What Is Wrong With The PBA? - Competitive Balance (or the lack of it) (10/11)
0#GameHighPH #PBA #PBAItuloyAngLaban #PBA46 #PBA2021 #PBATuloyAngLaban #PBATayoAngBida #Basketball #BasketballPH #BallisLife #SanMiguel #NSD #NeverSayDie #BarangayGinebra #SMB #TNTNation #TropangGiga #AlaskaAces #SanMiguelBeermen #MVPGroup #TropangGIGA #NLEX #AlaskaAces #FightToThePhoenix #MagnoliaHotshots #BatangPier #MeralcoBolts #Blackwater #Terrafirma #RainOrShine #Philippines
The pandemic has been taking its toll on the PBA. The league has been forced to adjust its schedule. For more than a year already, teams are playing in empty venues, without cheering and adoring fans. They could have capitalized on the situation by providing entertainment to the viewers held captive by the pandemic if they only were able to play, hold games, and televise them at least on a consistent basis. But the lockdown itself forced the cancellation of at least two conferences.
With no end in sight, the league, and this time, the players, had to make great sacrifices, if only to prevent another postponement of the conference and the further cancellation of games.
But there are issues that have been plaguing the league for quite sometime, even before the pandemic. The problem has something to do with the way the league has been conducting things. Their rules and policies, action, or inaction, have been hurting the league for the past couple of years, eroding the confidence of fans, players, and some stakeholders.
In this three-part series, we will discuss those that are wrong with Asia's first Pay-for-Play league, and in what ways these affect the PBA negatively. The problems we will discuss are issues that must be tackled by the league once the pandemic is over (or sooner, hopefully). They had to do so in order to strengthen the league against severe challenges, both from the inside and the outside.
In this first part, we will tackle the issue of balance and parity in the PBA. We will trace the history of the balance of power in the league since 1975. Are lopsided trades common in the league, or did the league time and again ensure that there is parity between teams? How does the present era compare with those times past in terms of parity? And what are the adverse effects if the teams are not balanced and there is no parity in the league?
Visit our website at: https://www.gamehigh.ph/
Follow us on
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thegamehighph
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gamehighph/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@gamehighph?lang=en
Listen to our podcast on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4o3rV5fr8jfUKk03W3ucUO?si=BQvgbQlZRjaAjIjKBzP_eQ&dl_branch=1
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ph/podcast/the-game-high-podcast-with-chip-and-carlo/id1553851540