The best players in the world but the product sucks.
The NBA is Boring!
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I guess this is the explanation.
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Just have an east vs west or even captain's who pick. This is just unnecessary.
The new NBA All-Star format is here, and Sunday night will show whether it works
This will be an actual All-Star matchup. On one side, there’s a team with 86 combined All-Star selections, $2.7 billion in on-court earnings and where every single player on the team is either an NBA champion, an Olympic gold medalist, or both.
Just have an east vs west or even captain's who pick. This is just unnecessary.
Why can't "more talented" athletes [which you refer to as machines] play the same number of games & remain as healthy as those of yesteryear? Why shorten the season then?
Shortening the season has more to do with making individual regular season games matter more than player health, I think. The people complaining about stars sitting are overreacting and probably haven’t seen a game in a decade — the league has cracked down on that practice so it doesn’t happen as much as it maybe used to.
I think getting rid of the corner 3 is probably a necessity at this point, if not getting rid of the 3 point line entirely. With the number of possessions in an NBA game due to both the short shot clock and the speed of players, and how good shooting has gotten, rolling the dice on a 3 point shot makes more sense than a lot of other plays. On average most teams will shoot better than 33%, and that’s all you need to make it worth it.
If you want less focus on distance shooting, you either need to make it worth fewer points, make it harder to earn, or reduce the number of possessions in a game so that the shot choice matters more. Maybe that’s part of the reason the commissioner suggested shortening quarters to 10 minutes from 12.
The bulls are in the playoff playin if the season ended today. Far from the worst in the league.
All I’m saying is you don’t change something unless there is a problem, and the NBA doesn’t consider it a problem unless it will affect their bottom line.
Why can’t pitchers throw complete games every start in baseball anymore. Why are there more injuries in football nowadays versus the 1970s despite more rules to protect players.
That said, there are some very soft NBA players. I’ll agree with that.
And as has already been mentioned, reducing the number games increases the importance and intensity of each game. Injury prevention would be a secondary reason
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I really like hockey too, but I disagree with this. And if you think the NBA has a ratings problem, don’t look at the NHL’s.
NHL is like the NBA where the sport ramps up its intensity big time when the playoffs start.
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I agree completely with you offensively but I like watching guys play tough intense defense too which you definitely do not get in the NBA. I also just don't like the atmosphere during NBA games, music/noise playing during the game, can't hear the crowd at all etc.
All of this is about regular season games fwiw, I'll flip on playoff games and be perfectly entertained on a may/June evening when there's nothing else on besides baseball.
I didn't say anything whatsoever about ratings. Idc about ratings.
I love the EPL & the World Cup, but it's not just because of ratings (even though it's ratings are WAY higher than NFL or any sport the USA produces.)
Regular season NBA is boring to watch. Regular season NHL isn't (imo). Despite both playing the same amount of games.
I agree with you both NHL & NBA ramp up in the playoffs.
I used to be that way but I watched more NFL this year because of Big Ten and SEC becoming pure evil trying to destroy Iowa State and I actually liked it.
I didn’t really watch the Super Bowl because I had been pulling for Bills and Detroit but I liked the rest of the playoffs a lot.
I was never an NFL fan mostly because I just can’t devote entire weekend to football. Now that most major network college football is a product dedicated to destroying ISU, I’ll only watch ISU and a couple nfl games where two years ago I’d watch 3-4 college games and 0 NFL games other than maybe tuning in if a Cuclone had a big game.
The defense in playoff games is better than NCAA. If Houston had proper officiating that wasn’t peeing their pants afraid of Sampson they couldn’t play like that.
In the regular season guys need to at least be competent defensively unless they’re an elite scorer. Georges became a much better defender in his first few years in the nba.
NBA got rid of flopping pretty quickly. They also got rid of the offensive player kicking out the leg to draw a foul better than ncaa did. There are some major advantages to officiating 32 teams vs 370.
"I don't watch the NBA - but now let me tell you all about the league's problems since I'm such an expert."
You wouldn’t know it by his ISU days, but Haliburton shoots the three so much better than any player who ever played at Hilton including opponents. When you factor in range and difficulty, it’s nuts. If he’s open with time it’s a layup. Georges isn’t quite that insane but also way better than he was in college which is why he’s gonna be a 10 year vet.
