Episode 245: NBA Game In Need Of Repair

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Grant Napear

Sports, Football, Basketball

4.7 • 944 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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On today's episode I discuss the state of the NBA game. Yes, ratings have been very good thus far in the postseason, but do you really enjoy watching the game now compared to past eras? The NBA game has pretty much come down to three-point shooting. Make more three's and you win. Shoot a higher percentage from three and you win most nights. Fastbreaks now usually result in a corner three instead of an automatic two. The game needs some changes. As Jerry Reynolds told me years ago, get rid of the corner three. That would really help the game. Let's hope that happens soon! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:49.6	plumbing they've got a fix for you you know I've been looking at the ratings for the
0:54.3	NBA playoffs and they are doing very very well and then I ask myself well why is
0:59.2	that? I mean the game is not played very well. The game really comes down to one category almost every single night.
1:05.4	The team that shoots better from three and makes the most three-pointers
1:09.2	wins the game.
1:10.6	You don't see an extra pass, you don't see teams trying to work the ball down low. You see a lot of dribbling on the perimeter and you see teams driving on three on ones and instead of a wide open contested layup or dunk, it's kick out into the corner for a three,
1:25.7	and that's the way the game is played. You know, I wonder what Jerry West thinks when he watches
1:31.0	this era of basketball or magic or bird Jordan and you can go right on down the list.
1:37.4	I broke into the league in 88. I did watch a lot of NBA when I was a kid because the next were really good with
1:44.7	Frazier and Reed and Bill Bradley, the pusher and the game was played so much differently and I enjoy the way the game used to be played.
1:57.8	I enjoyed watching basketball more in the 60s, not necessarily in the 70s as much, but in the 80s, Magic Bird, you know, Isaiah, you know, the way the game was played,
2:09.4	the fact that you actually had to get the ball close to the basket to try to win the game as opposed
2:15.6	as just chucking it from the perimeter.
2:18.2	Clearly you look at what happened in the 90s with Jordan.
2:21.8	You look at even when the Kings played in the early 2000s you
2:24.8	know people marveled absolutely marveled at the way the Kings played the ball went
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