<p>Just what a dreary sports week needed - a real NBA game in mid-December. Great action and intensity on both sides.</p>
<p>I hope they play again (for real) in a best 4/7 in the spring.</p>
<p>As years of personal denial, I finally agree that the NBA has become full of low-skill players and the style of play is typically boring. And I don’t mean that slow-down teams such as the Pistons are boring. The Pistons are one of the great exceptions. I always enjoy watching the Pistons because I haven’t seen one ocassion where they didn’t play hard…AND PASS THE BALL AROUND.</p>
<p>What’s tat fault for the dreary state of the NBA today? In my opinion, the new players are just too young. They’ve spent 19 years hearing how great they are from their entourage and their coaches, but they lack the fundamentals that make basketball a great sport when played like the team game it’s supposed to be. I, for one don’t go to NBA games because I refuse to pay $30 bucks-a-seat to see high school players that haven’t met the challenge of pro ball. I try to watch my hometown and adopted-hometown teams on TV but even they have fallen far from past glory days. The other guys I watch are the ones with the emotion in their eyes. You can easily see that they want to win and they know that it takes team effort to win consistently; Jason Kidd, Tim Duncan, Manu Ginobli, Steve Nash, LeBron James and few others.</p>
<p>The NBA needs a better minimum experience/age rule. Why pay a 19-year old more than a college star who has 4-years of work experience? That’s how it works in the real world.</p>