That's not true at all. My indifference towards the outcome probably had a lot to do with it. If I had any rooting interest, it was for neither to win (which obviously isn't possible). I hate the arrogance many Knicks fans showed due to a quick start this year (and last year as well), I hate the arrogance many Nets fans have shown this early in the year because the team isn't a joke for once. I've had many arguments with fans of each team about their teams (I'm not necessarily on a negative side either in these cases) and they are so thick-headed and oblivious that I can't root for either. When they're playing each other, I just get too annoyed by the whole thing and want nothing to do with it. It's similar to the feeling I get as a Mets fan watching Yankees/Phillies, even if its competitive or a big stakes game. I'm not saying there was no "excitement" to the game. There was just no personal excitement for me. I didn't get into it. I was largely indifferent and just didn't care about that specific game while watching it. I didn't even watch the whole thing because of it. The first half didn't grab me, I moved on.
Well the first step is finding a team to root for then. The only sport I can watch without any loyalty to a team is hockey, and even then I'm likely pulling for one or the other.
I don't see the Net fans being thickheaded, but then again I only know like 3 fellow Net fans. The Knick fans though, holy crap. ESPN NY was literally talking about what to do in the playoffs with Stat and Melo... after the 4th game.
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What do you mean, putting the kibosh on Chris Paul to the Lakers is perfectly legitimate
Google Ewing Draft Lottery if you want to see some real shady stuff.
I think its a joke if the Spurs get Sanctioned. They did nothing wrong other then rest old players. Not like they are tanking or anything. They kept it competitive as well
Popovich has done this many times in the past. And I'm pretty sure he's coached 4 champions and has gotten to the playoffs every year since Duncan. He knows what he's doing.
If the reason behind them issuing sanctions is for the fans, it's a joke considering it's Miami. 75% of that arena is empty until midway through the 2nd quarter. Fans literally don't get there in time. It's a Cuban stereotype but they're always fashionably late. A few years ago the Heat would drape T-shirts on the first few rows of seats to make the stadium appear full on TV.
I read the title of this thread, and immediately remembered the "farewell to the Nets" thread we had a few months ago.
It's a shame that the NBA is such a massive **** show, though. I actually like basketball.
I like basketball, I hate the egos however. NBA doesn't even feel like a team sport, just an All-star or two that a coach surrounds with warm bodies for him to make plays off of
I don't like basketball. I don't even really like football that much, and I really can't sit through a baseball game anymore. I actually prefer NASCAR to all those, and their season just ended.
NBA is last ranked league imo but I still watch it occasionally. I've watched about 2 Nets games. I want to check out the Barclays Center real bad. School has been killing me this semester.
I like basketball, I hate the egos however. NBA doesn't even feel like a team sport, just an All-star or two that a coach surrounds with warm bodies for him to make plays off of
true but there are exceptions to the rule. This nets team is pretty unselfish. Spurs are always good to watch. Mavericks and warriors too.
Bear with me cause this will be hard to describe, but this is an analogy I can think of. Basketball to me is like a scene in a movie, and I can't think of one off the top of my head, but for instance when a guy has to go on a date with a not so attractive girl, because the attractive girl wouldn't go out with him. He's taking her out, and during the whole scene he's just very uncomfortable to be there, and has that look on his face that you can tell he's uninterested in being there.
pretty much describes jonah hills character in get him to the greek and jason segels character in forgetting sarah marshall with every girl he gets with before mila kunis
I read the title of this thread, and immediately remembered the "farewell to the Nets" thread we had a few months ago.
It's a shame that the NBA is such a massive **** show, though. I actually like basketball.
The problem with the NBA is two-fold, one the fact that very few teams can ever win a championship going into a season. Something like nine teams have won titles in the last thirty years, and most in major markets like Chicago, Boston, LA, Miami, Philly way back when they were still relevant. San Antonio's one of the exceptions to that rule, they're like the Devils of that league. And you generally know going into a season who the best teams are going to be, and it plays out that way.
The other problem is the games themselves - it's back and forth which can be entertaining but predictable at the same time. Generally it's a five-point game either way in the last two minutes then it becomes a thirty-minute foul-shooting contest and timeout show after that.
Well the first step is finding a team to root for then. The only sport I can watch without any loyalty to a team is hockey, and even then I'm likely pulling for one or the other.
I don't see the Net fans being thickheaded, but then again I only know like 3 fellow Net fans. The Knick fans though, holy crap. ESPN NY was literally talking about what to do in the playoffs with Stat and Melo... after the 4th game.
Google Ewing Draft Lottery if you want to see some real shady stuff.
Past the point of finding a team to root for. I'm not "new" to the NBA in any way. Been watching my entire life, rather well versed in any of the franchises, and the players of today and the past in all of these organizations. Nothing new to me, so if it hasn't clicked by now, it won't. I was a major Nets fan for most of my life. Once Ratner bought the team and started with the "we're going to move to Brooklyn" bit (years before a shovel was even put in the ground), I stepped away. Not an overnight thing, but gradually. Not trying to get into any sort of argument of why it's ok to go back, or how his role has diminished/it's not really moving/anything. I stepped away from being a fan years ago and have been totally fine with it. But because I was such a big fan for a while, I can't just move on to another team. I can have teams I want to see do well, but I have no feeling of fandom towards them. To individual players, sure, but if I try to go based on that, I'll be back to picking between 20 teams as I like so many players scattered throughout the league. Although that admiration is more so as a result of the individual talent and skill set more so than anything.
There are thickheaded Nets fans as there are for any team in any sport. Never is an entire fan base terrible, but never is one without its bad apples either. The Nets fans I know have really taken up the role of your stereotypical Rangers fan, or how many would view Jets fans in recent years (this year aside). Overhyping and non-stop trash talking before accomplishing anything, and most of it being based off the acquisition of personnel. Saw a lot of it in the off-season. The arrogance I've been seeing lately is essentially the Knicks fan arrogance of weeks ago. Knicks fans were arrogant because of their quick start while everyone had to tell them one/a few games this early in the year doesn't matter. Now it shifted to the Nets fans talking **** because they beat the Knicks last week, and someone needing to tell them one/a few games this early in the year does not make a season. But whatever. That applies in pretty much any sport with an 80+ game season. The Knicks fan issue is just a larger scale version of what I'm having to deal with for Nets fans. Its more intense homerism because they've been that much worse for that much longer. They had their "comeback" (acquiring Stoudemire + that initial success) a little before the Nets (acquiring Williams), so they add in the dynamic of being defensive when their rival team is talking about coming back to greatness.
Simply put, the whole fan dynamic is annoying the crap out of me more than anything. Especially when I know more about these peoples' teams than they do. I need smarter friends.
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i will say though, playing basketball can be a lot of fun. one of the best birthday gifts i ever got as a kid was my own hoop and ball.
Damn right it is. Spent a ton of my summers in high school/college playing basketball for hours each day 3-4 times a week. Best summers of my life. Still try to play here and there but its obviously harder. Still a ton of fun to play.
I remember being a young kid, and getting a hoop too. My mom's boyfriend at the time(A loser, and *******) told me if I hit the backboard usually(Isn't that what it's called?) the ball will go through the hoop. Man I learned how fast he was off. I'm not bad at shooting, but not one for playing an actual game.
