Harry Palmer wrote:DH:
Hypothetical.
The Raptors play exactly the same way they are playing now.
Only the league changes the rules so that instead of almost 60% of teams making the playoffs, almost 90% do.
Is your experience watching the exact same games played by the exact same players different? Is the bad basketball better?
If it is, isn't the solution to be found within our own perspectives? Just decide that today we want 100 points/pizza. Tomorrow we want a lot of 3s. W/e. it's not about having a chance to win it all, so let's set our own goals. As you say, the league sets their lines based on marketing...why do we buy in if the reality isn't different? We're seeing the top w/e % of basketball players in the world playing the game...if we abandon the need to build a real winner, why not find contentment wherever we look?
Harry, I want to reply to this but can't. I'm heading out for the night but will later. If you see it, awesome. If not, I wasn't ignoring.