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Post by riccyfuller93 on Aug 11, 2017 1:52:54 GMT
From time to time I watch a bit of Basketball and what I come across is how strange it is in terms of how the players react and how the pundits talk about it.
For example, there is this one video. As Klay Thompson takes a shot, he travels, which is an illegal move and his own teammates on the bench are trying to call the travel! Can you imagine this in the premier league? The ball hits Shaqiri's hand and Imbula is jumping out of the dug-out calling for a handball?
There's also another video where Charles Barkley (former NBA player and now pundit) playing a game called "Who he play for" which is a little game they play on their Inside the NBA tv show.
A player comes up and Barkley has to call what team he plays for. Most of the time he barely gets the player right, something that amazes me.
I could probably call every single player in the Premier League and what team they play for.
This professional pundit cannot call it consistently at all in the NBA. I'd imagine Gary Lineker, Alan Shearer, Danny Murphey and Jenas could all match every Premier League player to their team.
Maybe I'm just over thinking it, but it just strikes me as very "Casual" and not as competitive. Still entertaining, but just doesn't have that serious aspect about it. Maybe some American Stoke fans who enjoy Basketball could shed some light on it.
Maybe I've got it all wrong, but it's still interesting to me.
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Post by FbrgVaStkFan on Aug 11, 2017 23:38:35 GMT
Hope Shaq's hand is okay.
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Post by duckling on Aug 12, 2017 2:40:11 GMT
Charles Barkley is an attention whore. I strongly suspect he purposely gets them wrong because it's supposedly more interesting to the audience. There are many former players who, if hired as pundits, would do very proper preparation.
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Post by duckling on Aug 12, 2017 3:03:08 GMT
Maybe this is rose tinted glasses, but I think NBA games were more interesting back in the early 1990s. The overall technique and finesse was higher. These days you have lots of players with poor fundamentals who become successful because of their size and strength and ability to shut down an offense (sound familiar?).
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