The NBA is suddenly the MLB. As we all talk about how baseball is slow as hell and should decrease the number of games, so should the NBA according to Miami Heat Head Coach Erik Spoelstra. He told CBS Sports that the 44 minute experiment is fine. But minutes it’s not the problem. It’s the amount of games and the crazy amount of back-to-backs.
Heat coach Erik Spoelstra wasn’t as big on the idea as much as he is in favor of cutting games and back-to-backs off the schedule entirely, but he is open to seeing what happens with the 44-minute experiment.
“I don’t think it’s a matter of how long the game is,” Spoelstra said. “I think there’s too many games, to be frank. I think if there’s some way to find a way to cut out some of the back-to-backs so there aren’t 20-plus of them. I think that’s the bigger issue, not shaving off four minutes in a particular game. But I’m open to seeing what happens with that.
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Fair play coach. But I have an idea.
If the NBA suggested less games. Owners and fans would go no. So that’s a problem already. Why not do this.
Either lengthen the season by a month, or shorten the Playoffs, either best of five or less teams.
You may whine at them two alternatives but I can justify it. If you lengthen the season by a month. Back-to-backs will decrease. Injuries will decrease. Sure when Team USA comes around with the Olympics or the FIBA World Cup, They’ll have less time to prepare.
But why do you care? All you people are like babies when it comes to international competition. “Why do we even go?”. “What if our players get injured?”. If you don’t like my idea of lengthening the season. Kick rocks. Otherwise suck up the fact that international competition is getting better and support your country.
As for the Playoffs, I threw that out there. Personally I don’t want that at all. Playoff basketball is heaven.
