Oh memories of being a DJ - after Clipse I would ramp it up and then go with my DJ Shadow Organ Donor / Wu-Tang Pinky Ring mash up. Oh snap, yo - gotta find my old mixtapes.

i thought a lot of people voted by virtue of submitting their bracket?

for posterity sake:
bobbo
dtemp
sirosis
tsc
mmbt0ne
tbach
untouchable
kyro
assani
clark
schwallie
d104
isura
art
sethy
bjorn

It's not that you need the round robin to establish home court as much as you need it to keep the top teams occupied if you're going to give out byes. It's one thing to have byes in football where it's only one game, but if you have one team not play for two weeks while a 7-game series happens, then they're going to get really rusty and they won't be playing anywhere near their best basketball when the next round starts. If they're going to play, there needs to be something on the line so homecourt is a natural carrot for the winner.

I'm starting to remember my plan better though. It would be like this. Eliminate conferences and divisions altogether. The top 5 teams in the NBA at the end of the regular season go play in the European round robin. This does a lot to grow the game internationally as well as keep them occupied while the 1st round of the playoffs happens. Meanwhile, teams 6-11 have playoff series like normal. That would be some combination of Utah, Dallas, New Orleans, San Antonio, Portland, and whichever one of Denver and Houston doesn't qualify for the round robin.

Then, when the five teams play, not only does the top team get homecourt guaranteed throughout the playoffs, but the bottom team loses their bye and has to play the winner of the last-chance play-in which consists of teams 12-15 playing 3-game series. That would leave Philadelphia, Miami, Phoenix, and Atlanta all fighting for the last playoff spot this year. The winner of the play-in series faces the last-place team from the round-robin in another 3 game series to qualify for the quarterfinals along with the round-robin winners and the 1st round playoff winners.

I know it's too complicated to ever happen, but it would lead to a lot more competitive matchups and a lot more excitement IMO. It would also still be less complicated than the college football postseason which does pretty well revenue-wise.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_Ydvua3fBU

just skip to about minute 2 when pusha t comes in

highlight of the freestyle

every bitch love him
they jus sit and discuss him
hes the closest thing to heaven only gods above him
keep the devil below me
gettin money to show me
i ride the rarri and hopped over the aston like kobe

Kobe gets to narrate his own documentary? Spike is a hack.

Also, since there would often be ties in the round robin, you would just use regular season record to break as the automatic tiebreaker. Thus, a team like Cleveland would have a great shot at winning the tiebreak at 3-1 whereas Denver would almost certainly have to go 4-0. Likewise, 1 win for the Lakers would almost certainly be enough to keep them out of the 3-game series with the play-in winner.

I don't know best backcourt ever, I just know it's not isiah dumars.

wtfux, you said you'd vote for me over Bjord.. between this and missing the Dumb and Dumber quote I just don't know..

Clipse - Eghck

That's the best I could find on YouTube, this is my favorite Clipse song.

McBobbo
dtemp
tsc
westhoff
tbach
untouch
greear
assani
clark
schwalbach
d104
victor
artdogg
sethypooh
chim

Pretty sick - wish it was a rape joke re: kobe tho

I'm not going to count the brackets as votes in case people thought their brackets should be what they thought was gonna happen. 14. seed mmbt0ne looking strong up 3-0 so far.

edit: just got kc's vote

greear/kyro and victor/isura only matches tied up at 2

oops, chim17*

thanks for the reminder.

Walt Frazier and Da Pearl, obv

Bobbo
dtemp
SirOsis
TSC
Westhoff
GooseHinson
Untouchable
GREEAR10
Assani
Clark
Schwallie by default
D104
Victor
Artdogg
sethy
me

srsly biggest landslide in the 1st round.

Just saw this. You drink like a schoolgirl and I'm not taking your suggestions seriously at all. Vodka and Water with a couple lime wedges in it tastes fine and you're already fighting off your hangover.

Left side:

Bobbo
dtemp
sirosis
TSC
westhoff
goose
untouchable
kyro

Assani
Clark
Schwallie
d104
Victor
artdogg
sethy
bjorn

This might be a repost, but for anyone who has followed the very interesting (imo) work on SPM over at B-R, they just released the Point Guard list. (Interesting, no Isaiah)

http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=1986

Some thoughts on this installment:

Stockton, Magic and Kidd are the only real stand-outs. There is a greater disparity in peak years and bad years at the PG position than any other position (in relation to their SPM statistic)

Looking at Isaiah, he only had a PER of 20 or greater 3 times in his career, which is pretty shocking considering Stockton did this 16 years in a row and they played in the same era.

Neil Payne is pretty much saying he thinks Zeke is one of the most overrated players of the era, while trying to be nice about it.

How did Riverman even end up with that many posts ITT? I'm assuming trolling on Sundays when a big game was on, but I don't remember a single post of his.

I want to see a GREEAR/Annata final personally.

Going to be hard when greear dont make it out of round 1

Bobbo
dtemp
SirOsis
TSC
westhoff
goose
untouchable
geearrr
assani
clark
schwalie
d104
victor
artdogg
sethy
chim

mjw5453466
dtemp
SO
craka
mmb
tbac
ut
kyro
classic
pokeromg
chase
d10
vic
dogg
seth
chim

kyro/greer and chim/bjorn were tough

Left side:

Bobbo
dtemp
sirosis
TSC
westhoff
tbach
untouchable
kyro

assani
clark
schwallie
d104
victor
artdogg
sethypooh
chim