DayofMourning wrote:AirP. wrote:I can't wait for the first season-ending injury and I'd expect the regular season game views drop even further.
WORK ON MAKING THE GAME BETTER, not all this fluff around it. I just don't get it.
IMO, shortening the season makes sense. 82 games is a bit much. I think the 66 game season we had seven or so years ago was almost perfect. Less chance of injury as you say. Too many games leads to disinterest. Look at football and baseball respectively. 16 games of football and even the chit teams fans are frothing at the mouth. 162 games in baseball and nobody shows up to games. Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Baseball screwed itself with its lockout during a season. It didn't just lose fans, it lost generations of fans and I'm not so sure they can really ever fix that. I bonded with my dad through baseball, I was no longer a fan of baseball once my son was born so he grew up without caring about baseball and I'm sure that trend will continue.
Football, way too physical for more games.
The NBA, I like endurance over a year being a part of the equation.
I could write for hours on end what's wrong with the NBA even though it's successful currently, for instance, I think the player movement is way too much, a team's identity can change dramatically in a couple of years. Playing "potential" players over better NBA players(needing a real minor league system to make the NBA a better league). I hate the space and pace era, making each possession worth less than it once was, miss a fast break 3, oh well... it shouldn't be this way but it is. I'm almost to the point where I want the 3pt shot removed, the amount of space a longer shot makes is it's plus for the difficult it currently is.
DayofMourning wrote:That's just one bit. Nobody likes the turn the league took with Harden ball. Play game straight up. Flopping and jumping 3 feet forward into a defender sucks. That's really on the refs and the league though. Could have been easily cleaned up.
The NBA has decided to allow this type of product to protect the players from being hurt because they're promoting players more than the game but to me, this movement away from power to finesse basketball(which has risen greatly since the 3 ball has become more important) has led to way more long term injuries.
