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Anthony Davis must be playing NBA 2k MyCareer on Hall of Fame. He still gets his because he's a player vs the CPU and a beast, but his team-mates can't hit jack because of slider cheese.

EDIT: Raptors weren't that far way from taking one off the Cavaliers, even if their final steal that set up the 0.3 prayer for OT was an uncalled foul. Maybe they won't win 56 games again but they can be a dark horse for the title if Sullinger can come back before too long.

Last edited by Jay (OTT) at 10/29/2016 4:21:07 AM

Have you watched the Raptors play playoff games before? Their offence is not built for it.

Play-off basketball is still basketball, and this year especially has taught me that there's no such thing as a certainty in sports. So you can't say with any certainty that the Raptors won't win the title, just that it's an outside chance.

I am willing to say it

I'm willing to say it too, Raptors have little to no chance of winning the title this season.

i have to admit, who said at the start of the year - bulldogs will win afl grand final..

fkn no one.

injuries, trades, and golden runs all lead to titles in about 75 games time.

Cant really compare AFL/NRL to the NBA lol its apples and oranges.

Its a one game grand finals compared to a seven game series.Better team always finds a way to win a seven game series. (Exception was when Seattle lost to Denver and Mavs lost to Warriors).

The Swans may have come out on top if the grand finals was say a 5 game series or 7 seven games series.

yer sure u can't compare afl, but there are plenty of basketball examples.

Detroit pistons in 04, miami heat in '06, 1978 Washington Bullets - that year is a good example because the two teams that were in the finals where both sub-50 win teams.

So it does happen - maybe the swans would have come out on top in 7 games......... - yet the team paying the shortest price to win AFL grand final for 2017 is?

Western Bulldogs

I would argue that the NBA season contains too many games for the purpose it serves. After 82 games, over half the league is still in the running to win and are theoretically on even footing as no byes are awarded in the play-offs.

Aside from arguments over the fairness of having so many games to eliminate so few teams, the players rarely get a chance to properly rest during such a congested season.

If only money wasn't a driving factor towards squeezing all the extra games onto the schedule. I think dropping the regular season to 76 games would be better for the players, and slightly increase the value of regular season W's and L's (that's 4 games vs division rivals, 3 games vs conference teams, 2 games vs opposite conference). Maybe even go as low as 72, doing away with the concept of divisions entirely.

There's a case to be made for only letting 4 teams from each conference make the play-offs too.

Last edited by Jay (OTT) at 11/6/2016 9:29:26 AM

I like the idea of dropping from 82 to 76, the slight issue is that might make career records a little harder to achieve.

I can't see them changing the playoff structure though, as it is it's not as if teams in 6th/7th/8th are making deep playoff runs. And, on the rare chance that they do, a ton of people get behind them (because everyone likes cheering for the underdog). The champion pretty much always comes from 1st-4th anyway. But, if they were to cut the number of teams, that would be a huge revenue loss for the NBA, and I really don't see them going for that.

Knicks are looking alright. Melo's still doing what he always does, Porzingis is 7 foot 3 and you can't teach that, and whilst Rose still isn't near his prime, he has been more consistently healthy in recent times and able to contribute. Can't see them doing any better than Conference Semi-Final this season and that's if they get hot in the play-offs, but they're just one good Free Agency period away from contending.

Of course, this could be said about a lot of teams in the league right now. There's good teams and there's bad teams, but most of the bad teams still have at least one reason to feel optimistic about their franchise even if results won't come this season. Be it the 76ers and 'The Process' Embiid (not to mention Simmons who last I heard could be back before 2017), Miami and Whiteside, Minnesota and the Wiggins-Towns duo... all of these teams are 4-10 right now yet have at least one piece of the puzzle that is a good line-up. The only team that really looks boned is, unfortunately for Bogut, the Mavericks.

A couple of teams that I slept on and are doing better than expected are the Bulls, who I thought were going to suffer for a lack of outside shooting between Rondo and Wade, but have made it work thanks to Wade improving in that department, and the Lakers, who have suddenly come alive post Bryant with a new approach to basketball and fresh faces. Okay, so they got blown out by the Warriors last night. They're still 8-8 and have a win over said Warriors from earlier...

PS: Cannot believe the NBA didn't do anything about the blown call at the end of the Raptors @ Kings game... should've been over-ruled and turned into a tie.

Last edited by Jay (OTT) at 11/24/2016 5:35:54 AM