The reducing of time is a big deal, because it is taking everything that we have seen as records into play as well. I mean if you are a person who had the most rebounds in a game, you did it with 8 more minutes, if you are the guy with most threes in a game, you did it with 8 more minutes, if you had a 20-20-20 triple double, you did that with 8 minutes.
Any statistic that you look at, it would be 8 more minutes in the past, and 8 less minutes on the future. This is why I am not sure if I agree with that move, it looks like it would be bad for statistic reasons. I get that NBA is getting a lot less minutes, but the way to get more viewers is not dropping the minutes, it would be maybe keeping the game more fun, no idea how, but that is what they should be doing.
Yeah, that's one sticking point that almost everyone will agree, we don't want that kind of change because it's going to affect all the record and statistics and even the records that has been set. Maybe there will be one to break as the time is going to be reduced and so it's not fair for the next generation or even those before them. And as what the majority also mentioned, just reduced the number of games, or back to back not the minutes of each quarter.
Just odd that the two leading teams in the West, the OKC Thunder and Houston Rockets lost their previous games. Specially the Rockets who have lost a very close game against the Grizzlies, while last Tuesday they beat the second best team in the East, the Boston Celtics. On the other hand, OKC lost to the struggling Warriors without Draymond and J Kuminga.