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Man I played in a church league like that, we about got in an all out brawl with this traveling select team the first freaking game. It was a no ref, no scorers table, call your own fouls, hockey type subs, running clock.art_tatum wrote:No refs. Anything goes.
100% this.kg01 wrote:bisme37 wrote:People are so fired up about other teams getting games postponed when their team was "forced to play."
The rules are the same for every team. If you have 8 healthy players you play, if you don't you don't. If a team doesn't want to play, all they have to do is stay under 8 available players.
So... don't sign enough hardship guys in time. Or say someone sprained his ankle or has back spasms and you only have 7 available players. Boom, you don't have to play. There are many simple ways for teams to control their own destiny here if they so choose.
And imo it's not some awesome gift to get a game postponed anyway. The game still has to be played and there's no guarantee that a team will want to play it when it's rescheduled any more than they want to play it now. If anything teams are probably thinking they don't want a bunch of extra games in the last couple weeks of the RS when they are trying to be rested and healthy for the playoffs. Not to mention there could very well be a new COVID variant hitting the league at the end of the season.
You shouldn't have to cheat the system for the system to "work" or be "equitable".
MindState wrote:Pausing the season does nothing. We are almost 2 years into the pandemic with 70% of the population having gotten at least 1 job.
Death counts are falling. ICU's arent overflowing. Pause for what? The virus isnt going anywhere. Vaccines are doing their job preventing death and symptoms.
We live with the virus, just like we live with the Flu and the common cold, and have for centuries.
bullsnewdynasty wrote:The season should definitely be paused, but Silver ultimately cares about profit over everything so it won't happen.
These outbreaks are worse than anything that happened in March of last year.
Tha Cynic wrote:At this stage every team knows they are supposed to use the hardship rule to ensure they have available players to play. If they don't use that to sign players then they should just forfeit the game.
Contrary to what one of the mod is saying, having some teams manipulate the system (with seemingly less resistance from the league) there is a serious question about competitive balance.
The last time we had a no asterisk season was in 2019. This season may be worse than last season in terms of legitimacy with the way it's going.
Liam_Gallagher wrote:The ‘21-‘22 season deserves a massive asterisk at this rate. Unless things seriously change with testing and isolation periods it’ll be like this all year.
It’s basically a hybrid of NBA and GLeague. Cancel the season and gear up for next year.
Richard4444 wrote:Players that went in protocols past month
Suns: Payton*, Ayton, Crowder, Mcgee
*Cured
Bold - update
Liam_Gallagher wrote:
what the hell are you talking about? crowder, ayton, mcgee, nader, monty all in protocols.BenoUdrihFTL wrote:And I just want to know how the Suns are immune to this lol. They were untouched by covid protocols last season and are again this season. Perhaps there's something to the dry climate theory