March Madness is upon us, with the NBA finals soon to follow. It's a good time to be a hoops fan, that's for sure. March Madness is full of interesting matchups, with big upsets sure to come. That is, unless the calender reads 2008. The NBA finals are shaping up to be equally exciting also, with the top heavy east possibly bringing back some memories of '90's basketball.
One problem with that: All four rounds are best-of-seven series. Come again? If every series in every round went to 7 games, there would be 105 games played total. That's more than the entire NCAA tournament which lets in 68 teams, compared to the 16 that make the NBA playoffs. Baseball, which plays something like a gazillion regular season games, doesn't put it's fan through four rounds of 7 game series'. Not sure why the NBA feels the need to drag the playoffs on so long that the excitement has all but fizzled away like a Miami Heat 4th quarter lead by the time the Finals roll around. I know the first round used to be best-of-five, but how about making all rounds up to the finals best-of-five? NFL; you get one shot against a team, the NCAA tourney gives you only one chance to prove yourself against a team, and the entire NCAA football season is a big playoff, really. Yet the dudes playing in the big leagues have to play up to seven games per round? I guess it makes it more of a test in a sense, but it would be a helluva test playing four best-of-five series too.
As a fan of the hardwood thru and thru, I will always get jacked for the playoffs, but I'll have to fight my ADD to not get a little tired out after 2 weeks of the same matchup.
"Playoffs? You wanna talk about the Playoffs? PLAYOFFS?!"
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