Weve all been talking about basektball.....hat about HOCKEY!!!
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Lets go Avs(Hell..i dont even know if thier still in..LMAO!!!!)
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The Carolina Hurricanes will show you some real sports being played.You want action;just watch the NHL. Alot of people said the 'Canes didn't have a shot at the Stanley Cup! ! Well,they were way wrong;they are on thier way!!
GO' CANES! ! & GO AVS! ! 1 MORE GAME & WE HAVE OUR DREAM STANLEY CUP FINALS!!
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American football seems to recognize the need for reasonable proportional chances to make significant scores or stops of scoring. When outside factors, such as kicking strength improvements, change the scoring balance significantly, the leagues affected will change the rules between seasons in order to restore the balance. Once kickers could kick the ball on kick-offs past the endzone or could make field goals from too many different field positions, kick-off lines were moved back to allow greater possibility of runbacks, and goal posts were moved back, and the spot for giving possession to the defensive team for missed field goals was changed in order to put more risk in trying to kick longer field goals and to make it harder to kick them successfully.
Contemporary tennis is faced with the problem that composite racquets allow players far more power and control on their serves, so that some players on some court surfaces have such an advantage that the serve is about all that is left to the contest. A match may come down simply to whose serve was better on that day, and that is not nearly as interesting as watching a match where there is more to playing and more to winning than just how many dominating or unreturnable serves were hit. It is only great to watch good serve and volley tennis when that is a feat, not when it is the norm because of technological progress in equipment. So some tournaments last year have required use of a larger, slower ball in order to give more opportunity for a controlled return of serve in those situations.
When a baseball pitcher one year invented a move that allowed him to pretty much pick off first base runners at will who took any sort of reasonable lead, the balk rule was changed during the following winter, in order to allow base runners once again to have a chance of stealing second or of going to third on a single. One of the amazing things about some sports, such as baseball, is that the increased fitness of players over the years, unlike in football, has resulted in very little change in the proportion of overall offense and defense. The size of the diamond has not had to be changed in order to keep offense or defense from dominating. As offensive skills have improved, so have defensive skills. And while there may be more home runs hit these days than there were prior to 1930, home runs are still both rare enough that they are a surprise and a feat and common enough that one or two during a game may not put that game out of reach.
The problem, to me, with soccer and hockey is that there is not likely to be much scoring and if some scoring does occur early, it tends to determine the game too soon. In the same way, but from the opposite direction, the problem with some basketball games is that there is so little defense that a few missed baskets tend to determine the outcome of the game. What I want is for games to give the team that is behind a realistic opportunity still to win. And I want offensive and defensive ability to count for more than just luck in determining whether a score is made or prevented.
There is one situation, even in low scoring sports where the defense essentially dominates or in high scoring sports where the offense essentially dominates, that allow individual contests or matches to be exciting to impartial fans. Those are particular games or series of games (e.g., best three out of five, or best four of seven) in which one team is (considered to be) much stronger than the other, but the far weaker team (the team least expected to win) gets ahead early and has to hold off what is thought to be the superior team. The suspense is in whether the superior team will "wake up" in time to win or whether if they step up their game, the winning weaker team will be able to withstand the onslaught. Insofar as one team is far stronger or has been more dominant than another, the stronger team can get relatively far behind and still be considered to have a chance to win the game or the series. That is not the case in match-ups between teams of equal ability or in match-ups where the stronger team gets ahead early, particularly in those sports that do not tend to allow much momentum shifts. While a stronger team with a large lead might still lose, the odds are so against it that there is no real sense of anticipation or suspense; thus there is little excitement. Momentum shifts tend only to occur in sports where the ease of scoring and the ease of preventing scoring are sufficiently balanced. And low scoring, defensive sports or high scoring, offensive sports, do not tend to allow that in general.
If my theory is correct, and if many Americans who do not find hockey interesting are like me, it would follow that we would be more interested in hockey if scoring were sufficiently easier that any game which is, say 4 - 1, early, is not thereby virtually over. If most ice hockey games needed something like 12 or 15 goals to win, and if the rinks or nets were larger, or if there were fewer players just "clogging up" scoring lanes, or if rules were changed to allow scoring to have a higher probability than it does now, we should then find the sport more exciting. That, of course, is not something for the purist, nor would it be the same sport in terms of history and tradition. But if the idea is to promote fan interest in a sport something like hockey or soccer, something of that sort might be both necessary and sufficient, if I am correct.
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But still, I find it boring, and that's just my opinion.
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Friday nights game 7 with the Avs and Wings should be good. If you watch any game all year it should be that one.
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EHTHOCKEY-
You can't watch a whole NFL game? What are you sick in the head?? Why is everyone forgetting to mention the most popular, most watched sport in the US. The NFL is the best game out there, hands down. Ratings prove it every year.
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College players are out there playing because they love the game, not because they're getting paid to do so. Granted, professional athletes love the game also, or else they wouldn't be where they are today, but I'd much rather have watched Shane Battier play in a Duke game, than in a Memphis game. Same goes for any young player.
Some of these kids are out there knowing that this is the last year they'll play sufficient minutes, so they give it their all. More dunks, more flashy passes, more ally-oops...more explosive play all around. And this is just college basketball. If I do sit down and watch a whole pro bkb game, it's likely to be a team like the Clippers, a young team who has no real chance of winning a championship, thus has nothing to loose.
Anyone who has ever seen one of the And1 Mix tapes, or anything like it, knows that playground basketball is some of the most creative, exciting basketball around. Players play because they love the game. In the cases of some pro athletes, money takes over, and that's the only motivation left for playing the game. The NFL is fun to watch, but I'd take college football over pro football any day.
Of course, that's just my .02. Feel free to differ -JP