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Playmaker [389]
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NBA is unwatchable
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Feb 23, 2025, 2:44 PM
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Just turned it to NBA and watched 10 total possessions. 9 of them were 3 point attempts with virtually no offensive plays. Of the 9 attempts 6 were bricks.
The sport has turned into a 3pt chucking competition
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Dynasty Maker [3511]
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Re: NBA is unwatchable
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Feb 23, 2025, 2:59 PM
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And everyone on every team thinks they can and is allowed to shoot the three. If you 7 footer is shooting threes there is no one to rebound but I guess that doesn’t matter.
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Mascot [26]
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Re: NBA is unwatchable
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Feb 23, 2025, 3:01 PM
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Agreed
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Tiger Spirit [9513]
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You're exactly right........
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Feb 23, 2025, 3:02 PM
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The NBA is nothing but street basketball. No discipline.
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Ring of Honor [23996]
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Re: You're exactly right........
Feb 23, 2025, 3:40 PM
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Until the playoffs.
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Re: NBA is unwatchable
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Feb 23, 2025, 3:19 PM
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I have not watched an NBA game in eight years. Even MLB has turned into a home run hitting contest. I guess the thinking is let's do as little as possible to make as much $$$ as possible. That's what made the NHL's Four Nations games so compelling. The players on these teams actually wanted to win badly. Just don't see this in so many other games.
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Paw Warrior [4830]
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Re: NBA is unwatchable
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Feb 23, 2025, 3:27 PM
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I quit watching when Larry Bird retired.
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Re: NBA is unwatchable
Feb 23, 2025, 3:31 PM
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What? Over 30 years ago.
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Top TigerNet [29687]
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that's just choosing not to watch
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Feb 23, 2025, 4:04 PM
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because the NBA has undergone many changes in style since then
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Ring of Honor [23996]
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Re: NBA is unwatchable
Feb 23, 2025, 4:21 PM
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Kobe and Shaq were interesting.
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Paw Warrior [4651]
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Re: NBA is unwatchable
Feb 23, 2025, 10:17 PM
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I quit watching when Larry Bird retired.
Yep. Me too! Last watched a full NBA game in 1992!
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Top TigerNet [29284]
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Re: NBA is unwatchable
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Feb 23, 2025, 4:51 PM
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It’s been unwatchable for over 20+ years.🤣
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Top TigerNet [31772]
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Re: NBA is unwatchable
Feb 23, 2025, 4:53 PM
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Just turned it to NBA and watched 10 total possessions. 9 of them were 3 point attempts with virtually no offensive plays. Of the 9 attempts 6 were bricks.
The sport has turned into a 3pt chucking competition
Why I stopped watching years ago....
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Starter [253]
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Re: NBA is unwatchable
Feb 23, 2025, 5:37 PM
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You can thank Golden State for that bs. Everyone thought they could be the splash brothers, unfortunately they are not.
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Orange Phenom [14548]
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The most efficient shots in basketball are
Feb 24, 2025, 11:41 AM
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layups/dunks and 3 pointers. That's why most offenses are now built around floor spacing. That opens up the lane for drives to the basket and then if the defense brings help there's generally somebody left open for 3.
The league-wide 3pt % is around 36% which is pretty darn good. It's definitely not a brick-fest.
Now I will admit that the style of some of the offenses don't make for the best viewing experience. I always thought the Warriors were very entertaining whereas Houston with James Harden was generally terrible to watch - albeit very effective.
And not every single offense is built that way. The Nuggets running their offense through an extremely skilled 7ft center is quite different than running an offense through players like LeBron and Harden that just wanted to iso drive every trip down the floor.
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Orange Beast [6153]
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Re: NBA is unwatchable
Feb 23, 2025, 5:51 PM
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Haven’t watched it in 20+ years
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Game Changer [1732]
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Re: NBA is unwatchable
Feb 23, 2025, 5:53 PM
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I watched a few minutes at a restaurant the other night and agree but for the opposite reason. Every play was a dunk with little to no defense
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Re: NBA is unwatchable
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Feb 23, 2025, 7:11 PM
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I stopped watching years ago when referee Tim Donaghy was convicted of betting and fixing games. Additionally he conspired with other refs to show preferential treatment to some players while penalizing other with bogus calls (fouls, traveling). Once a sport gets tainted like that, the problem never really goes away.
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Orange Blooded [2206]
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Re: NBA is unwatchable
Feb 23, 2025, 7:28 PM
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You just now figuring that out?!!
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Re: NBA is unwatchable
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Feb 23, 2025, 8:03 PM
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There are no role players anymore. So boring and all the characters are gone, and I’m only 34 so I’m not just yelling at the clouds. Even from late 90s to mid 2000s it is completely unrecognizable
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Orange Phenom [14548]
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80% of the league is role players.
Feb 23, 2025, 9:08 PM
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Not sure what you mean by that.
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Associate AD [1023]
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Re: 80% of the league is role players.
Feb 24, 2025, 8:54 AM
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They are role players in reality yes, but they don’t think they are
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National Champion [7373]
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You are an old soul
Feb 23, 2025, 9:17 PM
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Feel free to yell at the clouds.
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National Champion [7816]
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Re: NBA is unwatchable
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Feb 23, 2025, 8:53 PM
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Loved Magic, MJ, Bird and that period of Basketball. Then they got into politics and I lost interest. I don't need Basketball players who have never had a job hating me because I'm not black.
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Paw Warrior [4843]
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Re: NBA is unwatchable
Feb 23, 2025, 8:58 PM
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Orange Phenom [14548]
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NBA playoffs are pretty good
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Feb 23, 2025, 9:07 PM
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You actually get maximum effort from the players and everyone is available - neither of which is always the case in the regular season.
You arent going to see many set plays at any time though - just a handful for special situations. Mostly there are just offensive concepts like pick and roll, inside-out, drive and kick, etc. These guys play with each other so much thar they just understand what to do and where to be on the floor without any need to draw it up on a whiteboard.
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Game Changer [2056]
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They're generating (literally) 5x the revenue they were when
Feb 23, 2025, 10:19 PM
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Michael Jordan retired. I assure you, you're in the minority.
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Re: They're generating (literally) 5x the revenue they were when
Feb 24, 2025, 7:07 AM
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I do not know a white person that has watched the NBA is years , come to think of it, outside of maybe the finals I don’t know a black person that does.
Which goes to prove my theory that all races are more similar than different
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Campus Hero [13861]
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I don't think he was talking about race when he said minority***
Feb 24, 2025, 12:18 PM
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Orange Blooded [2430]
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Re: NBA is unwatchable
Feb 24, 2025, 7:20 AM
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Then I suggest you don’t watch.
I spent more time replying to your post than I have watching NBA basketball in the past 20 years.
Thank you for keeping us up-to-date on what you watch on TV.
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Orange Blooded [2555]
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Re: NBA is unwatchable
Feb 24, 2025, 7:55 AM
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I watched on Christmas that's it. I keep up with the hornets not really watch, Im sure I will end up at a game when tickets drop below 15$
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and has been for years!***
Feb 24, 2025, 7:57 AM
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1st Rounder [610]
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Re: and has been for years!***
Feb 24, 2025, 8:00 AM
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When is it?
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Re: NBA is unwatchable
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Feb 24, 2025, 8:02 AM
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And that’s one of the many reasons I don’t watch it.
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Tiger Titan [50634]
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I was a huge NBA fan in the 90s.
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Feb 24, 2025, 11:07 AM
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I haven't watched an entire NBA game in over a decade.
Like you, I don't like what the game has become. Plenty of better ways to spend my time.
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Same here. Started out as a fan of the Bulls with Jordan and Pippen
Feb 24, 2025, 12:07 PM
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Became a fan of the Magic with Shaq and Penny. Just watched a documentary about the first Dream Team and it's amazing the amount of talent they had on that team.
I know I'm biased, as would be any generation, but I think that was probably the best era of basketball. It combined the old school game of Bird, Magic, Kareem with the new school of Jordan and those guys. I'd say the inside game is what I miss the most. The 3-pointer isn't as exciting when they are all shooting it now.
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Re: NBA is unwatchable
Feb 24, 2025, 11:14 AM
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I watched Hunter Tyson play a minute this weekend.
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Game Changer [1865]
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Re: NBA is unwatchable
Feb 24, 2025, 11:29 AM
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I haven't watched an NBA game in 20 years, but I like seeing Shaq and Barkley on Youtube on the NBA show. They are funny as he!!. Larry Bird was probably my favorite player. He would even tell his defender what shot he would take, then make it.
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Re: NBA is unwatchable
Feb 24, 2025, 12:02 PM
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it's been unwatchable since Bird retired (though I did try to watch the games Chucky Brown played in before he retired).
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Re: NBA is unwatchable
Feb 24, 2025, 12:09 PM
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Plus, guys like Lebron James make around 50 million per year just got basketball and not everything else. I respect people making us much as they can make, but it's hard to care when they lose. You see Higgins risking his body and grinding in the NFL and I still pull for him. Every game is so important in the NFL too and their careers can be so short. The NBA just doesn't grab me the way it used to.
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The game has just changed from what a lot of us grew up with.
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Feb 24, 2025, 12:14 PM
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It's lost almost all physicality, and very few teams play anything that resembles defense.
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Campus Hero [13861]
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There are waaaay too many games the players don't give two hoots about
Feb 24, 2025, 12:23 PM
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The game on your average Sunday night half way through the season. Conversely the Olympic tournament was awesome. The best players in the world putting forth max effort every game; it was some of the best basketball I've ever seen. If they could somehow tie results on the court to compensation maybe it would improve; but now a days it seems like earlier every name player is on a max contract irrespective of how they perform.
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