It’s only the first year, people are going to take some getting used to the point differential. People are always a little resistant to some change at first. Regular season standings are at least partly influenced by a team’s Strength of Schedule, using strictly the IST games makes sense as everyone will have played the other teams in their group. We already use Regular Season standings for playoff seeding, this IST is supposed to make these single games early in the regular season mean something more. We don’t get scenarios where one single game can affect whether your team moves on or is knocked out in the NBA often, this is also why the play-in games have been so popular IMO. It’s just another little excitement factor, what with all the variance a single regular season game could have.
It’s only the first year, people are going to take some getting used to the point differential. People are always a little resistant to some change at first. Regular season standings are at least partly influenced by a team’s Strength of Schedule, using strictly the IST games makes sense as everyone will have played the other teams in their group. We already use Regular Season standings for playoff seeding, this IST is supposed to make these single games early in the regular season mean something more. We don’t get scenarios where one single game can affect whether your team moves on or is knocked out in the NBA often, this is also why the play-in games have been so popular IMO. It’s just another little excitement factor, what with all the variance a single regular season game could have.