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If they did a March Madness style tournament I'd prolly be more interested tbh.
It's already like that. Group play is to create the bracket, which the NFL uses the regular season for.
If they did a March Madness style tournament I'd prolly be more interested tbh.
Then it's not already like that. There's weeks of (from a fan perspective) meaningless running up the score to get to any part of it that matters. That's the asinine part. Just jump forward to every game counting.
2nd thing is, "creating the bracket" just assures that the best teams play against eachother. It's a mini-playoff scenario without any tension of the playoffs. We already have the playoffs. The in-season tournament should have underdogs getting a chance at something, anything. Point differential and wins will always benefit the top of the league talent-wise. Sudden death from the very beginning means everyone must bring their A game every in-season tournament game. Isn't that the goal - to create excitement about the early season?
A couple days break from seeing this team getting blown out by 30 does my mentality good tbh. I love the Spurs but the product is hard to watch when all I want is for them to win lol
Yes it is. The NFL takes 18 weeks to get to the knockout rounds. But the actual tournament is the same. The IST can't be any more like the NFL besides reseeding after every round.
I’ve actually liked it tbh. The Spurs could be the next Indy in a year or two, which helps build player confidence and gives the fan base some sense that a rebuild strategy is going in the right direction. There have also been some specific games that have been fun (Dallas-Houston, GSW-Kings come to mind), that feature the younger team making noise.
They’ll work out the scheduling kinks, and we still have to see if the NBA can make the Vegas things a spectacle. I think they will, or at least more so than the allstar game turd sandwich. It would also be fun if the outcome had some sort of impact on draft seeding, or some bonus use of cap space etc.
The players seem to be playing harder. For a long season with too many games that feel like the players are sleepwalking through, the tournament has been successful in raising the compe iveness. That's a success even if the details of the tournament are debated.
The tournament is awesome. Y'all in here acting like anyone cares about pre Jan NBA basketball in the past. Who cares about off days. the Spurs need off days.
Yeah it sucks when all those ist games conflicted with CFB games on Fridays and Tuesdays.
Lol.what?
I get that Spurs fans are miserable but there have been some intense games in ing December!
This Lakers court is horrendous tho.
JFC the Suns just got screwed with the refs giving the Lakers a timeout when Reaves didn't have possession and the Suns were about to tie the game forcing the TO with 7 seconds left. Same , different day trying to play the Lakers.
That call was so bad
This has been fun. Clearly teams are playing to win. I’m liking it.
….. I think we have ample evidence of how bad of a team we are and how much we need to practice and tweak things. It’s honestly great for us this year. I hope we see a ready and and rejuvenated team coming out.
Relax
Star League…
Stars get the BOD
LeBron a superstar so he gets even more than that
Lucky for spur fan is you have a future superstar in a Few years he will get those same calls
but you would if the spurs were in it.
this 1000%. they look awful.
As I mentioned earlier, if this were the Duncan Spurs I'm not sure I would like this. I would at least have watched the game.
Lol at anyone acting like November/December NBA basketball was so amazingly intense. The IST, for whatever reasons and motivations, has made the players try harder in those games which is a ridiculous statement given what they get paid, but it's true, so the product is better.
As a fan of a team, I don't think I would care much at all about the actual result of the tournament but as a fan of basketball in general, high intensity = better games, so why not?
If the Spurs aren't playing, I usually skip NBA games in general especially in December. So many ing games that mean nothing for the most part of the season. At least with these IST games, I've been tuning in to watch some of these games.
Don't watch non Spurs games so who cares
How can the actual tournament be the same when it's literally condensing the REGULAR season of the NFL into its format? I said NFL playoffs, man. Every game counts, every game does not count in the current iteration. It also is counter-intuitive to the players/honor system of basketball in that you want to run up the score on teams, even if you're winning by 15 with 3 minutes left you want it to be 25.
I feel it's honestly bad. I understand if you think not, but there's clearly a difference between the NFL playoffs and NFL regular season. Remove the condensed season and make it sudden death from the beginning
This is it, not to mention the safety hazard created for anyone looking at the floor and potentially having long term damage to their eyesight.
Adam Silver is trying to turn the NBA into soccer. First the play-in tournament and now the in-season tournament. Nobody gives a
I could care less about the tournament only teams I watch are my Spurs and only wish is for them to win the real Championship at the end of season. Also at this part of season most sports fans are into football more then any weird give you a cheap trophy
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