vinceair wrote:Hedonist wrote:vinceair wrote:Duncan's boring game? I wouldn't consider that as boring. Basket is a basket. No matter how you do it
So you consider every basket as enjoyable as the next one? And every game is just as much fun as the other?
Read whole post,especially end of my post.
Yes, I did. It just makes me wonder. I can get really enthusiastic about one game and not so much about another, just because of the matchups, the style of play, the players who are playing, the tension, the rivalry, all kinds of secondary predispositions can make me enjoy a game more, or less.
I enjoy competition, and because of that I like to watch Tim Duncan sometimes. Because he competes at a high level and high stake games are usually more enjoyable than an average game imo, but even then, he still strikes me as relatively boring. (That's absolutely not meant in a disrespectful way because as he does what he does, he competes and that's great.)
He executes. Period. You know maybe the guy with the Larry Bird avatar was right and I don't enjoy basketball because that's not enough for me. I want variation and creative play.
I heard a young NBA player quote his coach the other day who said "when you watch Tim Duncan play you can't see (on his face) if he's down or up by 20". It was meant as a compliment and I guess it is but I don't particularly like that in a player. I like to see emotion, through play and in demeanor, I can empathice more with that.
Everybody prefers certain players above the rest. The reasons why are all subjective. For me, it's the unlikely hero, I root for the underdog most of the times. I find it more interesting to see how a team can stop the team with the dominant big guy than to see the dominant big man execute and win.
To me, in a way it's a bit of a disappointment that the Cavs got Shaq because I no longer consider them an underdog.

I thought it was very exciting to see if LBJ could take his team all the way without a real force in the paint to help him out.
Finally, people get bored with the same guys winning it too often. Teams with the most trophies are always the most hated.
In any sport in any country. Celtics, Lakers, Bulls, they've all been hated for winning too much. By people who don't enjoy basketball? I beg to differ because why would they so passionately hate a team then?