Does the NBA stink?

[BTExpress]

Or maybe they have no heart, and can't compete under pressure because they were coddled by everyone before reaching the NBA before they were ready.

Bob Cousy's career FG percentage is in the 30s.

Did he have no heart and buckle under pressure because he was coddled by everyone before reaching the NBA before he was ready?

Or are you just going to throw something else out and hope it sticks?

I don't need FG % numbers to tell me what anyone can turn on the television and see.

Just ignore Jason Kapono's .560 shooting percentage from 3-point range.

Anyone can SEE that Kapono can't shoot.

 

[fever_dog]

ah, uncoddled players ... like delmon young?

 

[fever_dog]

and i have seen the poetry that is a dan miceli fastball.

be still my beating heart.

 

[fever_dog]

milton bradley ... another great uncoddled player.

 

[dooley_womack1]

I don't think anyone is calling Bob Cousy's and George Mikan's era the glory era of the N.B.A., or even Wilt Chamberlain's. But I sure don't think this is the glory era, either. I'd say that era began when Magic and Bird came and ended when Jordan retired the first time.

 

[zeke12]

Dan Miceli = $650,000 per year.

Joel Przybilla = 6.5 million per year.

You want to keep going? Because I can keep busting you up all night.

 

[BTExpress]

I'd say that era began when Magic and Bird came and ended when Jordan retired the first time.

That's fine.

But that really isn't the question the thread is asking.

Most people consider baseball's glory era to be the 1950s.

But that doesn't mean baseball "stinks" today.

 

[SoSueMe]

Let us not forget the poetry that is a Chris Dudley free throw, a Bill Cartwright jumper and the entire game of Shawn Bradley and Gheorghe Muresan.

 

[Montezuma's Revenge]

Some of the problems with the NBA aren't necessarily anybody's fault.

Players have gotten so big, so rangy, that you can make a strong argument that the court should be bigger. Maybe that would help; I really don't know.

Players expend much, much more energy on defense than they did 20 years ago. By and large, they're great athletes.

But that doesn't change the fact that the product is less appealing to watch than it was.

As for the pissing-on-baseball brigade here, well that doesn't elevate YOUR sport any. And some of you seem awfully fixated on the bunt. You sound like the people who lament the demise of the two-hand chest pass.

 

[BTExpress]

As for the pissing-on-baseball brigade here, well that doesn't elevate YOUR sport any. And some of you seem awfully fixated on the bunt. You sound like the people who lament the demise of the two-hand chest pass.

Truce.

Quit making stuff up about "lack of fundamentals" and "can't shoot from 10 feet" . . .

. . . and we'll quit talking about the bunt.

 

[Boom_70]

As for the pissing-on-baseball brigade here, well that doesn't elevate YOUR sport any. And some of you seem awfully fixated on the bunt. You sound like the people who lament the demise of the two-hand chest pass.

Truce.

Quit making stuff up about "lack of fundamentals" and "can't shoot from 10 feet" . . .

. . . and we'll quit talking about the bunt.

Quit saying that the NBA is any good>

 

[Tom Petty]

I've noticed that many people on this board love baseball. I trully want to know why you guys like the MLB more than the NBA.

insinuating people don't like the nba because they are racist is one of the most stupid forking things i've ever read on this board or anywhere else.