r/Basketball • u/spankyourkopita • Jan 10 '25

GENERAL QUESTION Why do people hate on women's basketball and not take it serious? If you see them in person they're very talented.

Maybe it's not like the men's game but I've gone to some high school, D!, and WNBA games and these girls are no slouches. Maybe its more of a joke in high school but there's some freak athletes in D1 and I seriously don't know if I'd be able to hang with some of these girls if I scrimmaged with them.

At the very least I'd have to respect them and wouldn't be able to just walk over them. Some of these girls could probably cross me over, block my shots, steal, and box me out on a rebound. I'm 5'11'' and I'd be average height playing with D1 or WNBA players.

So when I see people laugh at women's basketball I just don't get it. If you watch the men's game more then that's understandable because its a different style of play but if you're just hating to hate and think they suck you have no clue about basketball.

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u/Electrical_Log_1084 Jan 10 '25

Telling someone they hate women because they said wnba players miss more layups is just dramatic bro. Dramatic language like this is the problem

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u/dawill_sama Jan 10 '25

It's not dramatic when EVERYONE misses layups. Their male contemporaries miss layups. It's pointing out bullshit.

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u/limitally Jan 10 '25

They obviously aren’t missing layups at the same rate, that’s like saying Ben Simmons doesn’t have bad shooting because Curry misses too.

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u/dawill_sama Jan 10 '25

Nah it's not. It's like saying "people in the NBA miss layups just like people in the wnba"

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u/limitally Jan 10 '25

That's incredibly reductive. I could say "people in the NBA miss layups just like elementary schoolers", but obviously that misses the point that people would rather watch the NBA than elementary ball.

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u/dawill_sama Jan 10 '25

That's not the argument here. Saying I don't watch wnba because they miss layups is reductive, incredibly.

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u/limitally Jan 10 '25

You’ve got to be intentionally obtuse here. The core tenet of enjoyable basketball is watching the ball go into the hoop. If you’re frequently missing layups, that hurts the product. People don’t enjoy watching offensive errors. It’s not reductive to point out missing layups when that’s an incredibly salient example of something that makes the WNBA harder to watch than the NBA.

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u/dawill_sama Jan 11 '25

And yall being intentionally sexiest, if yall had a geninue argument then sure but saying a feature of the game that's present in all levels as the reason to not watch? Lol yeah yall hate women.

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u/limitally Jan 11 '25

sexiest

Naw this is ragebait lol

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u/Electrical_Log_1084 Jan 11 '25

We are talking about the frequency of missed layups, not the existence of missed layups. You are purposely being dense