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Deconceptualist@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Basketball. It’s practically the same game as soccer and hockey without the interesting constraints (no hands, or play on skates). I won’t deny that it requires athleticism, but then it has the non-skill requirement to be freakishly tall. If you’re not biologically tall, well too bad, that’s a huge handicap you have basically no hope of overcoming.

And NBA games are the worst, it’s always tied like 100-100 until the last 1-2 minutes which is where all the interesting plays happen (between a half dozen fouls) and the actual outcome is decided. The rest of the game you can often just ignore and not really miss anything important.

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Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Soccer is insipid. I’ve been to pro games, played the video games, played with friends, and it’s all the same. The best part about going to a stadium was the beer that I could’ve had at home watching literally anything else. I don’t find any of it interesting save for the random penalty shot that kind of raised the stakes. But honestly, who cares.

And now I have the World Cup threatening to make my evening commute a living hell and I’ll get to hear to my neighbors screaming at the TV for a few days. Oh boy, can’t fucking wait.

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- Deconceptualist@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  I can’t really disagree with any of that. But I did enjoy playing back in school, and then women’s Olympic soccer is way better to watch than men’s IMO (they play hard, and don’t fall down and fake injury at the lightest bump).
  
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- grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Hm this makes me glad I don’t understand football
  
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Mika@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Don’t like the ruleset of it either. There are so many fouls cause it’s stupid and vague.

What do you mean it’s a foul to bodyblock the player who jumps with a ball? So mf can just jump forward on you and it’s YOUR responsibility to move out?

So what’s my goal as a defender, bodyblock (sometimes) and reach my hands to the ball in order to push the ball out or steal it… While reaching those same hands out to block the player movement is foul? You do understand that it’s the same move right? Same hands in the same 3d fucking world?

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