leviramsey Posted May 23, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted May 23, 2016 (edited) The NBA, yes. But basketball is at least somewhat redeemed by the NCAA tournament. To elaborate: Basketball has its problem that, in general, the first half/three-quarters/seven-eighths of a game has a distressing tendency to not really matter, compounded by being, like baseball and gridiron, fundamentally a large number of Bernoulli trials, so the better team generally wins the game. The NBA makes it worse by having 82 games to eliminate just under half the teams and then playing long playoff series which limit the ability of underdogs to pull upsets. It's really the only sport that has all three problems. Baseball is the epitome of a large number of Bernoulli trials, but the combination of pitching rotations, the batting order, and being low-scoring allows for some measure of randomness. The limited schedule for gridiron (despite being Bernoulli) allows for randomness. Ice hockey (like football) isn't really Bernoulli. NCAA basketball at least takes from gridiron the limited number of games and a single-elimination postseason. Edited May 23, 2016 by leviramsey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyblade Posted May 23, 2016 Share Posted May 23, 2016 WE STILL IN THIS Imagine the Raptors somehow making it to the NBA Finals, I don't think I could contain myself. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoelVilla Posted May 24, 2016 Share Posted May 24, 2016 #wethenorth Was in Toronto during the beginning of the Heat series. Raptors was a much bigger deal there than I thought. It is only because they are winning a cynical Leafs-fan said to me. Guess he is right, if the hockey team were winning Raptors wouldn't get so much coverage. This is the first time I check for the NBA results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abdomlahor Posted May 24, 2016 Share Posted May 24, 2016 (edited) Seems like the crowd there has gotten pretty loud. It probably is because they're winning, coupled with he whole Drake promotional thing he's got going on with them. I've actually been hooked on these playoffs, bought league pass and been watching the full games back the next day. Was a great game to watch in OKC the other night. A guy even got kicked in the bollocks for good measure. Edited May 24, 2016 by abdomlahor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyblade Posted May 24, 2016 Share Posted May 24, 2016 4 hours ago, NoelVilla said: #wethenorth Was in Toronto during the beginning of the Heat series. Raptors was a much bigger deal there than I thought. It is only because they are winning a cynical Leafs-fan said to me. Guess he is right, if the hockey team were winning Raptors wouldn't get so much coverage. This is the first time I check for the NBA results. Nah we're pretty passionate about basketball in Toronto especially in the inner city and always have been. I mean it does help that the Raptors are the only winning team in the city (the Blue Jays got a bit of hype last season though), but it's also the fact that we're making history with every game at this point. Most of us have witnessed the entire Raptors history so we know where we came from and it's pretty damn exciting to be mixing it up in the conference finals after 20 years of mostly pain. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 My favourite thing about the Raptors is that they boo their own team, when they're winning, if they haven't scored 100 points and miss out on a slice of free pizza. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoelVilla Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 (edited) 17 hours ago, Keyblade said: Nah we're pretty passionate about basketball in Toronto especially in the inner city and always have been. I mean it does help that the Raptors are the only winning team in the city (the Blue Jays got a bit of hype last season though), but it's also the fact that we're making history with every game at this point. Most of us have witnessed the entire Raptors history so we know where we came from and it's pretty damn exciting to be mixing it up in the conference finals after 20 years of mostly pain. My mistake to listen to one guy in a bar Speaking of the Blue Jays; I started the trip out in western Canada and it did feel like they were more Canada's team than was the case with the Raptors. I might be wrong about that one to. Canada is a beautiful country. Im right on that one. Edited May 25, 2016 by NoelVilla 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubliner Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 Russell Westbrook will be the finals MVP if he continues his current form. As good a performance as I've seen all season on Tuesday night. If he does it again tonight it could be bye bye Warriors Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abdomlahor Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 Westbrook is by far my favourite player to watch. Should be a good game tonight with GS needing the win, but OKC have all the momentum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted May 27, 2016 Share Posted May 27, 2016 3-2 up, but pretty much a must win for OKC now. Good luck beating the greatest team in history, on their own court, in a game 7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyblade Posted May 28, 2016 Share Posted May 28, 2016 Biggest game in our history coming up. The ACC will be rocking! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted May 29, 2016 Share Posted May 29, 2016 Thunder, especially Durant, choked hard. How can you possibly have such a bad game? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abdomlahor Posted May 29, 2016 Share Posted May 29, 2016 Yeah, so many turnovers from KD. He played quite well defensively but his shooting was really bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted June 3, 2016 Share Posted June 3, 2016 Anderson Varejao the first player to play for both finalists in the same season. Is it like baseball where if a team wins the Finals even players who no longer play for the team, so long as they played that season, can get a ring? If so, given his respect in the Cavs organisation, he's going to get a ring either way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 (edited) Best team of all-time? Good for Cleveland, it's about time. That block is going to go down as one of the iconic plays in the NBA Edited June 20, 2016 by kurtsimonw 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tegis Posted June 20, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted June 20, 2016 Stipe started it!!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Folski Posted June 20, 2016 Author Share Posted June 20, 2016 The block was insane myself and my 16 year old brother stayed up to watch and both of us jumped out of our chair at the block. LBJ just came from nowhere, delighted for them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyblade Posted July 4, 2016 Share Posted July 4, 2016 Kevin Durant signs with the Warriors Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abdomlahor Posted July 4, 2016 Share Posted July 4, 2016 The Warriors are the Monstars and the Cavs are the Tune Squad 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hornso Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 10 hours ago, Keyblade said: Kevin Durant signs with the Warriors Thought he'd stay with OKC for another season at least. Will be interesting to see how the Warriors get it to work, after all there is only one ball. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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