How will you react if the NBA cancels its season?

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by Boss Hog

Professional basketball sucks. College basketball is where it's at.

Sure - if you like seeing scrappy white guys miss open 13 footers.

There is absolutely no comparison between the pro game and the college game. The pro game is better in literally every sense of the word.

I've made this analogy before, but it works - There are people who would far prefer to watch Top Gun instead of Citizen Kane. And that's fine, there's no accounting for taste. But by no measure is Top Gun a higher quality movie than Citizen Kane.

Say you enjoy college ball better if you'd like, but the pro game is simply a much much higher quality product.

I'll miss it, but I'll get over it. Just gives me more hockey time.

[Brock]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

Sure - if you like seeing scrappy white guys miss open 13 footers.

There is absolutely no comparison between the pro game and the college game. The pro game is better in literally every sense of the word.

I've made this analogy before, but it works - There are people who would far prefer to watch Top Gun instead of Citizen Kane. And that's fine, there's no accounting for taste. But by no measure is Top Gun a higher quality movie than Citizen Kane.

Say you enjoy college ball better if you'd like, but the pro game is simply a much much higher quality product.

I'll miss it, but I'll get over it. Just gives me more hockey time.

That's a pretty bad analogy. Citizen Kane is not an enjoyable movie to watch.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by Brock

That's a pretty bad analogy. Citizen Kane is not an enjoyable movie to watch.

That's my point, I'm using extremes to make the analogy.

Citizen Kane, to many many people, is not an enjoyable movie to watch. However, even those people will admit that it's an extremely well made movie. You could go with "There Will Be Blood" as the analogy if you'd like. That's another movie that's just agonizing to watch, IMO, but obviously extremely well made.

Meanwhile, Top Gun is a horrid piece of theatrical shit, but it's entertaining as hell to watch.

If someone wants to say that Top Gun is the more enjoyable move, I'll give them that (though some would possibly disagree). At the same time, if they try to argue that Top Gun is a better movie, I'll call them full of crap.

NBA basketball is a far FAR better game than the college game. It's a more 'pure' game even. The defense actually is better, people just don't realize it because the offense is so good they they'll hit a contested jumper and the positioning and athleticism is so great that players don't 'appear' to be playing defense as hard. The old saws about the NBA being garbage basketball are simply out of date and are, by and large, extremely misinformed.

[vailpass]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

That's my point, I'm using extremes to make the analogy.

Citizen Kane, to many many people, is not an enjoyable movie to watch. However, even those people will admit that it's an extremely well made movie. You could go with "There Will Be Blood" as the analogy if you'd like. That's another movie that's just agonizing to watch, IMO, but obviously extremely well made.

Meanwhile, Top Gun is a horrid piece of theatrical shit, but it's entertaining as hell to watch.

If someone wants to say that Top Gun is the more enjoyable move, I'll give them that (though some would possibly disagree). At the same time, if they try to argue that Top Gun is a better movie, I'll call them full of crap.

NBA basketball is a far FAR better game than the college game. It's a more 'pure' game even. The defense actually is better, people just don't realize it because the offense is so good they they'll hit a contested jumper and the positioning and athleticism is so great that players don't 'appear' to be playing defense as hard. The old saws about the NBA being garbage basketball are simply out of date and are, by and large, extremely misinformed.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion. I wonder if the TV ratings bear this out ( I have no idea and don't know how you would even compare).

I do know that most people I know are like me, they used to like the NBA but now don't care if it lives or dies. College hoops is still good to watch but the one-an-done players disrupt what used to be a contiguous sport to watch.