Women's basketball sucks

[Skjellyfetti]

Bernstein: Women’s Basketball Sucks
December 22, 2010 8:58 AM

By Dan Bernstein

The University of Connecticut women’s basketball team just set a record of some kind for their level of their sport.

Their sport is painful to watch for anyone with an iota of aesthetic judgment, yet too many people are expected to think otherwise because telling the truth is considered mean, and it deviates from the gender-equity guilt narrative.

I support fully their right to play, and support equally my right to not want to watch them do so, and to be allowed to state the obvious about how awful women’s basketball is. Everybody knows it, but too few can bring themselves to say it.

Don’t even bother with your indignant sputtering about fundamentals, teamwork and intangibles. We get all that from real basketball, just at much higher speed, with much more successful, explosive conclusions. It’s easier to see passes and half-court sets in a women’s game because it’s happening slower – it’s like saying you prefer watching a junior-high boy’s practice session because you can see how the game is “supposed to be played.”

When played by bad players, yes. That’s exactly how it’s supposed to look. If you claim to enjoy that more than something better, then you do not like basketball.

I really had no strong feelings about UConn coach Geno Auriemma, but now I see why so many people hate him.

“A bunch of women are threatening to break a men’s record, and everybody is all up in arms about it,” he said about whatever it was his team was doing. “All the miserable bastards that follow men’s basketball and don’t want us to break the record are all here because they’re pissed.”

Couple things, here. First, I didn’t even know the “men’s record” off the top of my head, nor do I care about it. Second, his team can no more “break” that mark than Wayne Gretzky’s 92 goals broke Roger Maris’s 1961 home run record, Sergei Bubka’s highest pole-vault eclipsed the best time run by Secretariat, or another Oscar nomination for Meryl Streep finally gives her the one she needs to tie Pete Rose’s seventeen All-Star appearances.

Those of us who enjoy the game played well are not miserable at all. In fact, any reasonable basketball fan would be made more miserable by bricked set-shots, mundane layups and rebounds that take forever to be grabbed.

The fact that Auriemma felt compelled to make such a comment proves he knows I’m right.

If networks want to continue to waste time and money pretending otherwise, they’re allowed. As long as David Stern is happy pouring away NBA dollars to subsidize the yearly millions of dollars of WNBA losses, he can. It’s all part of the big, expensive miscalculation that the good intentions of equal-rights support can convince people that the empress is clothed in the finest robes.

It’s over now, of course, this latest, occasional period of time that reminds us briefly of women’s basketball, and some of the bitter people involved in it.

So I’ll be watching Derrick Rose attack Washington tonight, and I’ll spend Christmas Day enjoying the Heat against the Lakers – LeBron James and Dwyane Wade against Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol.

Oh, the misery!

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[dbackjon]

[SuperHornet]

FWIW, that streak goes into the trash bin of history Tuesday night....

[dbackjon]

FWIW, that streak goes into the trash bin of history Tuesday night....

How so?

[SuperHornet]

How else? UCONN is going to lose. That's the only way winning streaks end short of disbanding the program.

[tampajag]

FWIW, that streak goes into the trash bin of history Tuesday night....

Tuesday night they destroyed #20 FSU they won't lose this year. Now maybe E$PN will stop covering this

[Ursus A. Horribilis]

I agree. Other than a couple of sports like gymnastics where the chicks are in skimpy shit, pulling spandex out of their asses I don't know how I could bring myself to watch them.

[nwFL Griz]

Agree. Women's basketball is horrible to watch...absolutely brutal.

[SuperHornet]

Agree. Women's basketball is horrible to watch...absolutely brutal.

Yeah, I guess if you like nightly "highlights" of dunks going back to halfcourt instead of fundamental basketball, then it would be horrid for you.

[Ursus A. Horribilis]

Agree. Women's basketball is horrible to watch...absolutely brutal.

Yeah, I guess if you like nightly "highlights" of dunks going back to halfcourt instead of fundamental basketball, then it would be horrid for you.

Fundamentals are fine if there is more than just fundamentals. There isn't. It sucks.

[nwFL Griz]

Agree. Women's basketball is horrible to watch...absolutely brutal.

Yeah, I guess if you like nightly "highlights" of dunks going back to halfcourt instead of fundamental basketball, then it would be horrid for you.

So, out of all the posters who agreed with the original article in this thread...you single me out?

I'm no NBA fan, but the mens college game is quite nice to watch, and is full of teams that play fundamental ball. So don't give me that crap about fundamentals.

[SuperHornet]

Nobody else said anything outrageous.

[Rob Iola]

I agree. Other than a couple of sports like gymnastics where the chicks are in skimpy shit, pulling spandex out of their asses I don't know how I could bring myself to watch them.

Women's beach volleyball doesn't suck too much...

[nwFL Griz]

Nobody else said anything outrageous.

Wow, you are a moron. I wish this forum had an ignore feature.

And what I said wasn't outrageous at all. If you like slow, unathletic fundamental basketball, then by all means, womens basketball is for you.

I'll pass.

[Grizalltheway]

Nobody else said anything outrageous.

Wow, you are a moron. I wish this forum had an ignore feature.

And what I said wasn't outrageous at all. If you like slow, unathletic fundamental basketball, then by all means, womens basketball is for you.

I'll pass.

It does, FWIW..

[nwFL Griz]

Wow, you are a moron. I wish this forum had an ignore feature.

And what I said wasn't outrageous at all. If you like slow, unathletic fundamental basketball, then by all means, womens basketball is for you.

I'll pass.

It does, FWIW..

Help me out then...how do I do it?

[SuperHornet]

Hey, all I said was that your comment was outrageous. I didn't say it was criminal. Lately, there's only one guy who's gone out of his way to be abusive. Your comment didn't rise to anywhere near that standard. No need to get your panties in a tizzy.

[Skjellyfetti]

Yeah, I guess if you like nightly "highlights" of dunks going back to halfcourt instead of fundamental basketball, then it would be horrid for you.

Don’t even bother with your indignant sputtering about fundamentals, teamwork and intangibles. We get all that from real basketball, just at much higher speed, with much more successful, explosive conclusions. It’s easier to see passes and half-court sets in a women’s game because it’s happening slower – it’s like saying you prefer watching a junior-high boy’s practice session because you can see how the game is “supposed to be played.”

[Skjellyfetti]

No need to get your panties in a tizzy.

That's sexist.

[BlueHen86]

I like men's college hoops.

I'm not a huge fan of the women's game but I'd rather watch the UConn women than an NBA regular season game.

[bandl]

I like men's college hoops.

I'm not a huge fan of the women's game but I'd rather watch the UConn women than an NBA regular season game.

This.
Men's College Basketball --->Women's College Basketball --->Turkish Midget Wheelchair Basketball ---> NBA ---> Albino Ethiopian Women's Basketball ---> WNBA

[Gil Dobie]

I do watch women's basketball more than NCAA swimming and diving events.

[Pwns]

I don't neccesarily agree with "the game's slower, so it sucks". If that's the case, why watch college football when you can watch the NFL, or high school FB when you can watch college, or FCS football when you can watch BCS football?

The reason I personally don't like women's college sports is because there's just no parity. In every sport there's one or two teams that f***ing win it every year.

[Skjellyfetti]

Unaired Tosh.0 Super Bowl commerical... it reminded me of this thread.... and SuperHornet.

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[Francisco_2006]

I'd rather watch a women's volleyball game anyday of the week than endure a women's basketball game. Compared to basketball players in baggy shorts , volleyball girls in spandex shorts are babes. Athletic too.