There's a huge reason this whole proclaimed East Coast bias exists and the reason is that in actuality there is a West Coast Bias. Especially for schmucks like myself that need to get up at 6:45 in the am in order to get to work on time.
Every fan has a natural tendency to gravitate to teams that are local and teams that they are fans of. Well why local teams, the reason is simple the more you watch a team the stronger your opinion gets. For instance watch the Knicks 4 or 5 times and you'll say they are the worst team in NBA history. But they just might not be worse than the Blazers this season. I can't put my foot down though for the simple fact I have not seen them enough.
Last night there were three NBA Games on, Nets vs. Pacers (On NBA TV, I dont get NBA TV, nor do I want to), Heat vs. Bulls (The game sucked), and Suns vs. Lakers. Anyone whose watched any NBA games this season and has seen the Suns play realizes that they are by far the most fun team in the NBA to watch. They don't run those horribly dull isolation plays where they feed the ball to their best players and the rest of the guys just spread out and essentially get out of the way, this play is the reason why many NBA games are unwatchable, see Celtics games during the Antoine, Paully era. In addition the Suns play uptempo run up and down the court shoot all the time no pause exciting basketball.
Soooo, what could there be to complain about you may ask? How about the fact that this game didn't even start til 10:45 eastern time? How about the fact the 2nd quarter didnt even end til after midnight? It really isnt worth it for me to kill myself watching the game til 1:30 and then feel like garbage the next morning. Would it really be that bad if they started the West coast games at say 9 eastern? I don't think thats pushing it.
How do you expect young kids to see any of these games? How do you not expect fans on the east coast who rarely get to watch the most exciting NBA team when the Sun is in the sky, to get excited about NBA playoff basketball. The Suns Lakers series is by far the best NBA 1st round series in years. It has displayed how a team like the Suns can overcome such a glaring lack of big men, that has made Kwame Brown look like more than just a serviceable center, and still compete and extend the series to the brink. Too bad I can't watch more than one half of any of the games.
And this certainly extends well past the NBA, World Series Games regardless of where they are played rarely end before midnight. So hey West Coast if you want to continue to complain about how your teams don't get any press and are never as hyped as the good ole boys on the east coast, start playing your games at a decent East coast hour. Else, stop whining about us hyping up teams we actually can watch and just enjoy the fact that you can watch all the games played the good ole US of A at an hour that won't deprive you of sleep.
Every fan has a natural tendency to gravitate to teams that are local and teams that they are fans of. Well why local teams, the reason is simple the more you watch a team the stronger your opinion gets. For instance watch the Knicks 4 or 5 times and you'll say they are the worst team in NBA history. But they just might not be worse than the Blazers this season. I can't put my foot down though for the simple fact I have not seen them enough.
Last night there were three NBA Games on, Nets vs. Pacers (On NBA TV, I dont get NBA TV, nor do I want to), Heat vs. Bulls (The game sucked), and Suns vs. Lakers. Anyone whose watched any NBA games this season and has seen the Suns play realizes that they are by far the most fun team in the NBA to watch. They don't run those horribly dull isolation plays where they feed the ball to their best players and the rest of the guys just spread out and essentially get out of the way, this play is the reason why many NBA games are unwatchable, see Celtics games during the Antoine, Paully era. In addition the Suns play uptempo run up and down the court shoot all the time no pause exciting basketball.
Soooo, what could there be to complain about you may ask? How about the fact that this game didn't even start til 10:45 eastern time? How about the fact the 2nd quarter didnt even end til after midnight? It really isnt worth it for me to kill myself watching the game til 1:30 and then feel like garbage the next morning. Would it really be that bad if they started the West coast games at say 9 eastern? I don't think thats pushing it.
How do you expect young kids to see any of these games? How do you not expect fans on the east coast who rarely get to watch the most exciting NBA team when the Sun is in the sky, to get excited about NBA playoff basketball. The Suns Lakers series is by far the best NBA 1st round series in years. It has displayed how a team like the Suns can overcome such a glaring lack of big men, that has made Kwame Brown look like more than just a serviceable center, and still compete and extend the series to the brink. Too bad I can't watch more than one half of any of the games.
And this certainly extends well past the NBA, World Series Games regardless of where they are played rarely end before midnight. So hey West Coast if you want to continue to complain about how your teams don't get any press and are never as hyped as the good ole boys on the east coast, start playing your games at a decent East coast hour. Else, stop whining about us hyping up teams we actually can watch and just enjoy the fact that you can watch all the games played the good ole US of A at an hour that won't deprive you of sleep.
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