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Originally Posted by Bad Zebra
Nope. Actually, "he" thinks they should PLAY like the highly paid professsionals they are...and not BEHAVE like unskilled high school kids.
What this series has degraded into goes beyond intense rivalries and the occasional dust up...overpaid knuckleheads with no control of their emotions. It overshadows the positive aspects of the pro game...like the perseverance of the wounded Chicago line up or the dominant skills of LeBron.
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I don't watch much NBA, but it has little to do with any perceived attitudes. I don't watch enough to know one way or the other, I just don't have the time to watch that much basketball.
That said, I agree with BZ here. One of my least favorite excuses for unsporting behavior is "it's an emotional game." Coaches get away with it, players get away with it, and fans get away with it all under this excuse. It's a horrible thing to teach young people that emotions and stress are an excuse to act like dicks.
We're essentially telling them, "This game is so important that we're going to allow you to do and say things that would otherwise leave you friendless and jobless: and we'll excuse it because of the stress imposed by trying to win a game."