Author Topic: Basketball isnt a sport .......Hockey is!!! (Read 2139 times)

Drunky · « **Reply #30 on:** May 19, 2003, 11:36:47 AM »

Anything where a Canadian celebrity can get 5 of his teeth knocked out is definetely a sport.

Saurdaukar · « **Reply #31 on:** May 19, 2003, 11:44:39 AM »

MT - I was comparing the two sports from the Philadelphia perspective, so JR and IA is a worthy comparison. Granted, IA might not be the poster child for good conduct in the NBA, and you cant argue with people like "the Admiral" (real class act) but I think people like Robinson are the exception in Basketball, in Hockey, they are the rule.

We can both sight examples I suppose, but its kind of hard to argue with the behavior of the average athlete in each respective sport.

And whats with the Mullet/Motorcycle thing? The discription of Hockey players or fans as rednecks is almost laughable. Thats like calling Golf fans violent and unpredictable.

I think Iverson's problem is that he's still a young enough member of the league that he doesnt want to "sell out." He's still playing to impress his 'G's in the 'hood. He could make $60M more a year in endorsements if he would just shut his mouth and play Basketball instead of pretending he was a gangbanger that played sports on the side.

"Yo.. check this Snuggels Fabric Softener ****... its the ****... on sale now at the whack G crazy KMart. You want your cloths soft and **** so the squeakes touch you and ****, werd? You gots ta buy this ****. Its the ****. Smoke weed. Werd."

polka · « **Reply #32 on:** May 19, 2003, 08:16:31 PM »

What other sport has players who would get over 20 stitches to the face and only miss 3 minutes of play?

By the way, only two words why I had to be a goalie, "Bigger stick"

SunKing · « **Reply #33 on:** May 19, 2003, 08:43:46 PM »

MoMoney wrote

"Whats with the Bicycle Helmets hockey players wear?????"

Well if you ever played a contact sport you'd understand.

GrimCO · « **Reply #34 on:** May 19, 2003, 08:48:33 PM »

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Originally posted by SunKing
Actually if you watch under the hoop there is alot of elbowing and cheap shots going on. Some of those guys take a beating like a forward screening a goalie.

Getting elbowed isn't even remotely similar to getting checked into the boards, having your teeth knocked out by a puck, taking a high stick and getting 20 stitches, or getting your clock cleaned by a nice clean hockey hit. Trying to compare a basketball player's toughness to a hockey player's is like saying being a ballerina is just as tough as being a lineman in the NFL.

Basketball players have endurance, I'll give them that. But tough as hockey players? I think not.

WldThing · « **Reply #35 on:** May 19, 2003, 09:27:06 PM »

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Originally posted by GrimCO
Basketball players have endurance, I'll give them that. But tough as hockey players? I think not.

I agree!

Nash · « **Reply #36 on:** May 19, 2003, 09:46:40 PM »

The stupid thing about basketball, to me, is that with two minutes left in the game the score is likely either tied or there's about a 2 point difference. What's the point of sittin' through the entire game?.. all 48 minutes and 100 some odd baskets... Just turn it on for the last two minutes because everything that went on before the last two minutes makes zero difference to the outcome.

rc51 · « **Reply #37 on:** May 19, 2003, 09:51:52 PM »

Lets see to be good at basketball you need only one thing.
TO BE A FREAK OF NATURE!
Thats to say you have to be tall.
No midgets in the NBA LOL
I ignore most all stick and ball sports.
They are played by over payed cry babies.
Motorsports now theres where you're intelligent people are.
Most formula and CART drivers have engineering back grounds.
While most of the NBA can't even spell engineering.

SunKing · « **Reply #38 on:** May 19, 2003, 11:01:39 PM »

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Originally posted by rc51
Lets see to be good at basketball you need only one thing.
TO BE A FREAK OF NATURE!
Thats to say you have to be tall.
No midgets in the NBA LOL
I ignore most all stick and ball sports.
They are played by over payed cry babies.
Motorsports now theres where you're intelligent people are.
Most formula and CART drivers have engineering back grounds.
While most of the NBA can't even spell engineering.

Now thats what gets me. How is driving considered a "sport" along with hockey/football/basketball/er... even ping pong.

Cause you can pop the clutch faster than the other guy and get seconds on him?

Neckcar fans please enlighten me.

Saurdaukar · « **Reply #39 on:** May 20, 2003, 09:33:41 AM »

Sun - when you have sat in the 120 degree cockpit of a race car for hours, all the time wearing a flame proof Nomex suit that doesnt breath, the whole time subjecting your body to multiple G's, both laterally, under braking and acceleration, and have maintained total focus the entire time, you can come back and tell us whether or not you think it requires any type of althetic ability.

Are tankers not "real" soldiers because they ride around everywhere?

PS: Id say NASCAR sucks, but then the ****ing goose would probably come back.

SLO · « **Reply #40 on:** May 20, 2003, 09:45:36 AM »

A Professor here at our University(named McGill) a long long time ago had students in his class room......1 day he took his students to play a little hockey.....

of course most sucked very bad......they where wimpy pushing pencil geeks....not hardcore men ready to die for there teammates.

so this professor devised a wimpish game where you can loop a ball into a basket and each end of the court.....and voila

Basketball:D

this said professor moved on too teach in Boston.....FYI basketball was 1st played here in Montreal.....for little wimpish boy scouts.....now its played by freaks of nature....gotta grab your ladder just to get an interview with 1 player.

GrimCO · « **Reply #41 on:** May 20, 2003, 09:49:51 AM »

I wouldn't go as far as to say that Basketball isn't a sport. It requires a TON of endurance just like soccer does. Because I don't like it or watch it doesn't mean it isn't a sport.

But Basketball as tough a sport as hockey? That's laughable.

midnight Target · « **Reply #42 on:** May 20, 2003, 09:53:24 AM »

Basketball requires more skill, more speed, more strength and more endurance than hockey. I think that the real reason some of you hate basketball is because you were constantly picked last on the playground.

GrimCO · « **Reply #43 on:** May 20, 2003, 10:16:07 AM »

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Originally posted by midnight Target
Basketball requires more skill, more speed, more strength and more endurance than hockey. I think that the real reason some of you hate basketball is because you were constantly picked last on the playground.

Man Midnight, have you ever actually seen a hockey game?

Basketball requires more speed? Measure the speed of a hockey player vs. the speed of a basketball player... I'd venture to say the hockey player is going twice as fast. When a small puck is travelling at 150mph, I'd say the reaction time has to be faster than grabbing a 30mph large basketball out of the air as well.

Basketball requires more skill? The two sports share many of the same positions. Centers, Offense (Wingers in hockey) and defensemen. All of this while having to skate on ice as effortlessly as you and I walk, and having to set up plays and picks simultaneously.

Basketball requires more strength? Ever seen a battle along the boards for a puck? Any time a basketball player gets shoved, it's whistled as a foul and it's freethrow time. In hockey, fighting for the puck continues until someone gets it unless they get punched in the face. Then it's a foul.

I will say that basketball players probably have more endurance, since hockey players rotate their line frequently. I'll give you that one.

Wlfgng · « **Reply #44 on:** May 20, 2003, 12:24:35 PM »

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Basketball requires more skill, more speed, more strength and more endurance than hockey.

are you serious?!?!?!?!
have you ever played both sports? no comparisson.
most basketball players, assuming they could skate, would be sucking wind in no time .
hockey is the most aerobic, endurance sport I've ever played.
lost 30 pounds when I began playing and haven't gained it back since.