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Olympic Medals
This is where you can discuss your homework, family, just about anything, make strange sounds and otherwise discuss things which are really not related to the Lancer-series. Yes that means you can discuss other games.
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Tue Aug 31, 2004 9:05 am
I was highly disappointed concerning basketball (I think it's understandable), but I still think our team is elite. Still, we won only 3 medals (1 gold and 2 silver), but I was glad our folks greeted our sportsmen (should I say "sportspeople in order to avoid accusations of sexism?
) as champions. I loved that.
Life is sexually transmitted
) as champions. I loved that.
Life is sexually transmitted
Tue Aug 31, 2004 9:14 am
If you take the countries that used to compete together as the USSR in the past and add their medal tally together you get at least 152 medals! (I combined the medal counts of Belarus, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Georgia, Russia and Kazahkstan). It would seems there's been no particularly drop in the talent coming from the region.
Interestingly enough, Holland gained a medal in mountain biking! Congrats guys, you did extremely well considering how flat a lot of your country is!
Interestingly enough, Holland gained a medal in mountain biking! Congrats guys, you did extremely well considering how flat a lot of your country is!
Tue Aug 31, 2004 6:15 pm
Oscar Robertson was asked to predict the outcome and he pretty much called it. He said that they really don't play BBall anymore in the NBA. All it is.... is "bump and dunk" ball.
Meanwhile, he says, folks outside the US have taken the game the way Dr. Nesbitt intended it and it still is a game of passing, team work and strategy.
Meanwhile, he says, folks outside the US have taken the game the way Dr. Nesbitt intended it and it still is a game of passing, team work and strategy.
Tue Aug 31, 2004 6:22 pm
see...this is why i want to be a bball coach...to restore basketball to its rightful glory and hope players and fans will appreciate the change. Plus, we need more people like Dr. J from the 70's. Is he still around?
--Shroomie
***WE LOVE EH! STEVE!!!***
It is often merely an excuse that we say things are impossible.
--Francois de La Rouchefoucauld
--Shroomie
***WE LOVE EH! STEVE!!!***
It is often merely an excuse that we say things are impossible.
--Francois de La Rouchefoucauld
Wed Sep 01, 2004 5:38 am
Yes Julius Erving, Dr. J., is still alive and well. He's aged into quite the dignified looking gentleman. He's 54 now. Surprisingly, after he left the professinal game, he didn't get all that much into coaching.
More power to you Eh....er, shroomie. Hope you are able to become a coach and to teach the real game to kids. The NBA is all about selling tickets. What do people come to watch? Bump and dunk pulls in more people because it is easier to understand. Thus the game appeals to a broader base of candidate spectators. A well crafted and strategized game, on the other hand, requires an audience of people who actually KNOW the game. Unfortunately, it seems that such a more knowledgable crowd also is less likely to pay Rolls Royce ticket prices for nose bleed seats.
More power to you Eh....er, shroomie. Hope you are able to become a coach and to teach the real game to kids. The NBA is all about selling tickets. What do people come to watch? Bump and dunk pulls in more people because it is easier to understand. Thus the game appeals to a broader base of candidate spectators. A well crafted and strategized game, on the other hand, requires an audience of people who actually KNOW the game. Unfortunately, it seems that such a more knowledgable crowd also is less likely to pay Rolls Royce ticket prices for nose bleed seats.
Wed Sep 01, 2004 5:42 pm
Indy, your one of the wisest people i've seen in all these forums. Maybe I'm just the person...to become a coach...to restore basketball to its rightfull quarry, but still keep the game fun and new and exciting. maybe one day, if i'm not able to fufill this dream, someone else, someone reading this message will understand and maybe carry it out. for now, i'm a little to young to coach, but maybe with a little more expirience i will.
(now how did we get from olympic medals to the pride and joy of basketball?..)
--Shroomie
Pom Pom, Eh! Steve, Strongbad, and Teh Cheat. Making our lives crapfully great.
It is often merely an excuse that we say things are impossible.
--Francois de La Rouchefoucauld
(now how did we get from olympic medals to the pride and joy of basketball?..)
--Shroomie
Pom Pom, Eh! Steve, Strongbad, and Teh Cheat. Making our lives crapfully great.
It is often merely an excuse that we say things are impossible.
--Francois de La Rouchefoucauld
Thu Sep 02, 2004 12:33 pm
Thanks shroomie but not really. 
I'm just one of the guys who's willing to post something and sometimes make an @ss of himself in the process.
On a more serious note, there are a lot of people who see the NBA the way I do.
Oscar Robertson, the "Big O" is not the only ex-pro to think that way either. And I gotta say that there aren't too many players as great as Oscar was in his heyday.
The WNBA, for a purely technical standpoint is far more fun to watch. They still play the "real" game.
I'm just one of the guys who's willing to post something and sometimes make an @ss of himself in the process.
On a more serious note, there are a lot of people who see the NBA the way I do.
Oscar Robertson, the "Big O" is not the only ex-pro to think that way either. And I gotta say that there aren't too many players as great as Oscar was in his heyday.
The WNBA, for a purely technical standpoint is far more fun to watch. They still play the "real" game.
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