[GranteedEV]

Basketball can be a more fun sport than hockey, especially if a game is close. When I read stuff like what OP is posting, I just giggle at the shallow observations. They're akin to saying hockey is just 60 minutes of missed slap shots from the point and then a lucky deflection to decide who wins. Any hockey fan would laugh at that too, which tells you how us basketball fans read comments like "both teams go down the ice and score a lot".

It mostly just shows how clueless you are to the skillsets and fundamentals on display. It's also an obvious ignorance of the complexity of team systems which make hockey look pedestrian.

I also laugh at comments like pylon's about height when guys like Nate Robinson are still in the NBA and guys like Chris Paul are among the league's finest. Yes it's a more vertical sport more favorable to tall people just as hockey is more favorable to a Joe Thornton over a Paul Byron. It's not the sport's fault it has a bigger talent pool to draw from, though.

There are five positions in basketball, and centers are going to have to be big enough to be successful at their role - but I don't see how that's any different from how talented under-6'0 goaltenders shouldn't even consider pro careers. Just as 5'10 wingers can be successful in the NHL, so can a 5" 11 point guard be successful in the NBA. You have to be better than other players though, and if there's a 6'3 player who's as skilled as you, well go fish.