Today I will be performing a stunt which no man should ever attempt. I will attempt to watch an entire NBA basketball game.....without making any negative comments!!!
(Remember, I am a trained professional. For your own safety, do not try this at home.)
Okay, it looks like the game is about to begin...let's see, there sure is a lot of action here already...wow, it's 2-0 already...oh look, the other team just tied it up...it's 2-2 and we're not even a minute into the first quarter...there sure is a lot of good offense on these two teams...at this rate both teams could have close to 50 points by halftime...this is great for people with short attention spans who need to see a score every few seconds...for some reason the team on defense just stands around and holds their hands in the air...there must be some strategy behind that...oh, they called a foul on that guy for brushing the other player's arm as he was trying to score...that'll teach him to try to stop the other team from scoring...this must really build up the self-esteem of the offensive players if the other team isn't allowed to stop them from scoring...oh look, that guy just ran right by five players and scored again...I wonder why the other team doesn't try to get in the way...oh yeah, because that would be a foul...wow, this is really exciting...I'm on the edge of my seat here waiting to see which team will get to 500 first...wow, I love scoring...this is so much better than hockey where they let the other team get in the way and play defense and ruin the game...score, score, score...who could ask for anything more...this is so exciting that I think I'm going to...DIE IF I HAVE TO KEEP WATCHING THIS!!! I CAN"T TAKE IT ANYMORE!!! TURN IT BACK TO HOCKEY!!! AAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!
Ahh, the comments of someone who doesn't like a game of finesse. I guess the greatest game in the world isn't for everybody ;) (By the way, if you don't think that b-ball is physical, you should play the post. It can be brutal.) Maybe it would be easier for you to like it if you eased into it. Don't try to watch the whole game, just watch the fourth quarter. And even though they beat Anaheim, I have to root for Edmonton (that is, if I watched it).
Posted by: darren | June 10, 2006 at 10:45 AM
Sigh...whenever I try to watch the last couple minutes of a b-ball game it ends up taking an hour because all they do is foul, foul, foul. What they need to do is eliminate the clock and just see who can get to 100 first (or more mercifully, 50) so we can do without the end of game shenanigans.
I honestly tried to get into it when the Timberwolves started playing back in the late 80s. I even played in high school but quit after one game because I just simply couldn't understand the point.
Posted by: Micah | June 11, 2006 at 04:33 AM
LOL. To each their own.
Not that popularity means something is good, but I found it humorous that Game 1 of the NHL Finals was watched by fewer households (611,000 altogther) than the Arizona-Northwestern women's softball game on the same night. Ouch.
Posted by: Luke Middleton | June 11, 2006 at 01:30 PM
Checkers/chess...8-ball/9-ball...basketball/hockey...Osteen/Piper...
It's a strange world.
Posted by: Micah | June 11, 2006 at 01:38 PM
Thought you'd like to know that I watched the last seven minutes of Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals. While listening to Piper.
At least we know that we have really matters in common.
:)
Posted by: Luke Middleton | June 20, 2006 at 01:42 PM
Hey, I'd rather hang out with a Calvinist basketball fan than an open theist hockey fan any day.
That's not a bad combination - listening to Piper while watching hockey. I might try that with basketball. Sometimes when I'm watching baseball I like to turn down the sound and crank up some Mozart or Beethoven. It makes the third inning seem so much more dramatic.
Posted by: Micah | June 20, 2006 at 04:16 PM