Yahoo Sports senior NBA reporter Jake Fischer and senior NBA writer Dan Devine discuss what adjustments they'd like to see in the second iteration of the league's midseason tournament. Hear the full conversation on “No Cap Room” and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen.

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Any changes you would like to see going forward.

I don't know, I, it seemed like a lot of people were complaining about the point differential component.

I, this is, I kind of, I liked it.

I wound up enjoying that.

It led to like some drama on the last night of the group play games where it's like, you know, and I know you reported on that you were with the Nets, I believe, right?

When they were sort of scoreboard watching and there was a question of, you know, is the, are the, you know, Celtics gonna get through, are they gonna get through like, and II, I guess the main thing to me for change or, you know, changes, like, I don't, I don't think they'll necessarily do it because they're essentially still regular season games, right?

But like, I would kind of like to see it lean even further into the game being different.

Like we just got done with the Olympics and Fiba rules 40 minute games.

Like, how nice is it, those games are over in two hours.

Um How nice is it to forget about just in season tournament games?

Let's do that.

For all the games and like the, the style of play, the flow of it, like the swallowed whistles, the increased physicality, like the, the decreased stoppages.

Like the idea, I, I'm not saying go full, like every idea we've had for the All Star game in the G League, put it all in now.

But like, you don't need to have the eel amending instead of overtime to be like, well, it's like set this up as a different thing.

I understand they're probably not going to do it because these are still regular season games and they count in the regular season standings.

So you, you still need to have some level of uniformity there, but I would be open to, like, feel free to get weirder with this and let's like, understand it is a weird thing that is different.

Let's let it be different.

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