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I don’t get the whole tournament thing. Seems ridiculous to me.
 
Strenuus said:
This thing will last 2 years then 20 years from now they will commemorate it and everyone will laugh at how fucking stupid it is.
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It'll be like the shortened 3 point line and the "Team Giannis vs Team LeBron" crap at the all star game. It will be something that is dumb when it was thought of, dumb when they announced it, dumb when they do it, and dumb once they waited too long to stop doing it.
 
julius said:
It'll be like the shortened 3 point line and the "Team Giannis vs Team LeBron" crap at the all star game. It will be something that is dumb when it was thought of, dumb when they announced it, dumb when they do it, and dumb once they waited too long to stop doing it.
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Idk I kind of like it so far gives the games a little more importance in November.
 
Strenuus said:
This thing will last 2 years then 20 years from now they will commemorate it and everyone will laugh at how fucking stupid it is.
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Nah. In 20 years, there will be grown men saying to you “What? There used to be no IST? The fuck? And people cared about games in November? That’s wild. You’re old.”
 
Okay, so what happens now? We play Memphis again... then?
 
Strenuus said:
This thing will last 2 years then 20 years from now they will commemorate it and everyone will laugh at how fucking stupid it is.
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I keep thinking.... if we win this thing, the trophy will go.... right next to our summer league trophy, wherever the hell that is. It won't matter at all.
 
Eastoff said:
I just mean, why did they choose to make that rule.
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If you have paid any attention to all the media coverage over the last 6 months- you'd know this by now.

Its loosely based on a soccer style tournament where the first round is group play
 
Eastoff said:
Okay, so what happens now? We play Memphis again... then?
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No. We play Utah, LAL, and PHX one game each on Tournament days. Whoever has the best record out of the four designated games within their group will go onto the knockout games. Winner of the knockout games go the Semi finals and the winners of those games go to the final game for the tournament championship.
 
Shaboid said:
Do they get the day of from hooping? I wish I got election day off!
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Yes since summer of 2020, NBA has gotten very political. Wants to make sure people vote. I think the NBA had a hand in electing Biden. Opening up NBA arenas in Atlanta, Milwaukee, and Philadelphia for early voting pretty much swung the election.
 
CJ_is_Gone said:
If you have paid any attention to all the media coverage over the last 6 months- you'd know this by now.

Its loosely based on a soccer style tournament where the first round is group play
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Damn, you sound like my wife. You are correct, I wasn't paying any attention.
 
Final 4 is in Vegas so if you make the knockout round (8 teams) and win that first knockout game the team goes to Vegas. Would be super fun some year if the Blazers make that 4 and us fans can go see it. No similar experience has ever been available in NBA history.

Really like the tournaments I think it'll be a big hit eventually. It's March madness style win or your out. Playoffs have so many long series where the superior team wins your never going to have big unexpected excitement as is possibly with a win or done format.

Heard all the same doubters about the playin but now everyone likes it.

Bunch of grumpy old men on this board resistant to change so not surprised there are so many posts here diminishing it.

I don't understand the downside, were you super interested in 4 random games in the middle of an NBA season?

If anything they should eventually expand the in season tournament or even have two of them, then get rid of the all-star weekend. All-star game has nothing to do with competitive professional basketball. It's about what group of super friends can score 180 with no defense, make 50 foot shots, and dress for parties.
 
Love for this team to get into the playoff bracket for IST. Anything that ups the pressure and even remotely feels like a playoff game is good for these young guys.
 
1 Eye Jack said:
Love for this team to get into the playoff bracket for IST. Anything that ups the pressure and even remotely feels like a playoff game is good for these young guys.
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Agreed, having experience in pressure games is a huge benefit for a young team.

Now guys like Grant, Brogdon, TimeLord, Ayton it really doesn't matter. They've been in big playoff series wins and tons of experience.

But Sharpe, Scoot, Camara, Walker, even to some extent Ant have very little of this experience. It often takes a couple years of playoff losses for young players just to get used to how the game changes in those pressure moments.

If we can get a bit of that with the in season tournament push, as well as a late season push to make the playin it will help these young players immensely in their following season and subsequent playoffs. Then maybe they win a playoff series a year or two earlier, and are ready to contend for a WCF a year or two after that.
 
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