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CU Medallion [58411]
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Honestly, it's hard for me to watch college basketball
Nov 11, 2022, 10:49 PM
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anymore. I couldn't get the Clemson game tonight, but caught a few minutes of Duke/USC Upstate, and Mich St/Gonzaga. The game has changed over the years into something I'm not crazy about. When I was a teenager, I used to play pick-up basketball at Cleveland park in Greenville. It was players of all skill levels from all over, young, old, kids and men from the local hood, some college and high school players, and everything in between. It was an ugly, physical, frenetic scramble with no real rules, where it was understood that if no ambulance was needed, there was no foul, and calling a walk or carry never crossed anybody's mind. It was just an endless series of one-on-one battles where anything goes and raw aggression and athleticism ruled (I didn't do much ruling, myself).
That's what the games I watched tonight looked like. I'll continue to watch Clemson, but I have little interest in what basketball in general has devolved into.
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Re: Honestly, it's hard for me to watch college basketball
Nov 11, 2022, 11:09 PM
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anymore. I couldn't get the Clemson game tonight, but caught a few minutes of Duke/USC Upstate, and Mich St/Gonzaga. The game has changed over the years into something I'm not crazy about. When I was a teenager, I used to play pick-up basketball at Cleveland park in Greenville. It was players of all skill levels from all over, young, old, kids and men from the local hood, some college and high school players, and everything in between. It was an ugly, physical, frenetic scramble with no real rules, where it was understood that if no ambulance was needed, there was no foul, and calling a walk or carry never crossed anybody's mind. It was just an endless series of one-on-one battles where anything goes and raw aggression and athleticism ruled (I didn't do much ruling, myself).
That's what the games I watched tonight looked like. I'll continue to watch Clemson, but I have little interest in what basketball in general has devolved into.
Amen Smiling. Sadly, I do not enjoy College B’ball like I once did!
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Re: Honestly, it's hard for me to watch college basketball
Nov 12, 2022, 6:51 AM
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I’ll echo that. I tune in around tournament time. But barely keep up with that. I’ll also extend that to NBA which I haven’t gave a crap about since magic, Bird, and Jordan.
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I didn’t see it, but I absolutely agree with you. I stopped
Nov 11, 2022, 11:10 PM
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Watching years ago because it is just so hard with the brute force to which the game has devolved. Really a lot of sports have done that where it is all physical aggression and less beautiful skill.
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People make the exact opposite complaint about the NBA
Nov 12, 2022, 6:43 AM
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these days. No more aggression or good defense. Only shooting.
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Playoff NBA basketball is where the defenses really
Nov 12, 2022, 8:26 AM
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show up. You don't get 100% effort level from the players all of the time during the regular season, especially on the defensive end, but it's there in the playoffs.
College basketball has just gotten ugly in general.
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Re: People make the exact opposite complaint about the NBA
Nov 12, 2022, 8:56 AM
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The last good era of the NBA was the Spurs championship teams when they played against Lebron and the Heat. They played amazingly good team basketball and it was super fun to watch. You don't see that type of basketball anymore at any level IMO.
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Stop ignoring rules, and start enforcing palming/carrying
Nov 12, 2022, 9:59 AM
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and walking, and I may be interested again. I really don't think anybody dribbles anymore, and I am pretty sure that no kids now even know or care what palming is. Drbbling is an ancient, irrelevant art in a game which basically allows players to run with the ball like a running back. In today's game, just get the ball in the hands of a big, athletic guy (Lebron James, Zion Williamson) and let him charge toward the basket like a wild man, maybe bouncing it off the court once or twice along the way (or not). If he can't get off a shot or fails to score, just kick it out to a wdie open player on the perimiter for a 25-foot 3. That's what basketball has devolved into as far as I'm concerned, and it's not nearly as good, fun, or interesting as the game I grew up with.
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It truly is bizarre how players can push each other...
Nov 12, 2022, 8:18 AM
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Until they hit some mysterious threshold at which a
ref decides it's a foul.
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It is slightly depressing now
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Nov 12, 2022, 9:23 AM
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if you grew up decades ago watching ACC basketball.
You used to know who all the players were. And if a freshman came along who was good enough to play, that was unique and exciting.
Last night I tuned into the beginning of the Duke game, and they have officially reached the point where I recognized ZERO of their players.
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Re: It is slightly depressing now
Nov 12, 2022, 9:57 AM
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I was at Clemson when Tates Locke was coach and we had Skip Wise, Tree Rollins, Stan Rome. Those were fun games to watch and hard to get a ticket. Today’s games are just boring.
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