NHL vs NBA..

..as far is allowance for physicality goes.

Watching hockey on the same day as basketball is funny. Because of the enormous difference in physicality tolerated.

as far as rules go, obviously. Ones a contact sport, and one technically isn't. but, i mean more like during when play is dead and the way it is reacted to.

One example. there is like 5-6 guys scuffling. Once it lessens to two guys wailing on each other, the broadcaster says, the refs have calmed things down.

Sometimes, why guys are fighting, the broadcasters don't even acknowledge it; is so common place. Just last night (during nhl), they were talking about this year's draft. Two guys started punching each other. and the broadcasters just kept talking about the draft. Whereas, Reggie Miller would be shouting and bouncing out of his chair.

Plus, there is such a thing as a 10 minute major for fighting. Yet, they usually don't even give a 2 minute minor.

In the NBA, when guys look at each other, the broadcasters get all amped and blow it out of proportion. I'd say over half of the flagrants called should be non-flagrants.

The NBA has become too big of worry warts (is that how that phrase it spelled?) .

Kobe said he wishes they just reverted to 80s rules. Man, I wish.

Phil Jackson said: "This is the dawn of a new age, we were told in the last two years," he said. "Transparency, a wonderful word, was going to be used, and we're looking for that to help us. In that regard, we want to use all these aspects, whether it's called credibility or accountability, and use it to improve everything that can happen to this game, because it's a great game." This quote isn't really to my point. But, his response is a response to the myriad problems that have surfaced due to all the changes being made in an attempt to tighten the harness on players on the court, and the difficulty in doing that. Before these complications refs jobs were easier, and the grey areas between two opposite calls were smaller.

Really, i feel like it kinda went down hill with the Malice in the Palace. So it is all Ron Artest's fault, lol. Ever since then, the league has been overly determined to prevent a future such occurrence. But, they aren't just trying to prevent fights; they are trying to prevent anything that could possibly lead up to fight.

Unfortunately, some of the things that on rare occasions brought players past their boiling point, are things that make the game exciting. It would be like if NHL banned body checks, because sometimes that can lead to angry players, and sometimes angry people get carried away.
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This, somewhat ties in with something i sometimes feel guilty about. It bugs me how the league has become the National Best-friends Assoc. Everybody is good friends with everybody now. really, i know it is good they can be mature and be friends with their rivals. But, some old fashion enmity for your opponent is a beautiful thing to me. I feel it heightens the competitiveness. Wouldn't you be more motivated to beat the team you hate then the one you are having over for dinner?

I say give up on all this new era shit. Admit it isn't going too great, and jsut go back to the 80's rules. Impossible, i know. but, that is what is what i want.

NBA needs to not be a bunch of weeneies.

That's just like, ah, my opinion , man!