Things that shit you about the NBA

[DarwinRoo]

I'm suprised no one has said this bloke yet.

 

[peternorth]

- the no shaking hands after the game. I don't know why, but it just doesn't seem right, that the buzzer goes and they just walk off in opposite directions

american NBA culture

 

[Look2Me4Guidance]

They should make a rule that if you get dunked on by the elderly, you have to retire. Kaman should be embarrassed...

He then went into some sort of crab dribble victory shuffle.

 

[Look2Me4Guidance]

You know the rule! Hand down, man down.

 

[blured]

kg and his cheap shots on smaller players. great player but needs an ego check

 

[peternorth]

kg and his cheap shots on smaller players. great player but needs an ego check

u go for 4 teams?

 

[jerry springer]

1.Simply put the season is far too long.

All teams should play each other twice,once home,once away would make for a what, 54 game season?each game would matter,players wouldnt coast through periods of the season and the intensity would be far closer to the what play-off intensity of which we all cherish is like.

2.Coach's micro-managing every ****ed out play,especially in the 4th qtr.Let the guys play

 

[The Mollusk]

You know the rule! Hand down, man down.

'moma, there goes that man'

 

[sojthebest]

Watching coaches just taking a back seat and enjoying the games, then in timeouts just say stuff like, "Don't worry guys, your doing good, just keep at it."

I could do that.

 

[Whelan_45]

Eddie Johnson, suns commentator.

After a player or the team does something, I mean anything, he goes,

"Well that's what he does" "Well thats what they do"
Inferring that that is what they have always done since the dawn of christ, and it is no surprise to him.

Drives me insane!

The NBA's Robert Walls

 

[peternorth]

has anyone heard bruce bowen on espn? sounds like he's at a funeral!

 

[Look2Me4Guidance]

has anyone heard bruce bowen on espn? sounds like he's at a funeral!

Must have been at the burial of his offensive talent.

 

[Gak Attack]

1. ESPN
2. KG
3. JR Smith
4. Kenyon Martin
5. ESPN

 

[aaronm46]

The guys that mop the courts

 

[Hard Ball Get]

1. My team sucks so incredibly that it makes me very sad

That my team goes on a 12-5 month then loses their best player and are 0-3 since.

I guess what I'm saying is there is a greater need for a star than a lot of other sports.

 

[Look2Me4Guidance]

Players with mouthguards who spend 95% of the time with them hanging out of their months.

SupercoolBeas, Udonis Haslem and AI I'm looking at you.

 

[wirra44]

Faceguards i just hate them for some reason

 

[Damon_3388]

- the crap we have to hear every time Kobe breaks a nail. I'm pretty sure their are other players that aren't 100%, but people don't bend over backwards to praise them when they play. Whenever Kobe has anything wrong with him we're supposed to get down on our knee's and worship his bravery

"Is Kobe going to play in the All Star game?" seems to have been the main topic of discussion on every ESPN show this week (SportsCenter, Rome Is Burning, Around the Horn, PTI). Other players (eg. Chris Paul, Brandon Roy) can quietly rule themselves out, and an injury replacement is named. If Kobe isn't going to play, then just rule yourself out quietly already and get it over with.

To be honest though, I have a feeling that Kobe will make some dramatic overhyped "comeback" during the All-Star Game, "take over" the game (aka demand the ball and shoot whenever he feels like it), score 30 under little defensive pressure and claim MVP honours. I'm not a Kobe hater (I admire and respect his skills as a player, but I'm pretty indifferent to him to be honest), but I can see that scenario happening, and ESPN will endlessly laud him for his immense toughness. I tore ligaments in my ankle during a weekend club carnival when I was 17, and played 3 more full games in the space of the next 24 hours (none of which we won, so it was ultimately pointless), so surely "The Best Basketball Player in the World" can front up for the NBA All-Star Game and steal all the glory

- Mark Jackson "saying if I'm (insert coaches name here)" and then telling us what he'd do or what he'd think about something

He tries to make everything he says sound like some big profound statement that expells all of his immense basketball knowledge, but he just needs to learn that not everything needs to be a big profound statement that expells all of your immense basketball knowledge. Sometimes you just need to make a quick off-the-cuff comment about something.

- the no shaking hands after the game. I don't know why, but it just doesn't seem right, that the buzzer goes and they just walk off in opposite directions

I've seen plenty of guys in the NBA shake hands/hug it up/act chummy just after the final buzzer goes. More often though, they seem to hug it up/shake hands/act chummy before the game.

has anyone heard bruce bowen on espn? sounds like he's at a funeral!

Eric Snow is worse. So many awkward pauses when he gets asked a question and/or it's his turn to comment, and when he does speak, he doesn't really add much to the broadcast.

 

[Gautama]

Anderson Varejao

I had forgotten until today how much I hate this guy. Irrationally, I admit, but he makes my blood boil with his silly bouncy walk and his sillier, bouncier hair.

 

[Borgsta]

Marv ****ing Albert and his "his foot was on the line so it's only a 2" when really the player had both feet about 1m inside the line.

Also his ad's for TV shows. "With friends like these, who needs thieves" or some BS like that.

 

[Swansujelly]

Agreed. Although you do get to look at Devin Sex.


That's interesting. I really can't remember clearly back to the 90s, I just have this sense it was more physical and this physicality was allowed. Can anyone else remember?

Footy or basketball, or both?

 

[Hodges]

Shitty dunk contests.

 

[Phil McCreviss]

When some clown hits a winning shot and says "this is my house"....no names mentioned ok fk it.... Dwyane Wade.

 

[Dirtywhirl]

I don't like the fact that the NBA championship team are labeled 'World Champions', same with Baseball and the World Series.

 

[RoosterLad]

I don't like the fact that the NBA championship team are labeled 'World Champions', same with Baseball and the World Series.

Agree with that.

I am glad the AFL has not adopted that.