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Message: [QUOTE="hoophuskee, post: 2437001, member: 3535"] Another silly comment from a clueless coach. Too naive to understand you aren't going to get a big viewership with players playing so below the rim. Got to get guys watching the game too and hold onto more women fans. A close game you can't control. Exciting athleticism above the rim can be exciting. In business many times you look to copy successful business strategies of other elite businesses. There is a reason why the NBA promotes the slam dunk and why sportscenter will highlight dunks. It's popular. Years ago Jimmy Valvano mentioned why the ACC would have nothing to worry vs the Big East and he said it's that the ACC could always recruit up north but to get players in ACC country to come up North was much harder. In similar speak in women's basketball, many more owmen flock to the men's game than the men flock to the women's game. [URL='https://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/should-womens-basketball-lower-the-rims-thats-a-stupid-question.html']Should Women's Basketball Lower the Rims? That's a Stupid Question[/URL] There is a viewership that loves the excitement of athleticism. And so far the response from the women's game has been "Shut up and just learn to like our game." That is such an ignorant business model. To think that you are going to get guys like Dan O'Shaugnessey to watch the game because it's close is so laughable. If close games were os important then why doesn't the WNBA do better? If "the beauty of basketball is so important" then how the hell have the Knicks been so profitable during the Carmelo Anthony years? As the author writes of the above article writes- [B]"And when a six-foot-one fifth-grader named Ashlyn Watkins dunked four times in a single game, enough of them shared the grainy [URL='http://www.maxpreps.com/news/v-e4XcT5UU2hzMGCvdQVKg/video--11-year-old-5th-grader-ashlyn-watkins-dunks-four-times-in-one-game.htm']video of those plays[/URL] that it went viral, a[U]nd was featured on ESPN's flagship program SportsCenter. That's exactly the sort of thing that could fill more stadium seats.[/U]" [/B] As stated with the jimmv analogy. The men's game gets more women viewership. Yet how can the women get more men to like it and why do so many women like the NBA vs the WNBA? Athleticism - above the rim imo. [URL="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/lyndsey-darcangelo/the-wnbas-biggest-problem_b_9437480.html"]The WNBA's Biggest Problem Isn't Lack of Interest From Men. It's Women. | HuffPost[/URL] [B][/B] [/QUOTE]

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