Jay Bilas: ‘If you prefer college basketball over the NBA, it’s not for the basketball’

[Jason Svoboda]

Who knew I'd be a rabid college hoops fan because of my association with the school, my experience attending games, tournaments, etc. I can't say it enough, but the sooner Bilas is away from college hoops, the better. There has been no bigger negative influencer on the game than him.

Jay Bilas: 'If you prefer college basketball over the NBA, it's not for the basketball'

Jay Bilas explains why fans who prefer college hoops over the NBA do so for reasons beyond the quality of basketball.

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[jturner38]

He generalizes for all of college hoops from a P5 perspective everytime. He is so annoying.

 

[jturner38]

Is the NBA better from a talent perspective absolutely no question. But from a team perspective there’s only a few teams you can count that play team ball and are fun to watch (despite the the rule changes and the way it’s officiated). As a person who listen to alot of former NBA players podcast only a select few teams in the NBA are actually trying to win a championship.

 

[Jason Svoboda]

He generalizes for all of college hoops from a P5 perspective everytime. He is so annoying.

Yeah, I wasn't even going to justify his actual discussion because this is exactly it, right.

The top 20 schools basically run the same shit you find in the NBA. So sure, you should expect professional athletes to execute better versus their semi-pro counterparts. Fucking Duh! Glad it took a fucking Duke law degree to crack that code. Once you get out of that grouping though, you actually see style variation which is precisely what makes NCAA hoops interesting compared to the copycat NBA. Furthermore, the offensive innovation that the NBA now employs came from college coaches -- it was Brad Stevens that essentially ushered it in and started the exodus of defensive-minded coaches getting canned. Thibs is about all that is left and he cannot keep a job because players refuse to buy in -- that and he believes in actually playing his guys full games which they cannot stand. But I digress.

 

[Jason Svoboda]

Is the NBA better from a talent perspective absolutely no question. But from a team perspective there’s only a few teams you can count that play team ball and are fun to watch (despite the the rule changes and the way it’s officiated). As a person who listen to alot of former NBA players podcast only a select few teams in the NBA are actually trying to win a championship.

Dude, both Club 520 and Gil's pods have exposed so much.

The whole ATL playing acquired stars like 14-19 minutes... mind blowing. I'd be so pissed if I were a Hawks lifer after hearing that.

 

[jturner38]

Yeah, I wasn't even going to justify his actual discussion because this is exactly it, right.

The top 20 schools basically run the same shit you find in the NBA. So sure, you should expect professional athletes to execute better versus their semi-pro counterparts. Fucking Duh! Glad it took a fucking Duke law degree to crack that code. Once you get out of that grouping though, you actually see style variation which is precisely what makes NCAA hoops interesting compared to the copycat NBA. Furthermore, the offensive innovation that the NBA now employs came from college coaches -- it was Brad Stevens that essentially ushered it in and started the exodus of defensive-minded coaches getting canned. Thibs is about all that is left and he cannot keep a job because players refuse to buy in -- that and he believes in actually playing his guys full games which they cannot stand. But I digress.

I would go back even farther and say Mike D’Antoni kinda started it with PHX but teams couldn’t mimick that back then. Then Steve Kerr with the warriors and Brad Stevens. They were ahead of the times. For Thibs I think his firing was because he struggles to adjust and he didn’t develop his bench early in the regular season so he could trust them in the playoffs. I could give you a bunch of things I saw that I thought was an issue for them. But the topic at hand College is a better team game. Now what I do like is some schools have adapted some NBA principles (like us) to space the floor so the lane isn’t as clogged. But Bilas isn’t going to tell you that lol

 

[jturner38]

Dude, both Club 520 and Gil's pods have exposed so much.

The whole ATL playing acquired stars like 14-19 minutes... mind blowing. I'd be so pissed if I were a Hawks lifer after hearing that.

1000000% and Gil exposed ESPN for me. Oh they are bad but that can be a different conversation. Charlotte is not a serious franchise right now. Their contract situation is idiotic. They also let LaMelo play however he wants instead of having a little structure. It’s just bad basketball most of the time.

 

[Jason Svoboda]

I posted this a couple years ago but it applies here. Pretty much all NBA teams reside in that 6th circle whereas college still has 5 additional offensive archetypes.

 

[jturner38]

I posted this a couple years ago but it applies here. Pretty much all NBA teams reside in that 6th circle whereas college still has 5 additional offensive archetypes.

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I must of missed it but this is spot on.