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Message: [QUOTE="BlueSkyGLW, post: 5305671, member: 11281"] That there had not been enough of us making noise for Women's BB is certainly true.....some of us don't get carried away like others by seeing super athletic men dunking and other show stuff......we appreciate more, the preservation of the art in BB and its subtleties......there were not enough of us making noise for what we appreciate most to be noticed by others, including the casual fans. The noise for WNBA players was not dramatically amplitied until someone - CC - consistently showed Steph Curry-like distance shooting even as we have always watched with keen appreciation the less spectacular but just as - if not more so - efficient performances on offense from the likes of Sue Bird, Maya Moore......and going all the way back to Cheryl Miller (Diana had much more flair, of course) We all congregated in places like the Boneyard to talk to fellow believers in the art more than the show, though we appreciate that too but not at the expense of framework of BB, its fundamentals and the artistic impact of well executed team plays on both sides of the ball. Most of us likely did not talk to non-believers in how good WBB truly is when executed by well-coached teams, sans the flying bodies, I plead guilty to having been a bit of s snob, the one who continues to appreciate BB in the way John Wooden had his teams play it....and finding more of it in well-coached women's teams, UConn above all but not alone. It got to the point where MBB dominated by isolation plays and dunking turned me off..... To be sure, there were a few men's teams whose coach did not forget the fundamentals, both College and Pros, but the noise was for the show....hammertime!......until the long distance shooters took over.....another extravaganza.....(personally, between the two, I much prefer seeing the long-distance shooting skill).....or something you don't see much these days: what I call the billiard shot (bounced off the backboard) from different distances.,.. [/QUOTE]

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