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What did Wayne Gretzky, the Great One, say?

BRC
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Agree on the rebounding they were always winning off the boards but not just jumping first, they have a keen sense of where the ball is going of the board! Clear lesson on watchin the environment, Positioning yourself for the next event not the one that is already playing out!

(1) I don’t even know the rules very well, and when I looked on the Internet I couldn’t find the rules or even an introduction to the rules.

(2) TV always treated b-ball like all other sports, as formula fiction with characters, ones the audience is supposed to identify with, independent of the game, the rules, or anything else. So, we get, say, “He’s the best rebound getter who ever put on a jock strap, and he will win if he possibly can.” E.g., in auto racing, the coverage is about the drivers with essentially nothing on the engineering.

For more, TV mostly just followed the ball, and I could never get any insight at all into what the heck happened.

(3) I don’t understand the game at all. Not even a little bit over just put the ball in the basket. And, I never saw any opportunity via TV watching to understand the game. Net, I don’t have even a weak little hollow hint of a tiny clue what is going on in the game.

Watching a game, I couldn’t tell the difference between zone defense and man-to-man. For anything deeper about offense or defense, I wouldn’t have a clue.

(4) B-ball is fast, too fast for me to see what is going on, especially on just a TV screen with old TV resolution. For apparently many crucial points, the best I can see is a blur.

I gave up on TV b-ball. Similarly for TV football.

To get me to watch, the people who produce b-ball TV coverage will have to up their game exponentially many points. Here’s a start: Just f’get about the game. Instead, get about 22 cameras that cover the court — my understanding is that those cameras are already in place and are used for the game films for the coaches. Then put that video on the Internet where can go slow motion and/or frame by frame and get expert commentary. Then, I could follow and start to understand the game.

Next, let out what now appear to be deep, dark secrets of the Bat Cave — the rules, the darned rules, what the heck are the rules, the secret, hidden, darned rules — let out the darned rules.

Next, game fundamentals. I don’t have a clue. What are the fundamental skills, tactics, and strategies? Explain them.

Next, statistics, I want the summary statistics.

Then maybe I’ll try again to watch b-ball.

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They shot 30% on 13 3-pointers while destroying Notre Dame on the boards. Rebounding was the huge difference plus shooting 61% from the floor and 83% from the foul line.

Notre Dame played well enough to win looking at their stats except for the rebounds.

BRC
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If God isn’t a Tarheel, why is the sky Carolina blue?

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BRC
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