NBA In-Season Tournament

[Superbone]

They should award an additional first round pick to the winner of the tourney. Make it the last pick of the lottery.

Even better, give them the ping pong balls of the last pick in the lottery for a chance at an even higher pick.

[Split T]

Ehh, that doesn’t motivate current players. They are doing the one thing that does motivate players…money. Well besides just pride..I think the players would want to win even without money incentive.

[Charlie Smithy!]

Ehh, that doesn’t motivate current players. They are doing the one thing that does motivate players…money. Well besides just pride..I think the players would want to win even without money incentive.

What if instead of money, they held players' families for ransom, and then the players had to use their very particular set of skills to win the tournament to get their families back?

[Split T]

Haha, ya that would probably work

[Superbone]

Here's a possible negative. What about running up the score on teams? Are teams still going to run out the clock when ahead at the end of the game or are they going to go for more points to stack their point differential. Are we going to have fights because of it?

[Split T]

I think it’ll be viewed differently due to the circumstances…though if we’re up 40 on Portland tomorrow and their bench is in while we still have KD and Book out there with 3 minutes left it might be a bad look haha.

We really should push to win by 15-20 at least though. Maybe ease up a bit late if we’re up 25+

[MightyMoog]

Here's a possible negative. What about running up the score on teams? Are teams still going to run out the clock when ahead at the end of the game or are they going to go for more points to stack their point differential. Are we going to have fights because of it?

There was already a little skirmish with Embid because of this. I think he took a last second shot that he didn’t need to for the win. But he was thinking point differential.

[Superbone]

I just realized our tournament game on Tuesday the starts at 2pm. Wtf, fuck this tournament. Lol

Tuesday’s game is at 9 pm EST in Phoenix against the Blazers.

I don’t know what the hell I was looking at then haha. Good indicator that’s it’s time for sleep for me.

Maybe you were looking at Friday’s tournament game against the Grizzlies that starts at 2 pm PST but that’s due to the holiday weekend.

[Flagrant Fowl]

Ehh, that doesn’t motivate current players. They are doing the one thing that does motivate players…money. Well besides just pride..I think the players would want to win even without money incentive.

What if instead of money, they held players' families for ransom, and then the players had to use their very particular set of skills to win the tournament to get their families back?

So The Bubble Part Deux?

[Split T]

The bubble was kinda awesome as far as game quality

[Flagrant Fowl]

Yeah, just like this in-season tournament.

[Superbone]

This you Split?

[Split T]

Not me haha, but New Orleans has tie breaker over Denver so those two would flip in his scenario. Otherwise it’s a good breakdown

[Wally_West]

This you Split?

This is how it feels reading that.

[Kryptonic]

This you Split?

This is how it feels reading that.

No …. Really hope we run the score up tonight.

Btw…. Amazing movie.

[Flagrant Fowl]

Have you guys never followed a tournament that implemented a Group Stage round?

It's really not complicated at all.

[Flagrant Fowl]

If you have questions about the Suns qualification chances, this is the only link you should need.

https://www.nba.com/in-season-tournamen ... n=wildcard

[Split T]

That’s a good one…quite better than the espn one. Jazz are getting trounced so we move up. Biggest challenger is whoever out of Minny/Sacramento doesn’t win their group. They play each-other Friday, but not till after our game. We just want a blow-out either way.

[Flagrant Fowl]

The ESPN standings are useless because they list average scoring margin instead of total point margin.

[Split T]

The ESPN standings are useless because they list average scoring margin instead of total point margin.

They make you do the work haha…I guess average will work once everyone has played all 4, but can be misleading now.