NBA Info - February 2026

[Betrayer]

2 hours ago, Deleterious said:

Teams at or below .500 says nothing about the talent in the league.  Fairly standard to have around 50% of your teams at or below .500 for any league where every game produces one win and one loss.  

Sure, but the point is that on any given night nobody cares about half or more of the games because one team is going to get wrecked and everyone knows it. There's an occasional upset, but so many games are trash because only about half the league has the talent to compete. Yet, they're going to expand, thin it out more, and then wonder why nobody cares to watch most of the games or why teams are tanking when that's their only way to break the cycle.

A system where teams just outside the playoffs get the highest lottery picks only makes it worse. That's what a tournament would do.

Maybe just going back to straight seeding is better and easier than all of this. Sure, those bottom 4 teams will tank hard for who's getting that top pick, but at least you won't have potential play-in teams tanking in the hopes that they have a chance to jump up and land the next Cooper Flagg.

[Motor City Sonics]

This is incredible.  

3 or 4 years ago I had totally given up that this team would ever be able to do anything and I really didn't care if they moved to Cincinnati, Virginia Beach or Seattle or wherever.  

 

And this has been done without acquiring a superstar outside of Cade in the draft (and drafts are crapshoots).  

Just a bunch of perfect small moves with a coach that knows how to cook with the ingredients he's given. 

This is fun again

After a decade of Sports Suckitude that may have even outdone the 70s,  All four of our teams are legit title contenders right now.  

They've gotten through one of Duren's suspended games unscathed (Paul Reed, how are ya),  If they can manage to go 5-2 or 6-1 without Beef Stew, wow, that's saying something.  

Langdon for Exec of The  Year.   JB for Coach Of The Year.  

 

 

 

Edited 4 hours ago by Motor City Sonics

[buddha]

exec of the year for what?

[gehringer_2]

what's funny to me about the Pistons is that at least by any conventional basketball wisdom, the team is highly flawed and "anybody can see" their weaknesses and the kind of player move they need to make to be better. That's not the typical reaction to the team with the best record in the league, which usually gets the 'look at how all these pieces fit together so perfectly' type treatment. 

On one hand, it's probably true that it's gotten to where the NBA regular season just doesn't pressure a team enough and that conventional wisdom will rear its ugly head quickly in the playoffs.  But OTOH, if they do some winning in the playoffs, we may have to look at the possibility that they represent something of a paradigm shift in how to win in the NBA.

Edited 2 hours ago by gehringer_2