The entry games have two standings contexts
The official guide assigns each of the ten clubs two home and two away cup games. It says those designated results contribute both to the cup standings and the NBL regular-season ladder. That does not create two physical games or require a viewer to find another broadcast of the same fixture.
Not every meeting between the same clubs is necessarily a cup fixture. Identify the game from the official designation and date. A day-of-week pattern is useful calendar context, but should not replace the actual competition field on the match record.
Cup points are not merely the final-score margin
The tournament guide awards points for the overall game and for individual quarters, with shared points for tied quarters. A club can therefore obtain cup-table value from part of a game even when it loses the overall contest. Do not interpret the cup table as a simple copy of the ordinary win-loss ladder.
Keep actual basketball points, quarter outcomes and tournament-table points separate. They are three different measures. A television score showing an 80-point performance is not reporting eighty points toward the cup standings; use the published scoring framework for that calculation.
The finals have their own exception
The NBL27 guide sends four teams to the cup finals and says those finals do not count toward the regular-season ladder. A cup semifinal result advances a side in that tournament rather than automatically adding an ordinary league win.
A cup champion and an NBL season champion are separate titles. Preserve the edition, phase, date and game identity when locating a programme or archive. This guide explains the tournament structure without predicting participants, certifying a particular broadcaster account or establishing IPTV Australia carriage of the event.
Questions about this guide
Are basketball score points the same as cup-table points?
No. The cup uses its own game/quarter points framework.
Do cup finals count toward the NBL regular-season ladder?
The official NBL27 guide says they do not.