Why the league should make games 90 minutes long

[Dr Aki]

way left field of left field

[Wavy Q]

can this thread be stickied for lulz?

[chudak]

...The only bad thing about this is that it breaks tradition...

I could think of a few other things.

Lets leave the game 48 minutes, make the court bigger and let them play 8 on 8!

[K1NG]

Why? It just makes it a "complete" team game like baseball and football. Just because we're used to 48-min games doesn't mean that's the optimal limit.

Ok, then make the games 60 minutes. But 90? These guys are human beings, not machines, and they play every other day. The only way I could see this happening is if they play once a week like football and thats just a ridiculous thought.

That's the idea. No one is forcing his coach to play his star player 40 min. If anything, we should also increase the number of games during the season, just because it would bring more revenue AND the star player's impact is even further reduced(since his coach has to reduce his minutes even more, to prevent injuries.)

How about they play in the dirt, place landmines randomly underground, and at random points in the game the mines explode? If one of the mines detonates on a star player, it would even FURTHER reduce his impact!

[Lakers05]

Fatigue? Injury? Lack of excitement? Some games are hard enough to watch as it is. Imagine those games being twice as long.

You're thinking that it's a 12-man roster and that 5 players have to play 90 min. No, it would be like a 25-man roster, and about 12-15 players playing each night. There would be no injuries if each of those guys plays about 20-30 min.

[NickAnderson]

Fatigue? Injury? Lack of excitement? Some games are hard enough to watch as it is. Imagine those games being twice as long.

You're thinking that it's a 12-man roster and that 5 players have to play 90 min. No, it would be like a 25-man roster, and about 12-15 players playing each night. There would be no injuries if each of those guys plays about 20-30 min.

We would def have a lockout, paying all those players.

[Wavy Q]

facepalm at this entire thread

[Lakers05]

How about they play in the dirt, place landmines randomly underground, and at random points in the game the mines explode? If one of the mines detonates on a star player, it would even FURTHER reduce his impact!

Does that idea do anything to solve the parity problem AND salary problem simultaneously?

[Lakers05]

Fatigue? Injury? Lack of excitement? Some games are hard enough to watch as it is. Imagine those games being twice as long.

You're thinking that it's a 12-man roster and that 5 players have to play 90 min. No, it would be like a 25-man roster, and about 12-15 players playing each night. There would be no injuries if each of those guys plays about 20-30 min.

We would def have a lockout, paying all those players.

Most of those guys would be getting the minimum(or even less.) They wouldn't demand more, why? Because like that Asian kid, they'll be happy to just be in the league.

[longfellow44]

Before y'all roll your eyes, look at my arguments:

1) This would ensure that no one team can dominate with just superstar players. A guy like Lebron can at best play and affect 45 min(even less if you remove halftime and timeouts). You want to build a "superteam" with just 3 superstars? No problem, we'll beat you with the 4th-18th guys.

2) This would allow a ton of fringe NBDL players, Euros, and maybe even Asians to play in the league, truly making it a worldwide sport.

3) The current players would not object because their salaries are not reduced, nor their playing time increased(though you'd think that they'd want to play even more, as opposed to sitting on the bench), nor decreased.

4) The length of the game can be reduced by removing timeouts, halftime, and free throws. Plus, baseball is long and people don't seem to have a problem.

5) The only bad thing about this is that it breaks tradition, but really, who cares about that. This satisfies everyone currently, and that should be all that matters.

There is a reason that soccer isn't that popular in the US and you just listed several ways to make the NBA more like watching soccer.

I'll say no thank you.

Then I'll say hell no and GTFO

[NickAnderson]

You're thinking that it's a 12-man roster and that 5 players have to play 90 min. No, it would be like a 25-man roster, and about 12-15 players playing each night. There would be no injuries if each of those guys plays about 20-30 min.

We would def have a lockout, paying all those players.

Most of those guys would be getting the minimum(or even less.) They wouldn't demand more, why? Because like that Asian kid, they'll be happy to just be in the league.

Oh yea that would be so fun to watch 13 guys on a team making 100k a year playing no defense and chucking shots up all night. Your idea fails.

[Wavy Q]

[Lakers05]

The reason soccer is boring is that it takes forever to get action(score a goal.) This is more like college ball. And you can't tell me that expanding this game to include more Euros, Whites and Asian players is a bad thing.

[longfellow44]

^^^No but your idea is terrible

The fact is the way the NBA is now requires players to be smart and the coaches to be smarter, and use players effectively, run the right offense and play the right defense.

Your idea allows the game to devolve into nothing more than athletes. When the NBA is filled with athletes and tacticians and high IQ players.

The Idea of getting rid of Timeouts and Free throws would change the NBA to such a degree that it would be a terrible sport to watch. Any time a substitution would occur you would see the team with the ball go into an immediate transition and try to beat the sub and force a 5 on 4 situations.

Again we don't want the NBA to be soccer. I don't want to see power plays in the NBA. there is a reason that the NHL and the MLS exist. It's for people who like to watch games like that. I don't want to watch basketball turn into something like that.

[Lakers05]

Oh yea that would be so fun to watch 13 guys on a team making 100k a year playing no defense and chucking shots up all night. Your idea fails.

The league is evolving such that most teams don't play defense anyway. I actually didn't watch most of the playoffs last year because I knew it would just be an exchanging of baskets in most games. I watch the Lakers because well, I like to win, and had some money on them. And that's all it really comes down to. If people have a team to cheer for, then they'll watch, regardless of what type of basketball/defense being played or not.

[NickAnderson]

Oh yea that would be so fun to watch 13 guys on a team making 100k a year playing no defense and chucking shots up all night. Your idea fails.

The league is evolving such that most teams don't play defense anyway. I actually didn't watch most of the playoffs last year because I knew it would just be an exchanging of baskets in most games. I watch the Lakers because well, I like to win, and had some money on them. And that's all it really comes down to. If people have a team to cheer for, then they'll watch, regardless of what type of basketball/defense being played or not.

It wouldn't be a team sport anymore because these scrubs making low salaries would be trying to prove themselves night in and night out to make a fatter contract. This would ruin the entire NBA.

[Scouta]

[sirslimjim]

[MaxRider]

90 min long?
i don't want to watch one basketball game for 4 hours long

[Puertorique]

I just heard, blah blah blah. Sorry, your user name and the player who you focused on makes this a failure.