Thread: Basketball

Anybody else a basketball fan? The NBA playoffs have been shit so far but but I have hopes for the Lakers-Suns series. Hopefully the Suns pull it out, Kobe's a douche.

Wouldn't even call myself a fan or anything but i watch the late night NBA highlights on C5 if i catch them, mon the Celtics!

Originally Posted by Anth

Not much, enjoyed playin it when I was younger and what not, but not that clued up on the going ons of it these days at all. More of a MLB guy myself.

It's funny, baseball is my least favorite of the "big 4" in America (hockey, basketball and football being the others). I enjoy going to the games but for me, it moves too slow to watch on television, there's not enough action and there's no parity in the game. The team I support has about 1/10 the payroll of the Yankees.

Kobe is scary good.

I hate the Celtics, they're a bandwagon team. I love watching old Larry Bird highlights though.

Originally Posted by OC

How's that?

They're a team that's historically very good and they have a lot of gloryhunting fans who have no affiliation or affinity to the city of Boston, similar to the Lakers.

Originally Posted by jquinn

They're a team that's historically very good and they have a lot of gloryhunting fans who have no affiliation or affinity to the city of Boston, similar to the Lakers.

who do all the alaskans support? seahawkes?

edit i know they're football :o just trying to get an idea if it's geographical or what

Originally Posted by cullen93

who do all the alaskans support? seahawkes?

edit i know they're football :o just trying to get an idea if it's geographical or what

There isn't one team that everyone supports, but the most popular for football are probably the Seahawks and Packers but they are by no means a majority. Baseball, basketball and hockey are even more random. The problem is that the Seattle is the nearest city with major league sports teams and it is a 4 hour flight from Anchorage so there's no geographical connection there.

Originally Posted by jquinn

It's funny, baseball is my least favorite of the "big 4" in America (hockey, basketball and football being the others). .

same here, been to a cubs game before which was ace but that was for the whole thing rather than just the game. I like the bulls from my time in chicago and the celtics as when i was little my aunt brought me a shirt home from a trip over there. They lost last night though but still lead the series

Played it in High school and its shite, maybe that because we were only doing it for formations and shit though.

My high school basketball team was absurd. There was a kid from another school in the city that plays in the NBA now and we used to beat his team by about 30 every game.

Originally Posted by Anth

Fucking loved playing it in high school. Always a good time at PE when the teachers couldnt be arsed or anything, so just telt us to go play football or basketball. Did we fuck learn about formations or anything, just fanny'd about. good times.

This may actually explain the lack of football talent in scotland, the lack of motivation from the PE teachers when we played footy etc lol.

I loved playing basketball in PE too. I hated the smaller court games we had that would have like 4 v 4 because you never had the space to pull anything off and all you needed to do was be able to chase the ball and take a decent shot and you were great. I loved the proper full court games though. Really wish we did more on basketball in the schools and cared about it more in scotland in general. I'd follow a scottish basketball league if we had a decent one on the go that even had a little tv coverage.

Oh and Basketball is much, much more fun that Football when you're baked.

Fuck the Lakers. The guy that scored the winning basket is best known for this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouKPzZ3iMXA

wtf? he has no class, funny as fuck at the end, forget waisting a pint like that though dumbasses

Originally Posted by Jimmy Jazz

Ron Artest is a bit of a screwball.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2281289

One of the best defensive players in the game though.

Eh, not so much anymore. He's lost a few steps, still impossible to post up against but quicker wing players can beat him off the dribble now.