I'm never one to whine about the lack of D in the All Star game, because I know what it is. However, yesterday was the worst all time, and that's not hyperbole. The whole weekend was a massive bust.
I finally saw the replay... what a farce. I know the kids are tired of old heads talking about competitiveness, but love fest is sickening at times. Watching the West bench cheer for KD and Westbrook like it was a baby shower made me throw up in my mouth a little. I still find the 3pt shootout is entertaining, and the dunk contest is a coin flip every year, and that's fine. Skills challenge is not terrible either. But I'm totally out on the ASG, it's "full of cringe" as the kids say these days.
I only watched the skills challenge and 3pt shootout and part of the rising stars game. Next year I'll just watch the 1st two
Really? So this is why Reggie the Ferengi was acting like a schoolgirl throughout the all star game? Right.
I don't think millennials liked it, I think little kids liked it. That's a different thing right, kids like 12 and under aren't millennials in the sense it's usually used?
Miller on several occasions during the broadcast referenced the 1987 All Star Game which had a playoff atmosphere where everybody went after each other. The game (and last season's) wasn't even in the same universe as far as intensity goes.
They need to offer the winning team a certain amount of money for their selected charity or something like that, something that will get them playing harder. One can only watch so many alley-oops before getting bored.
There's money...but these players makes so much that it is a drop in the bucket for them. The pride isn't there not so much for charity. All that chummy-chummy crap.
The money is the problem. These guys make so much money, they don't need pride anymore. Why go even half-way hard and even take the chance to hurt yourself when it could cost you a 200 million dollar contract? No thanks.
...similarly now you also have college football players skipping the Senior Bowl and Bowl games for the same reasons.
Hard to fault them, but it does breed this sort of wimpy, anti-competitive atmosphere. I miss when players didn't like each other.
It's a start. But you'd have Bron, the Dubs, and maybe the player from one other team trying and the rest are still trying to lay down on a dunk attempt.
