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old skool wrote:It will take some time for the cup to be a big deal. Early on it feels cute. Somewhat interesting. A curiosity. Not a significant competition. Games are more important in the context of the regular season standings than in the tournament.
That will change over time, when star players are measured by who has the most cup trophies, finals appearances etc.
slick_watts wrote:the cup finals being outside the scheduling continuum is so stupid. this is basically a preseason game with some window dressing. i get it that there's a cash prize for the players but no one will ever really take the results of the nba cup seriously enough to have a finals that doesn't 'matter'. my idea- give the nba cup winner an automatic tiebreaker in the standings.
emunney wrote:
We need a man shaped like a chicken nugget with the shot selection of a 21st birthday party.
GHOSTofSIKMA wrote:
if you combined jabari parker, royal ivey, a shrimp and a ball sack youd have javon carter
slick_watts wrote:the cup finals being outside the scheduling continuum is so stupid. this is basically a preseason game with some window dressing. i get it that there's a cash prize for the players but no one will ever really take the results of the nba cup seriously enough to have a finals that doesn't 'matter'. my idea- give the nba cup winner an automatic tiebreaker in the standings.
BigGargamel wrote:It doesn't seem like a tournament though. The execution needs to be better. It just seems like regular season games are played, then randomly you have a few teams that go to Vegas to actually play in a tournament. It just seems way too random.
DutchManDanFan wrote:slick_watts wrote:the cup finals being outside the scheduling continuum is so stupid. this is basically a preseason game with some window dressing. i get it that there's a cash prize for the players but no one will ever really take the results of the nba cup seriously enough to have a finals that doesn't 'matter'. my idea- give the nba cup winner an automatic tiebreaker in the standings.
It is ment to be a cup final. It's new for Americans, but common for all Europeans. It's not an extra (knock out) competition (yet), like in Europe, but mostly part of the regular competition, except for the final. I think that's very smart for introducing this. For now only 1 extra game for 2 teams who can play a big game. If you're in a final you want to win it. And if you're in the semi final you want to reach to final. That's how it works with competitive people. But it takes some years before it might get seperated from the regular season. I would think that's the plan eventually.
I'm quite sure Giannis wants to win this pretty bad. It's not a coincidence the Bucks went 6-0 in cup games this year (and 5-1 last year). It's a nice bonus these games count for the regular season as well. Really great!
BigGargamel wrote:It's clear that Silver has a hard on for how they do things in Europe, but this is an American sport. I'm not trying to be typical conceited American, but no one here cares about stuff like this. No one cares if it doesn't impact the standings or is a playoff game. I know exhibition games are popular in soccer, but here, no one is ever really going to care. Especially with the current format, taking place in the middle of December, and causing the regular season games to mostly stop for over a week.
I know the logistics of bringing 30 teams to Las Vegas is impossible, but having a single elimination tournament over a couple weeks around the All Star break would be infinitely better than whatever this thing is supposed to be.
If Denver made it to the finals of this thing I'd be more annoyed that Jokic had to play two more games than the fact that my team could win a meaningless tournament. I bet the coaching staff feels the same way.
MoneyTalks41890 wrote:Definitely needs to be some kind of actual incentive outside of a small amount of cash to make this worthwhile.
Lo Wang wrote:MoneyTalks41890 wrote:Definitely needs to be some kind of actual incentive outside of a small amount of cash to make this worthwhile.
How about homecourt advantage for the team that won? Instead of using regular season games, the winner gets homecourt advantage
DutchManDanFan wrote:Lo Wang wrote:MoneyTalks41890 wrote:Definitely needs to be some kind of actual incentive outside of a small amount of cash to make this worthwhile.
How about homecourt advantage for the team that won? Instead of using regular season games, the winner gets homecourt advantage
No. The incentive must be to win a cup. Most team don't have much chance to win the championship. Some teams have never won and may never will. This one is easier to win although most likely some of the best teams will compete for it in the final. And that is also great.
Lo Wang wrote:This forum is so weird. We have 5 threads about how good OKC is on the 1st page and they're still losing.
Jaqua92 wrote:Lo Wang wrote:This forum is so weird. We have 5 threads about how good OKC is on the 1st page and they're still losing.
That's because the threads are made by the same 2 people
DirtybirdGA wrote:Nothing wrong with a standalone game tonight, but I don't get not having games Wednesday. is this a mini All-star break? I wonder if teams will be out of rhythm with this thing so stretched out.
strokerace wrote:DirtybirdGA wrote:Nothing wrong with a standalone game tonight, but I don't get not having games Wednesday. is this a mini All-star break? I wonder if teams will be out of rhythm with this thing so stretched out.
I'm not a huge fan the this Cup thing in general but my real dislike is what it does to the regular season schedule. Maybe some of the players like having so much time off but it also compresses the rest of the overall schedule. It just necessitates more back to backs.
