Was just curious how many of you actually follow the NBA, or just watch it.
If you do post your fav team :P
I have like a few
Toronto Raptors, Denver Nuggets, Boston Celtics, and the Suns :)
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Was just curious how many of you actually follow the NBA, or just watch it.
If you do post your fav team :P
I have like a few
Toronto Raptors, Denver Nuggets, Boston Celtics, and the Suns :)
I was at a Knicks game a couple years ago and it was so boring lol
Tbh i find basketball one of the more fun sports to watch.
This will probably anger alot of people but soccer (american soccer) i find really boring cuz i mean they only score a few goals a game same with hockey but in basketball its always fast paced.
just my opinion although everyones is different :P
That's what I like about football compared to other sports; the scores are usually very close rather than it going to like 30-12. The latter of which imo is just boring
You can never compare the feeling of a goal that has come in the last minute of extra time to win you a tight, but previously goal-less final after all the tension in you was building for 90 minutes to a hoop in basketball. Football has less goals, yes, but each one of them means so much more.
That is true, although its just boring well for me atleast. I mean when they score that goal it would be really exciting but the last 90 minutes seems like a waste of going back and forth.
Anyways i dont really care lmao i was just wondering what peoples fav teams were if they watched :P
Mon the Celtics like!
Uh, yeah, just look at my signature LOL
Basketball is fast paced (due to the 24-second shot clock) and generally why I prefer watching it over football. In basketball, the momentum can just switch so quickly from one team to another that even a 20-point deficit can mean nothing in the end. I remember when the Lakers came back from 20 points down at then end of the first quarter to win game 4 against the Sacramento Kings in the Western Conference Finals.
Sorry for the bad quality, but here you go.
Another epic moment (better than the goal in "last minute of extra time to win you a tight, but previously goal-less final" in football) from basketball was when Derek Fisher hit a shot with 0.4s left in the game to win it for the Lakers over Spurs. If you don't feel like watching everything, just watch the first 11 seconds, then skip to 1:42 here.
Last epic moment, again from the Lakers, is Kobe Bryant's two buzzer-beating three's, one in regulation to tie and another in 2OT to win the game against Portland: here.
Basketball really rarely gets boring with all the killer crossovers, alley-oop action, big time rejections and circus shots. In football, though, passing can be the name of the game and it just gets really boring. Oh and one more thing that puts basketball over football, the cheerleaders :D
Those are some amazing clips :) I'm not gonna argue about which sport has the better build-up with more epic moments because football is more important to me as basketball is more important to you so we will never agree. I doubt I will ever see a more mesmerising sporting event than the Champions League final of 2005. Of course that's biased but I've never heard anyone deny how awesome that was - regardless of what football team they support. The speed of basketball is reduced for me with all the time outs and breaks, I just find it really frustrating to watch like that even though as you've pointed out, it does have its epic moments as do all sports.
Anyway, in that second Lakers clip, why do they all run into the dressing room before they find out whether it is going to be given or not?!
Yeah, we're never going to agree. There's no point in an "argument" for this. Of course, the timeouts during the course of the game and occasional extended free throw shooting time (mostly by Tim Duncan) does make it frustrating at times for me as well, but it's part of the game and doesn't really happen in most games. I guess another thing that kinda puts basketball ahead of football is that the timezones make the "big games", namely Champions League finals and night games in Europe all like, 3 AM or 4 AM over here when I'm asleep.
I'm not so sure about why the run to the lockers, but I'm guessing it's because it was the playoffs and the rivalry between San Antonio and the Lakers is just quite big and they don't want to hear it from the fans in San Antonio if the refs disallowed it.
Oh haha yeah makes sense. Basketball is the same btw; it's only on our TVs in the middle of the night too :P
Oh right yeah, 'cause games are all night time Eastern except the Sunday afternoon ones lol.
Basketball is boring but I like to see the Bulls do well.
Yeah, I support the Nuggets.
Yeah no point in arguing cuz everyone is different:P
but yeah bulls are alright and ye i like the nuggets :)
I remember playing NBA on the gameboy (original gameboy) as the bulls with scotty pippen, michael jordon and some other guy.Quote:
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I enjoy watching some of the dunks they do, because the hangtime is insane.
I like the NBA games? :P
One thing I don't like about the NBA is that it hypes LeBron up too much. He's known for his chase-down blocks and they get on the Daily Top Ten every time he does it, but when someone else does it to him, they never show it.
same, 2k8 and 2k10 are pretty good :)Quote:
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I cant see an NBA game being fun for gameboyQuote:
Originally Posted by Blinger
its true they do hype him up alotttttttQuote:
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I like Utah Jazz for no particular reason.
back in the day it was good.Quote:
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NBA Jam was always fun.
That game, was it called Space Jam (?) that was good
Yeah I love NBA Basketball and yet this time last year I didn't know much at all about it. I still don't understand all the rules fully but I'm learning all the time.
I support Orlando Magic
I can help you out with understanding the rules if you want. I'm insane over the NBA...
Space Jam was a movie.Quote:
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it was also a class game.
i always get confused how many steps can you take? when going for a lay up or w/e Isn't it 3?Quote:
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yeah there are alot of rules :PQuote:
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I see you've been watching too many LeBron highlights. The actual number of steps allowed is "two and a half". Sounds ridiculous, yeah? The "half" step is when you jump, catch the ball in midair and then land. You are allowed another two steps after landing. In FIBA (International competitions), though, you are just allowed two steps.Quote:
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LeBron always gets away with travels and is surely no role model for those learning to play the game =)
I follow Rockets and play at school and out and about.
Buzzer beaters are just as good.Quote:
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Oh, to make it 70 - 57? The tighter the margin, the more pressure. Look how many times football fans rue late goals, a bad decision, because 1 marginal minute can shape the match and who wins the cup for example. More underdogs can win in football than in a game with high margins such as Basketball or Rugby.Quote:
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Didn't you see the buzzer beaters I posted? The "bad decisions" in football are overwhelmingly high. Some of the time, the ball is past the white line but the goalkeeper "saves" it back out and none of the referees actually see it. Basketball is made so much fairer in this sense 'cause they actually use replays.Quote:
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And like I said, the momentum in basketball can shift so quickly that a large margin can mean absolutely nothing within 2 minutes.
I agree in a way. Every 2 point basket in basketball equates to what approximately about 2% of your teams scoring.Quote:
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But when you get into the last quarter or so in tight games, every bucket tends to have quite a lot of meaning and I think Callum was referring to buzzer beaters at the end of the 4th quarter which can win or lose a game. Literally half a second can win or lose a game at times.
I wouldn't have football any other way! If I went into the pub and said "yeah, everything was fine" what the hell would I talk about the rest of the night? :P And yes, but those are incomparable to all the times worldwide that football matches have been won in the last minute. And that's because the margins are smaller! But your final point can be applied to any sport. Liverpool in the Champions League final? I can't see a basketball match getting drawn back from 60 - 0 to 60 - 60. But you get that in football.Quote:
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I don't see a basketball match going 60-0 to begin with.Quote:
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Miami Heat all the way ;) dwayne wade mvp matee not lebron, lebron sucks, kobe bryant is aalight but dwayne wade is a rising young star
Theoretical of course.Quote:
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28's not young! He's 3 years older than LeBron.Quote:
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I'd say Kevin Durant or Derrick Rose are the rising young stars of the NBA right now.
Durant is a rising star aswell tbh
Dwyane Wade is so rubbish this season.