Unlike you, I did watch a lot of basketball games after the Sixers were eliminated. Not as intently as I watched hockey, but I saw quite a few games. Here's what I abs hate about b-ball.
1) Unlike hockey, the individual foul calls are both meaningless and determinative. Early in each half, the fouls are just stoppages. When they eventually mean something, it reduces some of the best athletes in the world, to standing alone, unguarded, and trying to hit free throws. I don't care whether or not the game is on the line. Free throws suck. But fouls in b-ball seem much more determinative than in hockey, even tho in hockey, fouls (penalties) mean such more. The reason for this dichotomy is that in b-ball fouls are play-related, whereas in hockey they are much more game-related.
2) Funny how b-ball will take great pains to review where exactly a 3-pt shooter's foot was, or when the shot was taken, as if b-ball is fundamentally a more difficult game to officiate than hockey. Meanwhile in hockey, we get touch fouls called by refs 50 yards behind the play, refs obsequiously kneeling and pointing as if he somehow definitively seeing the puck stay in or come out of the zone and all the rest. And yet all they really review are melees in front of the net, high stick deflections and distinct kicking motions.
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