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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 2084720, member: 199"] It is likely about the same - a showcase with limited practice and little real defense and a lot of people trying to show how great they are and taking less than brilliant shots and making other stupid plays! It is a better than the NBA all star game and definitely a cut below the WNBA all star game because the players do not have the experience to play well together even without practice. (You can tell I am not a fan of all star games in any form! Especially in basketball it seems. The only one that I actually think resembles real competition is the baseball one - because baseball is essentially a individual contest on each pitch masquerading as a team sport, and they added real consequences to the outcome with the home field for the WS determined by the winner so the players actually take it pretty seriously. I have tried watching the HS all star games on TV and I usually turn them off even when UConn has serious stars involved because you really don't get a sense for the quality of the players. [/QUOTE]