Outside of some gaudy and slippery courts, it seems like the in-season tournament has been successful. The NBA has done a solid job of promoting it, it seems like the players are generally taking it seriously, and the crowds are more engaged than they would be in your average regular season game. Thoughts?
Yes it’s a success idk why people are expecting some ground breaking nba content, they are still regular season games as of now.
They really should make it an actual tournament next time instead of playing the games two times a week over several weeks, it really kills any sense of momentum or urgency and makes it hard to follow and stay invested.
There will be a tournament. You know that right?
Are the players actually taking it seriously? Are the crowds actually more engaged or are they just excited since it’s the start of the season? I don’t actually think there’s been ANY indication that the in-season tournament has done anything except injure players slipping on the courts
You clearly haven’t watched many of these games haha. But I guess that’s Reddit. Clear as day that the players and coaches elevate these games over the normal regular season ones.
I’ve seen a lot of hate for it on this sub, but personally I’ve been lovin it so far.
Get some better designs for the courts and jerseys and it’ll really elevate it next year.
I’m one of the few ones that appreciates it. Eye test seems to show that players are more engaged in them than the good old first half of the regular season games! Hopefully Lakers win it all.
It’s new so there will be hype regardless + the fights and other things that kinda seem staged (reffing) is making it interesting
I like it except for the awful court designs and no team should be playing a b2b with a tournament game.
The tourney games are never the second night of a back to back.
They shouldn’t be part of a b2b period.