Kings with a huge comeback against the warriors. Wouldn’t surprise me if Draymond or Klay say some stupid shit after the game about how they only care about real championships not tournament games to cope with an absolutely demoralizing loss and realization that warriors being contenders with Curry-Green-Thompson trio are pretty much done.
Thompson is probably gone after this season and Draymond’s CTE is at unprecedented levels. Expect some major retooling for the Warriors this offseason.
The only thing stopping me from taking my victory lap on calling the Warriors trash in the preseason is the potential trade they have in their back pocket.
Which teams do you think will make it to the Knockout Round? And who do you think will win the In-Season Tournament?
– from Mikal in Miami, FL
The field is too wide open before Tuesday’s games to predict who will advance to the Knockout Round. We’ll have to watch and find out! But if the Suns make it, then I predict they’ll win the Tournament.
"Too little, too late, too unbothered."
- Phoenix Suns 2023-2024 season motto.
One flaw in this IST is that the teams that lose the quarter and semi-finals have to face presumably superior opponents in the following games (which count towards season standings) than the teams who didn't make the knockout stage.
Are you sure about that? The way I understood it, these quarterfinal games and the subsequent "loser" matches just replaced existing match ups scheduled later in the season.
I might be missing your point. Are you saying the Suns will end up playing the Lakers 5 times this season?
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Are you sure about that? The way I understood it, these quarterfinal games and the subsequent "loser" matches just replaced existing match ups scheduled later in the season.
I might be missing your point. Are you saying the Suns will end up playing the Lakers 5 times this season?
Yes. I think they will be. I saw somewhere else that this is the first time some teams will play each other 5 times since there were 29 teams in the league.
I still just am not into the tournament. I hope the actual bracket part, the part coming up, will be better. So far it's just regular season games that people are pretending mean something, and a bunch of over-complicated lists about point margins teams need and tiebreakers and such things. I think the scoring margin stuff has been a real turn-off for me, and it has played way too big a part in the tournament. I much prefer it to be about winning games, not about running up the score. I think having the tournament later in the season, and having more games count toward it, would make it so that there were fewer ties that needed to be broken by scoring margin. I hear people saying the tournament has been fun and they've enjoyed it, and great for them, but it just hasn't worked for me so far at all.
