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|  #1 Posted on 20.9.05 1224.26
Reposted on: 20.9.12 1224.32 | http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2166343
Of course, this is necessary what with all the little children coming into the league and all. So, here's the list of which D-League team which NBA teams can pick from:
Fayetteville: Charlotte, New York, Detroit
Austin: Denver, San Antonio, Houston, Clippers
Fort Worth: Golden State, Lakers, Dallas, Portland
Arkansas: Atlanta, Cleveland, Memphis, Toronto
Florida: Miami, Orlando, Boston, Minnesota
Tulsa: New Orleans, Indiana, Milwaukee, Chicago
Albuquerque: Utah, Phoenix, Sacramento, Seattle
Roanoke: New Jersey, Philadelphia, Washington
So, the NBA is trying to establish an actual minor league (as per the collective bargaining agreement). Teams can send someone down up to three times and they can't have more than 2 down there at once. It also says they'll still get paid their NBA salaries, etc.
I find it interesting that they have some divisional rivals sharing from a team here. Hopefully, if this works, they can expand this to 15 teams (just 2 for each). It's seems like an OK start. Hopefully some coaches won't be vengeful and use it as an excuse to dump someone down there. | Promote this thread! |             | drjayphd
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| #2 Posted on 20.9.05 1840.00
Reposted on: 20.9.12 1840.33 | | As I understand it, you can only get sent down in your first two seasons, so if someone gets busted down to, say, Tulsa, it'd probably do them some good. I'd imagine they wouldn't farm out someone like Granger or even Hakim Warrick. | Merc
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|  #3 Posted on 21.9.05 0203.36
Reposted on: 21.9.12 0204.25 | I don't see how it is going to work well at the moment.
4 teams to each D team is too many.
Take Albuquerque for example. If they adopt a Phoenix type game plan, what good does that do the Jazz players?
The article I saw also said the D league coach gets to decide minutes/positions etc. Why send your 3rd string PG down so he can play 20 minutes a night at SG? | Jaguar
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| #4 Posted on 21.9.05 0640.27
Reposted on: 21.9.12 0640.46 | | Better than not playing any at all? | thecubsfan
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| #5 Posted on 21.9.05 1415.33
Reposted on: 21.9.12 1418.19 | I can not believe we're stuck with the Pacers```` and the Bucks`. Our guys should not be getting friendly with their guys. They need to learn to hate each other at an early age!
Having checked out stats/playing time info before in the NBDL, I don't think there's a real danger of a Phoenix "only 6 guys play" situation - the farther you go down in the talent pool, the less the difference between players. It's unlikely you'd want to shorten your bench that much, because there's going to be that much of a difference.
Even if they did, or if they did play a different strategy than the major league team (which might have actually been Merc's point and I missed it), some playing time is better than no playing time. You'd get more out of playing 20 minutes/game a different way than playing 2 minutes/game in a garbage situation. Plus, any player in this situation is likely years away from being a regular - that system might be changed by the time he becomes a factor, he might need to play in a different position, or he might get traded elsewhere.
Lottery picks are still going to sit on the bench from day one (rosters got expanded to 14 people, so them not playing is even less of a problem.) The guys that are going to be sent down are late first round/second round picks*, and many of them would've just all been together cut at the end of training camp or asked to play in Europe. This system allows the teams to hold on to them and figure out if they can actually play, something impossible to do for a competiting team previously.
* and people with attitude problems, surely | Merc
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| #6 Posted on 22.9.05 0221.16
Reposted on: 22.9.12 0221.18 | So its more a league for project players then? So a Darko type player could actually get some minutes instead of getting splinters.
That makes some sense.
Still 4 teams into 1 doesn't really go, especially if they go with short rotations. | Alessandro
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| #7 Posted on 23.9.05 1056.43
Reposted on: 23.9.12 1057.04 | I'll be happier when (if?) the NBDL expands to 30 teams so that each NBA parent club can have their own "minor league" team to play around with ...
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| #8 Posted on 23.9.05 1134.02
Reposted on: 23.9.12 1134.19 | It seems like it would work better if instead of having one D-League team for each NBA team they had two, so if, say both Seattle and Phoenix had power forwards they wanted to send down, one could go with their second affiliate to try and get them more playing time.
I'd also like to see them expand the draft to four or five rounds so there would be a fresher batch of prospects each year. It would certainly make the NBA draft more interesting. | | ALL ORIGINAL POSTS IN THIS THREAD ARE NOW AVAILABLE |
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