Women's Basketball
Is there anything less entertaining?
These women are always on ESPN doing NCAA girls’ games and they are raving about how great a close game between UCONN and Tennessee is, and wondering why nobody watches it. Here is why: They are not good.
Nobody used to come to my Synagogue Youth League games – you know why? Because all the kids playing in it pretty much sucked. The parents used to come, but that was it. And it wasn’t even both parents. They would take turns so that only one had to sit through that crap at a time. So women’s basketball - stop complaining. The WNBA at least got smart and started marketing the league as a bunch of lesbians playing ball. That got them the only fan base they could expect – Lesbians and a bunch of kids whose fathers did not want to pay full price for an NBA ticket. Hell, I won’t go to an NBA game, I’m gonna go watch a bunch of women throw the ball at the basket? They can’t dunk, they can’t run and they can’t shoot from really far. This is entertaining?
Now, there is no doubt in my mind that a majority of these women players could kick my tuchas in a game - that is not the point. They always look like they are at half speed when they run, wearing weights when they jump, and throwing a shot put when they shoot.
Last night I was watching the NCAA tournament (I do not have to say Men’s, this is assumed), West Virginian defeated Creighton in the first round. The arena was favoring West Virginia. Tie game under a minute left. WVU makes a defensive stop on a partially blocked shot, a WVU player skies high for the ball, throws it up court for a hard slam dunk to take a 2 point lead with 2.4 seconds left – the place erupts in cheers. Men at home with WVU in their brackets are spilling beer jumping up and down at the dunk to take the lead because 30 seconds ago WVU had been down 2 and looked lost. Men with Creighton in their brackets are fuming that the guard did not get back fast enough on defense, and are now on their knees praying for a buzzer beater win for their 10 seed. This is excitement. This is entertainment. This is basketball.
Now imagine a similar scenario in women’s basketball. Under a minute left, a team misses a shot, the other team boxes out and chases down the rebound and throws the ball up court where a girl running at half speed beats another girl running at an even slower speed up court for a lay-up, which she has to slow down for at the end to bank in properly off the glass. Please! This is so anticlimactic. Besides, no one filled out a bracket anyway, and therefore nobody cares about the outcome.
No athleticism = no entertainment. No entertainment = no interest. No interest = no betting. No betting = no stakes. No stakes = no men crying on the floor in disgust or jumping up and down with jubilation at the outcome. The end.
These women are always on ESPN doing NCAA girls’ games and they are raving about how great a close game between UCONN and Tennessee is, and wondering why nobody watches it. Here is why: They are not good.
Nobody used to come to my Synagogue Youth League games – you know why? Because all the kids playing in it pretty much sucked. The parents used to come, but that was it. And it wasn’t even both parents. They would take turns so that only one had to sit through that crap at a time. So women’s basketball - stop complaining. The WNBA at least got smart and started marketing the league as a bunch of lesbians playing ball. That got them the only fan base they could expect – Lesbians and a bunch of kids whose fathers did not want to pay full price for an NBA ticket. Hell, I won’t go to an NBA game, I’m gonna go watch a bunch of women throw the ball at the basket? They can’t dunk, they can’t run and they can’t shoot from really far. This is entertaining?
Now, there is no doubt in my mind that a majority of these women players could kick my tuchas in a game - that is not the point. They always look like they are at half speed when they run, wearing weights when they jump, and throwing a shot put when they shoot.
Last night I was watching the NCAA tournament (I do not have to say Men’s, this is assumed), West Virginian defeated Creighton in the first round. The arena was favoring West Virginia. Tie game under a minute left. WVU makes a defensive stop on a partially blocked shot, a WVU player skies high for the ball, throws it up court for a hard slam dunk to take a 2 point lead with 2.4 seconds left – the place erupts in cheers. Men at home with WVU in their brackets are spilling beer jumping up and down at the dunk to take the lead because 30 seconds ago WVU had been down 2 and looked lost. Men with Creighton in their brackets are fuming that the guard did not get back fast enough on defense, and are now on their knees praying for a buzzer beater win for their 10 seed. This is excitement. This is entertainment. This is basketball.
Now imagine a similar scenario in women’s basketball. Under a minute left, a team misses a shot, the other team boxes out and chases down the rebound and throws the ball up court where a girl running at half speed beats another girl running at an even slower speed up court for a lay-up, which she has to slow down for at the end to bank in properly off the glass. Please! This is so anticlimactic. Besides, no one filled out a bracket anyway, and therefore nobody cares about the outcome.
No athleticism = no entertainment. No entertainment = no interest. No interest = no betting. No betting = no stakes. No stakes = no men crying on the floor in disgust or jumping up and down with jubilation at the outcome. The end.
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