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I have watched more NBA/Bucks this far this season than any full season in my life. The quality of play is light years ahead of the college game. Thus far, I have not seen much to get excited over in watching the college games.On a side note, I am thoroughly enjoying watching the Bucks this season. They are deep, talented, unselfish and have a big time coach. Barring injury, this might finally be our year. It has been long time since MKE won a crown and I am going to enjoy this ride.
The college game is always rough at the beginning. It usually comes together by conference time and looks decent. Sometimes it looks great.But the NBA has been light years ahead of the college game for a long time. Not only because the players are obviously much better, but because I think NBA refs understand how to manage games without disrupting flow. The college game has too many stops due to enhanced rules emphases and it just chops it up.And you are right about the Bucks. Watching them last night after watching the Warriors in the afternoon hardly seemed like the same sport.
People watch college basketball not because of the "quality of the players," but rather an affiliation or connection to a team or institution. I actually watch very few NBA games, because they are meaningless 80% of the season, and it drives me nuts that they don't call travels, carries, and obvious fouls. Others prefer that because that means the refs "manage the game".As an example, if the MU v. Robert Morris game had been an NBA game, none of the travels called on MU would have been called. They would have been play-ons.
General state of college basketball refereeing: poor as ever https://twitter.com/robdauster/status/1198729559052636160?s=21
In all honesty, in both college and the NBA. The coach should be able to call for a review of a suspected flop. If they are right, technical foul on the opposing team. If they are wrong, lose a timeout.
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Enjoy the college game immensely more than the NBA. Level of talent does not necessarily correlate to level of fan enjoyment. IMO, there's nothing more exciting in sports than college basketball in March. Quality of college play is always worse in November. Team identities are still forming.
People need to stop making this argument IMO. March Madness is incredible. Probably my favorite sports spectacle. I'm a huge CBB fan. But college basketball is so bad in terms of quality of play for large stretches of the year. Just say you like college sports more than pros, but other than March Madness, don't claim that on a basketball level they are remotely the same level of enjoyable. As teams play to a 65-60 slog in conference play. Comparing the NBA to CBB with March Madness as the key driver for CBB is weak.
I'll stick with my opinion on Gold. He'll be in foul trouble within the first eight minutes.
So he cannot have his own opinion on what he finds more enjoyable? Uhm, ok.
He can have whatever opinion he wants. We already know your stance which is why you quickly jumped in. Bringing in "fan enjoyment" makes it a broad reaching statement instead of a personal one. All I pointed out was using MM as a catchall for the entire season. I'd make arguments about the same if someone championed the NFL over NCAA football and said "cause the Super Bowl is such an incredible event"
I would take the Rick SLU program right now.
Load Management. I'm not a NBA fan to begin with, and I certainly recognize the superior talent these guys have....but things like load management, no defense, taking 4 steps (Harden), etc...I (my opinion) don't find it enjoyable at all. Even though they are elite athletes, skilled to the highest degrees in the world, I just don't find that enjoyable. Some do. To each their own.