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Embarassing NBA All-Star game

RenoCon

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While eating at a restaurant I happened to catch the first quarter of the NBA all-star game. The score at the end of the 1st quarter was 50-51. There was absolutely no defense and I doubt that shots other than 3 pointers and slam dunks were taken (many of these missed embarrassingly). The tickets to attend cost 3-4 thousand dollars each. Does anybody think this would have been worth watching in person? I would not have watched it on TV except that I was a captive audience. I am not a big fan of NBA BB anyway but this seemed to be a particularly embarrassing display of talent. Why do they bother with it?
 
Are you new to NBA All-Star games? Defense and the NBA All-Star game don't go together ever. What you saw is how it is every single year.
 
RenoCon said:
While eating at a restaurant I happened to catch the first quarter of the NBA all-star game. The score at the end of the 1st quarter was 50-51. There was absolutely no defense and I doubt that shots other than 3 pointers and slam dunks were taken (many of these missed embarrassingly). The tickets to attend cost 3-4 thousand dollars each. Does anybody think this would have been worth watching in person? I would not have watched it on TV except that I was a captive audience. I am not a big fan of NBA BB anyway but this seemed to be a particularly embarrassing display of talent. Why do they bother with it?
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Since the Slam Dunk contest sucked so badly, they had to make for it. This was a 100% pure showboat-fest and nothing else. Most years, you get the showboating out of the way in the first half and then they get down to business in the 2nd half. This year, they just never stopped because the crowd kept cheering on showboating. This is entertainment after all.
 
Henrin said:
Are you new to NBA All-Star games? Defense and the NBA All-Star game don't go together ever. What you saw is how it is every single year.
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Mostly, I have just seen the final score and realized there is no defense. I would think that any player that prides himself on defense would avoid the game...but, then those guys don't make the all-star team.
 
faithful_servant said:
Since the Slam Dunk contest sucked so badly, they had to make for it. This was a 100% pure showboat-fest and nothing else. Most years, you get the showboating out of the way in the first half and then they get down to business in the 2nd half. This year, they just never stopped because the crowd kept cheering on showboating. This is entertainment after all.
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I think paying $3000 to watch the crowd would be a better value than watching the game.
 
I'm not an NBA fan but there was nothing on yesterday so I turned the game on for 10 mins. or so. it was like watching the Harlem Globe Trotters. Absolutely no defense at all, they weren't even pretending to play a little D..

What a joke. I'm guessing this off-season the NBA big wigs are going to get together and try to come up with something, or decide to dump the All-star game all together.
 
RenoCon said:
While eating at a restaurant I happened to catch the first quarter of the NBA all-star game. The score at the end of the 1st quarter was 50-51. There was absolutely no defense and I doubt that shots other than 3 pointers and slam dunks were taken (many of these missed embarrassingly). The tickets to attend cost 3-4 thousand dollars each. Does anybody think this would have been worth watching in person? I would not have watched it on TV except that I was a captive audience. I am not a big fan of NBA BB anyway but this seemed to be a particularly embarrassing display of talent. Why do they bother with it?
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I haven't watched an NBA all star game since probably 1975.
 
calamity said:
I haven't watched an NBA all star game since probably 1975.
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Basketball was at its best when the NBA merged with the ABA in 76 and we had 15 great years which followed. You had the basic fundamentals of the so called white game and the flash and style of the so called black game and it was amazing to watch. Then it all went to help when they changed the rules to allow an extra step, the double dribble and palming the ball, and the clear out. Once Bird and Magic and Jordan left the game - it was never the same again.
 
All-Star games in general have become farcical and (frankly) obsolete. They used to have their place, but not anymore.

Back before cable TV, All-Star games were the only time you could actually SEE some of the heroes of the game. Aside from left-coast and northeast teams, it was rare to see any other team on national TV unless YOUR team was playing them, and it was on a local feed. I'm not a basketball fan, but look at baseball in a similar light. Living in St Louis, I never got to see guys like Pete Rose, Ken Griffey Jr. or Nolan Ryan unless the Cards played against them...or during the All-Star game. Now...with interleague play, and every game being available on TV, that luster is long gone. Now it's all grandstanding, showboating, and entertaining the lowest common denominator just to get you to sit in front of their sponsors' commercials.

Wanna make All-Star games interesting? Play them BEFORE the season, when fans are itching to watch the sport they've not seen for a while. All-Star rosters are picked from the year before.
 
MLB tried to give their All-Star game some 'meaning' by giving the winning league home field advantage in the World Series. That was a God awful idea. I'm betting the NBA will try to come up with something to give their All-Star game some meaning, and get their players to actually give a damn.

But I hope they don't do something stupid like MLB did.
 
haymarket said:
Basketball was at its best when the NBA merged with the ABA in 76 and we had 15 great years which followed. You had the basic fundamentals of the so called white game and the flash and style of the so called black game and it was amazing to watch. Then it all went to help when they changed the rules to allow an extra step, the double dribble and palming the ball, and the clear out. Once Bird and Magic and Jordan left the game - it was never the same again.
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Probably true. I didn't watch for years after Jordan left the Bulls. And, even now, I probably watch only because Lebron came back to Cleveland and I just happen to live in Ohio.
 
I actually enjoyed how baseball made it matter. I've also thought the MLB all-star game was the only major all-star event worth attending for the game itself.
 
CycloneWanderer said:
I actually enjoyed how baseball made it matter. I've also thought the MLB all-star game was the only major all-star event worth attending for the game itself.
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Best pitchers in each league facing the best batters. What's not to like?
 
SenorXm/Sirius said:
I'm not an NBA fan but there was nothing on yesterday so I turned the game on for 10 mins. or so. it was like watching the Harlem Globe Trotters. Absolutely no defense at all, they weren't even pretending to play a little D..

What a joke. I'm guessing this off-season the NBA big wigs are going to get together and try to come up with something, or decide to dump the All-star game all together.
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right, i was just thinking why do the globe-trotters struggle, yet this pure exhibition sells for $3k

ah well, it was moved from charlotte, all i care about
 
CycloneWanderer said:
I actually enjoyed how baseball made it matter. I've also thought the MLB all-star game was the only major all-star event worth attending for the game itself.
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meh the game might be better for that reason, but still a farce, still the teams with the most fans get all the players. I think there was a year where a guy like derek jeter played 0 freaking games and was voted in. And even still, most of the players know their team won't make the Series so the outcome doesn't matter to them, and may even throw the all-star game to spite a rival team

also it was quite unfair to the Cubs this year, which is why it's changing back. 162 games + interleague is quite enough to base home field on team record
 
chromium said:
meh the game might be better for that reason, but still a farce, still the teams with the most fans get all the players. I think there was a year where a guy like derek jeter played 0 freaking games and was voted in. And even still, most of the players know their team won't make the Series so the outcome doesn't matter to them, and may even throw the all-star game to spite a rival team

also it was quite unfair to the Cubs this year, which is why it's changing back. 162 games + interleague is quite enough to base home field on team record
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I agree. It was a dumb idea, and it actually hurt a better team and almost cost them the WS.
 
The way I understand it the players got to the point where they did not want to do it, cause they like the three? days rest and **** the fans.

They laid it down to the league, either make it fun time or else end the tradition.

The owners of course capitulated.
 
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Hawkeye10 said:
The way I understand it is that the players got to the point that they did not want to do it, cause they like the three? days rest and **** the fans.

They laid it down to the league, either make it fun time or else end the tradition.

The owners of course capitulated.
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There's something to that though. It's an exhibition game. I'd hate to see Lebron, Durant, Curry or any star on a contender get hurt in a stupid All Star game. That would suck.
 
calamity said:
There's something to that though. It's an exhibition game. I'd hate to see Lebron, Durant, Curry or any star on a contender get hurt in a stupid All Star game. That would suck.
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Ya, that was another "reason" given.

Maybe they should also threaten to stop those stupid practices.

And for sure they need to stop :stop: messing around on the court with their friends at their palaces. . ...
 
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Hawkeye10 said:
Ya, that was another "reason" given.

Maybe they should also threaten to stop those stupid practices.

And for sure they need to stop :stop: messing around on the court with their friends at their palaces. . ...
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Who was that NBA Superstar who blew out his knee during the silly international games practice? Another case of a real team being hurt for exhibition games that don't matter.

Ah, Paul George. And, it was a severely broken leg.

Pacers' Paul George suffers serious leg injury in scrimmage - CBSSports.com
 
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