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NBA does not = College

Posted by Scott | November 6, 2006 .

bobcatsI went to Charlotte this past weekend to visit my brother, his wife and my niece. I told my brother that since I’ve never been to an NBA game we should try and get tickets to go see the Charlotte Bobcats play against the Cavs. I thought this would be a good game to see since there are quite a few players fresh from college playing on the Bobcats including Sean May, Raymon Felton, Adam Morrison, Okafor, and Labron James is on the Cavs so I wanted to see what the big hype surrounding him was all about.

My brother calls and says his friend has 2 tickets up in the Suites where your in a box with only 12 other people at most, you get free food, drinks and whatever else you want. So that was a cool experience being able to score these tickets for free…especially since the face value of the 4 tickets was 1700 dollars for the one game.

Let me just say sitting in the box and getting the free food and drinks was the best part of the game. Watching them “play” was about as boring as watching the grass grow. There was no hustle, no real excitement, nothing like you get at the college games. Although Lebron James had a run in with one of the Bobcats players and felt the need to pretend to be knocked out for about 2 minutes laying on the floor motionless. They showed the replay and they barely bumped into each other. After he finally got up, did he leave the game like you would think he would after being knocked out? No he gets up and hits three’s and foul shots like nothing happend. I wish I had an 89 million dollar shoe deal like he does. (Thats an open invitation…im looking at you Reebok Pumps representive).

The last couple of minutes of the game were actually really fun to watch. The players got into the game finally that it was almost over and it was a close score, and the crowd really got into it as well. Looking back it was a fun experience and I got to spend some time with my brother, and I also got to see Liv Tyler and have my geeky Lord of the Rings side come out when I saw her, but it will probably be my last NBA game that I go to…unless we get free tickets again..those hotdogs were good.

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8 Comments so far
  1. Paul November 7, 2006 10:04 am

    If you’re looking for the type of atmosphere where the audience gets fired up and show some “real patriotism” to the home school/city, then NBA probably isn’t your thing. It’s more about “family entertainment”.

    But with that being said, why not watch a sport at its best? Those guys are much quicker/stronger/more talented than NCAA players. I bet the Cavs playing the way they played over the weekend will beat Duke at their best.

    I DO understand the idea of “We got the best minors in the country, so we all watch minors”, but don’t just rule out the majors just because there isn’t a “majors” team in the RDU area.

  2. Brent November 7, 2006 5:01 pm

    Fans of the NBA are not fans of the sport of basketball. It’’s marketed to children and people who don’t know any better. The NBA is like pop music. All style and no substance.

    That’s why our “major leaguers” continually get their shit handed to them by european teams that are not as quick,strong or talented. They know how to play the game and exploit out pro players lack of basic fundamentals.

    I agree that the NBA makes for some great clips on Sportcenter, but if you can actuallly sit through an entire regular season NBA game, you’d better be either drunk, retarded or both because that is not basketball.

  3. Paul November 8, 2006 9:46 am

    Ahhh……spoken like a true Southerner. We lose in basketball to Europeans because we don’t play as a team. We don’t take the time and train as a team and have the “team chemistry” like they do. We train for a few months for this “event”, while they train for years and years preparing this “event of their lifetime”. We still didn’t do too badly, I think we came in 3rd.

    By the same comparison, if you take a bunch of NCAA players and didn’t train them as a team, I think they would do a lot worse than the NBA players did.

    I don’t think NBA players “lack fundamentals”, it’s just that “fundamentals” like pick & roll don’t get them too far in the NBA, so it’s less used. But if you watch all the people who move without the ball, and basic jumpshooting abilities, people like Peja or the former Reggie Miller will beat out any NCAA stars.

  4. Scott November 8, 2006 9:50 am

    Im not saying they arent good or lack talent, im saying they lack enthusiasm. They walk on and off the court the walk up and down the court unless they have the ball. Its just a differnet tempo than seen in college games. Its like they dont really care if they are there or not as long as they are gettin there millions of dollars. It just seems like they really want to play more and harder in college.

  5. will November 8, 2006 10:30 am

    Paul,

    I completely understand what your saying. You, like me make total sense.

    Thanks, your friend,
    George Bush

  6. Paul November 8, 2006 4:49 pm

    Scott: I totally agree that NCAA players try harder. I guess that’s why NBA is considered “entertainment” than “pride”. But wait till the Playoffs, those are some of the most exciting games there is.

  7. casie November 9, 2006 10:46 am

    scoogs,

    i went to my first nba game as well last week. it was the celtics vs new orleans and it was actually a good nba game. i agree with brent in that the nba kind of sucks. but if you can watch a couple of teams play who have no name young players that still play like they are in college its not bad. u are definitely lucky in your seating…i was at the top row of the arena…but my nachos were freakin fantastic!

  8. will November 10, 2006 11:21 am

    i\’ve heard your nachos were fantastic too.