I am no fan of basketball, but saw a game on the tv last night so decided to watch. I thought it was the CBA, which is nothing great, but in a pinch is mildly entertaining. What I got was the Taiwanese pro basketball and in a word it was Horrific!
I am from the midwest of the USA where high school games end in scores like 38-37, and present as much excitement as those numbers would lead you to believe, but this Taiwan league has us beaten. I am not lying, I watched maybe 8 minutes and saw only 1 basket! I saw missed layups, air balls, shitty passes, falling down, poor offense and lackadaisical defense. I kept watching thinking that there must be a catch, like maybe the guys were blind or something, but nope, it was able-bodied people.
It would appear that the Taiwan pros are like China whereby each team is allocated so many foreigners, so each team had two thuggish black dudes with the requisite tats, but even they sucked. I don’t know how much the league pays, but it is pretty pathetic.