I'll agree with you on that. College basketball is boring to me. But NBA players are professionals and are paid millions for their skills. You have much more structure to the offense and defense. NBA ball is by FAR, IMO, the ultimate team sport. You must play both offense and defense as a team to win, which requires more chemistry than other sports. I don't think the average NBA fan even realizes how many set plays are actually run. Well unless you're the Nets, then you have what your describe as college basketball which is accurate.
cuz I'm too lazy to formulate my own opinons now, i'm quoting everyone else... Can say that hockey has its present stature BECAUSE of it being homogenized white, that adding other races would make it suffer more. Or, having other races in it would boost its appeal. I think if 75% of hockey was NON-white, its position would LOWER. Of all the sports, in my opinion basketball leads in fan resentment toward players making too much money. Which is strange because there is a salary CAP in basketball. Baseball is close behind because there is no hard cap. For sure you add in all the minor league prospect Single-A, Double-A or Triple-A "prospect" guys, even rookie league, and its not even close. Everyone in baseball was just "that" close to being a "professional". Everyone was at one point better than the guy on their high school team that eventually got drafted by the Royals in the 68th round, back in the little league days.
You really can't tell any difference between college and nba basketball? The passion, the purity, the lack of egos, the teamwork, the lack of pathetic refs who overly dictate the game...college ball has an edge on all of those things on a night in night out basis. many people feel the same way about nba basketball, i.e they dont watch until the playoffs. i'm not trying to prove which is better. Sorry, but there are alot of NBA players with next to no skill and just get by because of athleticism. Also, you just over simplify it as "pass the ball around and shoot"...the nba, in that case, is "dribble the ball around and shoot".
Basketball has always been my favorite sport to play, but football is my favorite sport to watch. The games are so much more pivotal. There is more emphasis on a team functioning as a cohesive unit, especially on defense where everyone has to be on the same page or the opposition will exploit it every time. Its just the pinnacle of spectatorship, a joy to behold.
I have buddies that used to be big NBA fans, but now don't like it as much and call it the ENBA. Meaning they hate all the euro floppers and want physical play back.
Not if he looked like this: I'm sure you know that Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson weren't white guys. However, they did look like normal human beings so everyone loved them. Anyone who looks like the above pic, regardless of skin color, is going to be a harder sell.
This is true. There is some validity in that the NBA has an "image" problem more than a "diversity" problem.
There are two big differences to me. First, in the NBA most of the time the players that are just dribbling around are trying to actually make moves of some sort, unlike in college ball where it's mostly just passing back and forth around the perimeter. Second, even when NBA games get slowed down and boring, at least the shot clock is a lot shorter. I hate the 35 second clock!
Baseball and football are by far better team sports. Baseball in essence because you can't go to a go to guy. Unless it's Mariano Rivera.
You're kidding, right? Baseball isn't the most individual? The St. Louis Cardinals should be winning the world series every single year with Albert Pujols. But you pitch around him and watch them lose. Then, when you trade a player in baseball, he goes right back to doing exactly the same thing he was doing before. He doesn't have to learn new plays or new strategy. Hell, he doesn't even have to speak the same language. He just goes out hits, pitches, and plays defense the same as before. In football, you either play offense or you play defense. I don't think there any any players who do both, but I could be wrong. If there are any, they're few and far between. In basketball, you have to play both offense and defense, and do both well to be successful. The bench is basketball is more important that any other sport. Well maybe baseball with relief pitching.
Not kidding at all. In baseball you're one of 9 hitters. One of a 5 man rotation. One of the guys in the bullpen. Or one of 8 fielders. Those are a bunch of tiny individual performances that are strung together to form a team effort (except fielding, which can sometimes be a team effort). The individual impact of a player in baseball is not nearly as much as in basketball, where there are fewer players and each player plays in all elements of the game. And football, well, that is the most team oriented sport there is, where unlike basketball, a player cannot hardly achieve anything without the help of a teammate, of which there are more than any other sport. Sure in basketball chemistry is important, but the individual performances impact the game much more than any other sport. Example: Put Peyton Manning on the Lions... Lions still don't go anywhere. Put Albert Pujols on the Royals... Royals still don't go anywhere. Put LeBron James on the Nets... Playoffs baby! (Well, maybe not the Nets but look at Yao's absence making the Rockets a lottery team...)
Good teams are paid for in baseball the overwhelming majority of the time. Look at each teams payroll and their final position in the standings. Its no coincidence that year after year the teams with have the highest payrolls finish higher. One exception is the Mets, but they lost Reyes, Delgado, and Wright for significant time. Sometimes moneyball pays off like the Devil Rays run a couple years ago. But didn't they finish below .500 the next year with essentially the same players? There doesn't even need to be great chemistry in baseball, with the exception of pitcher and catcher. Its conceivable to create a team where the players never communicated with anyone except the manager/coaches (and calling for fly balls to prevent collisions) and still win.
Okay, well take Peyton Manning away from the Colts. Are they in the Super Bowl? Is that not similar to the Rockets losing Yao?
No, but they're still a good team, and definitely make the playoffs with an average QB. And we all know that the Quarterback is the most important position football, too.