“They had us come out playing hard in the fourth quarter competing for total points scored.” “They did a great job with the format this year,” Kawhi Leonard said in a postgame interview with TNT’s Ernie Johnson. The teams competed hard for the entire fourth and actually played defense.
Rather than loafing for 45 of 48 minutes, the new format turned the game into a race thanks to the target score. Thanks to the new format, players went hard - like really playing defense - and their competitive juices all came out in the final quarter. From there, it was a race to that number, which turned out to be 157. Then for the start of the fourth quarter, 24 points were added to the leading team’s cumulative score, and that became the target score. But after seeing how things played out on Sunday, there’s no denying the format was a huge success … except for one thing: the ending.įor the first three quarters of the All-Star Game, scores reset before the start of the quarter, and the team that won each quarter won it for a charity.
When the NBA first announced there would be a new format for the All-Star Game, the proclamation was met with some confusion the format seemed complicated.
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