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The play-in made the last month of the season watchable for a bunch of teams that would otherwise be unwatchable.

Apologize to Adam Silver.

Is this Adam Silver's burner account?

I was literally have a discussion about this with a friend this morning.

I was wrong. My original thoughts of a silly gimmick have gone complete 180.

I am entertained.



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It's a ridiculous idea, and I still think it should go away.

Let's play 82 games, work hard to make playoffs, then make it all possibly get thrown out cause of one or two bad games at the end.

Get rid of it.

I get why people don't like it but it definitely makes the end of the season more entertaining.

82 RS games for everyone to eliminate 10 of 30 teams is pretty damn stupid

Play-in is awesome. I even wish the NBA adopted European system and had a at the end of the playoffs F4 instead of 7-game series.

What? How has this changed anything to date?

Teams at 9 and 10 would be playing to get to eighth place either way. Bottom 8-10 teams every year are tanking like always. It does nothing except make the games next week (maybe the last 4?) maybe mean a little more and at that point, and maybe keep one team from tanking a week earlier.... who cares. It devalues all the other games in the race for eighth.

The play-in hasn't made me any more interested in basketball than I otherwise would have been, and my team was in the play-in range for the majority of the season.

Not sure why we have to keep having this topic, and I hate it more now than ever.

I still hate the play-in it's unfair especially if there is a massive difference in the standings between the 7-8 seeds with the 9-10. It rewards mediocrity/losing. If they wanted to make the Regular season more exciting maybe reduce the amount of games in the season. I know that won't happen because it's leaving money on the table so scrap the play-in.

I like the idea of the play-in, but I don't like that it's unconditional. I think they should have some rules like in the bubble, where you had to be within a certain range. The Timberwolves are 43-34 right now, the three teams below them are 37-39, 33-34 and 31-44. The Wolves should be in the playoffs, period.

The play-in punishes those in the 7-8 spots too harshly.

It's already a huge lift to face the #1 or #2 team in the conference, but after a grueling 82-game season, let's ALSO force those teams to play an extra high-intensity elimination game or two prior to those respective series' starting?

If NBA wants to make some money for loser teams, create a week-long NIT-type post-season tourney for 9-16 seeds and give a $$$ prize to the team that wins.

The teams in the 9-10 range in the East are within range of the 8 spot anyway, and 11 is way out of things. The East is just as interesting.

The Lakers are unwatchable anyway unless you're into schadenfreude.

So really you just have the Pelicans and maybe the Spurs which are more watchable, and both of them are still DOA in the playoffs as a 7 or 8 seed.

As if 82 games wasnt enough to prove what teams should be in the playoffs. Dumb. Get rid of it

JShuttlesworth wrote:The play-in hasn't made me any more interested in basketball than I otherwise would have been, and my team was in the play-in range for the majority of the season.

You don't think it's because your team has been safely well above the 9th-10th seed for weeks? If your injuries had been worse this year and you had the same team healthy now but you knew you could only make the 9th seed at best, it wouldn't make things a little more exciting or interesting to have that extra chance at making a run?

Also I feel like people keep setting the bar really high. The question shouldn't be 'is it an epically exciting season-changing addition that gets me goosed af?' It should just be this: 'does this make the season a little more interesting and worth paying attention to than not having it?' I personally think it's no contest, the play-in games themselves were really fun last year and made me care about teams I wouldn't have thought twice about otherwise, and there's a little extra drama in the last month in the middle of the pack. Doesn't have to change the world to be better than what came before.

it’s awesome but i’m not 100% sold yet. it’s interesting because the lakers/nets have dropped to play in spots. if it was just the pointless teams idk if it would be as much fun.

The last month of the season would be just as fun this year in both conferences for the battle for the 8th spot.

It was a decent idea to compensate for the short season last year, and gave teams the benefit of the doubt that they were better than their record showed because of disruptions due to COVID restrictions and games missed. Even this season a lot of teams were disrupted earlier in the season due to players having to miss games - playing games with rosters made up of bench and relief players.

But it needs to end next season. If you don't make it to at least #8 over a normal, 82-game season, then that's just the way it is. Get better.

I have come around slightly on the play-in but still do not agree with the current structure. Play-in should not trigger when you have 5+ games separating a seed...