The 2022 NBA Play-In Tournament + Playoffs Thread

[Covert Rain]

Covert, I hear you, but why make a team play an EXTRA game or two risking injury, when they've already toughed it out through 82 games, scraped and clawed to earn a spot. It just feels like making those natural 7 and 8 seeded teams dance for their food.

I hear you but that's only because you are considering the previous format. In the new format, those teams have not earned their spot yet. If this was a new league with this rule out of the gate we wouldn't be questioning if a team earned it.

I'm a free agent with DirecTV but I have yet to be convinced.

One of the streaming sites carried Bally Sports Arizona but dropped it as I recall.

It was Hulu but they wanted to triple the price being charged. Hulu said they would have had to pass on the cost to consumers which it refused to do. Now Bally's is going to launch their own standalone service by next year. I have to wonder if their deal with SAT/Cable is numbered as well.

 

[Mainstreet]

I hear you but that's only because you are considering the previous format. In the new format, those teams have not earned their spot yet. If this was a new league with this rule out of the gate we wouldn't be questioning if a team earned it.


It was Hulu but they wanted to triple the price being charged. Hulu said they would have had to pass on the cost to consumers which it refused to do. Now Bally's is going to launch their own standalone service by next year. I have to wonder if their deal with SAT/Cable is numbered as well.

When Bally Sports Arizona finds a more permanent home, I will follow. Until then I will keep doing what I'm doing.

 

[Covert Rain]

When Bally Sports Arizona finds a more permanent home, I will follow. Until then I will keep doing what I'm doing.

Evidently, their streaming service is going to be NFL SUNDAY TICKET expensive. No thanks. I won't do it. There is speculation they need to hit it out of the park out of the gate or they will go under. I am hoping for just that so regional sports goes back to local networks or gets snatched up by someone else less greedy.

 

[Mainstreet]

Evidently, their streaming service is going to be NFL SUNDAY TICKET expensive. No thanks. I won't do it. There is speculation they need to hit it out of the park out of the gate or they will go under. I am hoping for just that so regional sports goes back to local networks or gets snatched up by someone else less greedy.

Do I dare ask how expensive? I don't need or want NFL Sunday Ticket.

I wish the Suns were back on local channel as well.

 

[Covert Rain]

Do I dare ask how expensive? I don't need or want NFL Sunday Ticket.

I wish the Suns were back on local channel as well.

The latest I read was around $276 per year if you pay monthly. $225 per year if you pay a year in advance. So around NFL SUNDAY TICKET prices but without nearly as much content as the NFL (not even close). The article I read is that the price isn't really about content but what Sinclare Media needs in order for it to survive.

 

[Mainstreet]

The latest I read was around $276 per year if you pay monthly. $225 per year if you pay a year in advance. So around NFL SUNDAY TICKET prices but without nearly as much content as the NFL (not even close). The article I read is that the price isn't really about content but what Sinclare media needs in order for it to survive.

I can do that over a year. I mostly watch sports on television and the rest of the family watches the local channels and the informational type programs such as Expedition Unknown.

 

[Proximo]

The latest I read was around $276 per year if you pay monthly. $225 per year if you pay a year in advance. So around NFL SUNDAY TICKET prices but without nearly as much content as the NFL (not even close). The article I read is that the price isn't really about content but what Sinclare Media needs in order for it to survive.

Do they think people are just idiots?

I've seen every game this year on free streams.

I would pay something for a service, but nowhere near that much, and neither would the vast majority of fans.

I don't care how it's packaged they aren't getting that much money, for god's sake look how bad ABC and ESPN's ratings are for the NBA nowadays.

 

[Proximo]

It's exactly what it is for

And for the most part I think it has worked.

 

[Mainstreet]

And for the most part I think it has worked.

Yeah, I'm not hearing much about tanking anymore.

 

[Finito]

Yeah, I'm not hearing much about tanking anymore.

Yeah I think it’s done it’s job but it will always be part of the NBA because it’s the one sport where getting that 1 single guy can just change a franchise over night

 

[Mainstreet]

Yeah I think it’s fine it’s job but it will always be part of the NBA because it’s the one sport where getting that 1 single guy can just change a franchise over night

Kind of like the Cardinals... or not. This Kyler Murray thing right before the NFL Draft is a distraction.

I hope the Suns get a deal done with Ayton.

 

[Finito]

Kind of like the Cardinals... or not. This Kyler Murray thing right before the NFL Draft is a distraction.

I hope the Suns get a deal done with Ayton.

You can have a great QB but he’s still not on the field for half the game in football

You got to trade Kyler IMO and you got to do it before the draft

 

[Ouchie-Z-Clown]

Man I love the NBA, but I'm just going to say it. The play in tournament is the worst idea to come down the sports pike in the last 25 years. It's very likely to play out exactly as it was supposed to, and here you make the 7 and 8 seeds in each conference play for a spot they already earned. Just a waste of the post season hype IMO. Give the teams 4-5 days off after the end of the regular season, and get it on already. If you weren't good enough to get a spot from 1-8 (after 82 whole games at that!) then you shouldn't be playing post season basketball. I'm sure this opinion is unpopular, especially with teams of the fans who got a shot, but it just irks me to no end as to why the league felt this necessary.

I agree with you. What’s the point of playing 82 games if you can get knocked outta the playoffs with two games?

 

[Western Font]

Re: blackouts. I stopped subscribing to League Pass because of them. Between the legacy cable networks and NBA TV, sooo many blackouts. The best year to watch the Suns was when they LOST over 60 games because they were never on actual cable. It ends up actually being cheaper (and definitely less frustrating) to just buy individual games a la carte if they’re not on an alternative outlet. I should clarify this is in Canada so the cable deals are different.

 

[capologist]

I agree with you. What’s the point of playing 82 games if you can get knocked outta the playoffs with two games?

Um, the point of getting the 7/8 seed is so that you only have to win one of two to get in, instead of having to win two of two. And the point of getting the 5/6 seed is so that you don’t have to risk the play-in at all.

BTW, remember when the first round was best-of-three? Did that also render the 82-game season pointless?

 

[Mainstreet]

What I don't like about the play-in is having to wait a week in the Suns case to play a playoff game.

I guess if there was a significant injury it would be a benefit but too much delay time can be a liability.

IMO, a deep team actually benefits from an increased frequency of games.

 

[Covert Rain]

What I don't like about the play-in is having to wait a week in the Suns case to play a playoff game.

I guess if there was a significant injury it would be a benefit but too much delay time can be a liability.

IMO, a deep team actually benefits from an increased frequency of games.

In our case it allowed Cam to get healthy, so I don't mind. However, if the team was healthy? Yeah...I hate the wait. Heck....I hate the wait in the NFL to play the Superbowl. I am generally impatient and just want to get started.

 

[Mainstreet]

In our case it allowed Cam to get healthy, so I don't mind. However, if the team was healthy? Yeah...I hate the wait. Heck....I hate the wait in the NFL to play the Superbowl. I am generally impatient and just want to get started.

I don't remember being inpatient for the playoffs to begin last season. Maybe it helps Cam Johnson but I thing delay could cause a team to play rusty.

Of course at the end of the season after play-in games the other team may be more fatigued. Maybe it balances out.

 

[Covert Rain]

I don't remember being inpatient for the playoffs to begin last season. Maybe it helps Cam Johnson but I thing delay could cause a team to play rusty.

Of course at the end of the season after play-in games the other team may be more fatigued. Maybe it balances out.

I am always when it comes to the playoffs. The longer it takes to start the more I think about it.

 

[Mainstreet]

I am always when it comes to the playoffs. The longer it takes to start the more I think about it.

The same here. Hopefully the Suns go into the playoffs charged up. Last season the home crowd really got into it.

 

[GatorAZ]

If the Clipps win tonight they might be without George for a 1-2 games of our series. Kennard is also hurt.

 

[Ronin]

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[Proximo]

If the Clipps win tonight they might be without George for a 1-2 games of our series. Kennard is also hurt.

Clipps are not winning without George. If you watched the Tuesday game you would know this.

As far as I am concerned the Suns are 99% going to be playing the Pelicans with this news.

 

[Mainstreet]

If the Clipps win tonight they might be without George for a 1-2 games of our series. Kennard is also hurt.

Long forwards give the Suns problems so neither team is a picnic.

 

[GatorAZ]

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At what point do Clipper fans just stop following sports?