No Hippos Jai Alai Thread

ice grillin you · October 30, 2009, 10:26:14 AM

no they dont lack fundementals....some players in the league do but so do half the phillies

yeah like tons of people dont say the nba sucks because its unrelatable young black kids making lots of money who make up the majority of the league***

theres two reasons why anyone would ever say the league sucks right now

1. they just dont like basketball
2. ***

MDS · October 30, 2009, 12:28:21 PM

the league sucks right now because the competition is so watered down. the east has 3 good teams. we have to wait until may for this to finally play itself out. maybe thats the way its always been, but what happens between now and the semis is a waste cause the result is already in the bank. that sucks. it makes for boring, pointless, uncompetitive basketball.

ice grillin you · October 30, 2009, 12:44:41 PM

welcome to every pro sport since the beginning of time

just say you dont like pro basketball and be done with it...you dont need to come up with uninformed stupid reasons

for example i hate soccer because it sucks

not every sport is for every person

PhillyPhreak54 · October 30, 2009, 12:46:05 PM

So...the Bucks are terrible. Hopefully Igoudala can realize that the season has started and he needs to make some shots. Although it was nice to see Speights play good the other night, they need everyone to click.

I didn't see the game; how did Lou look as the main point?

ice grillin you · October 30, 2009, 12:50:57 PM

he still has no idea what hes doing in this offense...really none of them do

its gonna probably be january before they start to get it...orlando is really really good and would pound a sixer team not learnign a new system like this...but before they get better at it expect some really ugly losses before then to bad as well as good teams

the albatross is brand...he is beyond awful and appears to be completely done

MDS · October 30, 2009, 12:53:37 PM

Quote from: ice grillin you on October 30, 2009, 12:44:41 PM
welcome to every pro sport since the beginning of time

just say you dont like pro basketball and be done with it...you dont need to come up with uninformed stupid reasons

for example i hate soccer because it sucks

not every sport is for every person

FALSE

besides the nhl, every other sport has a meaningful regular season. you actually dont know how its going to shake out, which makes it exciting. right now the nba is not this.

also other key reasons:
1. the sixers irrelevance. tough to really get into it when your team is useless.
2. the knicks irrelevance. complain all you want but things are so much better when the ny team is good.
3. the timeout-a-thon at end of games. can you say anti-climatic?
4. games like game 6 of the 2002 western conference finals. so blatantly one-sided and obvious it wasnt even funny.

basketball is easily my favorite sport to play and cover. i still watch the nba. especially the playoffs. but not admitting is has loads of faults is ludicrous.

ice grillin you · October 30, 2009, 01:02:11 PM

every sport has a handful of good teams a handful of bad teams and a bunch of middling teams

occasionally youll have a year like the nfl this year where theres more garbage than normal...but in general every league is the same almost every year

i dont agree with the sixers sucking thing because i follow my favorite teams the same whether they are good or bad but i understand what youre saying

the rest is just made up conspiracy talk and little things that go back to what im saying...you just dont like the sport...if you did something as insignicant as timeouts wouldnt bother you at all...i honestly dont even notice it

MDS · October 30, 2009, 01:13:15 PM

you dont notice that it takes 10 minutes to play 10 seconds? perhaps im too anal about that stuff, but the game wasnt supposed to be played this way. also the advance the ball rule is terrible. but it is what it is i suppose.

the conspiracy talk is not made up. the refs call games certain ways and pull certain stunts to sway games in certain directions. you cant farging argue that. look at what joe crawford did to tim duncan. look what steve javie does and did to AI. look at games 6 sac/la. the mia/dal finals. its all there. the game aint rigged 100% but it aint always on the level. you might be able to say that about all sports but the proof is in the pudding in the nba.

also you are either crazy or lying. you are telling me you are as into a 40 win sixer teams as you are the 95 god awful sixers and the 01 squad? all the same level of interest, rooting and passion from senor havas? you lie.

mpmcgraw · October 30, 2009, 01:33:47 PM

The NBA is a horrible league because there is absolutely no parity in any way. I don't even need parity, but the only way to become a good team in the NBA is dumb luck and having a huge market.

Its a farging joke.

MDS · October 30, 2009, 01:35:47 PM

then explain the spurs, the hornets, the nugs, jazz, blazers, magic...

phattymatty · October 30, 2009, 01:44:51 PM

burn

mpmcgraw · October 30, 2009, 01:49:36 PM

The Jazz actually might be the exception, but the others got lucky because they were a horrible team in a year where one or more studs came out.

MDS · October 30, 2009, 01:52:18 PM

yea, duncan, melo, cp3, roy all win games on their own. no solid role players around them. none.

they build teams the same way the big markets teams do. with the nba cap the lakers have just as good a chance to be good as the bucks.

mpmcgraw · October 30, 2009, 01:59:29 PM

No.

Anyone one of them on this team and this is a 50-60 win team at least. Probably closer to the latter.

ice grillin you · October 30, 2009, 02:05:57 PM

Quote from: MDS on October 30, 2009, 01:13:15 PM
you dont notice that it takes 10 minutes to play 10 seconds? perhaps im too anal about that stuff, but the game wasnt supposed to be played this way. also the advance the ball rule is terrible. but it is what it is i suppose.

no i dont notice it....but i dont notice it in any sport...the only sport ive ever noticed and it still didnt me was college football which is much quicker now with the rule changes...post season baseball is interminable with the longer commerical breaks and both batters and pitchers being much more circumspect in their play

Quote from: MDS on October 30, 2009, 01:13:15 PM
also you are either crazy or lying. you are telling me you are as into a 40 win sixer teams as you are the 95 god awful sixers and the 01 squad? all the same level of interest, rooting and passion from senor havas? you lie.

you can ask anyone that knows me...of course id be more into a sixer playoff game than a sixer regular season game but whether the sixers are a 15 win team or a 50 win team i am into every game the same and try not to ever miss a game (within reason)

Quote from: jihadist monk on October 30, 2009, 01:33:47 PM
The NBA is a horrible league because there is absolutely no parity in any way. I don't even need parity, but the only way to become a good team in the NBA is dumb luck and having a huge market.

Its a farging joke.

lol what the hell are you talking about

i think youre confusing parity with having great champions....a florida marlins tampa bay bucs or carolina hurricanes winning an nba title is generally not going to happen...and speaking of luck youre not going to have an injury in the nba then have a guy from the arena league come off the bench and win you a title

with how tight the nba cap is and free agency severely limited you actually have to earn a title by building the best team

most nba champions are going to be remembered which you cant say about the other three sports