My two least favorite things to see in a sports article, the word “take” and advanced metrics. I’m too old for the internet. I need to go back to getting my sports news via courier.
Aaron Afflalo
Dell Curry
Yup, you can’t even steal on the double-team and no matter how stone-handed the player is they will throw a perfect pass to the wide open guy who doesn’t miss. Also on the rare occasion you do steal it’s a deflection that is magically gathered by your opponent, and on the rarer occasion you do get the guy you stole…
Born on third bass and thinks he hit a treble.
That’s craven Moorehead.
“There comes a point where your insistence on the greatness of something makes it actively repellent to others.”
I was a long time NBA live guy but was forced to switch when they stopped putting out games. EA should follow in the footsteps of NBA Jam, and just bring back Live ‘95 with updated rosters. Everything since then is too many extra buttons (I don’t want to do the konami code to execute a post move) and cut scenes (does…
Or when their defender magnetically locks onto your guy from a weird angle and prevent what should be an easy layup. How all your blocks and deflections tend to end up back with the other team. Their 6footer swatting your 7footer and then scoring right through/over him on the other side. Soooo many frustrations for me…
I gave up my quest for a triple double long ago because of guys passing my perfect setup or the standard Wrong Guy Pass which is one of my all time favorites. Yes, I pressed the stick towards my basket, please pass to the lone player remaining backcourt.
In my head I count turnovers as added assists. I play solely against the cpu and they seem to have a defender in the key on 95% of fast breaks, who will pretty much steal any attempted pass even if he’s 5'2" and you throw an alley oop (providing the alley oop doesn’t go flying into the stands).
... the bizarre missed layups when the computer decides to win and become unstoppable.
Do you think Ginobli’s lifetime of flopping may have caused the ref to hesitate on the call?
Guys like Bayless and Cowherd are some of the main reasons I stopped watching ESPN. The whole “embrace debate” made me seek alternative ways to follow sports. I find it pretty bizarre that FS1 and others are trying to beat ESPN by following the exact path that made them so unappealing (at least to me) in the first…
The inside looks disturbingly like MetLife Stadium which is a truly horrible place to watch a game if you plan on spending less than about $500 a ticket. At least that roof/lid will prevent low flying planes from blocking your view of the ants on the field.
“... you kill off too many people and move the remaining ones apart from one another and what do you have left? Just a bunch of people with no real connection to one another milling around doing things you have no emotional investment in...”
Tie Domi
Dan Cloutier