It doesn’t really make sense if the whole point of the tournament is to promote tryharding early in the season. If that’s the goal, then reward the teams that are successful for all games not just in their group.
The emphasis on point differential has also led to some awkward moments where players or coaches are forced to “break the code”. While I think that will continue to happen I think putting more value regular season wins more will minimize those situations.
In the end, it really doesn’t matter. It’s just repackaged regular season games played on ugly floors for a trophy that nobody gives a shit about.
When the novelty of the in season tournament wears off, Silver will get rid of it, just like he got rid of the new all star game format. Who knows, maybe the Kings will raise a banner when they win the in season tournament like they did when they won the summer league title