If you want to make basketball look like soccer, just have a sixth player on either team that is allowed to goaltend. Or, if you want to make soccer look like baskeball, just play it without goalies.  I mean, we get it. Scoring a goal in soccer is really hard. That’s on purpose.

Basketball is a great sport, and soccer is a great sport, too. I really have to say, though, that if you have never played serious soccer, you probably don’t understand what’s going on and won’t enjoy it. That’s how I feel with baseball. I’m American, yet I have no idea how anybody could sit through the hours of torture that I have while watching baseball.

*If basketball WERE like soccer. Subjunctive <3.

The one thing that the two sports share, but is missing in this video, is the ridonkulous FLOPPING.

Basketball scoring is to casual. Buuuut if you added vuvuzela it would crank the tension right up. Intensity in ten cities!

Which is precisely why soccer wins.
Basket? Yawn.
Goal? Go CRAZY!
Just count the crowds.

Sorry guys, but any sport where a missed goal gets on the highlight reel does, in fact, suck.

This was already done on Jimmy Kimmel.

A basketball game is stopped every 20 seconds for a foul, whistle, or tv timeout. Soccer runs for two 45 minute halves with one commercial break. Winner: Soccer If you like commercials, free throws, and the sound of whistles by all means watch the NBA.

Agreed with Bree. High scoring sports like basketball = boring. I only have to watch the last 2 minutes of the game because I know both teams are going to be scoring constantly. In Soccer, the first goal could come at anytime and you never know if it will be enough.

The fact that goals are so rare in football/soccer is what makes it so awesome to watch, in my opinion. The penalty part was very true, though. ;)