The Inside The NBA folks seem to have no idea how a tournament works and it’s difficult to listen to them talk about this tournament.
Why is point differential such a difficult concept for them to understand?
Candace Parker’s idea is to ignore the group and just advance the top teams with the best records, out of all the groups. Then what’s the point of the groups? It’s a tournament. I don’t think she realizes that point differential would still come into play.
Chuck wants the 2 top teams in the West to advance because they have the best regular season records. Let’s ignore the fact that they couldn’t play well in the tournament.
This tournament has a lot of potential as we saw in that Kings/Warriors game. Most of those plays in the 4th quarter would’ve never occurred if this was just a regular season game.
I do believe that these games need to be independent of regular season games though.
If you’re still struggling to understand how tournaments with groups work, play some FIFA or watch any sport outside of America. It’s a really fun system.
It’s going to take people a couple years to REALLY understand the points system. It will come along in time. Right now the games just need to be great, which they have been.
A 10 year old can understand the format. It’s really really not complicated.
It takes about two minutes to understand the system even if you've never seen anything like it before.
Probably, but a lot of people aren’t going to take the time to learn because they don’t really care. Right now it’s just about the games being good or not.