Well, we've seen that winning in regular season doesn't necessarily translate into the playoff success. Teams like Detroit and San Antonio, and now Dallas (at least by the looks of it) are using regular season as a tune up for the playoffs. Kahn Games of FoxSports.com disagrees:

Meaningless regular season? Guess again. • Kahn Games - FOX Sports Blogs

There may be a point to that article, but I have no idea what it is. The author just rambled from one topic and team to the next. I guess it's okay to ramble without making a point if you simply call it a "blog".

So what don't you understand? The framework of an essay is a trilogy of components:

1. Tell the audience your concept of what you will try to answer.
2. Tell the audience your explanations and answer the concept.
3. Tell the audience what you just said.

Number one begins like this:

The inclination has always been that the NBA regular season doesn’t mean much to the top teams. It’s nothing more than a warmup for what can be more than a 25-game second season through the Finals.

But however much or little you want to make of regular-season games, they are barometers that physically and psychologically have an impact on the rest of the season.

Number two states some constructs and supporting evidence (not quoted). This has some nice broad information that trips around the league so the audience is drawn in regardless of their geographic location.



Number three ends like this:

And that’s just the point we’ve been trying to make all along. On the surface, these games may not seem to mean much to teams destined for the playoffs anyway. But they do. They produce matchup situations that carry over to the playoffs as we saw in the dramatic Golden State upset of Dallas. They create enough confidence that maybe an upstart team like Portland knows it can accomplish certain things against a playoff team every time they play.

It’s about knowledge, momentum and consistency. All of that is created or lost during the regular season – and that’s assuming a team makes it to the postseason at all.

There might not be the clarity or exactness of a superb and gifted argumentative or persuasive essay; but, one should be able to get his point. Yes?

I'm with Bill - writing a thesis sentence then putting a number of random paragraphs, then saying "So there" does not an argument make.

And it's a silly argument anyway. Good teams who are successful in the playoffs win in the regular season. Yeah, the Bullets went through the playoffs like a does of salts once after a average season. But with four rounds and seven games, that just isn't going to happen today.

Sure, every now and then a fundamentally flawed team like Golden State will trip a better team like last year. But they won't make it all the way through. The playoffs are too long to rely on getting hot. Nobody plays above their norm for two months, against the best teams in the league.

Everyone says that San Antonio takes it easy during the regular season and saves it for the playoffs - mostly based on the number of minutes the starters play. Look at the standings - they're the third best team in the strong West, with the same number of losses as #1 and #2. Can you really imagine Pops letting someone take it easy?

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Regular season games are good for

1. Developing the stars of tomorrow
2. Selling tons of commercials
3. Selling tons of media
3a. Employing thousands of people in the media
4. Consuming tons of food and barrels of alcohol
5. As a good excuse to be with the boys
5a. As a good excuse not to have to talk to your significant other.
6. As a rationalization for spending thousands of dollars on a larger HDTV and the complimentary acoustical equipment.

Don't forget:

7. Qualifying for the playoffs.
8. Getting home-court advantage in the playoffs.

They don't need to play for #7 and #8, the league can just use Hollinger's computer program to play out the 82 game season on a computer.

Not so. This is basic stuff. If you are over 25, you will become a huge part of the knowledge industry; where a great of your success might hinge on your communication level, both verbally and written. It will not always been done for you, like institutional knowledge, via knowledge trees (i.e., Wikipedia, etc.).

I know you have a highly stupendous communication level, but what did you mean by a "great of your success"? I'm a little slow sometimes...


"It will not always been done for you". Is that good or bad. It seems confusing irregardless...