Anyone else find it difficult to get into a womens bball game?

It’s because in general, it’s just bad basketball. Even good women’s basketball is full of missed gimme layups and air balls.

I’ll still give them credit and I’ll still watch the important games, but watching weekly is difficult.

You mean to tell me this shirt lied to me?

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I’ll still give them credit and I’ll still watch the important games, but watching weekly is difficult.

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This is how I feel.

It was crazy watching the broadcasters go nuts over a girl blocking a shot and talking about how tall she is and how you shouldn't challenge her. The shot was an underhanded scoop layup that the girl blocked at her waist.

I think all college basketball is a pretty terrible product.

March Madness is fun as shite because of the chaos overload, but watching a men's regular season college basketball game where you have no rooting interest could be classified as torture. Watching a women's game would be even worse.

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I feel like I’m watching a 5th grade boys basketball game with miss after miss after miss.

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I feel its being refereed by 5th grade boys basketball refs.

That made it extremely hard to watch.

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think all college basketball is a pretty terrible product.

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I disagree. Well coached, sharp shooting teams like Bama (yack) are fun af to watch.

To be fair, the men miss a lot of shots too. Shooting, as a whole, is not great in college basketball. Much of that is because the mid-range jumper is considered to be a "bad" shot now, so you have a lot of guys taking 3's who shouldn't be, along with a lot of tough shots at the rim.

The women's game is a "completely below the rim" game. That's why to you have more jump shots and, as a byproduct, more missed jumpshots.

Personally, I will never be able to get into the game largely BECAUSE it is a "below the rim game". There are not many explosive, highlight, plays because the athleticism is just not the same. You don't have a lot of player who can really break others down one-on-one. When the bottom of the backboard is a real threat to be a leading shot blocker in the game, and THIS is a highlight play where neither player is more than 8 inches off the ground, it's just not exciting to me. Of course, that doesn't mean others shouldn't watch if they find it exciting...it's just that I don't.

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I disagree. Well coached, sharp shooting teams like Bama (yack) are fun af to watch.

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And there's only a handful of good shooting teams.

NBA is much more enjoyable in that sense. The games aren't a slog because of the zone and they aren't laying bricks from deep.

It’s funny because I felt better Sunday watching the LSU women field a more competent and coherent offense than I did Saturday night watching the LSU men brick shot after shot until the last 10 minutes of the game. The first half of the LSU men’s game Saturday night was some of the worst basketball I’ve ever seen in my life, and that includes high school basketball.

Men are more athletic than women. No shite. Expecting more is like expecting high school football to resemble the NFL.

But good women’s basketball is still a good product.