Roos on SEN

[jnrmac 20,061]

did roosy say something on sen?

[binman 42,938]

did roosy say something on sen?

something about c&b being deliberately obtuse

[Curry & Beer 5,444]

Its not the watching of basketball, but the tall young men to choose it over AFl as juniors due to their natural advantage for the game. Its far easier to play basketball than AFL if your a lanky teen. Listne to how many players come from a basketball background.

Yes but that paradigm hasn't changed in 20 years has it!? Point-missers

[mrtwister 652]

I must have missed the recent landslide of popularity that basketball is getting. They getting 290,000 a week to games are they?

Basketball, like it or not, is a bit more learner friendly than football. It's played inside, all year round, you can easily practice on your own and even play it in a competitive manner in groups as small as 2 and you can even put up a ring in your back yard with little space required.

Kids who have tall parents are also encouraged to play due to the notion of taller people being better or at least having more of a chance to be better than shorter ones. It's not that often a kid with tall parents will hear someone say "wow, he'd be great at ruck". Or, "he'd be a great key position defender".

[Curry & Beer 5,444]

Yes but that paradigm hasn't changed in 20 years has it!? Point-missers

Basketball, like it or not, is a bit more learner friendly than football. It's played inside, all year round, you can easily practice on your own and even play it in a competitive manner in groups as small as 2 and you can even put up a ring in your back yard with little space required.

Kids who have tall parents are also encouraged to play due to the notion of taller people being better or at least having more of a chance to be better than shorter ones. It's not that often a kid with tall parents will hear someone say "wow, he'd be great at ruck". Or, "he'd be a great key position defender".

[daisycutter 29,614]

Yes that was an efing tough game. I went to a small (catholic) primary school and all the kids played together. So when you were a little tacker "Bulldog" was seriously scary. I broke both my arms at Primary School playing this game. I might add there was no such thing as "yard duty" the teachers just let you go for it. However, when you were in grade 6 it was a great game because you got to smash the little tackers.

I had a compound fracture in grade 4 and staggered to to my (lay) teacher. She in turn took me to "Mother".

I'll never forget "Mother's" comment to my teacher. (bear in mind I had bone sticking out of my arm)

"You didn't carry his bag for him did you?"

you had a man bag in those days bbo? you must have been a real trend-setter in your time

[Bitter but optimistic 22,239]

you had a man bag in those days bbo? you must have been a real trend-setter in your time

some things never change dc

[mrtwister 652]

Yes but that paradigm hasn't changed in 20 years has it!? Point-missers

It certainly has. 20 years ago if you weren't good enough to play highest or second highest level of basketball that was it. Nowadays we have more players hitting US colleges and European teams than ever before. With more destinations for potential elite players comes more kids interested in earning big bucks to play outside of australia. These guys in Europe are making over 1 million a year and not even in the starting 5 in some cases.