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Originally Posted by MysticCat
Oh absolutely. Cheating/flubs/subjectivity can enter any referreed sport, but to be honest, I think they're less prevelant in some sports than others, just through the nature of the game. And ultimately, the game is still decided by goals scored, not by points awarded by a judge.
And to be honest, I really don't care about Olympic basketball or tennis either. I think I'm old school and miss the days when Olympic athlete meant not professional -- if I want to watch an NBA game or a pro tennis match, I can. (Though I'll take college basketball over NBA any day of the week.) I mainly watch the Summer Olympics for swimming and track and field, though I can also get into things like volleyball or water polo. Other stuff I'll watch if it's on, but only because it's on.
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Agreed. I'm on the fence about Olympic basketball. I get what you're saying, but at the same time, I remember how frustrating it was to go into the Olympics and know that the players we sent weren't our best, and our best would mop up the floor with their best. Of course, now that they are, in fact, mopping up the floor with them, it's all pretty anti-climatic and boring. I'm down to kind of keeping track of how our local NBA players ( Blazers) are doing in the Olympics....and that's pretty depressing, so I've avoided Olympic basketball.
I didn't use to care all that much about basketball - NBA or college, but hubby is a March Madness college basketball addict (he needs a 12 step program for it or something), and we lived in Spokane for 11 years and became HUGE Gonzaga fans in that time, so now I follow it more and yeah, I also prefer it to the NBA.
Now that the gymnastics is almost over, we'll be quickly moving on to track which is the other major focus for our family, since hubby ran track in college and coaches it now.
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