OT: WCBB Headed Here? or Already There

[RockyMTblue2]

 

[Bigboote]

Analytics may be making teams better, but it's ruining sports.

Contact hitting and finesse pitching are just about gone in baseball, along with the complete game. Hit and run, bunting, and stolen bases are on their way out.

I've found football unwatchable for a couple of decades. It's all about ball control. Seems to be mostly short passes. If a team gets behind, they hardly run the ball.

Now the midrange game is gone in the NBA and the inside game is on its way out.

 

[Littlemin]

Analytics may be making teams better, but it's ruining sports.

Contact hitting and finesse pitching are just about gone in baseball, along with the complete game. Hit and run, bunting, and stolen bases are on their way out.

I've found football unwatchable for a couple of decades. It's all about ball control. Seems to be mostly short passes. If a team gets behind, they hardly run the ball.

Now the midrange game is gone in the NBA and the inside game is on its way out.

Agree completely, for me, pro sports have been unwatchable for years and much of college sports are rapidly becoming so. I still scout high school men’s basketball, mostly for D2 and D3 men, and even that is tough to sit through at times.

 

[oldude]

It’s all the fault of Wes Bialosuknia, a UConn guard who graduated back in 1967, the same year the ABA came into existence, with basketballs that looked like beach balls, and a new-fangled 3-pt shot, that had been experimented with in the past.

Bialosuknia played just 1 season in the ABA, with the old Oakland Oaks franchise. But in that season, he lit up the league from the arc, finishing as one of the top 3-pt shooters in the league, while earning the dubious nickname, “The Mad Bomber.”

10 years later, when the ABA was merged into the NBA, the beach ball was dumped, but the 3-pt shot was here to stay. While Bialosuknia’s career was brief, he still holds the record as one of only 2 ABA players to hit 9 consecutive 3-pt shots.

 

[huskeynut]

It’s all the fault of Wes Bialosuknia, a UConn guard who graduated back in 1967, the same year the ABA came into existence, with basketballs that looked like beach balls, and a new-fangled 3-pt shot, that had been experimented with in the past.

Bialosuknia played just 1 season in the ABA, with the old Oakland Oaks franchise. But in that season, he lit up the league from the arc, finishing as one of the top 3-pt shooters in the league, while earning the dubious nickname, “The Mad Bomber.”

10 years later, when the ABA was merged into the NBA, the beach ball was dumped, but the 3-pt shot was here to stay. While Bialosuknia’s career was brief, he still holds the record as one of only 2 ABA players to hit 9 consecutive 3-pt shots.

Just to get a little hometown (Poughkeepsie, NY) plug in. Wes graduated from Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) High School, Hyde Park, NY. One of his nick names was the "Poughkeepsie Popper."