Brittney Griner Dunks. No one should care

[Point Blank]

I don't understand how she doesn't dunk more often, that didn't look difficult at all.

Exactly what I thought.

[ralaw]

Women's basketball is very physical and the players tend to me very dirty. Its funny though, because for the most part most women are on the same plain athletically, so skillset come into play. However, when you have someone like Griner or Delle Donne at some point it just isn't fair, because they're just so physically dominant. My area has 3 highschool girls who are D1 talents, but they separate themselves even more because skillset wise and athletically they play like dudes. They all are nationally ranked.

[ralaw]

And I use to like ralaw

Just kidding but damn is watching and consuming women's basketball at any level is a chore for me.

For a time at MM I had Ivory Latta as my avatar.

Iit all started when I was in highschool....I messed with this chick who played on the highschool team...she went to my games and I went to her's.....she now is a lesbian.



Not my fault.

[EmpireWF]

For the most part women's sports will never really get the respect, because as a society we really don't care for women athletes and the only one's that really matter have to be attractive.

Sadly true for MMA up to this point.

[FedEx227]

It's just such a below the rim game, that it's really tough in 2012 to watch when the other options are so much more of an exciting game.

It's like willingly watching 1950s football on a Sunday afternoon when all the NFL games are on.

The playing style is pure basketball, lots of ball movement, it's a flashback to the way the game was before everyone became gigantic men with ungodly athleticism.

[FedEx227]

For a time at MM I had Ivory Latta as my avatar.

Or right! I should've remember that. You're excused, for now I guess.

[FirstTimer]

It's just such a below the rim game, that it's really tough in 2012 to watch when the other options are so much more of an exciting game.

It's like willingly watching 1950s football on a Sunday afternoon when all the NFL games are on.

The playing style is pure basketball, lots of ball movement, it's a flashback to the way the game was before everyone became gigantic men with ungodly athleticism.

[FedEx227]

It really is. As in the way the game was designed to be played. John Wooden always talks about how he loved women's basketball more because it was less about athleticism, above the rim, showmanship, etc. and more about team-play and ball movement.

With that being said, there's a reason basketball has evolved since it was a bunch of jews dribbling 5 feet in the air and passing the ball 45 times a possession.

[FirstTimer]

It really is. As in the way the game was designed to be played.

Or the way the game was forced the be played because it was invented by unathletic whites.

I'm not sure we could prove Naismith ever inteded for the game to not move forward or should stay the way it was forever.

IMO women's basketball is by far a worse product than men's ball so I don't see the "pure" aspect of it.

[Rudi]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0BSbN3PjEk"]Brittney Griner BAYLOR Dunk! - YouTube[/ame]

This doesn't bring you guys off your feet screaming and yelling at the top of your lungs? WHAT A MONSTROUS DUNK IM SURPRISED THE BACKBOARD DIDN'T SHATTER

[FedEx227]

Of course it's a worse product, when did I say otherwise?

I'm just saying people like Wooden use it as reference of a flashback of the way the game was originally intended. Of course it was bound to evolve but for old schoolers like Wooden he'd prefer it stay 1950s style. There's no denying it's a far worse, more boring product, but there's also no denying it's a flashback of the game as it was played in the 20s-50s.

To me, that's not appealing at all, which is why I go out of my way to not watch a minute of any women's basketball since I think it's an absolutely awful game and I don't want to watch 1930s basketball.

[FirstTimer]

Of course it's a worse product, when did I say otherwise?

I never said you did.

I'm just saying people like Wooden use it as reference of a flashback of the way the game was originally intended. Of course it was bound to evolve but for old schoolers like Wooden he'd prefer it stay 1950s style.

That doesn't make it "pure" that just makes it Wooden's preference and "old school".


I'd argue that basketball by design should be/was made to be played the way it is now and the game the men play now is more "pure" than the Wooden preference.

[FedEx227]

I guess it comes down to pure vs. old school and how you define that. I honestly don't care either way because the end result is a really shitty product of basketball.

[Blick]

I've watched more women's hoops this year than I ever have. I actually didn't mind it. That Donne chick is a cold blooded baller.

[FedEx227]

I didn't know people besides girls basketball teams with free tickets and parents actually watched women's basketball.

The hell is wrong with you people?