MT Ep51 Are the Royals a better 'team' than last season?

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Re 'the Allstars' ... Well said 

Good listen as always( I really don't listen to these enough).
However we had all star North v South games before. They weren't competitive, they weren't interesting. It wasn't basketball that I or many others wanted to watch, there was little to no defence, it wasnt hard nosed basketball, no one cares if they won or lost.
Whilst I appreciate that last weekends event isn't 'real basketball', there wasn't a single player, coach or team who didn't put every ounce of effort & commitment they could to try and get the win (Paternostro's reaction at the end of the Cheshire game tells you all you need to know about how competitive this is taken). It was very competitive & ultimately that's what gets people excited.
I'd love to think we didn't need to have an event like this & I'm sure all the cricket purists would prefer they never saw a 20/20 game and whatever the new 100 ball game is about, however it gets bums on seats and money in the pocket & that's what it's about.
I also don't see last weekends event putting any potential sponsors off, the talk on the podcast was that it would put off sponsors who knew about basketball! Well
1. Good luck at finding enough of those for any club, I doubt any club has more than 2 sponsors that really 'know' about basketball.
2. The sponsors see the club's they sponsor on TV once a year, are they seriously going to stop supporting those clubs because they're getting proper coverage? Absolutely not!

The podcast agrees that there's no money in British basketball, there's not going to be money around for the other events suggested at present, hopefully on the future we might. I'd love to see a competition perhaps just after Xmas where the BBL club's play a small tournamount over 3 days in a central venue, where the basketball community could get together but it'd be a financial disaster and cripple the league.

There's no easy answer but criticising something when you admit you never watched it is quite short-sighted.