The NBA's inaugural midseason tournament ended on December 10 with the Lakers beating the Pacers 123-109 in the finals and James winning the MVP. The mid-season tournament has been rumored to be organized in previous years, and it was not optimistic at the beginning, but it was well received after it was officially held, and many fans are looking forward to the next event.
The United States** has four suggestions for the league for this year's Mid-Season Tournament: let the teams set their own tournament schedules, change the groupings, adjust the points rules and fix the court floor!
The first point is "let the team organize their own tournament schedule", the article points out, because this season's tournament matches are always played in the United States time week.
Second, it will be held on Friday, plus the format is mixed with the regular season, so it will happen that some teams will face teams that play back-to-back games after a rest day, which is very unfair, and the American media proposed a solution, saying that it can follow the NCAA's tournament system, concentrate teams for tournaments within one to two weeks, and let "the tournament be the tournament, and the regular season will be the regular season".
The second point is about the grouping part of the competition, although the grouping of this tournament is based on the ranking of last season's record, the article points out that it may be possible to put the teams in the same group in the same group, so that everyone can enjoy the "feud matchup" in the same group in the mid-season tournament.
The third point is the rules discussed by many people in this tournament, if the team with the same record will compare the score difference, although this is not a rare rule in the short-term tournament, but it is very rare to appear in the NBA arena, in which the Celtics and the Bulls game, but also because of the rules of the score difference, the Celtics who have a large lead have to implement the slashing tactic at the end of the game to ensure that they can advance, hoping to replace the score difference with home and away records.
Finally, there is the problem of too many people to criticize the floor is too flowery, each team in the mid-season tournament put a special new floor, but because the color is too flowery, too bright, resulting in many players have reported this problem, it is recommended that the new season of the tournament venue can be reframed, and follow the Finals in the field ** put the O'Brien Cup, put the Champions Cup, so that each team has the same determination to dominate the mid-season championship and the finals.