Comment on NBA announces revamped All-Star tournament

acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• streetfestival@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  While I generally agree, I think making one all-star team a rising stars team will make things more interesting because I don’t think players voted as all-stars will want to lose to the rising stars team (ego)

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  • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    maybe but that will likely only help for one of the games, the other 2 will still probably be snoozefests. Also no one wants to actually watch rising stars in an all star game, they want to see the all stars.

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    • streetfestival@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Imo there’s nothing more boring than watching players ‘play’ an ASG who don’t want to be in the ASG. You have a point about the intent of the ASG, but I’d rather watch exciting games with less marquee names than snoozefests with marquee names. I will probably root for the rising star team. And hopefully they win their first game so they’re in the final, potentially improving 2/3 games. It’ll be interesting what/if incentivizes Jokic or Kawhi, as examples, to exert themselves. With 3 games, the games are probably shorter, so that would help. FIBA’s 10-minute quarters even feel punchier than 12 minutes

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      • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Imo there’s nothing more boring than watching players ‘play’ an ASG who don’t want to be in the ASG.

        yeah I agree, and I don’t think anything is going to fix that fundamental issue. they should focus on less intense skills competitions that are still fun to watch like the 3pt contest. Do like the NFL Pro Bowl with a bunch of events, keep score and award prizes.

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