OT: Adam Silver in favor of 10 minute quarters

[MalagaBulls]

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[League Circles]

Seems like only yesterday we were all hoping he would be as good as David Stern. Disappointments happen lol.

[DuckIII]

Ugh. He’s done some solid things while thinking outside the box but some of his ideas bother me. This idea blows. It fixes nothing and causes statistical asterisks up and down the board that just aren’t necessary.

It’s a solution desperately searching for a problem.

[kulaz3000]

He has bigger problems to solve than changing the minutes of the quarters. The NBA game itself in a shambles where they are losing fans all across the world. Despite the league having some of the greatest athletes and skilled players the league has ever seen, it simply lacks in appeal and entertainment than it has in the past.

Fix the game first, and figure out the rest later. He needs to reestablish some balance between offence and defense, and allow more physicality without going overboard. It's not about not being so soft, but allowing teams and players to actually put their physicality and competitive spirit to use, on both ends of the floor.

[Indomitable]

He has bigger problems to solve than changing the minutes of the quarters. The NBA game itself in a shambles where they are losing fans all across the world. Despite the league having some of the greatest athletes and skilled players the league has ever seen, it simply lacks in appeal and entertainment than it has in the past.

Fix the game first, and figure out the rest later. He needs to reestablish some balance between offence and defense, and allow more physicality without going overboard. It's not about not being so soft, but allowing teams and players to actually put their physicality and competitive spirit to use, on both ends of the floor.

Let passion matter

[greenwing]

Translation. We know the current team ppg average is ridiculous and out of control but we don’t want to change the rules so we will shorten the game length to make it look like scoring hasn’t reached silly levels.

[Indomitable]

He has bigger problems to solve than changing the minutes of the quarters. The NBA game itself in a shambles where they are losing fans all across the world. Despite the league having some of the greatest athletes and skilled players the league has ever seen, it simply lacks in appeal and entertainment than it has in the past.

Fix the game first, and figure out the rest later. He needs to reestablish some balance between offence and defense, and allow more physicality without going overboard. It's not about not being so soft, but allowing teams and players to actually put their physicality and competitive spirit to use, on both ends of the floor.

Well stated!

In a time where the NBA needs a leader, they ended up with a used car salesman.

[HomoSapien]

What problem does this solve?

[step]

What problem does this solve?

I dunno.

Add the flow on effect of less game time leading to fewer ads and thus lower revenue.

[DuckIII]

Translation. We know the current team ppg average is ridiculous and out of control but we don’t want to change the rules so we will shorten the game length to make it look like scoring hasn’t reached silly levels.

That was my gut reaction as well.

[dougthonus]

I think this is a great idea, but I get why people hate it, because I feel like people mostly hate big changes.

Shorter games is probably a better fan experience

Shorter games means easier to stagger minutes may result in fewer injuries (though remains to be seen if star players would just have lesser workloads or if guys like Thibs would just never rest their stars at all now) without shortening the season and decreasing revenue.

I think it'd have less impact on records than you think (at least at an individual level) because you still might see similar MPG for star players that are breaking records (ie, no one is going over 40 now anyway) though if that proves true, the injury mitigation is less.

[step]

As I only just watch the clip... he talks it predominantly framing it around TV, games being in a 2 hour timeslot is easier for programming etc. This feels like being stuck in an old mindset... given the progression to more on demand services/streaming.

[ChettheJet]

Less value buying tickets but they might have 30 minutes between each quarter to keep the concession sales big. I know Americans have shorter attention spans than ever but this is ridiculous.

[kulaz3000]

:dontknow:

I think this is a great idea, but I get why people hate it, because I feel like people mostly hate big changes.

Shorter games is probably a better fan experience

Shorter games means easier to stagger minutes may result in fewer injuries (though remains to be seen if star players would just have lesser workloads or if guys like Thibs would just never rest their stars at all now) without shortening the season and decreasing revenue.

I think it'd have less impact on records than you think (at least at an individual level) because you still might see similar MPG for star players that are breaking records (ie, no one is going over 40 now anyway) though if that proves true, the injury mitigation is less.

The biggest impact will be on bench role players, their minutes and what happens to their contracts, when a bench player goes from playing say 15 minutes, to 7 minutes. Even if the starters are on reduced time, it will still impact the minutes on the bench players because you're taking away 8 minutes from the game, which is quite significant.

Again, at this stage, this change isn't a needle mover either way for me, I think there are much bigger concerns the league has to look in to before this.

[kulaz3000]

As I only just watch the clip... he talks it predominantly framing it around TV, games being in a 2 hour timeslot is easier for programming etc. This feels like being stuck in an old mindset... given the progression to more on demand services/streaming.

What's the point of it fitting better in a 2 hour slot, if the quality of the product is going downhill? It doesn't matter if a movie is 1.5 hours or 3 hours, a crappy movie is a crappy movie and people still won't watch.

[2weekswithpay]

Not interested. Less basketball without fewer timeouts, commercials, and stoppages isn't interesting to me.

[Jahensle]

absolutely terrible idea. This isn't baseball, the length of the game doesn't need fixing.

[dumbell78]

This idea blows to be frank.

You're creating more issues and deflecting, maybe be its me for him to move on.

[SfBull]

Seems like he wants to turn the game closer to FIBA rules .
Just no.

[Stratmaster]

:dontknow:

I think this is a great idea, but I get why people hate it, because I feel like people mostly hate big changes.

Shorter games is probably a better fan experience

Shorter games means easier to stagger minutes may result in fewer injuries (though remains to be seen if star players would just have lesser workloads or if guys like Thibs would just never rest their stars at all now) without shortening the season and decreasing revenue.

I think it'd have less impact on records than you think (at least at an individual level) because you still might see similar MPG for star players that are breaking records (ie, no one is going over 40 now anyway) though if that proves true, the injury mitigation is less.

You don't get why people hate it, if you think that is the reason.

NBA games aren't too long. NFL games are. MLB games are (a little better since the role changes).

Both those sports have more play stoppage than they do actual play. Not only are NBA games shorter than other major sports, there is more consistent action than in those other sports. It is why my favorite sports went from "MLB, NFL, NBA" TO "NBA, NFL, MLB". Frankly, if the Bears fan wasnt drilled into me since I was 7 I probably would never watch an NFL game and I quit watching MLB a few years after the Cubs won the world series. Just not enough actual playing the game.

As others said, this is a solution looking for a problem. I have never had anyone list "the games are too long" as being one of the problems the NBA has.