While Bake Off is in the format of a competition, it's not competitive. It's just so pure and nice.
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I still play pokemon go...
How would making the baskets taller make the players shorter?
He said making it 6 foot taller or something.
It would basically mean that nobody would be able to dunk so you'd need better skilled players who could make shots from distance.
At least that's what I got from the idea.
Blocking, rebounding, and the like would still be important though.
Why does everyone always want to change sports. You get foot games and you get bad games no matter what.
the NBA is in a period where more people take 3 pointers and long distance shots than ever before but you're telling me you'd like basketball more if they.......... did even more of that and there were even less dunks?
there are no big men that just get the ball in the paint and turn around and dunk on people anymore... it's all pick and roll to the basket and then maybe a dunk or two that way. or dunks from fast breaks sure.
But the NBA you're describing you'd like to watch is seemingly the exact NBA that we have now? I'm so confused.
Baseball is the season. Completely different sport without it. People primarily follow it through the newspaper standings / box scores and “plays of the day” on the nightly tv news. It may still even have a larger radio than tv audience. You are right about the stats but they just developed based on the narrative trends you see throughout a long season. It gives you so many different stories to follow throughout the year, like how long until hitters figure out Ohtani. I’ve never seen anyone so quite so many swinging strikes before.
Does basbeall still only use the magic mud produced by those same people to treat the balls?
Everybody is still gigantic. You have one spot on the team allocated to normal people who are very good with the ball, and the other 4 spots split among people who made it to basketball because they were tall and who may or may not actually be good at basketball.
Basketball is also super limited in terms of variety since the court is so small and the people so big. It's cool because it flows like soccer, but it's far more repetitive.
Basketball still loses because of the squeaky shoe noises.
Basketball is shit, it's just constant scoring.
The whole Lavar Ball thing made it interesting for about 30 seconds.
Basketball is great fun in thirty second highlights packages but I tried to actually watch a game and lasted a couple of minutes at most.
Now see those are legitimate gripes.
1. I want points to mean more when I watch sport.
2. The noises of the squeaky shoes annoy me.
3. It just bores me when in reality only the last 5 minutes of the game really matter.
Totally fair criticisms.
Yeah, I watched some BBL and it occurred to me a lot of it was looking at the score and realising a decent 10 second spell evens most of it up. I had an olive for the first time this week. Not too keen on them. They look like they should be juicy but they're LIES.
How delusional are you? The majority of players on a basketball squad aren’t particularly talented, they’re just 215 cm tall.
This is also somewhat of a problem in tennis, which I love. They need to lessen the influence of the serve there, imo. There’s too many ace trolls on the tour.
No wonder Mert thought he could make it to the NBA.
W0t!!
How do you reduce the power of the serve? Get rid of lets? Make the box smaller? Life ban for John Isner?
Make them serve from further back, maybe from the carpark.
The weak servers need to get better rather than punish the strong ones.
Ivo Karlovic now has to serve whilst on his knees.
All great ideas chaps, glad we've got a queue of people willing to put their thoughts out there.
One I heard would be to just get rid of the second serve. It makes sense - why do you need 2 chances to hit that big box? - but it would be an enormous rule change and I don't even know how they'd go about getting that going.
They've tried making surfaces slower in the past for this very reason but the changes in play have been modest.
Get rid of let. Make them play in the dark. Use golf balls instead of tennis balls.
bit late there mate
ok sorry
You've got to chill out
We're nothing if not a helpful community.
Use smaller rackets.
Raise the net by a foot.
Make the net lower, but only have one serve. That would sort them out. You'd end up with loads of dynamic rallies and they'd all take even more drugs than they already do.
Would also reduce the length of the match by a lot, which sports authorities love to do these days because they all hate their own sports.
Nope, if there was one serve matches would be far longer since there wouldnt be nearly as many service winners as there would be with two serves.
You’ll be able to find downsides to any change, but you have to take the bad with the good there.
Ur wrong lol
Teehee no u r
I can bounce a ball hurrrr
But it’s still better than baseball. Fuck sake Jimmy.
The US really should stay away from sport. Music, film and tv, crack on, but fuck their sport.
What even are "your" sports? Footy, fair enough, the world thanks you for your service.
Otherwise... what are we doing here? Rugby? Cricket? We already have better versions of those games, silly.