The main problem is they got greedy and sold the Games too many different platforms. ESPN, Amazon, Max, ABC, NBA league pass, NBC and Peacock, TBS and TNT. It’s too expensive to be an NBA fan and viewer. They priced the fans right out the door!
You are on the right track. I cancelled Spectrum cable. Now to watch full NBA games with streaming I have to get NBA league pass. To get rid of commercials, which I don’t have with other streaming, costs $115 per year. But that is not worth it because with NBA league pass I can’t watch live LAKERS & CLIPPERS games or nationally broadcast games on ESPN, ABC or TNT! The NBA wants to force me to get cable again, which I refuse to do! It’s crazy. The family of the coach of the Lakers can’t watch Lakers games live from home because JJ doesn’t have cable!
Not the main problem. The sport is the problem. Not sure if you actually believe that but if you think there are millions of fans crawling up firewalls to watch but just can’t and just ignore the extra loud complaints about the game Itself from fans who actually go to game s that’s actually kind of funny. JJ is a case study in Dunning Krueger, low IQ and high ego. I’d try and stay away from their takes probs. It’s not what the fans are actually saying no it’s umm…a TV show’s fault 🤣
I prefer NBA analysis from people who actually watch the games. Inside the NBA is full of clowns with no depth of knowledge. Chuck can't wait to get home and falls asleep during the games they cover. Absolutely awful NBA content.
JJ annoys the shit out of me. But the title is misleading as he never mentioned inside the nba. I finished the video waiting for him to mention ernie and the guys but no mention of them. The channel played the clickbait game well. But this channel is now blocked on my feeds as this is a clickbait channel
Well the refs make the game hard to watch. The NBA makes the games hard to find. I don't think viewership is really down, just most people either watch it on "other free sites". Or watch highlights because they didn't want the pain of trying to find the right service to watch it.
How can you refute it? Scheming, training, technology to study and to prepare is just much more evolved. Only if you are blind, you can deny that players are more athletic and have more tools than ever. It's a fact
@@filipe10messiyouand yet they are injured more,they are less interesting,they are not shooting mid range as before,centers rarely dunk,they are shooting 3s,they are softer,some guys dont play defence.The players are not so tehnical as before,european players are much more tehnical.I dont like what is happening with NBA
But the product doesn't suck and that's what he's saying. As a coach he knows that the game is much deeper taticaly than it was when he entered the league. And must be frustrating listening to old players, who cannot keep up with what happens in the court, just trashing nowadays players for taking many 3's. How the shot was created, how the defense reacted to the scheme...they are very bad at talking basketball but they are supef confident in saying casual meaningless stuff. They are just haters of the new game, because they understand nothing about it
The games are more boring to watch than ever. More and more people feel that every day. So many people in the league are just dancing around the obvious…..it’s a lack of competitiveness and a lack of effort that’s driving people away.
@FloydWhoElseTV do you watch the games or just the RUclips highlights? There is no intensity in the game today. Guys are trotting around and complaining to the refs every single play. It flat out sucks.
I don't see anything wrong with what JJ said. Me personally,i stopped paying attention to regular season and mainly just watched the playoffs for the past 10-12 years, but that's only because it was obvious how much more intense the games are during the post-season,especially since the playoff games have more weight to them. The worst era of the NBA was the KD- warriors era ,where it was so obvious who was winning the title every year...there were zero threats to their title runs- they stomped every team in their playoff runs. Since that time however ,the NBA is in a great position ,where a different team has won the championship every year from 2019 onwards. The nba is in a good place right now,but for some reason there's this random narrative that exists that it sucks. It's a very counter-intuitive mindset,because it doesn't accomplish anything to say the nba sucks right now. JJ is right...from a business perspective ,you should always celebrate your product and never downplay it,and the NBA as it stands currently is a great product.
@@79glane928 yeah but i stopped watching it like 10 plus years ago, long before ppl were complaining about it like they are today. I don't know if it's the whole load management, players dont try hard enough during the regular season or whatever... But something happened for all of a sudden for ppl to start saying the NBA is trash now. The NBA was worse during that 2016-2018 period when KD Was on the warriors, but more ppl are complaining today than they were back then.i dont get it.
It's complicated because the NBA is instigating apathy for a long time now. When the fans stop being mad with the coward "stars" joining forces, the 3pt festival and so on, this is the lowest point. Nobody cares about the regular season, the playoffs also lost much of it's relevance (many people asking the first round of the playoffs to return to the 5 games format). Some people goes as far to incentivize a shortened regular season, which is crazy to me, teams are playing 82 games in a season since the Bill Russell days, the current players are so soft and fragile, they just can't keep up the pace? Modern medicine and all, they just can't. Get that shit out of here, nobody cares about the "media" anymore, the information era made them obsolete for better or worse, the main issue is simple: the players stop caring, they got pampered and accommodated (thanks LeBron), if the players are apathetic, obviously the fans are going to feel apathy as well
"I don't see anything wrong with what JJ said. Me personally,i stopped paying attention to regular season and mainly just watched the playoffs for the past 10-12 years" I mean....you just admitted to never watching the regular season and then you go on to say that the NBA is currently a great product?
The vibes I get from this guy is that because none of us ever played in the NBA we don’t have a right to say a word and that we need to be educated on the game of basketball. He comes off like a complete pompous ass. If you catch any of his press conferences after losses, when somebody asked him a question, you can really see him biting his tongue, the dumb down his answer for the common folk, as if we’re not educated enough to be in the inner circle of understanding basketball
Not only that. Even if the public doesn't have the knowledge the public does have the purchasing . We are the ones who watch the games. If we like dunks we like dunks you can't explain the technicality of shooting 50 3s a game. The people is just saying they want less.. is not about knowledge is about what the people want.
most of the coaches have never been an nba player, and he talks like only those who played know it all. the fact is that a lot of people know how to play basketball, just most of them are not physically gifted. tell this guy that dribbling shooting dunks lay-ups aren't some scientific study that's hard to understand or hard to do. we just don't want to watch a 3 point contest, no touching defense (if it's still called defense) , and self proclaimed goats.
He actually does with the “parody” statement example: like tonight as soon as inside the nba starts Charles Barkley makes fun of how the the opposing team stinks and let’s wrap it up because this game sucked and that’s where JJ says we should celebrate it instead of making a parody of it
I don’t even think JJ believes the words coming out his mouth😂 Inside the NBA keeps it real and nba players and coaches don’t like that. It just is what it is.
@@kodyscot9360im not a lakers fan and I agree.. The skill level is better than it ever was and the declining ratings are not bc fans stopped watching, it’s bc casuals stopped watching.. Casuals like eras with dynasties where they can predict who will win.. when they watch a movie they want to see liam neeson destroy the bad guys and when they watch basketball they wanna see their favorite stars destroy the other team
Not the league is not more talented. They just have narrowed in on focusing on a few skills. And discarded the rest. And these guys are less passionate
Sell the West-based games to one subscription provider, sell the East-based games to another. Two subscriptions MAX for access to all games; watch the viewership rise again.
I believe there are many reasons for the ratings problem. Some of it because the average poor person can’t afford these sports packages you need just to watch your team. Years ago you could turn on nbc and watch a lot of your favorite team.
Change the rules back to early 2000’s. Bring defense back and post up game creativity. We miss the mid range game. Enough with the step back 3’s. Stop with the techs, players can’t even show emotion anymore. Players are more skilled today than ever and all of it’s being wasted coaching 3 point shots.
I agree to an extent. Shaq especially & Charles are too often fishing for the bad. The NBA changed the rules- It's not the players choosing to not be physical.
Too many threes early in the shot clock with no one to get the offensive rebound instead of driving to the basket for open layups in transition is a recipe for disaster JJ. Points in the paint will open up good 3pt shots. You don’t start off the game just jacking off long range shots. Even Darvin Ham knew this. Even if Curry was on the Lakers, shooting long range shots to begin the game is just bad coaching. If there is a lane to the basket, it should always be taken. Get to the free throw line and get the other team in foul trouble. Long range shots have to happen organically, you can’t just force them. Every time I watch the Lakers, Bron and Rui are jacking up 3 pointers in transition instead of getting to the rim. Let them drive to the rim and kick out the ball to Knecht or DLo for corner threes. The only team that is built to take a lot of three pointers are the Warriors, Celtics, Knicks, Suns, and Mavericks. Other teams need to focus on getting to the basket and better shot creation. I’m not saying play like you are in the 90’s or 80’s, but it’s just a three point contest instead of real basketball being played now.
Reddick might have a point why viewership is down with cable cutting, but that is only a small portion of it as I know more people who have traditional cable than who have cut the cord. Reddick dismisses the idea that the products bad by saying its the most talented and skilled since past 18yrs...is it though?? Think with the rules being so advantageous to offensive players now it may seem like more skilled and talented but thats because the element that the fans like has been taken out...the defense! So has the appearance of skill and talent risen in the past 18yrs possibly, but only because the rules benefit that style play which does not allow defenders to really lockdown a player which would cause dynamic passing and a certain level of IQ to approach offense in a way that is more engaging than just standing around waiting to shoot a 3 while one person dribbles the life out of the basketball. Being competitive on both ends as we saw a exhausted yet great MJ literally play sound defense make free throws layups and eventually the historic last dance shot to win a championship. Adam Silver even admits Jordan is his favorite player please dont tell Lebron...Its sad that he claims Jordans his fav but removes aspects of the game with rule changes that create a product that has diminished from the luster of the past especially the 80s 90s and early 00s era. We saw teams and players will their way to victory on sheer determination, now we now who will be champion days before because the televised notes were found in the trash can that gave the directory of how the game would progress and who the decided victor will be. How can we get excited about pre orchestrated "live" games...it just dont hit the same. Reddick just needs to stick to concentrating on his team staying above 500 this season and focus on reducing LBJs minutes to help the effectiveness of the Lakers increase.
🤦🤦🤦 what? Product isn't bad. Is their bad teams ? Yes but this season is probably the most competitive where you legit have play-in teams that could win the west.
@@FloydWhoElseTV Most people commenting dont even watch the games its hilarious, the okc thunder are having one of the best defensive seasons of all time but somehow this guy thinks that no one plays defense anymore smh.
@@79glane928 they have more steals than turnovers that’s never been done before, and the highest relative defensive efficiency since Bill Russell's Celtics teams of the 1960's. The Rockets and Magic have also been great this year on defense. Again tho you would actually have to watch the games to know this.
Okay, this is the first time I heard JJ speak on this. Before I saw headlines stating he blamed Inside the NBA... that's definitely not the case. His response was pretty nuanced and highlighted the many possible causes, like streaming cutting into ratings as well as Cable deals locking out viewership unless it is nationally televised.
It does make sense, though, because if you turned those 40 threes into 2s how do you know the result isn't 98 points? The total points says nothing without context, because other factors impact the ceiling of scoring.
@@riffsthatkill2180it doesn’t matter if it makes sense or not, it’s bad for the game. Pre shot clock made sense to win. Bringing in the 3-pt line for a while made sense but they changed it back, thankfully. So did holding the ball vs wilt or Kareem dunking in college. All those instances made sense from a technical strategy applied to beat opponents but those styles of play were bad for the product. This is the same situation. Analytics may tell us that more 3s lead to more Ws but it’s not a good product to the audience. Idk why it’s still being debated. Fans are making their opinions heard and it’s reflected in the ratings. Everything else is just talking head noise.
@@CLNS_Nick The point he's making is NBA teams are playing based on efficient scoring, rather than providing a good product. The onus is right on the league and commissioner to sort this mess out. Also NBA players are as unlikable as ever.
People just echo what they hear. JJ was right on the money, and he never mentioned Inside the NBA. I dont even think he was thinking about them. Chuck's rant just proved JJ's point too. He talked over the highlights just causs he was triggered.
So if the league is more skilled, why is there a lot of fans who say that the game is becoming boring. And not casuals, but people who have watched the league for years, and also former players.
Because they are not watching. I watch basketball closely since mid 2000s and this season has been one of the most exciting for me. Lots of interesting teams taking the next step, plenty of narratives and we are yet at 1/3 of the season. Okc playing at an all time level on defense, wemby rising, memphis playing a revolutionary offense, the cavs making a case for being a real threat to boston. And the most important to me, diversity! Nowadays teams are very different between them. Some are pick and roll and isolation heavy like dallas and okc, some depend on off-ball movement and positiong like the warriors, some play fast, some play slow, some defend with 5 guards and switch everything, some rely on 2 bigs anchoring the defense. We just need to watch, and pay attention. The league is better than ever
@@joeynickles7962 Whatever the case, what matters more is that JJ Redick is a piece of shit, rather than what position he's put the lakers in as a coach. Who even cares about what team wins an NBA chip, if no one gives two shits about the nba anymore?
His arrogance is just insufferable. The game is way too one-dimensional. These guys can really only shoot threes and very little else. The game just is not fun to watch and nobody plays defense. It’s easy to add your stats because no one’s challenging rebounds. It’s a lost game.
Another reason why the viewership and ratings are down come from the fact that there aren't as many stars in the league and it's the same older guys that are being shown and the newer upcoming guys are playing for teams that get zero nationally televised games like the Magic etc and also the Christmas games that everyone used to be hyped for aren't there anymore and instead the NFL has taken over with their lucrative Netflix deal while the NBA has stuck with ESPN
I agree that the lack of new NBA superstars is a factor in the decline of NBA ratings. Part of this has to do it seems with small market players not seeming to be as popular as big market players. One sign of this is that the highest NBA jersey sales are for Steph and LeBron, who are at the end of their careers. Another sign is that hyped new players like Ben Simmons and Zion Williamson have been huge disappointments. The other reason for lower ratings is that to see all the NBA games a person has to have cable and even JJ Reddick doesn’t have cable. NBA fans prefer streaming, but there is no streaming option, which allows someone to see all the games.
The sport was interesting to watch when you had players who actually wanted to tear each other part and win at all costs type of mentality. They played intense, great defense, and they were like warriors. Nowadays thats kind of all gone. You see zion, embiid, ben simmons collecting checks and not really competing. The future stars are trying to maximize their pay with very little effort. Who cares about players who dont want to battle and compete and just want to stat pad and look good. MJ, Kobe, Curry, Giannis had the killer mentality. Who really has it these days? You dont see players putting everything on the line. They dont care.
I'd argue that Curry doesn't have nearly as much of the killer mentality either. He's just a very incredibly skilled player. The others are legit though.
Yep - I'm an old dude at 53 years old. I remember the rise of the NBA with Magic and Bird, and Jordan, Nique, and Barkley carrying the torch. The league is a mess. From an athletic standpoint, players are better than ever and JJ is correct that the talent level is as high as it has ever been. But the game is damn near unwatchable for me so there isn't anything to celebrate. Yes, the infatuation with 3 pointers is a big part of the problem, but I also miss the rivalries. I think all these guys growing up as friends and bonding over the Olympics may play a part for me at least as to why I don't care as much about the NBA. Lakers/Celtics HATED one another, everybody hated the Pistons, Jordan wanted to destroy everyone in his path... These guys don't care as much about winning or losing - that should be evident to everyone. They get paid ridiculous amounts of money for mediocre results and do not care about whether fans enjoy the product. That includes "coaches" like JJ Redick that have ZERO experience in their field but can land a job with one of the most storied franchises in all of sports. JJ's paychecks will cash, and he'll to back to being a talking head when he is eventually fired. (Probably with a pay raise to boot)
For me this pretty much represents what is going wrong in our culture nowadays. JJ is beeing hated because he is talking facts and actually making rational proposals on how to improve things right now. People nowadays just don‘t have the patience any more to watch a whole basketball game and enjoy the beauty of it. They rather just get entertained by a populistic talk show like inside.
I can tell you exactly why people stop watching NBA as much, because I AM ONE OF THEM! I come from a 13 siblings household and my and had 14 kids. We used to all just can't wait to turn on the TV to see the Lakers come on. I was one of the BIGGEST Lakers fan; Since Magic days, and Kobe, and one fo the arguably best Centers EVER in Shaquille O'Neal and the crew!! NBA officials did this to themselves! I used to just can NOT wait to get home and turn on the TV to watch the lakers! " For crying out loud; I just received a $300 haircut and I got shaved balled the next day at A1 Carbide, because I was betting my coworkers that Lakers will win against the Blazers the next day!" NBA officials started to punish the big markets teams like the Lakers for having to much money and being able to attract players that would help the Lakers win! Just like the Lamar Odom trade that was blocked by the league! For who??; To have some little town that only cares about basketball and watches football or cricket instead?!? THATS RIDDICULOUS!! LAKERS CAN NEVER WIN ANYMORE , BECAUSE THEY ARE BEING PUNISHED BY THE LEAGUE WITH PENALTY TAX AND NOT ALLOWED TO GET THE PLAYERS THEY NEED TO WIN AND MAKE THE GAME FUN TO WATCH ANYMORE! It's not fun to log in and stay there FOR 45 MINS and watch the Lakers struggle and lose night in and night out. After years of watching them struggle, I turn on the TV and when I see them lose; I just get all mad and turn it off, and watch FOOTBALL instead!
It’s true that the 3 have opened up the paint, but too often teams still jack up a 3 and it’s super ugly and frustrating to watch someone pull up 3 in transition and miss, even worse then both teams are doing it. Its like watching a worse version of the all star game
JJ is right on the purpose for shooting 3s. What he's missing is the fact that that's not how we're watching the 3 being used for the most part. What we're seeing is horrible 3-point shooting contests where the ball doesn't even touch the paint for several minutes, with exception to the rebound, on a nightly basis. Not sure what research he's referencing at the start of his nonsense, but if you read "How to Lie with Statistics" you will see that stats can be used to prove any point, regardless of how true it actually is.
JJ is partly right. Why watch the four hour game when you can watch a 10 minute YT video showing all the made shots. I do this all the time instead of paying the extra $50 fee to the cable company.
2:58 that’s a fact. Casual fans are operated like that. It’s a reason when suns vs bucks happen people like tuned out expect the real fans because they didn’t see Bron or curry. Also they rely on the analyst to tell them who to watch and who is good.
I agree with him about the streaming factor. But disagree on almost everything else. There is a reason the folks celebrating the greatness has a small following on Twitter. If Michael Jordan today opened a twitter account and celebrated how great today's game is I would not follow him
MLB and NFL are a business and players flip flop there too. But no one ever wants to be buddies like they do in the NBA. NBA is an absolute non-competitive bullshit sport.
The product the NBA provides is not good. They don’t teach the fundamentals anymore. Jacking up 3’s constantly, no passing, no defense, no team ball. Athletes are better than before but they aren’t fundamentally sound.
More talented? Are we watching the same league I grew up with Kobe ai lebron kd kg Paul pierce dwight Howard derrick rose, not a single player in the league that still plays with that fire besides Westbrook and he’s from the old days
Why are they saying the product sucks JJ? When they weren’t 20 years ago? Why should this game be celebrated? A game full of multi millionaires who play when they feel like it, and play with no tenacity or heart. Why should celebrate that?
Because, the older players only want to talk about the 90s and Players are more talented and we don’t need big men who can’t shoot from the field or Free throw line.
Players have teamed hoped too much!! Star players joining other stars and still not able to consistently win games means skill doesn’t equal basketball intelligence. Teams were more balanced 15-20 years ago so it was more fun to watch a player who was not considered a star have a standout game. Also there was a physical presence that is missing from today games because of lazy skilled players. The rules stifle the game in many ways.
He is right, but dumbasses will defend that stupid show. Is the show funny? Yes. But if you actually watch the show, none of them watch the games and try to comment on it. Shaq doesn't know the names of half the players on the games that they show. All they do is complain the game without watching it. And people just eat it up like the sheep they are
Clown show this guy. The players are not better. They look better because they are into lifting, etc (a useless endeavor in basketball, by the way). But, the players are not better. They are softer and dumber. And they are not coachable.
JJ hasn't really been in the media or coaching side. Yes, he's had the titles. But that's like saying a kid who washed out in Basic Training was 'in the military'. Technically you wore the suit, but you didn't spend long enough to really learn anything. Also, if the three old stars and host on Inside the NBA have more clout and influence than all the current stars in the NBA (enough so to tank the ratings), then that says everything you need to know about the issues in the modern NBA. And sadly that's true. I would rather watch Shaq, Chuck, Kenny and Ernie go back and forth than watch 90% of players in the modern NBA. I think I speak for a lot of fans there.
3 pointers is not a issue. We still have players like Ja Morant and others ,that attack the paint and provide spectacle. There's lots of talent in the NBA. Stop whining about the 3 pointers
How is he only a casual fan and fit to coach a team with these expectations? There are more platforms than ever and more countries reached for viewership. Caitlin Clark and the wnba were filling arenas and getting TV ratings compared to NBA. In the past that wasn’t even a 10th of the viewership the NBA got.
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This is the viewpoint of the guy that said Bronny earned his way onto the Lakers roster.
Meaningless. Almost every coach would have said that to pay the Bron tax. Doesnt mean all those coaches lack credibility.
What else was he meant to say!
@@ty24694 He could have just not commented on it. Or, told the truth.
Be realistic. He's the head coach of the lakers, he can't just not comment or tell the truth on something like that.
@@SheriffChuck81-qq5vq”Yeah so Bronny was a total nepotism hire, I need to tell the truth so random losers on the internet don’t get butthurt.”
The main problem is they got greedy and sold the Games too many different platforms.
ESPN, Amazon, Max, ABC, NBA league pass, NBC and Peacock, TBS and TNT.
It’s too expensive to be an NBA fan and viewer.
They priced the fans right out the door!
That hasn’t kicked in yet. Wont til next year so it’s really not a fair assessment
@ what hasn’t kicked in?
You are on the right track. I cancelled Spectrum cable. Now to watch full NBA games with streaming I have to get NBA league pass. To get rid of commercials, which I don’t have with other streaming, costs $115 per year.
But that is not worth it because with NBA league pass I can’t watch live LAKERS & CLIPPERS games or nationally broadcast games on ESPN, ABC or TNT! The NBA wants to force me to get cable again, which I refuse to do!
It’s crazy. The family of the coach of the Lakers can’t watch Lakers games live from home because JJ doesn’t have cable!
Not the main problem. The sport is the problem. Not sure if you actually believe that but if you think there are millions of fans crawling up firewalls to watch but just can’t and just ignore the extra loud complaints about the game
Itself from fans who actually go to game s that’s actually kind of funny.
JJ is a case study in Dunning Krueger, low IQ and high ego. I’d try and stay away from their takes probs. It’s not what the fans are actually saying no it’s umm…a TV show’s fault 🤣
@ the sport is the problem? How’s that?
Inside the NBA > actual games
FACT
I second that!
Old men running to the board and clowning each other is tired.
I prefer NBA analysis from people who actually watch the games. Inside the NBA is full of clowns with no depth of knowledge. Chuck can't wait to get home and falls asleep during the games they cover. Absolutely awful NBA content.
Looks like yall just want entertainment rather than basketball, leave, no one wants you
JJ annoys the shit out of me. But the title is misleading as he never mentioned inside the nba. I finished the video waiting for him to mention ernie and the guys but no mention of them. The channel played the clickbait game well. But this channel is now blocked on my feeds as this is a clickbait channel
Why does JJ annoy you?
How do you even block a channel in your feed?
@@syts77 there is an option to not recommend the channel🤦 how dumb can you be🤦
@@FloydWhoElseTVit’s simple JJ sounds like a dumb ass when he speaks
@@leandroagan8945someone’s not happy with their life
Well the refs make the game hard to watch. The NBA makes the games hard to find. I don't think viewership is really down, just most people either watch it on "other free sites". Or watch highlights because they didn't want the pain of trying to find the right service to watch it.
Totally agree refs have ripped the soul of emotion from the game if you can even find the game to watch
viewership is definitely down, everyone I know used to watch the nba, out of all of them Im the only one that still watches it
Every era complained about refs so really not a fair assessment. Refs always sucked.
@@CLNS_Nick - yes, Charles Smith was fouled vs the Bulls! The Knicks shouldve won that series
They are 100% down. No one including me watches the NBA and I’m been a watcher starting 2013
"It's a fact the league is more talented now" - that is an opinion
How can you refute it? Scheming, training, technology to study and to prepare is just much more evolved. Only if you are blind, you can deny that players are more athletic and have more tools than ever. It's a fact
@@filipe10messiyouand yet they are injured more,they are less interesting,they are not shooting mid range as before,centers rarely dunk,they are shooting 3s,they are softer,some guys dont play defence.The players are not so tehnical as before,european players are much more tehnical.I dont like what is happening with NBA
I'd literally rather watch plumbers play basketball.
Ya casuals just say anything for likes these days
@@FloydWhoElseTV No dude JJ called past players “plumbers” he’s definitely no casual
@FloydWhoElseTV casuals like your generation who only watch highlights on RUclips and pretend you know what the game is like?
this comment is the problem right here. Everything is a joke to yall. Cant defeat the internet smh
@@hooper4193 it was a new sport when Bob cousey played and everyone wasn't good. It's just facts.
JJ is in extreme denial…if the product sucks and ppl talk about it, it’s not the fact that people are talking about it that makes it suck.
Exactly. There’s a reason we weren’t saying this in the 90s. We had “old heads” back then and they loved the league.
@@dapper892we done with the 90s
But the product doesn't suck and that's what he's saying. As a coach he knows that the game is much deeper taticaly than it was when he entered the league. And must be frustrating listening to old players, who cannot keep up with what happens in the court, just trashing nowadays players for taking many 3's. How the shot was created, how the defense reacted to the scheme...they are very bad at talking basketball but they are supef confident in saying casual meaningless stuff. They are just haters of the new game, because they understand nothing about it
ignorant
The games are more boring to watch than ever. More and more people feel that every day. So many people in the league are just dancing around the obvious…..it’s a lack of competitiveness and a lack of effort that’s driving people away.
What a Herd mindset response. You don't even watch the games but complaining
The xmas day games were good and the ratings werent... not every game is going to be good in any sport but there's definitely some good nba games
@FloydWhoElseTV do you watch the games or just the RUclips highlights?
There is no intensity in the game today. Guys are trotting around and complaining to the refs every single play. It flat out sucks.
@@EaZyKiNgwell I would hope so they play a lot of them
The playoffs last year was the most competitive ever aside from the Celtics
I don't see anything wrong with what JJ said. Me personally,i stopped paying attention to regular season and mainly just watched the playoffs for the past 10-12 years, but that's only because it was obvious how much more intense the games are during the post-season,especially since the playoff games have more weight to them. The worst era of the NBA was the KD- warriors era ,where it was so obvious who was winning the title every year...there were zero threats to their title runs- they stomped every team in their playoff runs. Since that time however ,the NBA is in a great position ,where a different team has won the championship every year from 2019 onwards. The nba is in a good place right now,but for some reason there's this random narrative that exists that it sucks. It's a very counter-intuitive mindset,because it doesn't accomplish anything to say the nba sucks right now. JJ is right...from a business perspective ,you should always celebrate your product and never downplay it,and the NBA as it stands currently is a great product.
Its weird because the NBA game has always been flawed but somehow theres this narrative being pushed that NOW the game is unwatchable.
You dont watch the regular season because it sucks lol
@@79glane928 yeah but i stopped watching it like 10 plus years ago, long before ppl were complaining about it like they are today. I don't know if it's the whole load management, players dont try hard enough during the regular season or whatever... But something happened for all of a sudden for ppl to start saying the NBA is trash now. The NBA was worse during that 2016-2018 period when KD Was on the warriors, but more ppl are complaining today than they were back then.i dont get it.
It's complicated because the NBA is instigating apathy for a long time now. When the fans stop being mad with the coward "stars" joining forces, the 3pt festival and so on, this is the lowest point. Nobody cares about the regular season, the playoffs also lost much of it's relevance (many people asking the first round of the playoffs to return to the 5 games format). Some people goes as far to incentivize a shortened regular season, which is crazy to me, teams are playing 82 games in a season since the Bill Russell days, the current players are so soft and fragile, they just can't keep up the pace? Modern medicine and all, they just can't. Get that shit out of here, nobody cares about the "media" anymore, the information era made them obsolete for better or worse, the main issue is simple: the players stop caring, they got pampered and accommodated (thanks LeBron), if the players are apathetic, obviously the fans are going to feel apathy as well
"I don't see anything wrong with what JJ said. Me personally,i stopped paying attention to regular season and mainly just watched the playoffs for the past 10-12 years"
I mean....you just admitted to never watching the regular season and then you go on to say that the NBA is currently a great product?
They said the 90s were full of plumbers and janitors. Quite frankly, id rather watch plumbers and janitors play than a glorified 3 point contest
We done with 90’s
90’s had the most 60 win teams along with Kobe & shaq era..
The 90s players were millionaires. The '60s players were the plumbers during the offseason
@@Miraclex97 90’s basketball sucks!
@miriclex97 oh that’s a Real thing
The vibes I get from this guy is that because none of us ever played in the NBA we don’t have a right to say a word and that we need to be educated on the game of basketball. He comes off like a complete pompous ass.
If you catch any of his press conferences after losses, when somebody asked him a question, you can really see him biting his tongue, the dumb down his answer for the common folk, as if we’re not educated enough to be in the inner circle of understanding basketball
He’s a horrendous coach and from what I’ve heard, not a likable person either.
@@peterwoodaman5936 You are projecting
@ projecting what?
Not only that. Even if the public doesn't have the knowledge the public does have the purchasing .
We are the ones who watch the games. If we like dunks we like dunks you can't explain the technicality of shooting 50 3s a game. The people is just saying they want less.. is not about knowledge is about what the people want.
most of the coaches have never been an nba player, and he talks like only those who played know it all. the fact is that a lot of people know how to play basketball, just most of them are not physically gifted.
tell this guy that dribbling shooting dunks lay-ups aren't some scientific study that's hard to understand or hard to do.
we just don't want to watch a 3 point contest, no touching defense (if it's still called defense) , and self proclaimed goats.
Clickbait title, he never mentions anything about Inside the NBA
Thats what I was thinking. But Barkley sure responded like he did! Lmao
He actually does with the “parody” statement example: like tonight as soon as inside the nba starts Charles Barkley makes fun of how the the opposing team stinks and let’s wrap it up because this game sucked and that’s where JJ says we should celebrate it instead of making a parody of it
He didn't mention them by name but that's clearly who he was talking about. Mainly Charles Barkley that's why he felt like he had to respond
@@jayceeleonparity not parody
he said “parity”
I don’t even think JJ believes the words coming out his mouth😂 Inside the NBA keeps it real and nba players and coaches don’t like that. It just is what it is.
He was spot on but you're a bot that's regurgitating media narratives.
@@FloydWhoElseTV just say you're a lakers/bronny/lebron fan
@@kodyscot9360im not a lakers fan and I agree.. The skill level is better than it ever was and the declining ratings are not bc fans stopped watching, it’s bc casuals stopped watching.. Casuals like eras with dynasties where they can predict who will win.. when they watch a movie they want to see liam neeson destroy the bad guys and when they watch basketball they wanna see their favorite stars destroy the other team
"Inside the nba keeps it real". My man, Shaq and Barkley can't breakdown a pick and roll. They are terrible commentators and awful analysts
Can he not go even a day without making an ass of himself?
Love this comment! Not fallowing what JJ does, but I imagine that in fact, he is making ass of himself on daily basis 🤣😂🤣
Nope he can't help himself
He still thinks this is the best era of basketball.
@AbesamisM this is the most competitive season in the last 20 season.
He said nothing wrong
Not the league is not more talented. They just have narrowed in on focusing on a few skills. And discarded the rest. And these guys are less passionate
Sell the West-based games to one subscription provider, sell the East-based games to another. Two subscriptions MAX for access to all games; watch the viewership rise again.
ESPN is the problem
ESPN? i call it the lebron show
Inside the NBA is one of the saving graces of the NBA, you know it’s bad when you’d rather watch 4 guys talk about basketball than the actual game
He didn't even mention Inside the NBA 💀
He should have
Chuck goofy, walk like Vince McMahon with thunder thighs
I believe there are many reasons for the ratings problem. Some of it because the average poor person can’t afford these sports packages you need just to watch your team. Years ago you could turn on nbc and watch a lot of your favorite team.
Try buying tickets lol. That’s a mortgage.
The product is not enjoyable like it used to be. There’s no scheme or plan to ruin the nba…the league did it to itself.
The fans decide if the game is awesome or not.
Change the rules back to early 2000’s. Bring defense back and post up game creativity. We miss the mid range game. Enough with the step back 3’s. Stop with the techs, players can’t even show emotion anymore. Players are more skilled today than ever and all of it’s being wasted coaching 3 point shots.
They look more skilled because they are not being pressured on defense. Ask Trae Young to average 20 pts per game in the early 00s, he can't
@@RRRRRRRRR33 Iverson was a smaller, worse shooting Trae Young in the early 2000s and he cooked everybody
I agree to an extent. Shaq especially & Charles are too often fishing for the bad. The NBA changed the rules- It's not the players choosing to not be physical.
Less adverts, less time outs.
JJ: "Let me keep this brief"
Bad take from a guy who only knows how to shoot 3s
Blaming Inside the NBA is wild. Stevie Wonder can see the NBA is trash 😂😂
Another paid programmed bot that just regurgitate media narrative. Didn't even watch the video and made a comment based on the title.
??? He didn’t even mention Inside the NBA
Put the games on streaming and more people would watch, it's simple. Not many folks pay for cable anymore
JJ talks like a politician
I’d rather watch tnt crew over nba
Just the fact that he tried to claim that today's league has "parity" just goes to show you, that his opinions should be dismissed and ignored.
Too many threes early in the shot clock with no one to get the offensive rebound instead of driving to the basket for open layups in transition is a recipe for disaster JJ. Points in the paint will open up good 3pt shots. You don’t start off the game just jacking off long range shots. Even Darvin Ham knew this. Even if Curry was on the Lakers, shooting long range shots to begin the game is just bad coaching. If there is a lane to the basket, it should always be taken. Get to the free throw line and get the other team in foul trouble. Long range shots have to happen organically, you can’t just force them. Every time I watch the Lakers, Bron and Rui are jacking up 3 pointers in transition instead of getting to the rim. Let them drive to the rim and kick out the ball to Knecht or DLo for corner threes. The only team that is built to take a lot of three pointers are the Warriors, Celtics, Knicks, Suns, and Mavericks. Other teams need to focus on getting to the basket and better shot creation. I’m not saying play like you are in the 90’s or 80’s, but it’s just a three point contest instead of real basketball being played now.
What did he say about the Inside the NBA??
Terrible excuse. The MLB NFL NHL and soccer are going up in ratings. The NBA is the only sports league that continues to drop in ratings.
The league sucks brother.
He’s not a winner as a player. And never will be. Even as a coach.
Reddick might have a point why viewership is down with cable cutting, but that is only a small portion of it as I know more people who have traditional cable than who have cut the cord. Reddick dismisses the idea that the products bad by saying its the most talented and skilled since past 18yrs...is it though?? Think with the rules being so advantageous to offensive players now it may seem like more skilled and talented but thats because the element that the fans like has been taken out...the defense! So has the appearance of skill and talent risen in the past 18yrs possibly, but only because the rules benefit that style play which does not allow defenders to really lockdown a player which would cause dynamic passing and a certain level of IQ to approach offense in a way that is more engaging than just standing around waiting to shoot a 3 while one person dribbles the life out of the basketball. Being competitive on both ends as we saw a exhausted yet great MJ literally play sound defense make free throws layups and eventually the historic last dance shot to win a championship. Adam Silver even admits Jordan is his favorite player please dont tell Lebron...Its sad that he claims Jordans his fav but removes aspects of the game with rule changes that create a product that has diminished from the luster of the past especially the 80s 90s and early 00s era. We saw teams and players will their way to victory on sheer determination, now we now who will be champion days before because the televised notes were found in the trash can that gave the directory of how the game would progress and who the decided victor will be. How can we get excited about pre orchestrated "live" games...it just dont hit the same. Reddick just needs to stick to concentrating on his team staying above 500 this season and focus on reducing LBJs minutes to help the effectiveness of the Lakers increase.
🤦🤦🤦 what? Product isn't bad. Is their bad teams ? Yes but this season is probably the most competitive where you legit have play-in teams that could win the west.
@@FloydWhoElseTV Most people commenting dont even watch the games its hilarious, the okc thunder are having one of the best defensive seasons of all time but somehow this guy thinks that no one plays defense anymore smh.
So why is women's college basketball getting better ratings than ever before?
That's just excuses.
@@LIdris17absolutely not one of the best defensive seasons of all time. Wtf lol
@@79glane928 they have more steals than turnovers that’s never been done before, and the highest relative defensive efficiency since Bill Russell's Celtics teams of the 1960's. The Rockets and Magic have also been great this year on defense. Again tho you would actually have to watch the games to know this.
Okay, this is the first time I heard JJ speak on this. Before I saw headlines stating he blamed Inside the NBA... that's definitely not the case. His response was pretty nuanced and highlighted the many possible causes, like streaming cutting into ratings as well as Cable deals locking out viewership unless it is nationally televised.
I watched the whole thing and not once was inside the NBA mentioned or even tv programs in general. He only mentioned Twitter at the very end.
You jack 40 3s barely score 110 make no sense
It does make sense, though, because if you turned those 40 threes into 2s how do you know the result isn't 98 points? The total points says nothing without context, because other factors impact the ceiling of scoring.
@@riffsthatkill2180it doesn’t matter if it makes sense or not, it’s bad for the game. Pre shot clock made sense to win. Bringing in the 3-pt line for a while made sense but they changed it back, thankfully. So did holding the ball vs wilt or Kareem dunking in college. All those instances made sense from a technical strategy applied to beat opponents but those styles of play were bad for the product. This is the same situation. Analytics may tell us that more 3s lead to more Ws but it’s not a good product to the audience. Idk why it’s still being debated. Fans are making their opinions heard and it’s reflected in the ratings. Everything else is just talking head noise.
@@CLNS_Nick The point he's making is NBA teams are playing based on efficient scoring, rather than providing a good product.
The onus is right on the league and commissioner to sort this mess out.
Also NBA players are as unlikable as ever.
I think i rather pay $200 for league pass with no blackouts than how it is now. It be too annoying
People just echo what they hear. JJ was right on the money, and he never mentioned Inside the NBA. I dont even think he was thinking about them.
Chuck's rant just proved JJ's point too. He talked over the highlights just causs he was triggered.
I can only speak for myself. Corner 3s, lax officiating, the gather step, and the whining that comes with every missed shot turns me off.
🤦🤦🤦🤦 ya basketball wives just want to complain.
Spamming corner 3s is a thing of the 90s. You must be turned off since ever
@ Are you serious? 🧐
@mmoan2 before ya deleted my comment I see u love hot topics. U love tmZ. Weirdo
So if the league is more skilled, why is there a lot of fans who say that the game is becoming boring. And not casuals, but people who have watched the league for years, and also former players.
Because they are not watching. I watch basketball closely since mid 2000s and this season has been one of the most exciting for me. Lots of interesting teams taking the next step, plenty of narratives and we are yet at 1/3 of the season. Okc playing at an all time level on defense, wemby rising, memphis playing a revolutionary offense, the cavs making a case for being a real threat to boston. And the most important to me, diversity! Nowadays teams are very different between them. Some are pick and roll and isolation heavy like dallas and okc, some depend on off-ball movement and positiong like the warriors, some play fast, some play slow, some defend with 5 guards and switch everything, some rely on 2 bigs anchoring the defense. We just need to watch, and pay attention. The league is better than ever
JJ is SO arrogant that he can't see how shitty he is as a coach and the NBA as a whole
Except he’s not shitty. The Lakers are good and he’s done really well so far. But don’t let reality get in the way of your hate.
@@joeynickles7962 Whatever the case, what matters more is that JJ Redick is a piece of shit, rather than what position he's put the lakers in as a coach.
Who even cares about what team wins an NBA chip, if no one gives two shits about the nba anymore?
@joeynickles7962 I don't hate him, I hate his arrogance. He's not proven anything yet to be arrogant like Popavich lol
he is arrogant, always has been
He’s authentic…
But he’s also authentically annoying
Yes, he’s so right on about the annoyance of trying to find a game with all the subscriptions.
His arrogance is just insufferable. The game is way too one-dimensional. These guys can really only shoot threes and very little else. The game just is not fun to watch and nobody plays defense. It’s easy to add your stats because no one’s challenging rebounds. It’s a lost game.
Another reason why the viewership and ratings are down come from the fact that there aren't as many stars in the league and it's the same older guys that are being shown and the newer upcoming guys are playing for teams that get zero nationally televised games like the Magic etc and also the Christmas games that everyone used to be hyped for aren't there anymore and instead the NFL has taken over with their lucrative Netflix deal while the NBA has stuck with ESPN
I agree that the lack of new NBA superstars is a factor in the decline of NBA ratings. Part of this has to do it seems with small market players not seeming to be as popular as big market players. One sign of this is that the highest NBA jersey sales are for Steph and LeBron, who are at the end of their careers. Another sign is that hyped new players like Ben Simmons and Zion Williamson have been huge disappointments.
The other reason for lower ratings is that to see all the NBA games a person has to have cable and even JJ Reddick doesn’t have cable. NBA fans prefer streaming, but there is no streaming option, which allows someone to see all the games.
The sport was interesting to watch when you had players who actually wanted to tear each other part and win at all costs type of mentality. They played intense, great defense, and they were like warriors. Nowadays thats kind of all gone. You see zion, embiid, ben simmons collecting checks and not really competing. The future stars are trying to maximize their pay with very little effort. Who cares about players who dont want to battle and compete and just want to stat pad and look good. MJ, Kobe, Curry, Giannis had the killer mentality. Who really has it these days? You dont see players putting everything on the line. They dont care.
I'd argue that Curry doesn't have nearly as much of the killer mentality either. He's just a very incredibly skilled player. The others are legit though.
How can we forget about the greatness of the 2024-2025 Kings?
Yep - I'm an old dude at 53 years old. I remember the rise of the NBA with Magic and Bird, and Jordan, Nique, and Barkley carrying the torch. The league is a mess. From an athletic standpoint, players are better than ever and JJ is correct that the talent level is as high as it has ever been. But the game is damn near unwatchable for me so there isn't anything to celebrate. Yes, the infatuation with 3 pointers is a big part of the problem, but I also miss the rivalries. I think all these guys growing up as friends and bonding over the Olympics may play a part for me at least as to why I don't care as much about the NBA. Lakers/Celtics HATED one another, everybody hated the Pistons, Jordan wanted to destroy everyone in his path... These guys don't care as much about winning or losing - that should be evident to everyone. They get paid ridiculous amounts of money for mediocre results and do not care about whether fans enjoy the product. That includes "coaches" like JJ Redick that have ZERO experience in their field but can land a job with one of the most storied franchises in all of sports. JJ's paychecks will cash, and he'll to back to being a talking head when he is eventually fired. (Probably with a pay raise to boot)
No skill in the league. Bombing threes, no defense and also horrible refs
Whatever you said, Professor. This guy comes off like as a know it all jerk
Cause he is, and Hedo Turkoglu even mentioned how JJ Redick was a punk so he elbowed his head in practice.
The NBA has become a JOKE 😮
Players don't care about the game 😢
The Fans don't care either 😅
The Lakers are trash and so is the NBA. Thanks people like JJ and his Peter bumping buddy Lediddy.
Bricking 100 3s a game.
Inside the NBA ratings are way higher than the NBA games this year.
This guy is the epitome of a woke joke.
There is nothing woke about him
@@charlesthomas942 There is nothing that isn't woke about him.
For me this pretty much represents what is going wrong in our culture nowadays. JJ is beeing hated because he is talking facts and actually making rational proposals on how to improve things right now. People nowadays just don‘t have the patience any more to watch a whole basketball game and enjoy the beauty of it. They rather just get entertained by a populistic talk show like inside.
2:19 exactly this no one watches cable like that. People watch highlights now and most nba games aren’t nationally televised.
I can tell you exactly why people stop watching NBA as much, because I AM ONE OF THEM!
I come from a 13 siblings household and my and had 14 kids. We used to all just can't wait to turn on the TV to see the Lakers come on.
I was one of the BIGGEST Lakers fan; Since Magic days, and Kobe, and one fo the arguably best Centers EVER in Shaquille O'Neal and the crew!!
NBA officials did this to themselves! I used to just can NOT wait to get home and turn on the TV to watch the lakers! " For crying out loud; I just received a $300 haircut and I got shaved balled the next day at A1 Carbide, because I was betting my coworkers that Lakers will win against the Blazers the next day!"
NBA officials started to punish the big markets teams like the Lakers for having to much money and being able to attract players that would help the Lakers win! Just like the Lamar Odom trade that was blocked by the league! For who??; To have some little town that only cares about basketball and watches football or cricket instead?!? THATS RIDDICULOUS!!
LAKERS CAN NEVER WIN ANYMORE , BECAUSE THEY ARE BEING PUNISHED BY THE LEAGUE WITH PENALTY TAX AND NOT ALLOWED TO GET THE PLAYERS THEY NEED TO WIN AND MAKE THE GAME FUN TO WATCH ANYMORE!
It's not fun to log in and stay there FOR 45 MINS and watch the Lakers struggle and lose night in and night out.
After years of watching them struggle, I turn on the TV and when I see them lose; I just get all mad and turn it off, and watch FOOTBALL instead!
maybe the ratings are a result of jj just being a bad coach and putting a boring product on the court?
It’s true that the 3 have opened up the paint, but too often teams still jack up a 3 and it’s super ugly and frustrating to watch someone pull up 3 in transition and miss, even worse then both teams are doing it. Its like watching a worse version of the all star game
JJ is right on the purpose for shooting 3s. What he's missing is the fact that that's not how we're watching the 3 being used for the most part. What we're seeing is horrible 3-point shooting contests where the ball doesn't even touch the paint for several minutes, with exception to the rebound, on a nightly basis. Not sure what research he's referencing at the start of his nonsense, but if you read "How to Lie with Statistics" you will see that stats can be used to prove any point, regardless of how true it actually is.
When the cap has to go down they’ll all be fumbling trying to improve the ratings
Hoping he wouldn't have to provide takes, as he gets more excited than he does coaching and gets himself into a comfortable position
You want to save the ratings, make Lamelo ball the face of the nba and make the hornets announcer, announce every single nba game. 😂
JJ is partly right. Why watch the four hour game when you can watch a 10 minute YT video showing all the made shots. I do this all the time instead of paying the extra $50 fee to the cable company.
Twitter or not ratings are going down my boi
What's he going to say next this is Elon Musk's fault?
JJ Redick is straight up pansy.
There are many factors tbh, but the reason I haven’t tuned in this season is because my team drafted Bronnie. I don’t care about that publicity crap
2:58 that’s a fact. Casual fans are operated like that. It’s a reason when suns vs bucks happen people like tuned out expect the real fans because they didn’t see Bron or curry. Also they rely on the analyst to tell them who to watch and who is good.
The product is not good ,,you said it. Coaches are payed to fix the bad products, so fix it goofy
JJ is in over his head.
I agree with him about the streaming factor. But disagree on almost everything else. There is a reason the folks celebrating the greatness has a small following on Twitter. If Michael Jordan today opened a twitter account and celebrated how great today's game is I would not follow him
Sports has become a business. No more loyalty to one team which then creates deep-seated rivalries. Everything buddy-buddy now.
MLB and NFL are a business and players flip flop there too. But no one ever wants to be buddies like they do in the NBA.
NBA is an absolute non-competitive bullshit sport.
Hypocrite, this guy was blasting and disrespecting the OGs of the game and now his blaming the media for his bad performance?
Did he ever mention Inside the NBA?
The product the NBA provides is not good. They don’t teach the fundamentals anymore. Jacking up 3’s constantly, no passing, no defense, no team ball. Athletes are better than before but they aren’t fundamentally sound.
Only speaking for myself, I have the capability of watching any NBA game that I want, and I still don't. Just being honest
More talented? Are we watching the same league I grew up with Kobe ai lebron kd kg Paul pierce dwight Howard derrick rose, not a single player in the league that still plays with that fire besides Westbrook and he’s from the old days
He thinks everyone who watches the nba uses X? This ain’t your world JJ
Isn't this the same guy that said larry bird wasn't a top 3 point shooter lol this guy a joke but yeah nba is going down hill
Shorten the season. They have to… the NFL is taking over November and December with superstar half time shows on various platforms. It starts there.
Maybe tell your King to stop going to Diddy parties and put his bum son out of the NBA.
It’s not fucking easy to watch an nba game, it’s damn hard
this sport has been in disarray since kobes passing
Be quiet
The last great… They are saying they are making money. But that’s based on tv deals from glory years
Why are they saying the product sucks JJ? When they weren’t 20 years ago?
Why should this game be celebrated? A game full of multi millionaires who play when they feel like it, and play with no tenacity or heart. Why should celebrate that?
It’s funny… JJ never mentioned inside the NBA…
Because, the older players only want to talk about the 90s and Players are more talented and we don’t need big men who can’t shoot from the field or Free throw line.
That's a guy that understands marketing and business seeing that the trend can impact his revenue. Simply a "less money for me" comment
All he is talking about is what the Houston Rockets started......threes and layups
Players have teamed hoped too much!! Star players joining other stars and still not able to consistently win games means skill doesn’t equal basketball intelligence. Teams were more balanced 15-20 years ago so it was more fun to watch a player who was not considered a star have a standout game. Also there was a physical presence that is missing from today games because of lazy skilled players. The rules stifle the game in many ways.
He is right, but dumbasses will defend that stupid show. Is the show funny? Yes. But if you actually watch the show, none of them watch the games and try to comment on it. Shaq doesn't know the names of half the players on the games that they show. All they do is complain the game without watching it. And people just eat it up like the sheep they are
Clown show this guy. The players are not better. They look better because they are into lifting, etc (a useless endeavor in basketball, by the way). But, the players are not better. They are softer and dumber. And they are not coachable.
And they're definitely less clutch, because they lack the emotional determination and tough as nails attitude past NBA players had to have to win.
JJ hasn't really been in the media or coaching side. Yes, he's had the titles. But that's like saying a kid who washed out in Basic Training was 'in the military'. Technically you wore the suit, but you didn't spend long enough to really learn anything.
Also, if the three old stars and host on Inside the NBA have more clout and influence than all the current stars in the NBA (enough so to tank the ratings), then that says everything you need to know about the issues in the modern NBA. And sadly that's true. I would rather watch Shaq, Chuck, Kenny and Ernie go back and forth than watch 90% of players in the modern NBA. I think I speak for a lot of fans there.
3 pointers is not a issue. We still have players like Ja Morant and others ,that attack the paint and provide spectacle. There's lots of talent in the NBA. Stop whining about the 3 pointers
How is he only a casual fan and fit to coach a team with these expectations?
There are more platforms than ever and more countries reached for viewership.
Caitlin Clark and the wnba were filling arenas and getting TV ratings compared to NBA. In the past that wasn’t even a 10th of the viewership the NBA got.
Brown is the reason he got a job. But JJ is the reason why JJ sucks at coaching