It's making the 12 to 8 seeds play harder at the end of the season.

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May 6, 2021
10:57:53pm

WJCougar Truly Addicted User

Also making the 6 and 5 seed play harder to stay out of the 7 seed.

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WJCougar

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Play in games. It’s weird to me the 7/8 play for the 7 and the 9/10 play for the

pink22

5/6/21 10:30pm

9/10 winner plays 7/8 loser for 8.

WhereIsDonLewis

5/6/21 10:32pm

Winner of 7/8 is the 7. Loser plays the winner of 9/10 and the winner of that

ballen

5/6/21 10:33pm

Ah...makes more sense. The whole idea is dumb. One game playoff games

pink22

5/6/21 10:34pm

It's making the 12 to 8 seeds play harder at the end of the season.

WJCougar

5/6/21 10:57pm

The NBA has a tanking problem. This is a way to try to get fewer teams to spend

BerkeleyCoug

5/7/21 5:05am

If that’s how they did it, it wouldn’t make sense. But that isn’t how they’re doing it

DieHarder

5/6/21 10:33pm

I don’t really care that much. Just saw a bracket and it looked that way.

pink22

5/6/21 10:34pm

The 7 and 8 are roughly 3 times as likely to advance

TomPetty

5/6/21 10:42pm

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JuicyJam

5/6/21 10:49pm

Or they could just the team with the 7th best record in the regular season be

Pickett

5/6/21 11:03pm

It’s all dumb anyways. No team seeded lower than 4 has a legitimate shot barring

Princepete

5/6/21 11:06pm

Not in the west this year

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