Gil Arenas Is Right – NBA All-Star Game Can’t Be Fixed
The allar games and the NBA in general but definitely last night’s allstar game is a reason why I haven’t watched basketball in like 10 years to where I watched you know high school and college uh it it just becoming unbearable to me now out of all my comments that I had on
My post the one comment that stuck out to me uh was your comment coach and I I definitely wanted to give you uh just a platform and you know so we can kind of voice your opinion and I could give you the reasons why I feel
The way I feel right but let’s let’s go back on yesterday’s score and I and I want to give a big shout out to my guy Patrick uh former coworker of mine good friend and he just he just uh he’s totally disgusted at the game as well
But he’s a guy who bets you know heavily on these games and he’s a a statistician guy and I I just want to read off a few stats before you get into what you about to say coach right so the first quarter the combined scores was 100 points second quarter 93 points
Combined third quarter 103 points combined and the fourth quarter 101 points combined right 58% of the field goal attempts were threes 174 points were scored in the paint right that’s 87 baskets five of six total team free throws teams that uh that means 218 points came from threes that’s
Disgusting hey think about that we had a whole game f going East versus West I can imagine if they make it and push it back out making they have in a uh how about the big three get a Hatcher here Tyrese is that basketball or just a game made this
Prediction it’s an exhibition I mean call it an exhibition game though coach it’s not see it’s a difference between an allstar game and an exhibition game right so what’s the what why why is it a difference to you what what’s the difference because to me they both the
Same thing it’s not a meaningful game it’s an All-Star game it’s an exhibition game there’s really no um other than prizes at the end you know I guess for charity or whatever they they won with but at the end of the day both whether it’s an exhibition or it’s an allstar
Game you’re not really there’s no really incentive at the end of it other than win or lose you know it’s not like it’s a playoff game or a regular season game where you trying to get your standings up you know it’s it is what it
Is but you have the best players in the world 5 minutes into this first quarter t on right these guys were voted in by coaches on the second chity but you have the best players on the court the West like East LeBron he still got it 39 rebound put in that
For are the best players in the world if you’re a young player if the MVP call it a pick game Kobe BR to be able to get call it a pickup game call it an exhibition game right oh or put in parentheses first quarter honestly look scores it on the
Second chance opportunity I don’t want to be like the old guy of yesterday like well back in the days it was but meas guys came on the court with some kind of Pride and said you know what we’re gonna win this game because we have the best players in
The East or we have the best West right it’s some kind of Pride that goes with that now the reason why I I want to do this show because I I don’t usually comment on things NBA per se but I watched a clip of the redeem team there you go redeem
Okay right all right right and Kobe said to his guys first play of the game I know what they gonna run right I’m G run right through pal gasa’s chest right and set the tone bro that’s the difference right there right that’s the difference in mentality
Now if you want to just you know show the kids well you know this just going to be an NBA a game then I get it bro they scored 21 points to 186 there was no defense being played now to your point you did say that no one wants to get hurt explain
What you were saying in the post please well what I meant by that was like I said it’s just one game and it’s an exhibition game 99.9% of the players that make the allstar team they their teams are in a playoff hunt like you didn’t see nobody from the Hornets
Playing you ain’t see nobody from the Bulls playing the Wizards not to knock those you know people that like those teams but they wasn’t they had no players in the game everybody that played in that game is going to leave the Allstar Weekend and go back to their teams and be enemies
Again you I mean it’s it’s about trying to get the highest seed you can get the best positioning and all that so if I’m in an allstar game and I you know everybody’s clamoring for oh you gotta play better and y’all gotta play harder and okay and
Then the minute somebody tears the ACL or a bad back injury or whatever and then their team is now at a disadvantage they gonna look at them be like well why were you going so hard or you know that’s messed up me personally I’m a Nick fan you know and we thirsty
If you a Nick fan you in New York you know we’ve been thirsty for 20 plus years for anything if jayen Brunson goes in that game and plays super hard and gets hurt do to New York missing Rand few other dudes but it’s Gonna Hurt So I say that
To say dudes go to the allstar game they know what it’s about it’s exhibition no one no one’s in there for their defense you don’t you I mean you may have great two-way players like Kawai you know such like that but kawwai is more in there
For his offense no one’s him in because they want to see him lock somebody up or block some shots you know so when you get these kids when you get these guys on an All-Star game it’s it’s a GOI you know like you say pickup game yes I’m from
The old school too so I remember when Mike and all those play those guys played and they had they had legitimate issues with each other so they didn’t change that for the allstar game like just because we were in the allstar game we wasn’t buddies you know Mike and them
Still had their issues with whoever and then vice versa now days everybody is friendly so that kind of plays a part into it too friendly game of basketball that’s what has become so listen speaking about the Knicks you guys got four guys that’s hurt right now didn’t happen in the
All-Star Game right it’s going to happen y ready ready
