I am not saying they work harder. They're wired differently. They're not friends and took losses personal.
Lazy and tiresome
Very good point. NBA has load management. MLB won’t let their pitchers go 6 innings. I don’t know enough about hockey. NFL is always the exception because of the limited number of games. Analytics have, to most fans, taken away from the overall product. People also need to remember that the health of a sport is measured by its weakest teams playing each other, not just number 1 vs 2.I can’t call this the golden age of NBA basketball because of two words. Load management. Living in Chicago during the Jordan years I saw how they handled load management. They would kick a teams butt so bad through three quarters that the starters would sit the 4th out with ice bags on their knees.
Now the 90s and 2000s were the golden age of video games. Stop playing by 2010. You didn’t have the distraction of cell phones, you actually had to take turns with your brothers/friends. I had the Nintendo/SNES/ and PlayStation growing up. Had the video games in the basement, can recall the days my mom would call us upstairs, I would say ok I’ll be right there, obviously be too zoned in to listen, hear my mom come down stairs then I would turn it off and listen lol.
Again, I don’t think really anyone was arguing this is the golden age of NBA, I think most of the arguments are on quality of players/the game at this point.
This is from AI so it may be incorrect................
No, it's not like that at all. NFL players have significantly gotten bigger since the 90's and 2000's. NBA players haven't gotten bigger since the 90's and 2000's.
Sports = entertainment. Don't ever convince yourself otherwise. Watch a morning of Get Up, or any sports talk show - they're all looking to spark up the conversation with hot takes and the most dramatic storyline out there. Fans eat it up, they don't like watching human math equations (maybe some people like Navery do).
Goes both ways though. People hated Odell’s personality and emotions, and people love Skattebo’s. I never had a problem with Odell at all because I know he wanted to win and gave it everything he had. But there are many examples of that. I think players are largely weary of the media and putting themselves out there nowadays for fear of backlash, which I can’t criticize because I have seen it so much.
In both cases they’ll draw eyes and interest. Agree that players don’t want to be the brunt of unnecessary criticism, even though your example kind of speaks a lot to who gets that criticism and who doesn’t.
Bingo
So far this year Wemby has went from taking 9 threes a game to under three.
It resembles all star game play at times for me. I don’t think you see the type of defensive intensity in an 82 game regular season obviously, so guys aren’t getting run off the three point line or seeing aggressive close outs nearly to the degree they do in the playoffs. I enjoy playoff NBA ball but not regular season ball as much.
Odell Beckham as a NY Giant was getting penalties and fines constantly. He was suspended and there's an Odell Beckham rule in the NFL. They didn't trade him because of his on field production, he became a huge headache and distraction for them. The Giants got to the point as an organization where they "hated" him, the Giants as an organization seem to "love" Skattebo. Trading Beckham is one of the only thing that's worked out for the Gaints since their last Super Bowl.
Yeah well I am a Giants fan and I hate the Giants “Organization” as an organization. I gladly take some penalties for Odell’s intensity along with his incredible skillset. I wished at the time more players on the team cared as much as he did.
I mean look at the Dallas freaking Cowboys as case in point, Americas team. Sports talk reserves time for them and they don’t win, they’re just a circus run by Jerry Jones but fans can’t get enough.
