OT: Comets disbanded

[jove9]

I was never a fan of the Comets or women's basketball, but it looks like the team no longer exists.

Anyone here pretend to follow them?

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6141621.html

As a side note, if you got to play 30 minutes in a WNBA game, how many points would you score?

[A.J.]

Thank god. Who watches womens bball anyway?

And to answer your question Jove, I would probably score 12 a game in the WNBA, lol

[TMU]

That's unfortunate. I'm not a WNBA fan either but in general, people need to show some empathy to women and their sports. Those comments on that article are harsh. I'm not sure how the dismissal of the team is a good news.

Oh and realistically, I would say I'd average around 10 to 15 ppg in 30 mpg. I played varsity ball in high school and I was on both men and women's practice squad when I was in college. I think I have a general idea how women play at the professional level and how my own basketball skill measures at that level.

[TMACFORMVP]

I wonder if Artest would break the 38% mark in the WNBA. Probably not..

[bubba]

That's unfortunate. I'm not a WNBA fan either but in general, people need to show some empathy to women and their sports. Those comments on that article are harsh. I'm not sure how the dismissal of the team is a good news.

Oh and realistically, I would say I'd average around 10 to 15 ppg in 30 mpg. I played varsity ball in high school and I was on both men and women's practice squad when I was in college. I think I have a general idea how women play at the professional level and how my own basketball skill measures at that level.

its not good news, but the team wasnt making money. no one came to see them play. they were horrible and have been horrible for years. its sad to see the team that won the first 4 championships but i can understand why. by the way i think id average 15-18 points. come on, 6'5": nba: guard. wnba: center.

[TMU]

That's unfortunate. I'm not a WNBA fan either but in general, people need to show some empathy to women and their sports. Those comments on that article are harsh. I'm not sure how the dismissal of the team is a good news.

Oh and realistically, I would say I'd average around 10 to 15 ppg in 30 mpg. I played varsity ball in high school and I was on both men and women's practice squad when I was in college. I think I have a general idea how women play at the professional level and how my own basketball skill measures at that level.

its not good news, but the team wasnt making money. no one came to see them play. they were horrible and have been horrible for years. its sad to see the team that won the first 4 championships but i can understand why. by the way i think id average 15-18 points. come on, 6'5": nba: guard. wnba: center.

Oh, I don't know what the reason was behind their shut down. Like I said I'm not a WNBA fan, but at the same time I don't go out there and say "Thank God" or "Great news". All I'm saying is that people don't necessarily have to be a fan of the WNBA but they at least need to accept the WNBA for what it is and show some empathy rather than mocking women and their decision to play sports.

And yeah WNBA players are shorter than NBA players, that's a no-brainer. I guess you can drop 30 if you're 7 feet tall and has some experience with the ball. But, I'm only 6'1''. I don't think I will be able to score over 20 in 30 minutes.

[A.J.]

Seriously come on guys......The only time men or boys go to Comets games is when their mom or wife begs them to go. Believe me.

[TMU]

Seriously come on guys......The only time men or boys go to Comets games is when their mom or wife begs them to go. Believe me.

That's not what I'm discussing here.

[A.J.]

Seriously come on guys......The only time men or boys go to Comets games is when their mom or wife begs them to go. Believe me.

That's not what I'm discussing here.

Yeah sorry about that...But Houston deserves better. After the first 2-4 years they went downhill with their team and after Hilton bough the Comets it still went downhill. I see what you meant in your previous post.

[Iggyemu]

Are the Rockets next?

[mpsniper101]

lol...

The Rockets would be the last team to be out of Houston, Les isn't going to sell or go anywhere. He loves it here.

[tha_rock220]

I'm not going to pretend I ever had anything more than a passing interest in the WNBA, but I always did want to see the Comets do well since they were a Houston team. I guess it's a business though. I just don't want to see women's sports discouraged at all since I have a sister who loves basketball, volleyball, and soccer.

I could probably average 40 in the WNBA. I'd be like Wilt in there.

[moofs]

That's unfortunate. I'm not a WNBA fan either but in general, people need to show some empathy to women and their sports. Those comments on that article are harsh. I'm not sure how the dismissal of the team is a good news.

I don't follow what this means. Not to be overly harsh, but I seriously can't think of many sports where women might be generally more capable of excelling than men, and they're pretty much either all olympic sports or tennis, and I'm pretty sure men are really far better in those too, but the womens' sports just get more press. Sports isn't about sympathy, sports is about either rooting for the underdog...

In fact, across the boards, no matter what the facts were, participants chose the underdogs to win.

As far as why? The researchers favor two ideas. The first is that cheering for those who are seen as disadvantaged seems to ignite our innate sense of fairness and justice. The second is the across-the-boards belief that the underdog needs to outwork the top dog in order to succeed.

I think there's a third basic catagory that they missed: specifically the idea that if "they" (meaning the underdog) can do it, so can I. It's not that we don't value hard work and solid justice, but we value them more if it means we too are eligible for a miracle.

Rooting for the underdog is about transference, about the transference of possibility. We want the impossible to happen not just for its own sake, but for what it might mean for us.

(psychology today doesn't exactly have the best "writers" around, but this tends to cover my ideas on underdog rooting)

... cheering for insurpassable excellence, or gaping at something you think you'll never see again. Sports additionally have spaces where smaller scale imagination boggling or physically ridiculous feats are cheered by providing empathetic adrenaline rushes.

I don't really see how any of those fall into empathy for watching a sport that almost never manages to provide any thrills, rarely allows for cheering excellence, pretty much only provides transferrence to the very, VERY small set of girls/women who truly like basketball (or perhaps more precisely, the ones that like to play it), or things you'll never see again. As far as getting men to watch, well, in addition to the prior, you may recall I tried to pick the ten prettiest players in the league for whatever reason (mod approved! ) and ran into some difficulties.

I have absolutely no problem with women playing sports, or to be more accurate in this case, pro basketball. If they want to, more power to them. I absolutely loved watching Kim Perrot and Cynthia Cooper play, even in the first year when the league overall could lovingly be called "pathetic". Yolanda Griffith was enjoyable before she got old. Overall though, there's just very little substance to the league (I never understood all the expansion teams when the existing teams were barely cutting mustard), and it's never seemed very commercially viable (iirc, the NBA underwrote it for several years, and may yet be, but has no doubt pulled back a lot, if not all, of its financing, and depending on who owned what, may even be calling in debts). It sucks that the Comets are gone, as three of their 4 championships were nice summertime distractions (though I haven't watched a full WNBA game since a year after our last win, but i'm a sentimental fool). I just don't get.. where empathy comes in? It's the market stating that a product that has very little going for it isn't working. If it IS working, then it's badly run and will need several failures to allow a restructuring which, I'm guessing, would be similar to whatever the NBA did early on when it had lots of franchises folding. How could it be either good news or bad news unless you were one of the few fans of the team? I kinda see where you're coming from, since you taking slight offense to "i'm glad they're gone" isn't much different from me railing against "we should trade battier for jamal crawford", but we're both missing things there (i.e. typical humans, so whatev.).

In other startling news, I'm currently single.

For the side note, I think I could run 6-12. I played against several girls on UH's team and usually did pretty well offensively, even without any trace of a jumpshot, but also never faced structured defenses, eh.

[TMU]

That's unfortunate. I'm not a WNBA fan either but in general, people need to show some empathy to women and their sports. Those comments on that article are harsh. I'm not sure how the dismissal of the team is a good news.

I don't follow what this means. Not to be overly harsh, but I seriously can't think of many sports where women might be generally more capable of excelling than men, and they're pretty much either all olympic sports or tennis, and I'm pretty sure men are really far better in those too, but the womens' sports just get more press. Sports isn't about sympathy, sports is about either rooting for the underdog...

Empathy and sympathy represent two different things. Of course men are better than women, that's not even a question. Otherwise why would they segregate men and women in sports? The problem isn't about which gender is better in sports, the real problem is, why should men complain about what women do in their own sports?

[tha_rock220]

Empathy and sympathy represent two different things. Of course men are better than women, that's not even a question. Otherwise why would they segregate men and women in sports? The problem isn't about which gender is better in sports, the real problem is, why should men complain about what women do in their own sports?

Men complain about WNBA basketball because it's one of the few sports where you see a noticable difference in quality compared to men playing the same sport. Softball got it right. Minimize the obvious physical difference with your field. Let me face Jennie Finch or Cat Osterman(who I met and is frighteningly tall) having to pitch 66.5' feet to me and I'll knick the ball every now and then. Give me an at bat against them on a standard softball field and I won't be able to form saliva due to the fear. Women's basketball is played on the standard court, but with players 7 or 8 inches shorter. So you see an inferior product.

It's also because men still form the vast majority of this country's sports fans. I agree, if they don't like it they shouldn't bother with it, but for example on RealGM bashing the WNBA is the thing to do. You've got a bunch of forum warriors claiming they could beat Candace Parker despite the only playing most of them have done is in a video game. It's not the basketball they're used to seeing so of course it sucks.

[DreamShook34]

I watched them when the WNBA was pretty nice.. when we won 4 championships(or 3 dont remember) the minute Cynthia Cooper retired it was over, Man if our big three was as dominate as the comets big 3(in their heyday) we would be something. Cynthia Cooper, Sheryl Swoops, Tina Thompson, AND the female Brazilian blur Janeth Arcain = unstoppable. I dont care what you guys say Comet Basketball in the late 90s was the business!

[moofs]

Empathy and sympathy represent two different things. Of course men are better than women, that's not even a question. Otherwise why would they segregate men and women in sports? The problem isn't about which gender is better in sports, the real problem is, why should men complain about what women do in their own sports?

I know, and was trying to hit that point. Rock might have said what I was trying to get at better.

Men complain about WNBA basketball because it's one of the few sports where you see a noticable difference in quality compared to men playing the same sport

The "shoved down our throats" aspect wasn't touched on either, which helps cause resentment at the inferior product even when the obvious solution is "if it sucks, ignore it".

As for empathy and sympathy, yeah there's a difference, I just don't have the best grasp on it

[TMU]

Empathy and sympathy represent two different things. Of course men are better than women, that's not even a question. Otherwise why would they segregate men and women in sports? The problem isn't about which gender is better in sports, the real problem is, why should men complain about what women do in their own sports?

I know, and was trying to hit that point. Rock might have said what I was trying to get at better.

Men complain about WNBA basketball because it's one of the few sports where you see a noticable difference in quality compared to men playing the same sport

The "shoved down our throats" aspect wasn't touched on either, which helps cause resentment at the inferior product even when the obvious solution is "if it sucks, ignore it".

As for empathy and sympathy, yeah there's a difference, I just don't have the best grasp on it

Yep, I agree...

[MaxRider]

Too bad.

They are going to blame it on bad economic instead of WNBA is boring

[jove9]

Sports women regularly perform better in than men:

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2. ...


Is competitive abortions a sport?