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Face it guys, we're not gonna get a 1-16 tournament style playoff anytime soon. A change I think is more feasible, and could be implemented as soon as nextyear is my idea of awarding the top seeds of each conference the ability to choose who they play come postseason out of the 7 other teams who clinched aplayoff spot.
If the playoffs were to end today, as a Laker fan [currently a 2nd/3rd seed], I don't want to see them play the Mavs [7th seed] or the Suns [6th seed], butrather a "better" team, the Rockets [5th seed]. If the Lakes are fortunate enough to get that #1 seed, I'm choosing the Rox all the way to playfirst, not the Mavs, Nuggets or Warriors. After the first round, the top seeds would again get to view the remaining opponents and once again choose who theywanna face next.
I think it'd be pretty damn entertaining to see who would pick who, and there'd be some indirect disrespecting going on.. basically like "yeah weWANT to play yall". And you definitely wouldn't get that nonsense of teams thinking about losing on PURPOSE in order to get a certain seed because ofmatchups.
If the playoffs were to end today, as a Laker fan [currently a 2nd/3rd seed], I don't want to see them play the Mavs [7th seed] or the Suns [6th seed], butrather a "better" team, the Rockets [5th seed]. If the Lakes are fortunate enough to get that #1 seed, I'm choosing the Rox all the way to playfirst, not the Mavs, Nuggets or Warriors. After the first round, the top seeds would again get to view the remaining opponents and once again choose who theywanna face next.
I think it'd be pretty damn entertaining to see who would pick who, and there'd be some indirect disrespecting going on.. basically like "yeah weWANT to play yall". And you definitely wouldn't get that nonsense of teams thinking about losing on PURPOSE in order to get a certain seed because ofmatchups.