I apologise to anyone I may offend in this post, and I will disclaim that I don't know the basketball rules that well, and I have not watched more than 20 or so basketball games.
Recently, basketball has been pissing me off. Why? It's because it's such a non-defensive sport. You hardly see any defense tactics, and if you see it, it's so rare. People are ultimately running back and forth and just shooting the ball in hoop whenever they get the chance.
I understand it's a high scoring game, but it seems like it's a skill based game and not enough tactics. It doesn't appeal to my limited intellect. You see in soccer, you can win a game by either having a good attack, but that can always be countered by a good defense and a goalie. You can win a game in soccer by having a good defense, as long as you win by one point. So overall, the chances are scoring a shot are not high, and hence it comes down to really working with your team, and that's everyone, not just passing it to your ace whenever he's free.
In basketball, you win by two things, shoot alot, and hope the enemy makes lots of mistakes. Not enough time for comebacks, and that's why the game is so stressing.
Eriz has already shown me some good defending in basketball, and I acknowledge they're pretty hard to pull off, but most of them are just steals. Where's the blocks? From what I've seen (which is very little amount of basketball games I remind you), steals, blocks & intercepts are rare to see because they are hard to pull off legitametly. You COULD have a tall defender blocking the ring, but that's ultimately countered by others doing 2 point and 3 point shots. And it would seem it's hard to counter a 3 point shooter, unless...he misses, but most of the time, in professional games, they get it in, unless the 3 point shooter is not experienced enough, or really feeling the pressure of catching up.
One more thing, the word 'foul' is used so many times in the game. That really pisses me off. Every minute there's a foul being called. Most of the time these fouls are due to a little tap or touch on the arm. Surely you can be lenient on a person if they accidently touch your arm while they're trying to steal the ball of you! It's not like they're directly going for your arm. Or when you reach your arm out for a steal, you push your arm out so fast, it's very hard to pull it back quickly, and then attacker runs into it, and that's considered a foul. I know, it's a non-contact sport, but seriously, when most of the time an attacker runs up for a layup, or dunk or something or rather, the defenders 85% of the time are considered to make a foul, and the attacking team then gets a free point shoot even when the they've just scored the point in. Oh come on, they're just trying to defend. Let them defend!! I'm not saying that touching them is okay. If it looks bad, like it was intentional, yes foul them. If unsure about the result, then use a video referee. Catch up with the times.
I know it seems like I don't know the game that well, so whoever reads this, please correct my understanding of this game. I want to appreciate it, but I can't seem to at the moment. The game is good, and it's popular for a reason. In fact, if it doesn't rain tomorrow, I'm playing it. And I'm not a newb, but I'm not pro good. Okay. That is all. Bring on the flame if you like.
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You dare to insult basketball u sux noo - just kidding XD.
Hm let me throw a Jordan quote (I don't know how I remember them):
"The offensive player always has the advantage, because the defense is just guessing."
That applies to soccer too, right? Scoring happens a lot more on the hardwood, but defense still wins championships. You can't guard them to a point where they can't score at all. However, you can hinder them and force turnovers. If your defense results in a steal or a block, then you did a good job, right?
But yeah, the NBA is geared towards scoring. You know, nobody wants to buy posters of people defending XD. They want dunks. They want offense. So yeah, hence the offense.
Well, overall, just have fun and make friends and stuff. :D
Hahaha!! That's true. There's no posters of defenders. Not that we know off anyway :P
As stated, basketball is generally 90% focused on offense, and a steal or block is rare to see. That reduces the excitement when there is a one-on-one engagement on the field because a majority of the offender scores. Right?
Well statistically, maybe not :O! Because a team shoots around 30%-40% for a game on average. So, they actually miss more often than not. Also, often good defenses forces turnovers. That's not a steal or a block, but it's still the result of good defense :).
Four words: Gary Payton, "The Glove"
Now now
All sports, you can't forget about the defense.
Just that in the NBA, its very fast paced and it is hard to defend and if there wasn't fouls in the game, then you will have guys grabbing your arms, shoulder rush you etc etc :P
If you check the stats in each game, you will see that some players, despite having high scores actually do miss as much as they get them in = defense was good. The person can shoot all they like but if they can't get them in, then its useless. As long as you make the shooter hestitate for that brief moment, you know that you as a defender have done your job.
It's all mind games too
As a defender, you have to predict where the offender is going which is difficult so thats why you don't see as many steals and blocks. You have to apply pressure, be in their face so to speak :)
Plus, Basketball, your running around constantly back and forth = fatigue and the court is smaller so each person is more involved all the time. Whereas outdoor soccer, it's a big field plus more players and most of the time, you're not cluttered in the one area like in BBall. So yeah...its tiring as
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