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Rep Retirement Lodge 114: Who gives a...

Rep Retirement Lodge 114: Who gives a...

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So I've tuned in to watch the last 2 and a half minutes of this NBA game...do people honestly watch an entire season of this? Pretty boring...
 
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bostonewe said:
So I've tuned in to watch the last 2 and a half minutes of this NBA game...do people honestly watch an entire season of this? Pretty boring...
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Imagine a hockey game with 30 seconds of offense per period with the rest being offsides/icing/puck over the glass. That's pretty much what basketball is.
 
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Bakunin said:
Imagine a hockey game with 30 seconds of offense per period with the rest being offsides/icing/puck over the glass. That's pretty much what basketball is.
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I used to watch basketball when I was a kid and I don't remember it being quite so boring.
 
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Brenthoven said:
Ditto. I stopped being a fan when the Celt's Big Three + Danny retired.
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I remember sitting on the floor of our family room and watching it with my dad (we used to separate his coins during the games, quarters for his poker nights and then we'd roll up the dimes, nickles, and pennies, and whatever I finished I got to deposit in my savings account), but when there was a strike, my dad saw some basketball player walk out of Madison Square Garden and give the finger and that was it, we stopped watching basketball altogether. I haven't watched it since ... it's on during hockey and Red Sox season, so I'm busy enough, but this was pretty boring.
 
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My wife and I head to Breck tomorrow for our first weekend getaway of the summer. It's the opening weekend for the NRO [National Repertory Orchestra] which has spent the past fifty summers based in Breck. We'll be attending Saturday evening's performance. For the music lovers in THE LODGE here's a short description of the program:

===>Opening Night
Riverwalk Center, Breckenridge
NRO and the Colorado Children's Chorale
Benvenuto Cellini Overture - Berlioz
Overture from Romeo and Juliet Fantasy - Tchaikovsky
Selections from Old American Songs - Copland
with the Colorado Children's Chorale
Firebird Suite (1919) - Stravinsky<===

I had time to sneak in a late round of golf this afternoon with two buddies. I had one of the best days of my life hitting tee shots. Just crushed the ball and put myself in terrific position to score well. Unfortunately, my irons let me down and instead of amassing the 14 or 15 pars I should have had, given my tee shots, I had to settle for a mere eleven pars while shooting a seventy-eight. Absolutely killed one drive hitting it a country mile: three hundred thirty-seven yards on a 427 yard par four. And yes, I parred the hole.

Have a good weekend LODGEONIANS.:)
 
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bostonewe said:
I used to watch basketball when I was a kid and I don't remember it being quite so boring.
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Probably because the superstars back then were a bit more team-oriented for the most part and the refs called fewer fouls (except for the ones that benefitted the superstars :p ).
 
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bostonewe said:
I remember sitting on the floor of our family room and watching it with my dad (we used to separate his coins during the games, quarters for his poker nights and then we'd roll up the dimes, nickles, and pennies, and whatever I finished I got to deposit in my savings account), but when there was a strike, my dad saw some basketball player walk out of Madison Square Garden and give the finger and that was it, we stopped watching basketball altogether. I haven't watched it since ... it's on during hockey and Red Sox season, so I'm busy enough, but this was pretty boring.
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It's gone from a team game to a pieces game. Successful teams nowadays usually have the guy who drives the lane, and a big guy. That's it. Like a shell of Phil's triangle offense (which is brilliant, btw). And despite it being a non-contact sport, there's an awful lot of contact that is let go. It's sad.
 
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Did Stern just thank Mitch Cumstien? He's done pretty well for himself since getting kicked out of college for night putting.
 
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Greyeagle said:
Did Stern just thank Mitch Cumstien? He's done pretty well for himself since getting kicked out of college for night putting.
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....the hell? Look at you! You look like you just came out of a Scotch ad!
 
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bostonewe said:
I remember sitting on the floor of our family room and watching it with my dad (we used to separate his coins during the games, quarters for his poker nights and then we'd roll up the dimes, nickles, and pennies, and whatever I finished I got to deposit in my savings account), but when there was a strike, my dad saw some basketball player walk out of Madison Square Garden and give the finger and that was it, we stopped watching basketball altogether. I haven't watched it since ... it's on during hockey and Red Sox season, so I'm busy enough, but this was pretty boring.
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I quit watching the NBA when Stephon Marbary(?) said that $20M a year to play was an insult (he was right, I was very insulted), when Sprewell choked his coach and the player's union and his shoe company sided with him, and when the players struck and some POS player was interviewed and said that he didn't care about the fans, they didn't matter. Bunch of ****s.
 
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Brenthoven said:
there's an awful lot of contact that is let go. It's sad.
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Actually, it'd be better and have more flow if they let most of the ticky-tack stuff go. If it's an obvious foul that disrupts a shot or is intent to injure, fine call that.

If you want to know about NBA officiating, just think about what happened in college hockey immediately after the rule enforcement kicked into high gear: tons of whistles, lots of players taking penalties, and absolutely zero flow to games.

You also pretty much repeated my point about the selfishness angle of the game: 20 years ago, the stars were more team-oriented so the game had more of a pace to it / better offensive execution. Now you just have an endless series of isolation plays and me-first guys hurling up bricks.
 
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