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superjohn said:
Half the responses, this sport sucks but I haven't watched it in a decade or a couple decades...

I don't watch but I know it sucks.
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The comments about the nba "product" are strange to me, and a strange choice of words that a couple people have used. Since we are on a college basketball board, I would think most everyone here watches a considerable amount of basketball. So to find the professional basketball league completely unwatchable is a bit bizarre
 
It's gotta be baseball. I'll watch some weird stuff like cornhole or curling if I'm bored enough, but baseball is so slow with very little happening.
 
Woodson said:
The comments about the nba "product" are strange to me, and a strange choice of words that a couple people have used. Since we are on a college basketball board, I would think most everyone here watches a considerable amount of basketball. So to find the professional basketball league completely unwatchable is a bit bizarre
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Just like in football, there is a considerable difference in skill level and style of play between the two levels. College teams don't have the skill up and down the roster and Pros can't (and frankly don't have to) run the motion for 82+ 48 minute games per season.

The end objective is the same (put the ball through the ring for a higher score than your opponent), but the means is quite different.
 
Golf. I totally get people playing it (I don't), but watching others play it on TV? You need to get out more.

As someone who played baseball as my primary sport, other than golf (which I consider a game, not a sport), unless you're a pitcher or catcher, is the least athletic of all sports. You don't even work up a sweat. Basketball and soccer require the most athleticism.

Also, since all the stupid MLB rule changes, I no longer watch MLB Baseball.
 
Husky25 said:
Just like in football, there is a considerable difference in skill level and style of play between the two levels. College teams don't have the skill up and down the roster and Pros can't (and frankly don't have to) run the motion for 82+ 48 minute games per season.

The end objective is the same (put the ball through the ring for a higher score than your opponent), but the means is quite different.
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True but it's not like it's a completely different sport - still hoops at the end of the day. I guess I just don't follow what people would find so objectionable about the nba, while being basketball people.

I could see tuning out the regular season (not unlike most pro sports frankly) but playoffs have been awesome
 
Woodson said:
True but it's not like it's a completely different sport - still hoops at the end of the day. I guess I just don't follow what people would find so objectionable about the nba, while being basketball people.

I could see tuning out the regular season (not unlike most pro sports frankly) but playoffs have been awesome
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I just told you, but you pulled an, "Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln. How was the play?"

Another thing about the NBA on this board is that most people are either Knicks or Celtics fans. The Knicks have been awful and while the Cs have been competent and have made a few conference Finals, there hasn't been much promise that they were truly contenders. People like to see their teams have a chance to win, which brings us to my final point on the matter.

NBA superstars seem to be pampered babies and choose the easiest path to a championship. They absolutely have the right to move around and earn the most they can negotiate, but the championships have grown hollow. I grew up on the 80s-90s NBA where players and cities were synonymous, a foul was a foul, and a violation was a violation. It does not feel that way anymore.
 
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Husky25 said:
I just told you, but you pulled an, "Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln. How was the play?"

Another thing about the NBA on this board is that most people are either Knicks or Celtics fans. The Knicks have been awful and while the Cs have been competent and have made a few conference Finals, there hasn't been much promise that they were truly contenders. People like to see their teams have a chance to win, which brings us to my final point on the matter.

NBA superstars seem to be pampered babies and choose the easiest path to a championship. They absolutely have the right to move around and earn the most they can negotiate, but the championships have grown hollow. I grew up on the 80s-90s NBA where players and cities were synonymous, a foul was a foul, and a violation was a violation. It does not feel that way anymore.
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Ya I don't follow. Sounds like it's actually more of an objection to the players themselves on some personal level, and not what happens on the court
 
Woodson said:
Ya I don't follow. Sounds like it's actually more of an objection to the players themselves on some personal level, and not what happens on the court
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So you glossed right over this?
Husky25 said:
there is a considerable difference in skill level and style of play between the two levels. College teams don't have the skill up and down the roster and Pros can't (and frankly don't have to) run the motion for 82+ 48 minute games per season.
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Be your misinterpretation as it may, I don't know how else to explain my view. Not to mention that I said the last post would be my last on the matter, so think whatever you wish.
 
Woodson said:
The comments about the nba "product" are strange to me, and a strange choice of words that a couple people have used. Since we are on a college basketball board, I would think most everyone here watches a considerable amount of basketball. So to find the professional basketball league completely unwatchable is a bit bizarre
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I know a bunch of guys who are like this too, love college basketball but hate the NBA. They've talked this way for over 10 years, same with the older generation (my dad's friends.) The style of play has changed over those years so I don't really think it's a style of play issue.
 
Woodson said:
Ya I don't follow. Sounds like it's actually more of an objection to the players themselves on some personal level, and not what happens on the court
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the lack of travels, carries, etc hurt

the absurd amount of superstar treatment makes it border on wwe

the way they neuter many big men with awful rules and even worse officiating

the atrocious-ness of NBA officiating in general…

its rough
 
the Q said:
the lack of travels, carries, etc hurt

the absurd amount of superstar treatment makes it border on wwe

the way they neuter many big men with awful rules and even worse officiating

the atrocious-ness of NBA officiating in general…

its rough
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NBA refs are light years ahead of college refs.
 
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the Q said:
the lack of travels, carries, etc hurt

the absurd amount of superstar treatment makes it border on wwe

the way they neuter many big men with awful rules and even worse officiating

the atrocious-ness of NBA officiating in general…

its rough
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...But other than that, what's the issue?
 
superjohn said:
NBA refs are light years ahead of college refs.
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Exactly... that's what I mean, if those are the issues with the nba then I would think you would really hate college hoops- college officiating is a serious problem. Some of these playoffs series have been unbelievable, I just don't get how you could say its unwatchable if you like basketball. But to each their own - I won't continue to belabor the debate - no offense intended to Husky25 - I was responding moreso to the guy who said he hasn't watched since the 80s
 
Woodson said:
Ya I don't follow. Sounds like it's actually more of an objection to the players themselves on some personal level, and not what happens on the court
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My sense is that in 2021 a HUGE component of people's dislike for the NBA is the players themselves on a personal level. People make that clear on here all the time.

My biggest issue with the NBA is that the players are just so much less fundamentally sound than college players.
 
BigErnMcCracken said:
Yeah I can't imagine someone saying that the officiating in the NBA is a problem relative to college.

Remember this?

www.nj.com

Big East referees involved in controversial Rutgers-St. John's game have 'voluntarily withdrawn' from tournament

Burr declined comment this afternoon, saying: 'Sorry, I can't talk. I apologize.'
www.nj.com www.nj.com

And those are some of the most highly regarded college refs (for what reason I have no idea.)
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Yeah NBA officials never have anything egregiously bad Happen…

Weiterleitungshinweis

www.google.com
 
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BigErnMcCracken said:
Yeah I can't imagine someone saying that the officiating in the NBA is a problem relative to college.

Remember this?

www.nj.com

Big East referees involved in controversial Rutgers-St. John's game have 'voluntarily withdrawn' from tournament

Burr declined comment this afternoon, saying: 'Sorry, I can't talk. I apologize.'
www.nj.com www.nj.com

And those are some of the most highly regarded college refs (for what reason I have no idea.)
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Or shady …..borderline corrupt and way worse than sac/lal in 2002:

 
Golf without Tiger, Hockey until the Rangers get better:
 
BigErnMcCracken said:
They definitely do. But no one seriously believes that college basketball referees are better than the referees in the NBA.
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I think they’re all pretty bad.

But the NBA goes out if it’s way too protect certain players, including finding out how many fouls they have to avoid giving them more fouls.

The NBA also causes many of the problems in college like the absurd lack of travels (but the NBA and college have different rules on traveling).

I agree college refs are bad.

I’m not going to say it isn’t a hard game to officiate. There are just so many bodies and so few eyes.

But many here think they’re bad for calling too much stuff
 
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Woodson said:
The comments about the nba "product" are strange to me, and a strange choice of words that a couple people have used. Since we are on a college basketball board, I would think most everyone here watches a considerable amount of basketball. So to find the professional basketball league completely unwatchable is a bit bizarre
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'So to find the professional basketball league completely unwatchable is a bit bizarre'
the 'professional china shoe whore' league not watchable, bizarre? hardly.
in the past two seasons, with much of the nation locked in the basement, the number of folks watching has collapsed even more from it's decade-long decline.
obviously, folks have turned away from getting lectured constantly by the angry birds league. deal with it, or not, it still be true. some of the nba fans here are starting to sound like some soccer fans here with their jibberjab aboot 'nuance, deep analysis paralysis, and the b'butt-ing.' lame.
our answer is still the same, according to the overwhelming ratings data: click!
the nba 'product' has morphed into 'who cares?' obviously, we don't.
 
ClifSpliffy said:
'So to find the professional basketball league completely unwatchable is a bit bizarre'
the 'professional china shoe whore' league not watchable, bizarre? hardly.
in the past two seasons, with much of the nation locked in the basement, the number of folks watching has collapsed even more from it's decade-long decline.
obviously, folks have turned away from getting lectured constantly by the angry birds league. deal with it, or not, it still be true. some of the nba fans here are starting to sound like some soccer fans here with their jibberjab aboot 'nuance, deep analysis paralysis, and the b'butt-ing.' lame.
our answer is still the same, according to the overwhelming ratings data: click!
the nba 'product' has morphed into 'who cares?' obviously, we don't.
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Whoops. NBA first round most-watched in three years
 
BigErnMcCracken said:
My sense is that in 2021 a HUGE component of people's dislike for the NBA is the players themselves on a personal level. People make that clear on here all the time.

My biggest issue with the NBA is that the players are just so much less fundamentally sound than college players.
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Wait what? Can you explain to me what this means? Please pull up video of this.
 
borninansonia said:
Agreed completely.
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Just to be clear, I think the people I'm describing - who dislike the NBA because they dislike the players personally - are sort of clowns. They resent these guys for being rich and having opinions about the world.
 
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