NBA playoff system is flawed

1-0, 2-0, 2-1, 3-1..

Is how we have most series go...Im hoping round 2 is more like the Suns/spurs game 1. That was truly a great game...

It's getting predictable...but it is only round one...

I personally like the current playoffs format. It gives the teams who played better during the regular season the putative edge that homecourt represents. The Celtics and Pistons were cognizant of the fact that whoever won the conference will have the homecourt advantage in their matchup. It made the Celtics play harder against every team, every game. If the system changed it will make the regular season less relevant.

Remember that the NBA is also a business and owners vote on final format decisions thinking of the financial standpoint. The 2-2-1-1-1 format is also an advantage from the financial standpoint since teams stay for a few days on the cities avoiding the mobilization burden a one - one game format will create... in fact this is why the Finals were changed to a 2-3-2 format, to avoid the across country travel limiting the teams to one trip to the homecourt team and two to the visiting team in a seven game series, instead of the maximum 4 & 3 trips respectively on a one - one format.

Not sure how anyone could complain about Conferences after this year. Yeah the records may not have been comparable, but the play in the 2 sides was much more intense the last month than it would have been otherwise.  there is no way the West teams would have battled as hard if they knew they would make the playoffs and couldn't catch the Pistons or the Celtics for the one seed anyway. GS had their chances, they blew it down the stretch. The Nuggets gave them every opportunity to advance, no way they deserved to make it.

As a fan i get much more pumped up for every game against the West (especially the Pacific) than I do against the East. Taking away conferences will create more travel and reduce the level of play. Only fair way to do it would be to even out the games played against all teams, otherwise the teams playing more games against the weaker East would have oo much of an advantage.

Maybe we could go 6 game series and if its tied after 6, you go to point differential. Similar to Soccer.