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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501
I think regular season matters plenty. There are factors outside of this that make reg season games meaningless.
First silver has gotta figure this injury report shit out. Even the best teams are tanking games left and right because they’re aggressively managing minutes for their stars. Of course a fan is going to think a regular season game is bs when they travel hours to see a game only for their favorite player to benched for a hangnail a few minutes before tip. That goes as well for nba coaches who throw in the towel with a full quarter to go.
Coaches giving up games like this is also way more likely to happen because of shot chucking. Teams either blow out or get blown out early depending on if they’re hot or cold with their shot chucking. Also because the nba gets greedy with scheduling and constantly sign up back to back to back travel days. So most teams nowadays pick 1 of those days to “tank” to save up for games that matter.
Schedule games more logically and with player rest and safety in mind. Do something, anything, to curb blowouts. Force teams to cut this shit out with shady injury report practices. Maybe even consider less playoff teams to add more skin to the game.
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Not disagreeing with your individual points but all those collectively is why the regular season doesn't matter. They don't load manage in the playoffs and you don't see NFL teams load manage players either. Shit Pat has a high ankle sprain and is once again going to play.
In the end there is just to many games so people don't give a shit to watch meaningless basketball Oct-Dec and probably through April. You have to make these regular season games mean something.