NBA is a big negative

I know that many of you have turned on your T.V.'s and seen the playoffs this year, and noticed that the players seem to really care less if they are there or not. The NBA sucks up the college talent by waving millions in their faces, before they are even ready to come out of college (Chris Bosh) and the NBA is a league filled with some of the poorest defense in the world. No wonder they don't place in the top 3 in the world anymore, because they don't know how to play defense, pass well, communicate, compete, and play as a team. Tim Duncan is one of the few great players that does not trash talk or show off, and I've loved him ever since he was a freshman at Wake, but for the most part the NBA is just egging on egotistical performances, and ruining the college game where players play for pride and the love of the game.

 

preaching to the choir, sockit. but it's allways good to hear a nba rant.

 

i thought it was great the other night when kidd hit the game-winning shot and he DIDN'T grab his jersey and point it at the opposing team. he didn't hop up and down and scowl at the crowd. he didn't fist-thump his heart to show how much he's got.

you'll never see duncan doing that either.

hey, glad the nba is coming back to charlotte. yay!

 

Although it was also great when he hit that 3 pointer at the end of the game 6 blowout in the Boston series. A big up yours to the entire Boston crowd. They deserved it.

I think there are a lot of factors. Guys playing for the money don't want to get their hands dirty and risk injury, free agency makes it harder for teams to gel, and the infusion of European talent and style of play, where the 3 pointers rule.

Then again, I don't see a lot of people giving props to the Pistons, who play great team defense and dive after every ball, to a man. I guess because their O is like watching paint dry.

 

What players don't care if there in the playoffs or not? I haven't noticed anything like that.

Just face it, for the good to great college athletes, college is just an internship until they feel they're ready for the pros. It's certainly not all about love of the game or pride for most college athletes with the exception of walk-ons and guys like Collison, Heinrich and other kids who stay all 4 years when they didn't need to. It's the same way in football.

There's plenty of defense played in the NBA, you must be a guy that just looks at the final scores on Sportscenter from Mavs' game. You see the high score and just assume no defense was played anywhere else in the NBA.

 

bullshit- if you look at the teams out there right now, there is no way you can tell me there is no passion on that court. the mavs have played 2 series that reached 7 games, the pistons as someone mentioned are the epitome of effort = success, the spurs play very fundamental basketball and the nets run and gun. all have worked their asses off to get where they are and to say there is no passion is outlandish. im sure carmello anthony took up playing at cuse simply for the love of the game? he didnt have any intentions of making it one day in the pros?? yeah right- a good % of college players play college basketball simply b/c of one thing- $$ and the nba. to say the ncaa is more pure than the nba is laughable. and to go out and degrade nba players who have worked their asses off all year is wrong- i think, once again, this is a case of $$ envy.

 

You watch any college game, and they play with more heart and intensity than the pros do in the playoffs. The pros laugh and joke to each other in the crunch time of games, and they whine and complain to the refs after every foul which would warrant a technical foul in college. You can win in the NBA with 2 good players on a team, in college it takes a team to win.

 

Carmello Anthony did not choose Syracuse to set him up for the pros. That man could go to the NBA regardless of what school he went to in Division one. He went to Syracuse to win an NCAA national championship, which he accomplished.

 

Different animals, in every way. i love them both, but they are different.

in college, you can get by with hustle and a decent jump shot. Or scrappy play in the paint.

Pro level is played above the rim. It's hard for many college stars to fit in, because of the atheticism. Just like NFL vs college. There's an athletic requirement, those with skill and athletic ability succeed, the rest are just athletes.


You can win with two really good players who put out great effort in the NBA, because there are only a handful of guys who can play at that level of talent and be stars, and fewer still that have the class and talent to raise his teamates skill.

Jason Kidd is one of those guys. Didn't see the game, but it looked like he had another one of those nights.

Yeah, the Rasheed Wallace's are still out there. A very talented guy who doesn't get it. But those guys never get to the finals anyway.