nwwarrior09
Well-known member
I agree with the in-season tournament. There's no real purpose to it IMO if it doesn't come with an automatic playoff birth.If they wanted to bring real basketball to the regular season, cut the playoffs to the top 5 seeds per conference: the 3 division winners and 2 wildcards, with the wildcards playing a best of 3 to advance to the conference semis.
And if they want to make the in-season tournament relevant, grant the tournament winner an automatic playoff berth as one of the 5 spots in their conference.
Under the current format, the in-season winner should be guaranteed a top-4 playoff seed IMO.