck at the end of the season
NOW he doesn't care about awards?
I think they should load manage tbh. Nobody cares if Embiid and PG are playing November games or not, if they don’t make the playoffs healthy what’s the point of all the new acquisitions
Load managing Kawhi and PG and Embiid and other players is what is ruining the NBA. If we are g9nna load manage the stars, might as well skip the regular season and just have the playoffs
@@jonnygalante3623 or maybe they should just change the schedule, because 82 games is absolutely crazy and every single year at least half of the teams in playoffs have injury problems. Makes no sense to me to play 4 times against 10 teams in a season.
Nobody also cares if they don't make it past the second round
@@victorhsluizpersonally, I'm absolutely ok with a season length that makes durability an important ability to have as a star.
@@jonhoge153dumbass logic, if the NBA season was 60 games maybe guys like drose and Kawhi would have an extended career
Easy solution is if caught purposely resting player you lose drafts pick(s)
Paul George And Joel Embiid is Still Young!
Simple fix, tie play to salary.
MJ : plays 82 games on both sides of the court.
Also MJ : 6 rings in 8years .
Missing games is just an excuse
I never want to see Sixers have success. Between the tanking and the excessive load management, they are a shithouse organization and team that deserves all the bad karma
They should make the playoffs 5/2 higher seed gets 5 home games instead of 4
Take draft picks away or push them all the way to back of draft
This isn’t smart remember the clippers tried this in 2020 and failed
Why not just play your stars for like 5 mins? Better than zero?
Sixers wont even make the ECF.