Comments on: The Devolution of Basketball http://underthetablebooks.com/blog/archives/88 The creative adventures of Todd Walton Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:26:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Andy Weiss http://underthetablebooks.com/blog/archives/88/comment-page-1#comment-6338 Andy Weiss Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:42:00 +0000 http://underthetablebooks.com/blog/?p=88#comment-6338 I fully understand the way you feel. I'm not a gifted player, but spent countless hours playing and trying to improve whatever meager skills I had. As I became an adult, I abhored what the game had become, basically ruleless. and thugish. During a pickup game I was trying to guard a big guy, about 6' 7". His sole game was to intimidate and bully. If you tried to guard him, he would slam into you as hard as he could and basically run you over. And no one else called a foul or said a word about it. After he bloodied my nose and broke my glasses, all I could say was "I've had it". That was my last game. The NBA game I loved has essentially became unwatchable. I used to stay up to watch Larry, Magic, et al till all hours of the night and got so wound up, I never could get to sleep. Now I am bored to tears and seldom watch it at all. I fully understand the way you feel. I’m not a gifted player, but spent countless hours playing and trying to improve whatever meager skills I had.

As I became an adult, I abhored what the game had become, basically ruleless. and thugish. During a pickup game I was trying to guard a big guy, about 6′ 7″. His sole game was to intimidate and bully. If you tried to guard him, he would slam into you as hard as he could and basically run you over. And no one else called a foul or said a word about it. After he bloodied my nose and broke my glasses, all I could say was “I’ve had it”. That was my last game.

The NBA game I loved has essentially became unwatchable. I used to stay up to watch Larry, Magic, et al till all hours of the night and got so wound up, I never could get to sleep. Now I am bored to tears and seldom watch it at all.

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