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hocky or basketball?
Submitted by neilshearman, 21-05-2023, 09:51 PM, Thread ID: 265345
RE: hocky or basketball?
18-07-2024, 02:40 AM
#19 This is like asking which women are more beautiful, blondes or brunettes? It’s all a matter of personal opinion.
I, for one, prefer hockey simply because basketball has too much scoring. I used to love basketball when I was younger, but back then, our local NBA team, the Toronto Raptors, were not very good, so they’d get beaten pretty good. It’s not easy to come back from 20 points down with 10 minutes left in the game. It’s possible, but it’s not done very often.
As for hockey, let’s say a team has a four-goal lead with 15 minutes to play. It’s not likely for a team to come from behind after being down by that much, but it’s a lot more possible to do than if you’re down by 20 in basketball.
Most sports have boring, repetitive times where almost nothing exciting seems to happen, and I’ve noticed that a lot with basketball, even though they’re still scoring. Lots of scoring, especially by the team that isn’t your team, does not make it an exciting game at all. Even if your team is doing all the scoring, running up the score, and there’s no chance that the other team can come back, that isn’t exciting to me.
Another thing I don’t like about basketball is why it’s 12 minutes shorter than hockey or football. Each quarter is only 12 minutes long, making it a total of 48 game minutes. Unless it’s a close game, the whole game can take 2 hours and 15 minutes. If it’s a close game, that’s where the game can be extended. The last two minutes of the game takes up half an hour sometimes, what with all the timeouts and fouls and free-throw shots that don’t use up the game-clock.
Hockey can get boring too. A lot of the time, teams might just be passing the puck a couple times, the puck gets intercepted, then the other team does the same thing. Then one team takes a shot that goes wide of the net, then the puck goes the other way and the whole thing happens again.
There might be a lack of scoring in hockey as well, but at least there’s more scoring than in soccer, where the scores are typically 1–0, 1–1, 2–1, or even 0–0. And at least they stop the
I, for one, prefer hockey simply because basketball has too much scoring. I used to love basketball when I was younger, but back then, our local NBA team, the Toronto Raptors, were not very good, so they’d get beaten pretty good. It’s not easy to come back from 20 points down with 10 minutes left in the game. It’s possible, but it’s not done very often.
As for hockey, let’s say a team has a four-goal lead with 15 minutes to play. It’s not likely for a team to come from behind after being down by that much, but it’s a lot more possible to do than if you’re down by 20 in basketball.
Most sports have boring, repetitive times where almost nothing exciting seems to happen, and I’ve noticed that a lot with basketball, even though they’re still scoring. Lots of scoring, especially by the team that isn’t your team, does not make it an exciting game at all. Even if your team is doing all the scoring, running up the score, and there’s no chance that the other team can come back, that isn’t exciting to me.
Another thing I don’t like about basketball is why it’s 12 minutes shorter than hockey or football. Each quarter is only 12 minutes long, making it a total of 48 game minutes. Unless it’s a close game, the whole game can take 2 hours and 15 minutes. If it’s a close game, that’s where the game can be extended. The last two minutes of the game takes up half an hour sometimes, what with all the timeouts and fouls and free-throw shots that don’t use up the game-clock.
Hockey can get boring too. A lot of the time, teams might just be passing the puck a couple times, the puck gets intercepted, then the other team does the same thing. Then one team takes a shot that goes wide of the net, then the puck goes the other way and the whole thing happens again.
There might be a lack of scoring in hockey as well, but at least there’s more scoring than in soccer, where the scores are typically 1–0, 1–1, 2–1, or even 0–0. And at least they stop the
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