NCAA 2009-10 Hoops: Yo, mah Jordans, nigga

[PDH]

I expect Wyoming to fall apart early, then work back to not quite recovering.  It is sometimes good to root for a consistent team.

[Eddie Teach]

I was surprised to find out your guys actually have a national championship in b-ball.

[Berkut]

Will Arizona keep the streak alive?

From what I am hearing they had a really good off-season and will compete in the PAC-10 this year so I think: yes.

Miller has done a simply amazing job going from a recruiting class with literally nothing, to a top-10 in the country, and another great class for next year already shaping up.

He had a lot of help though - USC meltdown was Arizona's Christmas.

But there are going to be a lot of freshman with a lot of minutes.

[Strix]

Posted because in basketball, the ACC is the only conference that matters.

When will Maryland be relevant again?

GO CUSE!

[The Larch]

I remain flabbergasted at how big the following of college basketball is on this board compared with the almost total lack of interest for the NBA.

[katmai]

I remain flabbergasted at how big the following of college basketball is on this board compared with the almost total lack of interest for the NBA.

I can only say for me my interest in NBA died out when Sonics moved to Oklahoma City.

[Berkut]

I remain flabbergasted at how big the following of college basketball is on this board compared with the almost total lack of interest for the NBA.

College basketball is interesting and exciting, and the NBA is fucking boring and lame.

[Eddie Teach]

 

I didn't even know that the Sonics had moved.

I stopped following the NBA around the time of Jordan's second retirement. But I don't follow college basketball either. Maybe if Georgia makes some kind of run at the championship, I'll get into it.

[Valmy]

I remain flabbergasted at how big the following of college basketball is on this board compared with the almost total lack of interest for the NBA.

Pro sports are pretty much non-existant in Austin.  I am only a NFL fan because my father is from DC where the Washington Redskins are an obsession.

[The Larch]

I remain flabbergasted at how big the following of college basketball is on this board compared with the almost total lack of interest for the NBA.

College basketball is interesting and exciting, and the NBA is fucking boring and lame.

For the little that I've followed college basketball, I find it really boring. Maybe if I had some kind of self-identification with the teams it'd be different, but in a vacuum it felt really half-arsed. All the talented players leave the college system after barely a year or two (there have been no seniors in the Top 10 of the last 3 draft editions), so there's no way to really build a proper team.

In which ways is the NBA boring and lame for you?

[Valmy]

In which ways is the NBA boring and lame for you?

The regular season games are meaningless, the playoffs go on way into baseball season when it just seems silly to play Basketball.

Basketball season ends in April, yet the NBA is not even close to ending.  I just do not have the stamina to follow a season that long and tedious.  But, as I said, I might feel differently about it if Austin had a team or if people here were interested at all in professional sports.

[The Larch]

I remain flabbergasted at how big the following of college basketball is on this board compared with the almost total lack of interest for the NBA.

Pro sports are pretty much non-existant in Austin.  I am only a NFL fan because my father is from DC where the Washington Redskins are an obsession.

Yet you have 3 NBA teams in Texas alone. Or is your allegiance only to Austin and not to Texas? 

[The Larch]

In which ways is the NBA boring and lame for you?

The regular season games are meaningless, the playoffs go on way into baseball season when it just seems silly to play Basketball.

Basketball season ends in April, yet the NBA is not even close to ending.  I just do not have the stamina to follow a season that long and tedious.  But, as I said, I might feel differently about it if Austin had a team or if people here were interested at all in professional sports.

Every pro sport in the US has a regular season and playoffs, what makes the NBA case so exceptional?

[Valmy]

Yet you have 3 NBA teams in Texas alone. Or is your allegiance only to Austin and not to Texas? 

Well you have to understand the rivalry with Texas cities.  All things Dallas and Houston (more so Dallas than Houston) are anathema to me and most native Austinites.

San Antonio is...acceptable and if there is an NBA team I like it is the Spurs.  But San Antonio is very different culturally to Austin, they are very south west and they do not command a whole lot of emotional loyalty.

[Berkut]

In which ways is the NBA boring and lame for you?

The regular season games are meaningless, the playoffs go on way into baseball season when it just seems silly to play Basketball.

Basketball season ends in April, yet the NBA is not even close to ending.  I just do not have the stamina to follow a season that long and tedious.  But, as I said, I might feel differently about it if Austin had a team or if people here were interested at all in professional sports.

Every pro sport in the US has a regular season and playoffs, what makes the NBA case so exceptional?

Because too many teams make it into the playoffs.

The NBA is boring though because there isn't any character in it. At least that is the way it feels to me.