2023 Playoffs: Around the League Round 2 News Thread

[Kryptonic]

This made me chuckle:

Aytons rib injury gave me a knew nickname for him…. “The McRib”…. Amazing, when it shows up.

[Split T]

The Lakers would have been the 7 seed without the play-in…and Miami actually dropped in the play-in

Right.

Sorry, Mori, your play-in take doesn't really make sense. .

The real reason why there has been so much parity in this year's playoffs, is because you have a bunch of teams that basically didn't exist in the regular season. The team that the Suns fielded wasn't the team that the league saw the majority of the regular season. Miami never consistently fielded the same lineup. The Lakers assembled their team more than halfway through the season. The Warriors were without Wiggins and reacquired GP2.

So the seeding was somewhat meaningless.

Ya the bigger problem is teams don’t seem to value the regular season as much. Miami just coasted through the season. Clippers could’ve been another example of that if Kawhi/PG didn’t get hurt.

The west was just very mid all season and that allowed struggling teams like LA, GS, and Phx to hang around and get better at the right moment.

Had all these teams been healthy and had their playoff rosters all year, I don’t think Memphis or Sacramento would have gotten the 2-3 seeds. They’d have been the 6-7 seeds instead.