Would you rather play a sport where you as an individual can score lots of points yourself or with a team or would you rather play as a team and only get a final score of 2:1? If you are the type of person who likes scoring a lot of points then basketball is the perfect sport for you. In basketball each goal you get will be awarded 2 points for your team unless you shoot from the three-point line then you will be awarded 3 points. Did you know the most points scored in a game is 100 points by Wilt Chamberlain who played for the Philadelphia Warriors on the 2 March 1962? In total their team scored 169-147 against the New York Knicks.
My first topic of why basketball is better than soccer is the intensity that every game has. This makes games so amusing to watch and play because anything could happen in a simple game of basketball. Is basketball that intense? Yes, it is, a basketball game is so back and forth that you will never get a boring moment. You could be playing defence for a minute and then suddenly you will be sprinting up the court trying to get a quick goal, and then sprinting back to try to avoid the opposition to do the same. While in soccer it is divided into attacking and defending so basically you can only control and play 50 per cent of the game. In basketball, every player is expected to be switched on 100 per cent for the whole game.
The second topic that I think is quite important is sports leagues. For basketball, the top league is the NBA, and for soccer, it is the British Premier League. Let’s start with the BPL( British Premier League), in total they have 38 games. They have 20 different teams and during the season they play each team twice, one on their home ground and the other at the opponents. Every team will receive three points for a win or one point for a draw. While in the NBA each team plays 82 games. 41 on their home ground and the other 41 on their opponent’s home stadium. The NBA has carefully scheduled it so that each team can play each other team in the league at least one time home and away. The season is split into pre-game which is practising and warm-up games, the regular season and finally the playoffs which are the finals. In total 1230 games are played in the NBA.
Finally, an enormous thing that can impact a sports reputation is the athletes themselves. The average height of a player in the NBA is around 6 foot 7 which is around 2.01 metres compared to the tallest team in the BPL which averages 6 foot 1 which is around 1.85 metres. There are two types of athleticism when it comes to both sports. Soccer players are mostly long-distance runners and require elite stamina and speed, but basketball players are more sprinters as they need the explosiveness and quickness. We should compare two different athletes. Ronaldo can run at about 21mph while LeBron has a record of 20.4 mph but LeBron is also bigger in size and strength so LeBron could be way better than Ronaldo in a kind of way. Lebron also has a vertical jump 4 inches taller than Ronaldo which is very impressive. Both players have great stamina as well.
In Conclusion, I think both sports are great and always will be, but I just think basketball is better. This doesn’t mean that I think soccer is bad but I’ll rather watch Stephen Curry over Messi for the rest of my life.
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