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Why is this tournament so difficult to understand? (alien.top)

submitted 2 years ago by Nkosi868@alien.top to c/nba@nba.space

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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.

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[–] Reinmeika@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I mean it makes sense to me, but the timing is awkward. Maybe if it was like a pre-season thing? Idk, it’s cool but awkward to me still.

[–] Nkosi868@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

That could work also. Open the season up with a Cup.

[–] Toolmantaylor8@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

All of them complaining about players making an effort to the end instead of benchwarmers dribbling out the clock…. WHY WE COMPLAINING ABOUT THIS?

[–] Slow_Performance_701@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Personally I think it's just a dumb marketing thing and I don't find it interesting or exciting.

[–] JCivX@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They are immature in the sense that they want to act like the cool kids who think it's "lame" to know shit. It's also pure laziness and a form of protest because they think the NBA should be exactly the way it was when they played.

I can't wait in a year or two when this performative "NBA cup is confusing/pointless/lame" shit will likely not exist because a critical mass of people like it (I hope that's the case anyway).

Oh, it should also in the future be called the "NBA cup" kind of like the FA Cup in English football instead of "in-season tournament" or "Doritos tournament".

[–] Nkosi868@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

I’m afraid that they’re going to give it a sponsor name like Doritos, based on the current promo using the Sopranos actor.

It’s very gimmicky, and it doesn’t need to be. They could’ve started it off with some history and slap David Stern’s name on the trophy.

Marketing people really believe Americans to be idiots and it’s annoying.

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