Thanks Detroit, For Making Me Remember Why I Stopped Watching Basketball

[THUNDER HANDS]

God, you are such a boring team to watch.

MY NETS, my humble, little New Jersey Nets, which have brought team basketball and unselfish play back to the NBA and given the Eastern Conference their only legit, solid team for the past two years - got smoked last night.

By a rather dull, rather poke-your-eyes-out-with-a-chicken-bone-than-watch-them-for-48-minutes Pistons team whose main strategy seems to be to hold the other team scoreless for as long as they can while accidentally putting the ball in the other team's basket.

This is not a team I want to watch any further in the playoffs. This style of basketball RUINED the league after the first Jordan retirement, when the Knicks were one of the dominant teams in the league.

Teams with sub-par talent who rely on suffocating defense to win are excruciatingly difficult to watch. Who wants to subject themselves to watching a halftime score of 37-25. I'm sure there must have been NFL games this year that had higher scores at the half.

I HATE YOU DETROIT. I HATE YOU, HATE YOU, HATE YOU.

You're RUINING the playoffs. NOBODY wants to see you. You're boring. You're dull. You have no exciting players.

You're just an annoying team that has size - that's it.

And when my Nets come back next game, we're gonna smoke YOU this time.

Nets in 5.

:mad:

[GOPisEvil]

1. Wait until the Finals: Spurs/Pistons

First team to 70 wins! :7

[THUNDER HANDS]

2. i hate that type of basketball

Make no mistake. I also hate Dallas and their all-offense, no defense style too.

I think teams have to play at both ends. But Detroit just makes the game not fun. I hate Larry Brown teams.

[GOPisEvil]

3. I have to admit it's fun watching your team just clamp down the other team

But if your team can't score a lick either, then it's boring. That's why when the Spurs aren't shooting well, I can't stand to watch them.

[THUNDER HANDS]

6. well yeah of course, when it's your team

Maybe I'm just spoiled because I'm a Nets fan and we're one of the more exciting teams in the league. I know not every team has a Kidd, Martin and Jefferson on it to run down the lane and get alley-oops and stuff.

Just give the fans a good show. Nobody wants to see games where both teams can't crack 80.

[LynneSin]

4. <yawn> I'm sorry - were you saying something

Nets are about as exciting as watching my cat lick himself. Maybe there is an initial 2 second thrill - but after that who really cares anymore

[THUNDER HANDS]

7. I care

don't I matter?

:evilgrin:

[LynneSin]

8. you matter - who are you?

Do I know you?

:P

[GOPisEvil]

10. He keeps blowing your Philly gatherings off!

I suggest kicking his ass! :D

[THUNDER HANDS]

11. so uh...

how those Phillies doing?

(BTW, for those not up on the standings, they're only two games ahead of the Mets for 3rd in the division)

[LynneSin]

12. For the 10 millionth time:

I'M NOT A FREAKING PHILLIES FAN DAMNIT

Don't make me change my avatar to the Cincinnati Reds

[Champ]

19. Reds!!!!!

My favorite player. He is hurt but he won't be out long. One of the best ever, don't close the book on him yet.

[Champ]

5. Ben Wallace is exciting

I love watching him swat the ball in the upper deck. Detroit plays amazing D, I haven't seen anything like it before. Their were times where they just shut down Miluakee and did so with New Jersey. That is exciting to watch a team just dominant, Detroit is one scary team. Go Pacers!!! F the Nets :D

[THUNDER HANDS]

9. boooooo

Detroit got their one game. Nets in 5.

[Champ]

13. PACERS!!!!!!!

All over Kidd!!! :D

[BeyondGeography]

14. You're pissed 'cause your team lost

If your team wins, you don't care how ugly they look doing it. Reminds me of the old Anthony Mason, Charles Oakley, X-Man Knicks. Everybody hated them because they were ugly. Or, at least, that's what they said. maybe they just hated the Knicks.

And maybe you just can't stand watching your team get its ass kicked.

[THUNDER HANDS]

16. well

Yeah, I can't stand watching my team get its ass kicked. But who can?

That's besides the point. Even if the Nets won (which they will Friday) I'd still be pissed because the Pistons are making what should be a very fun and entertaining sport - basketball - into a slow, meandering mess.

And yes, I hated the Knicks too. Both because they were ugly and because they were the Knicks.

[Champ]

17. Hahah

Your post made me laugh. lol. :D

[BeyondGeography]

18. Well, good luck anyway

Might as well have some fun with those Nets, since it's going to be another pointless summer for those Mets.

[THUNDER HANDS]

21. yeah I know

All my teams, sans the Nets, suck.

[bif]

15. Looks like it's going to be Pistons in 4

Gotta love it!

[Az]

20. I thought hockey season was over

Oh wait.... this isn't hockey is it?

[noonwitch]

22. I liked the Pistons better in the 80s, when they were the Bad Boys

Laimbeer and Mahorn were my favorites, even if Laimbeer is a republican. To his credit, the party has been prevailing upon him to run for office and he has turned them down.

[THUNDER HANDS]

23. Rick Mahorn was awesome

He played for the Nets for a little while.

He and Karl Malone do something really funny when they play defense. When they're guarding someone on the blocks and the guy is backing them in, backing them in, they'll lean into them and then back off as the player tries to move into them again. Hitting nothing but air, the guy with the ball trips over his feet, falls, and Mahorn steals the ball away.

Gotta love it.