It's not, you get a 230 lbs man that can skate like the wind hit you along boards that have no give? Basketball is a complete joke when it comes to physicality. What makes it Physical? "boxing out" or fouling someone.
Concur 100%. There is a tremendous amount of banging of HUGE bodies that is happening constantly. Basketball is a very physical sport. _
I wish there were cell phones back in the day--the blood clot in my leg was the nastiest thing you've ever seen. Was pretty cool, it was upper thigh/lower hip--took a bunch of treatment at Manley Field House to break it up and as it did it traveled down my leg and when it got to my knee--it literally seeped through the joint (stiffening the knee 10 days after the initial injury) and proceeded to travel down the inside and the outside of my lower leg. Until it reached my ankle and stiffened THAT joint up like 2 weeks later. Crazy. _
that will hurt no doubt but the power is generated mostly from the skates and equipment. Hockey is tremendously physical, 2nd only to football in major team sports. I have a tremendous amount of respect for what those guys put their bodies through as many aren't that big. no it wouldn't, there are drama queens like Dwyane Wade but basketball players have to be tough too. I have played on a broken ankle, I have been stitched up w/ a major gash near my eye and went right back in, I have played w/ broken fingers and bad bruises and I'm certainly not tougher than an NBA player.
Sports science did a show on hockey. The average NHL players can skate 20-25 mph. So a 230 lbs man can generate 550lbs of force on an open ice hit
Oh boy. Not entering the argument of 1 sport being physical and the other not. Hockey is definitely physical, having seen it just last night, players crashing into the boards, that has to take a toll. Then I saw some incident few years ago of a guy taking a puck to the face, THE FACE!! What the crap. BUT, basketball is physical in its own ways. Try defending a 6'10 260lb man in the post. Try taking the ball to the basket, I assure you, you will feel the physicality of it. Hitting the hardwood floor isn't exactly like jumping on your mattress. Now, when I play basketball, its not vs NBA talent. The tallest guy in the court is probably 6'4, maybe 6'5 max, and its not hardwood floor, its concrete. That's a whole new world when you start talking about school yard ball. Both are physical for sure.
Yeah, to suggest basketball isn't physical--especially at the NBA level--is not giving it enough credit. Really really big physical guys banging into other really big physcial guys. Difference is, in hockey you're ALLOWED to smash into people AND smash them into the boards with abandon. _
Not really on point, but I'm at at sports bar right now and I have to say, the Algeria/so Korea match is a lot more exciting than the Yankees/Orioles game
Yeah but you're not really watching soccer, you're watching two countries fight for global bragging rights. If Algeria plays SKorea in some random pacific league game or whatever it is you can can probably count on one hand how many TVs are turned on the US
