I Would Love To Eliminate Back-to-Back Games

[True Lakers Fan]

I finally figured out where TLF was coming from on this thread. His Lakers are bad in back to backs. And when I say bad, I mean atrocious. 6-11 (worse than my Pistons were) for a .353 win percentage versus a .549 season percentage. Almost .200 worse. Horrible! Where TLF fails is that his view of the NBA is sooooooo laker-centric that he believes this is a league-wide issue, not a laker-specific issue. Here, he is wrong. Maybe instead of trying to fix the league for the Lakers' benefit the Lakers could rely less on one guys aging legs, or hire a coach who doesn't run an up tempo style back to back without having the personnel to do it.

I personally dislike back to back games because I believe the NBA product would be better if the team traveling had a chance to get a decent night's sleep and more then 12 hours in between games. I don't think the stats quoted earlier are correct and were taken out of context. Obviously I am alone on this one, so whatever. If you enjoy seeing the Spurs play the Heat on a back to back on the seventh game in 9 days - that's fine with me - I will be the one applauding Popovich for pulling Duncan and Parker out of game while giving the commissioner the bronx cheer like he did last year. Good man that Popovich

 

[logic]

I personally dislike back to back games because I believe the NBA product would be better if the team traveling had a chance to get a decent night's sleep and more then 12 hours in between games.

This is clearly true of the one team you know anything about, the Lakers as I showed. However, I also showed for all the other teams that I looked at, I admit it is not the whole league, it made little if any difference in their win/loss compared to the season. This would imply for many teams there is no drop off in the quality of the product, but you are simply believing a problem your Lakers team has is a league wide issue, which it isn't.

I don't think the stats quoted earlier are correct and were taken out of context.

So you are calling me a liar? I went back and counted wins and losses for teams in the second of back to back games, calculated the win percentage and compared it to that teams overall regular season win percentage. Hard to take out of context. In my quick counting it is possible I missed a game or even double counted one, but I'm confident the numbers are very close to right. You simply don't like the fact that the numbers don't back your supposition based on nothing but watching the Lakers, who appear to be the outlier in the analysis, not the norm which blows up your premise.

Obviously I am alone on this one, so whatever. If you enjoy seeing the Spurs play the Heat on a back to back on the seventh game in 9 days - that's fine with me - I will be the one applauding Popovich for pulling Duncan and Parker out of game while giving the commissioner the bronx cheer like he did last year. Good man that Popovich

Yes, you are alone on this because you are wrong. You can applaud all you want, but the rest of us would like to see the best players play the games on national tv. If he wasn't grandstanding he would have sat the guys for the Wiz, no one would have noticed, and played the Heat and gotten 2 wins instead of one. It is ironic that the Spurs with so few back to backs were the ones to make this protest, go count how many back to backs the Clips had without pulling players.

 

[Black Belt Disciple]

This is clearly true of the one team you know anything about, the Lakers as I showed. However, I also showed for all the other teams that I looked at, I admit it is not the whole league, it made little if any difference in their win/loss compared to the season. This would imply for many teams there is no drop off in the quality of the product, but you are simply believing a problem your Lakers team has is a league wide issue, which it isn't.



So you are calling me a liar? I went back and counted wins and losses for teams in the second of back to back games, calculated the win percentage and compared it to that teams overall regular season win percentage. Hard to take out of context. In my quick counting it is possible I missed a game or even double counted one, but I'm confident the numbers are very close to right. You simply don't like the fact that the numbers don't back your supposition based on nothing but watching the Lakers, who appear to be the outlier in the analysis, not the norm which blows up your premise.


Yes, you are alone on this because you are wrong. You can applaud all you want, but the rest of us would like to see the best players play the games on national tv. If he wasn't grandstanding he would have sat the guys for the Wiz, no one would have noticed, and played the Heat and gotten 2 wins instead of one. It is ironic that the Spurs with so few back to backs were the ones to make this protest, go count how many back to backs the Clips had without pulling players.

Hahahahaha, total BURN.