The Shrine

Only Mavericks are playing anything that resembles team basketball, though to be fair the Heat was never about team basketball on the offense. I know people will say 'defense wins championship' but teams choking away large leads in 4th quarter by playing 1 on 1 basketball isn't defense. Throughout the playoffs it feels like the team that wins is the team that chokes the least. Hopefully in the Finals we won't have to see teams chocking 10-15 point lead in under 5 minutes to go. I think the sophistication of the defenses in NBA are too good for its own good. Right now it seems like if you can't draw fouls you just get stopped cold by defense unless you're Dirk Nowitski who can pretty much score no matter how he is covered. The recent rule changes favor slashers and I think they need to make rules that favor shooters but not slashers. I know NBA is tough to referee but it's really lame when you see one guy just keep on drive into the lame and get 25 free throws, and that's a perfectly good strategy since unless you're Dwight Howard, your free throw % is got to be better than your shooting %. But it's really boring basketball and it leads to all kinds of conspiracy theory talks.

Basketball is always terrible. No defense, a bunch of show boaters who can't dribble properly and the most drama off the field (although football is giving them a run for their money).

Basketball - Too much offense, no defense
Hockey - Too much defense, no...err, too much offense (but not enough to get past ONE GUY)
Baseball - Come on... it's one guy at bat against 9 players. The odds only get evened when there's a guy or two on the bases.
Soccer - Hockey on grass
Bowling - Can't really say defense or offense on this one... unless the other player like suddenly jumps out and blocks the ball. That would be fucking hilarious.
Dodgeball - Dodge, Dip, Duck, Dive, Dodge
Pool - Actually, there's a lot to be said about making at shot and trying to keep the opponent from getting a good shot if you can't get one. Of course, most games just end up with one guy/girl running the board and saying "Nice game"
Golf - Defense is also non-existent. Which is the reason why nobody's watches the damn sport.
Connect Four - Yeah, actually pretty good there, but nobody likes watching a Connect Four game.
Midget Car Racing - Holy fuck! This sport exists?! Oh, damn... it's just smaller cars.

Football - Probably about the only (real) sport with a good balance of both

Sine, you don't know too much about hockey, do ya?

Apparently he hasn't heard of Rugby, either.