I live close to Storrs CT. One of the best basketball colleges, UConn, is right down the street. As a professional photographer, I shot many games for the men and women down there. Women’s basketball is fun to watch. It is a completely different game from the men.
I respect the women playing the game. They are some of the best players on the planet. Yet…I’ve never paid to see them.
If there are people who want to watch it, thats fine. Trying to “force” it on the masses is not. For the “uninitiated” theytune into a women’s game an expect the same pace and flamboyance as the NBA. That is never going to happen. And you need to have another reason to keep watching them. So far that hasn’t happened.
Many of the women think they have to act like men and that means a game that is far too physical and “chest pounding.” That is not going to attract viewers either. Most coaches don’t coach that style because it disrupts the flow of the game.
The NBA is trying to “make fetch happen”*. It’s not going to happen.
* a phrase form the movie, “Mean Girls.” Look it up.
Yep. Certainly the WNBA players are not "feminine". But there are exceptions, obviously.
It's obvious that the league was not recruiting "feminine" players. Like you've said, that did not attract viewers to the league in the first 30 years.
Help us out.
Don’t post something obscure and then tell us to look it up. That’s frankly kinda impolite.
What does the phrase, “Make fetch happen”, mean?
“Thank you for your attention to this matter”.