The NBA is Boring!

[ClubCy]

You've defined the problem.

Eh, more slogging big men with a couple of post moves isn’t going to save the NBA.

The season is just too long and the playoffs are way too long as well. No need to start before Halloween and finish right before July 4th. There is also no need for the first round to be a 7 game series.

Scarcity dives interest, IMO. College Football is going to be teetering on that line as well as everyone could see how little interest there was towards the end of the playoff vs the beginning of it despite having bigger and better games.

 

[Rural]

Eh, more slogging big men with a couple of post moves isn’t going to save the NBA.

The season is just too long and the playoffs are way too long as well. No need to start before Halloween and finish right before July 4th. There is also no need for the first round to be a 7 game series.

Scarcity dives interest, IMO. College Football is going to be teetering on that line as well as everyone could see how little interest there was towards the end of the playoff vs the beginning of it despite having bigger and better games.

It wasn’t the point about big men, it’s definitely the everyone casts up threes part.

The game isn’t the same as it was for a majority of its history.

It just makes the game look lazy and it’s a real problem.

 

[Cyinthenorth]

Eh, more slogging big men with a couple of post moves isn’t going to save the NBA.

The season is just too long and the playoffs are way too long as well. No need to start before Halloween and finish right before July 4th. There is also no need for the first round to be a 7 game series.

Scarcity dives interest, IMO. College Football is going to be teetering on that line as well as everyone could see how little interest there was towards the end of the playoff vs the beginning of it despite having bigger and better games.

I am all for shortening the regular season. I'd be fine if it didn't start until Christmas day. All for doing a best of 5 in the first round again like they used to too

 

[2speedy1]

I went to a Timberwolves game this year. It was probably the most boring thing I have watched in a LOOOONG time. Wont be doing that again. I have tried to watch on TV a few times over recent years. And woof, its just not even fun to watch. I have no dog in the fight whatsoever so I just have no interest in any team, and the way the game is played now just makes it worse.

That being said I prefer College in most if not all sports, and always have. But those in control of College sports are doing their best to ruin that too.

 

[AllInForISU]

It's funny because I can't pinpoint exactly what happened, but my jumping off point seems to line up with others. I'd watch alot of NBA up until about 2 years ago. This year, I don't think I've watched more than 5 minutes of basketball. I couldn't tell you who is good, who isn't good, etc. I'll watch some playoffs, but I'll gladly watch about any other sporting event over an NBA game.

I think part of the problem is the old stars are fading away, and the new stars are on teams I don't really care about. Harden, Durant, Kawai, etc. are all after thoughts. Steph is stuck on a bad GSW team. Lebron is about the only one doing anything of significance. Wemby is stuck on a ****** team in San Antonio. SGA is obviously great but boring. Luka can't seem to stay on the floor. Ant is about the only real draw for me right now.

I don't subscribe to the "no defense" theory. I think they are trying to guard. I just think the rules and the talent of the players makes it such that it's damn near impossible to get a defensive stop. And that just makes for a bad product, to me at least.

Pretty much the best players right now are foreign. We don’t see them play college so there is not really an attachment to them, which I think is a big reason a lot of people aren’t tuning in like they used to. AAU ball has absolutely killed the potential American basketball stars. Fundamentally, young players from overseas wipe the floor with the young Americans, and quite frankly, it’s embarrassing.

The NBA players want US vs World, but I don’t think that would be particularly close to be honest. The only good thing is that it might put it into perspective though how far the US has fallen.

Sure we dominate in the Olympics, and no one country is better than the US, but we should with 360 million people and the fact we had a huge head start.

 

[ClonerJams]

I will agree the regular season is too long, but man you're missing out on some great players if you're not watching. Starting with the Joker

 

[KnappShack]

I am all for shortening the regular season. I'd be fine if it didn't start until Christmas day. All for doing a best of 5 in the first round again like they used to too

One of the best NHL seasons was a short one because of a lockout or strike.

They played a 1/2 schedule and only within conference.

Each game was more meaningful and the players could leave it on the ice

The NBA has been dog poo for a long long time

 

[BigLame]

"To all fans defending the NBA, thank you for taking the heat off us for a while"

- soccer fans

Funny you mention this. After the influx of European players, more flopping began, much like what soccer players do to draw calls made in their favor. Manu Ginobuli comes to mind. But as Draymond alluded to, the stars got a lot of calls back in the day, and later in his career MJ received so many of those it was difficult to stomach.

The level of travels not called has reached an insane level, along with the hop steps & Euro-steps. Majority should be travels, but the powers that be allowed it for far too long. Same can be said in the college game, but it seems magnified for the NBA.

Last, I preferred the 80s, where a player could dish out full-fledged punches & have a bench clearing brawl (1986 Celtics-Rockets Finals with Ralph Sampson & Jerry Sichting), and not 1 player get suspended for the next game. Ah, the good ol' days.

Now get off my lawn...

 

[3TrueFans]

PK Subban dropping some truth bombs about the NBA

 

[Rural]

NBA on pace (and expected to hold) to be the first season ever where 49% of the scoring will come from 2 point shots.

Nightmare scenario, millionaires hoisting up sh!t is the game.