2007-06-11 12:43:29 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Basketball
All Celtics?........then West?...huh.???..........to qoute Rick Pitino!.."Larry Bird is not walking through those doors any time soon!!"...LMAO!..............
2007-06-11 12:50:12 · answer #1 · answered by Alpha Wolf(Bringer of Rain) 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The NBA hasn't been worth watching in a few years now. I think the playoffs are particularly annoying the way they space them out now. As a fan you could follow it a lot better when games were back to back. Now, an individual series lasts weeks. Where's the toughness of McHale limping down the court with a broken foot night after night, instead of resting for three days then playing again? Where's the interest in players or teams? Everyone is so serious and when they aren't they are looked down upong. Where are the players out there having fun? I used to be a huge basketball fan but the personalities have become so strong they've turned me off of the game. The NBA chose to market the stars instead of the teams and it's slide just continues. It's just not interesting and fans and viewers are speaking loudly. Golf tourneys are beating NBA playoffs. Ouch. Found this interesting regarding ratings http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Basketball_Association_Nielsen_ratings
2007-06-11 12:56:35 · answer #2 · answered by Windsurf77 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
LOL, santosh23.... "athletic" guys like Lebron, Carmello, Iverson et al get the holy crap kicked out of them by a bunch of white Europeans every time they play an international tournament, because the European teams are still playing the way we taught them back in the 50s and 60s... Now we send over all these great athletes who don't even know how to defend a simple little pick and roll...or a back door play...and they get shellacked....
A bronze medal in the 2004 Olympics? A bronze medal in the 2006 World Championships? That's flat out embarrassing!! Those guys should be shot for impersonating U.S.A. basketball players.... The U.S. doesn't have anyone who knows how to play basketball anymore!
And don't give me any of that crap about how these other teams have played together more than our guys... for 50 years of Olympic history, that didn't matter.... we'd throw a bunch of college players together, and they'd win by 30 or 40 points per game against well-practiced professional championship teams from all these other countries.
The 92 Dream Team, other than Stockton/Malone and Pippen/Jordan, didn't have anyone who played together for any length of time, and we had a couple of guys come out of retirement to play on that team...they still won by 45 points per game. That was just 15 years ago... we're getting worse, not better.
Kevin Garnett would foul out in 6 minutes trying to defend Kevin McHale... Garnett can't even make the playoffs in a league full of high school players!
Oden and Durrant will be among the next set of superstars to embarrass the U.S. with a bronze medal as soon as they're able to represent this country... that is, if they even win a medal at all.
2007-06-11 15:30:36 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, but the Egyptian Pharaohs would have routed any team of the 70's.
Get off the "those were the good old day's" kick. Any great championship team of any era would hold their own against the others.
In my opinion, it is not "fundamentals" that is lacking. What is not there so much anymore is "work ethic". European players are obviously very grateful for being in the NBA and play for the good of the team. It is no coincidence that the Spurs are made up of 5 key players raised outside of the US. Heck, I'm old enough to have seen the difference in the service at MacDonald's 30 years ago as compared to today.
We complain about fundamentals out of one side of our face, and then we insist on idolizing every egomaniac that can dunk the ball with no one in their face, while forgetting that they play with 4 teammates.
2007-06-11 13:28:02 · answer #4 · answered by Via_Crucis 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Young Un's, 85 to 91 IS NOT AN NBA SCORE! Maybe a good college game but THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE THE NBA!!!
It's not about the "Old Guys" coming back. It's about the "Young Guys" laying off of the "Hippie Lettuce", maintaining tradition and listening to someone that can tell them how to play basketball that is worth watching. They are ruining a tradition that took YEARS to re-establish because there were too many drunks and cocaine addicts in the league in the 1970's. Now there a bunch of Chronic Smoking, Skeezer Chasing, Bling Out G-UNOT wanna-be's with a bunch of tattoos. Guess what, tattoos don't score points or defend. BASKETBALL PLAYERS DO!
I would LOVE to see Kevin McHale THOROUGHLY ABUSE today's players with a plethora of head fakes and jump hooks. I HATED KEVIN, but it would be SO SWEET FOR YOU YOUNG PEOPLE TO SEE YOUR "HEROES" THRASHED like the college boys they are.
Larry Bird's Celtics WOULD OWN THE NBA!
Michael Jordan's Bulls WOULD OWN THE NBA!
Isiah Thomas' Pistons WOULD OWN THE NBA!
MAGIC JOHNSON'S LAKERS WOULD SO THOROUGHLY HAVE HUMILIATED EVERYONE THEY PLAYED THIS SEASON THEY MIGHT ACTUALLY FORFEIT THE NEXT SO THE OTHER TEAMS COULD CATCH UP!!!
All those teams would have been falling on the floor laughing at the plethora of IGNORANT 3 POINTERS that go up today! Those shots SUCK and today's teams would get real tired of getting treated like the Cavs did against the Spurs in the first half of Sunday's game. That is EXACTLY what it every game would look like if today's teams had to play against the old teams. The Spurs aren't "special", they just play basketball like real basketball players and not a bunch of Winos that are trying to make SportsCenter so they can watch themselves like some video game the next day on T.V.!
Old Goodbers... HA! That is a GOOD ONE! The mid 80's Denver Nuggets would have AVERAGED 135 points per game last season WITHOUT shooting threes as opposed to the 114.8 per game they averaged in 1985-86, LMBAO! ! ! ! ! !
It stands to reason that American players will finally clue in that foreigners are kicking their collective behinds based on fundamentals and come around.
That, plus they will get tired of losing to LeBron and try to become great basketball players as opposed to just being freakishly athletic guys that dribble real fancy and shoot (miserable, gutless threes).
God, please expedite the day. The NBA AIN'T FANTASTIC!
2007-06-11 12:49:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sure. Lebron, Carmelo, Wade, Durant, Oden, Bosh and OJ Mayo (coming in 08) are ushering in a new age of exciting basketball. Besides the NBA will soon come to its senses and realign the playoffs so that the best 16 teams are playing without reguards to the f*ucking conferences. Besides the basketball that is being played today is way more exciting then that boring crap you are talking about. Were you even alive when West and Pistol Pete were playing? If you want to watch boring basketball just tune into the Finals on ABC.
2007-06-11 12:50:27 · answer #6 · answered by Paul A 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Let's look at your list of old-time players here:
Larry Bird - president of basketball operations (and former head coach) for Indiana Pacers
Pete Maravich - dead
Dennis Johnson - died fairly recently
Michael Jordan - part-owner of Charlotte Bobcats
Jerry West - recently fired from Memphis Grizzlies
2007-06-11 13:49:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your right. Im not from back in the day but I watch games that they play on Espn Classic back from the 80s and early 90s and the games from now dont even compare to those games. Back when Magic, Jordan, Bird, Thomas etc...
Im not saying that games from now are not good but there not great like they used to be.
2007-06-11 13:19:23 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Its watchable now, but the problem is that instead of letting the players be who they are we compare them to greats of the past. We let Michael develop into Michael, Magic develop into Magic, and Larry into Larry but we aren't letting these players develop into the great players they'll become. We need to stop trying to make these people the the nx whoever and let them be the 1st themselves
2007-06-11 15:15:12 · answer #9 · answered by mdsuperstar1984 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ok you must be REALLY REALLY OLD.... I think JOrdan, Kobe, Shaq, KG, Tmac, Carter are more entertaining that those old goobers.. Im not talking about Bird but when michael came to the league he schooled that white boy... I bet if those players played against todays players.. except for Jordan they would get schooled.. Exceptions to Jerry West and Michael JOrdan.... MCHALE would get his shyte swatted like a fly by KG and KG would posterize him everytime.
2007-06-11 12:49:09 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
The NBA is worth watching now. If you don't like what you see, maybe you should consider changing sports.
2007-06-11 13:05:18 · answer #11 · answered by Ray 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋