Medwayseagull
JCB
The loss of 4 inches in some circumstances would be devastating.
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[Other Sport] NBA - oh god no...
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The loss of 4 inches in some circumstances would be devastating.
Incredible that it's taken as long as this for such a post to arrive.
SpongebobSquarepants
Well-known member
True - imaging losing a quarter of your manhood!
Gilliver's Travels
Peripatetic
NFL, NBA, World Series... Who cares? Just another welcome excuse for us to sneer at those insular, simpleton Americans.
How come no-one's mentioned stoolball? Now that does sound like a seriously shit game.
How come no-one's mentioned stoolball? Now that does sound like a seriously shit game.
I'm not able to double check, but I believe the ball is in play, in a 3 hour game of baseball for 10 minutes.
Still I'd take any sport over F1.
Basketball highlights are pretty good, I'm not sure I'm up for 1 full game let alone a full season
Still I'd take any sport over F1.
Basketball highlights are pretty good, I'm not sure I'm up for 1 full game let alone a full season
Garry Nelson's Left Foot
Well-known member
I'm with Easy, Basketball is a shit sport. Incredibly tedious and, ironically given the amount of points, pointless. Genuinely hate the game. It's one of the very few sports that is both boring to watch and to play. It used to piss me off no end at school when the P.E teacher would say it was Basketball term. Why? There's a perfectly good field outside that can be used for any number of much better, more fun sports.
That said I was tricked into going to a 'street' basketball tournament a few years ago. That was bearable as it was 3 v 3, the games only lasted 5 minutes so the points actually meant something,it was all played within the three point line and the players got to do some harlem globe trotter type moves.
But basically it's a shit sport that shames the name of sport. It needs to **** off.
That said I was tricked into going to a 'street' basketball tournament a few years ago. That was bearable as it was 3 v 3, the games only lasted 5 minutes so the points actually meant something,it was all played within the three point line and the players got to do some harlem globe trotter type moves.
But basically it's a shit sport that shames the name of sport. It needs to **** off.
B-right-on
Living the dream
Medwayseagull
JCB
My pleasure.
You forgot to mention how Sky will no doubt want to hike up there prices further for the privileged. I tried to watch one Albion game recently - but not possible, they could only sell me a one month subscription at £18. I had zero interest or time to watch anything else. I think that was just the Prem channel too.
brakespear
Doctor Worm
Never had a Sky subscription (apart from the odd Now TV one day pass and Sky Sports Mix free with Virgin for Red Zone)so will remain unaffected by this with any luck. Never really found NBA that interesting personally but it's just another one that isn't for me I guess, along with either code of rugby, tennis, nearly all athletics, horseharming and others.
TSB
Captain Hindsight
Basketball is decent.
Even if it is 36 minutes too long.
Even if it is 36 minutes too long.
maffew
Well-known member
The arcade nba jam was a 90s classic, brilliant.
I think that's NFL where it's only in play for about 10 minutes. In basketball, the ball is in play for pretty much the whole 48 minutes, which does take about 3 hours. Mainly because splitting it into 4 quarters apparently isn't enough, they have to also feature the worst concept in all North American sports: the timeout. They train for hours every day (I assume they just luzz the ball in the basket), have team talks at each break, but they still need to stop the clock with 3 seconds to play so the coach can tell them "you need to get the ball in the basket". Terrible sport.
Even NBC have cottoned on to the fact basketball is tedious nonsense, by introducing a subscription where you can just pay to watch the 4th quarter. They should take it one step further and let you subscribe to the last 5 seconds.
Sussexscots
3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 3, 3, 3, 3 ,3 ,3 3 coach chuggers
This may be the nail in the coffin of my Sky Sports subscription. Prem Rugby already gone to BT, Cricket gradually being leached away..
There's already an alarmingly wearisome amount of Golf on Sky and now Basketball which, over the next few weeks, Sky will be assiduously pretending is REALLY, REALLY exciting and nuanced rather than just tall people taking it in turns to score.....about as welcome as a replacement bus service.
There's already an alarmingly wearisome amount of Golf on Sky and now Basketball which, over the next few weeks, Sky will be assiduously pretending is REALLY, REALLY exciting and nuanced rather than just tall people taking it in turns to score.....about as welcome as a replacement bus service.
Indeed. Ever since humans arrived on this planet in order to amuse ourselves we've thrown things, kicked things and hit things with sticks. To say that one particular form of throwing, kicking or hitting with a stick is intrinsically 'better' than any other is rubbish. 'Each to their own' as you say. I too think basketball is incredibly boring and I wish the contract had gone to Eurosport with all the other shit stuff (celebrity log-rolling or whatever), but the job of a sports channel is to show sports, and the NBA is the top netball league so I'll have to lump it.
Who knows? some people might even like it. I thought American football was THE most stupid sport on the planet until Channel 4 started showing it in the early 80s. Now it's easily my favourite sport.
... Or maybe I won't lump it. You're quite right, Sky is slowly losing a lot of what makes it worth paying for. If they go TOO overboard with the NBA and try and claim it's an adequate replacement for cricket, RU, Champions' League, some PL games, etc then I might have to re-consider my subscription.
