The Problem with todays NBA (Another Ratings Thread)

[DoubleClutch]

I think BJ kinda sums it up perfectly

He’s right we’d rather watch social media hoopers

The nba is too robotic

Plus players have not style or charisma to their game

And you get a tech for showing emotion

Plus nba players also used to be funny and had fun out there

This new nba is like a job to players and they don’t even like their fans half the time, don’t want to play and are boring/bored with the game.

Social media hoopers are doing it for fun and for the fans for the interaction (comments, clicks, views)

Notice how the former social media star who still plays like he doesn’t give a f*** is the most entertaining player in the NBA currently

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

 

[Apprentice]

Robotic basketball is the best way to call it

They def should explore making the 3 worth 4 and shots outside the paint, within the arc 3 point shots


There’s nothing wrong with adapting your rules to account for evolution of the game

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Robotic basketball is the best way to call it

They def should explore making the 3 worth 4 and shots outside the paint, within the arc 3 point shots


There’s nothing wrong with adapting your rules to account for evolution of the game

5 points for logo shots; 6 points for shots beyond halfcourt.

And to make it even more fun, they can add strobe lights, using a different color for each desginated area of the floor. Keep that Donna Summer on deck too whenever a player makes a halfcourt shot.

 

[High quality poster]

Robotic basketball is the best way to call it

They def should explore making the 3 worth 4 and shots outside the paint, within the arc 3 point shots


There’s nothing wrong with adapting your rules to account for evolution of the game

Ah yes, make it more cheesy.

It’s simple, the game is boring as fukk because of the laxed defensive rules they put into play. Why wouldn’t I abuse mismatches and spam 3 pointers if it gave me an advantage. Allow defenders to challenge shots again. The landing rule is one of the worse things in basketball, you pretty much have to give a skilled shooter room to shoot.

Also these Euros can’t be the face of be nba.

 

[Apprentice]

Ah yes, make it more cheesy.

It’s simple, the game is boring as fukk because of the laxed defensive rules they put into play. Why wouldn’t I abuse mismatches and spam 3 pointers if it gave me an advantage. Allow defenders to challenge shots again. The landing rule is one of the worse things in basketball, you pretty much have to give a skilled shooter room to shoot.

Also these Euros can’t be the face of be nba.

How does that make it cheesy? It adds another element of strategy to the game; it would change what a 1 possession game is and isn’t etc

You would also have to account for midrange snipers

If Adam silver is doing shyt like adding an in season tournament, there’s no way the can’t toy with the idea

People only wouldn’t like it because of international play and the record books

 

[Apprentice]

5 points for logo shots; 6 points for shots beyond halfcourt.

And to make it even more fun, they can add strobe lights, using a different color for each desginated area of the floor. Keep that Donna Summer on deck too whenever a player makes a halfcourt shot.

Lol u swear u hate this topic but engage in it for daps and so nikkas can argue wit u

If u like the nba the way it is this clearly isn’t a thread for u

 

[Brozay]

I agree with BJ to an extent, its a reason I watch less and less NBA. I find the games to be boring

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Lol u swear u hate this topic but engage in it for daps and so nikkas can argue wit u

I could give a fukk about a dap.

I'm just trying to point out factual evidence to y'all, which y'all have a hard time grasping the simple concept that just because y'all don't like the product doesn't mean everyone else doesn't like it either.

If u like the nba the way it is this clearly isn’t a thread for u

It's not about me liking or not liking it.

I take it for what it is.

Is the league today going to evoke the same feelings that it did when I was a kid? Of course, not. That doesn't mean it's a bad product because it doesn't emulate what it was during my childhood. It just means it's different now. No era is perfect, just like this one isn't. Folks were complaning about the NBA last decade, and the decade before that one, and the decade before that one, and the decade before that one etc.

Hell, players themselves even shytted on the 90s saying it was a diluted product, yet according to this board it's 'the golden era' that is without flaw.

Cats are talking about these arbitrary ratings, but the fact of the matter is the NBA is as popular as ever - that is an unadulterated fact.

The game that folks want on here, isn't coming back. Y'all have to deal with the hard reality of that. Recycling these threads isn't gonna make a genie in a bottle appear.

 

[FlimFlam]

haven't followed this dialogue too closely, so excuse me if something of the sort has already been mentioned

but the 80s to 90s explosion of the NBA coincided with a Black art pop cultural culmination if not a lightweight Renaissance at the time... The Nba rode the wave of all that shyt even if it was initially unintended

Beyond a competition and commodities, a social event and social grouping is being sold as well.

They did the BLM thing (begrudgingly, i bet)... now they are pushing this multicultural global project. neither clicked as worldy progressivism is moreso a national myth than real American culture

the nba appears currently unmoored in an identity and cultural trajectory .... clearly a league in transition

not undermining the dissatisfaction with play thesis but sports is more than sports

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

It's hard to take BJ's point seriously when the game doesn't reward imagination and creativity. It isn't figure skating.

If the point of hoops is to score more points than the other team, well, that should be the one and only objective, shouldn't it? If shooting these types of shots leads to winning basketball, why would they stop and then take shots that don't?

It's also tired and lazy analysis to say all teams play the same too because they don't. No more/less than any other era that had their own style of play and offensive structuring that reflected that period in time. It's funny how the same critique isn't used for when all positions played the same, unlike now where players have greater roles and are allowed to be more versatile, not restricted to the traditional positional roles of the past.

If cats want to see some imagination and creativity (i.e. a team shooting midrange shots), go and watch some Kings games. They average the most midrange attempts in the league - almost twice as much as the league-average. I can promise you though there's nothing really exciting about DeRozan turning down 3s to step inside the arc to take contested long 2s. I can promise you though there's nothing really exciting about them going on scoring droughts because they have a bad shot diet compounded by limited floor spacing.

But most of all, there's nothing really exciting about their brand of play which is one of the leading causes for why they have a losing record.

 

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[Gil Scott-Heroin]

haven't followed this dialogue too closely, so excuse me if something of the sort has already been mentioned

but the 80s to 90s explosion of the NBA coincided with a Black art pop cultural culmination if not a lightweight Renaissance at the time... The Nba rode the wave of all that shyt even if it was initially unintended

Beyond a competition and commodities, a social event and social grouping is being sold as well.

They did the BLM thing (begrudgingly, i bet)... now they are pushing this multicultural global project. neither clicked as worldy progressivism is moreso a national myth than real American culture

the nba appears currently unmoored in an identity and cultural trajectory .... clearly a league in transition

not undermining the dissatisfaction with play thesis but sports is more than sports

It is true the league doesn't have an identity, but that's because the globalization of the game has outgrown its American culture.

Unironically, because the audience is greater now (and not diminishing like cats claim), the NBA can't center itself around a particular movement that is only inclusive to this country. It's had to make a more generalized appeal to incorporate the rest of the world.

To that point though -

Look at what happened when the league tried to push BLM.

White America came out in their droves and told the players to "shut up and dribble", and not incoporate politics into sport.

Now just imagine in this current climate where Trump has put a battery in these crackas' backs, if the league were ever to take on another Black cultural phenomena as its identity. All hell would break loose. The NBA would quickly turn into an effigy for this country to lay all their woes on, which would really cause the ratings to drop and create a divide that would take away from the product, itself.

Even with how generic the image of the NBA is now, you still have MAGA using it as a proxy to fight their cause (funnily enough, stating the problem with the ratings is that the league is too woke) -

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I think it's mostly a story about two superstars, one, Michael Jordan, who created a brand and a league that people of all types loved and another, LeBron James, who created a brand and a league that was fueled by identity politics.

Woke ideology will plague NBA

Just imagine the uproar if the NBA were to ever be unashamedly Black.

Never mind petitions to have it removed, they'd storm the NBA offices just like they did the Capitol.

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

On that note -

It's going to be interesting to see the resistance to any social justice movement the players attach themselves to over the next four years under the fascist regime. I won't be surprised to see the NBA being made a target on an unprecedented level.

 

[OGBobbyJohnson]