Basketball

[davebro]

This seems the most ludicrous sport!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/basketball/65357925

Did the inventors of the sport envision that it would ultimately be played by giants?

As potential players get taller should the basket height be raised proportionately?

Should there be different divisions with variable basket heights so that smaller people can play?
(Say 5 to 6 ft, 6 to 7 ft & 7 to 8 ft categories)

Maybe there are. I don't really care. I don't watch it anyway!

[bhg481]

Have you watched wheelchair basketball? They've adapted the sport for wheelhair-users extremely well; have a look on BBC Iplayer.

[Arrods]

Probably the most pointless game ever invented. Except there are lots of points and one team usually wins 72 - 71.

[douglas9401]

Did the inventors of Association Football envision foresee the day when their game would be played by big tattooed jessies with absolutely no shame in the way they fall and roll, flaunt their wealth and abuse the female of the species?

Talk about moving the goalposts?

[New Judge]

//Probably the most pointless game ever invented. Except there are lots of points and one team usually wins 72 - 71.//

Indeed. Of all the games I've ever watched (2) there has never been more than 3 or 4 points difference. A ridiculous game played by ridiculously tall people. One thing they could easily do to make it a little more difficult is to introduce a rule that the ball must not be released from a player shooting at goal above the height of the ring.

But it would still be extremely tedious to watch.

[douglas9401]

Now to golf which has evolved into a game for fashion-blind players, the very best of which have developed super-sensitive hearing, demanding complete silence from their devoted followers on pain of a stony stare.

You'll have had your tee?

[retrocop]

Good Grief.
My niece's daughter gets to go to Uni in Canada on the account of her prowess playing netball and gaining her scholarship. Likewise her father who ended up in Pharmacy. I suppose size does matter. :-)

[New Judge]

Ah, golf (from a spectator's viewpoint): watching two blokes walk across a field followed by another two blokes carrying their bags.

[New Judge]

Netball and basketball are as different as snooker and billiards, retro.

[retrocop]

Same object NJ. Chuckin your balls in a net.

[novalis]

Mark Twain on golf 'A good walk spoiled.' My handicap was always the clubs and the ball.

[Bazile]

//don't really care. I don't watch it //

Why put up a post about it then ?

[davebro]

gulliver1 wanted to liven things up?

[Bazile]

//Ah, golf (from a spectator's viewpoint): watching two blokes walk across a field followed by another two blokes carrying their bags.//

Ah NJ - but it's important to have a change of underpants ready and at hand , plus a selection of deodorants and your wine and glasses -
Just in case extinction rebellion are staging a blockade back at the clubhouse

[Arrods]

NJ - a bit late now, but basketball would be more fun to watch if they used a rugby ball!