Is the Olympic Basketball play better then NBA play?

08/11/08 - 08/17/08

That is the question that I was asking myself in my mind during the recent Olympic basketball game, in which the United States was playing against the host country of China. Now it could just be that I have become a little sick of the play in the NBA, or it could be from what I saw was a different attitude and style in play that is from those members of the United States basketball team, who for the most part are all from the NBA.

Although the NBA has decline in my mind in the last 10 years, I have still continued to watch it mainly because of my love, for the Orlando Magic and also from the recent success that they had this past season.

But the reasons on why I think it has decline in my mind is from the recent scandals, the brawls with fans and of course the one sided marketing along with no traveling calls anymore as well as the lack of 100% play from some of the players. With that said let me now tell you why I think Olympic basketball play is more exciting then the NBA play.

For one which is the most obvious one, is the fact that you have all these players from all around the world that are playing for one main goal and that is to bring home the gold medal back to their respective country.

Which brings us to reason number two and that is from the players’ outlook and meaning of the games it self, in knowing that the players are now truly on a world stage to perform.

This in turn will bring back that old attitude and style that most of these players from the NBA had lost when they were giving those big contracts.

So as you can probably tell my position on this would be yes, the Olympic play is better then the NBA play, it’s just too bad we have to wait four years to see how basketball is meant to be played. Now I want to know if you agree with me or not. Send me an email at the address below.

RJINTAMPAWSA@AOL.COM