What are some unpopular basketball beliefs that you have?

[Dennis 37]

The length of the game should be increased and the number of timeouts/game interruptions should be reduced so star players have less time to rest. Thus would result in a greater reliance on bench players. Teams built with great depth would be better able to compete with the teams who are draft lucky and/or FA popular.

15min quarters?

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15 minute quarters with timeouts only in the 2nd and 4th quarters. Do your fricken coaching during practices. Call plays on the fly.

[Knightro]

Kevin Durant should not be criticized for deciding to join the Warriors in free agency.

Can you expand on this?

A lot of people have strong opinions that Durant was soft or running away from the challenge by deciding to join a 73-win team that had already won a title in 2015 without and would have very likely won more titles in the short term (17, 18, 19) even if he didn’t come.

Especially considering Durant’s own OKC team was leading 3-1 against the 73-win Warriors in 2016 and blew it.

But Durant earned his free agency and was entitled to go anywhere he wanted to go. And he chose the situation that he felt would lead to the absolute maximum amount of winning.

For as rings obsessed as we all are as fans, I don’t think it’s fair to then be like “we want players to win rings, but only the way we want them to win rings!”

[iggymcfrack]

- Jason Kidd is the GOAT defensive PG

Isn't this one consensus? I feel like last time we voted on best defenders by position he ran away with it. Only total casuals say Payton.

[Mean_Streets]

- Jason Kidd is the GOAT defensive PG

Isn't this one consensus? I feel like last time we voted on best defenders by position he ran away with it. Only total casuals say Payton.

I don't think so. I hear more talk about Payton being the GOAT defensive point guard out of any other player, even though Jason Kidd impacted the defensive side of the ball considerably more than Payton.

[MavsDirk41]

- Jason Kidd is the GOAT defensive PG

Isn't this one consensus? I feel like last time we voted on best defenders by position he ran away with it. Only total casuals say Payton.

I think KIdd and Payton are two of the greatest defensive point guards to ever play. Couldn’t go wrong with either.

[DoItALL9]

"Jokic would not look nearly as good in an older era, his defense would be exposed and he would've had much better competition at his position
(he'd still obviously be good)".

Consider another possibility: what kind of puzzle would be for a team of an older era to guard a 7 ft that can shoot very good on the post, floaters, mid range, from 3, and pass the ball to everyone, everywhere on the court.

I agree except in an era where Cs did not typically command your offence i can't see how he would be allowed to play this way. I dont think there was a coach out there at that time that would have given him that freedom. Time have obviously changed

Don Nelson

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[PaulKellerman]

Ben Wallace and Tony Allen are the 2 best man-man defenders of the last 25 years. Mano e mano, they can lock up anyone at their respective positions.

[WiggOuts]

"Jokic would not look nearly as good in an older era, his defense would be exposed and he would've had much better competition at his position
(he'd still obviously be good)".

Consider another possibility: what kind of puzzle would be for a team of an older era to guard a 7 ft that can shoot very good on the post, floaters, mid range, from 3, and pass the ball to everyone, everywhere on the court.

I agree except in an era where Cs did not typically command your offence i can't see how he would be allowed to play this way. I dont think there was a coach out there at that time that would have given him that freedom. Time have obviously changed

Don Nelson

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True, but that still proves my point as Don Nelson was almost viewed as a mad scientist at that time for his outside the box methods. Coaches weren't exactly mimicking his methods