Basketball - its not fair is it ?

I'm sitting in the office this afternoon suffering from indescribable man-flu like symptoms, I shouldnt be here I should be at home but because the wife kicked me out of the house this morning with instructions to earn some money, I'm sitting here watching TV.

The Commonwealth Games are on from Australia, and in particular, basketball.

Australia are apparently stuffing Scotland.

But it all strikes me as being slightly unfair, the commentator has just mentioned that the australians are getting their big men under the basket and scoring at will, and indeed they are.

But the only reason that they can do this is that their team is full of 8 foot 6 inch freaks who barely have to lift their arms up to gently place the ball in the basket.

This can't be fair surely ?

Whats the point of making the baskets so high off the ground if you can make you players grow tall enough to be at eye level with them ?

Surely the authorities should make the australian basket fifteen or even twenty feet off the floor whereas the scots (who are not known for being a particularly tall race, given their childhood diet of fried food that makes them grow sideways rather than upwards) should have a basket which barely leaves the floor.


Its just a thought - I actually know nothing of this basketball of which they speak.




Its bird flu.