Basketball

[Maximus Decimus]

I'm pretty sure there isn't a thread on this anywhere...

Recently, I've been thrown into the world of Basketball having known very little about it. Obviously, I played at school, and know Michael Jordan etc but I've only ever seen it in a negative context in relation to say RL and the talk of how we don't want 'Basketball scores' where it is too easy to get points. 

However, I moved jobs and ended up at a Basketball hub of a town I didn't know existed and completely unrelated my 7 old daughter came home from school desperate to play. She's joined a team and become obsessed with it.

As part of this, we went to see the local BBL team Cheshire Phoenix. Somewhat surprisingly, I did enjoy it and didn't find the points-scoring a huge issue. It was helped by the fact that both games were tight with big comebacks. I doubt I'd ever become a diehard but it's certainly worth a watch.

The BBL is only small-time and is currently in the playoffs (8 out of 10 teams make it). I was at the Phoenix semi-final on Friday and they didn’t nearly fill a leisure centre hall. They've basically sacrificed domestic competitiveness to allow the London team to compete in mid-tier Europe. Time will tell how good a strategy this proves to be.

I'm liking the kids Basketball, it helps that it's not outside and never called off! It is a bit like junior rugby though where one much better player can lead to very skewed scores.

I've never seen the NBA and as it's on TNT I won't get to, although it is currently in the later stages of the playoffs.

[gingerjon]

1 minute ago, Maximus Decimus said:

I'm pretty sure there isn't a thread on this anywhere...

Recently, I've been thrown into the world of Basketball having known very little about it. Obviously, I played at school, and know Michael Jordan etc but I've only ever seen it in a negative context in relation to say RL and the talk of how we don't want 'Basketball scores' where it is too easy to get points. 

However, I moved jobs and ended up at a Basketball hub of a town I didn't know existed and completely unrelated my 7 old daughter came home from school desperate to play. She's joined a team and become obsessed with it.

As part of this, we went to see the local BBL team Cheshire Phoenix. Somewhat surprisingly, I did enjoy it and didn't find the points-scoring a huge issue. It was helped by the fact that both games were tight with big comebacks. I doubt I'd ever become a diehard but it's certainly worth a watch.

The BBL is only small-time and is currently in the playoffs (8 out of 10 teams make it). I was at the Phoenix semi-final on Friday and they didn’t nearly fill a leisure centre hall. They've basically sacrificed domestic competitiveness to allow the London team to compete in mid-tier Europe. Time will tell how good a strategy this proves to be.

I'm liking the kids Basketball, it helps that it's not outside and never called off! It is a bit like junior rugby though where one much better player can lead to very skewed scores.

I've never seen the NBA and as it's on TNT I won't get to, although it is currently in the later stages of the playoffs.

It was college basketball that converted me.