Cuban likes Crean and Why. Plus College Game Critic

[GloryDays 6,228]

watch the Spurs or Golden State and get back to me. Thats basketball at its purest. No college team runs a better offense.

I like college ball better because I have an affiliation to IU and it's "College" athletics (kinda).

However the knocks on NBA are usually unfair in my estimation.
 

 I guess there's nothing emotionally binding to me. maybe if I were in a market with a pro team it would be different.

When I was A kid I loved the Ky Colonials and went to several games.That was one hell of a team.

[WayneFleekHoosier 51,614]

I guess there's nothing emotionally binding to me. maybe if I were in a market with a pro team it would be different.
When I was A kid I loved the Ky Colonials and went to several games.That was one hell of a team.

I think it's exactly that. I have zero binding either, except for the Pacers, I suppose and I don't even affiliate with them. I connect to IU athletics. But the NBAs best put on a show. The NBAs worst is garbage, so I get it.

[Old Friend 8,681]

To say nba is better than college ball is the absolute dumbest thing I have ever heard. I can barely watch nba but that is just my opinion.

I see college basketball slowly becoming NBA light.   So many AAU coaches teach an NBA style game...and that's who's influencing kids now.    Take a look when you watch a game.   Most players, when they catch the ball, have to dribble it at least once.    I don't know if they're probing and looking for an opportunity, or more likely, have no idea what else to do.   

 

This is why I love watching Wisconsin.  It's why I love watching IU in transition.  (And yes, like Woodson says, Golden State...they're terrific!) Why I loved watching Butler a few years ago.  The ball moved/moves.  Then....watch most college teams, including Indiana in the half court.   Dribbling has taken over the game....which is what I can't stand, and maybe what Cuban meant.   Heck, he grew up on motion offense just like we all (well, many of us) did.   He understands what a good shot is and is not; and one reason the NBA is becoming more and more unbearable is college players don't come to the league with any real knowledge of what to do without the ball.   In the NBA and now in college, tons of shots are contested.   Tons are taken off the dribble.   Using screens to get shooters open is becoming a lost art (for example, I don't remember Indiana setting a screen to get Jordan Hulls a catch and shoot jump shot..and he was a fantastic shooter).   

 

Some of those traits you can get away with in the NBA because you're talking about the best players in the world.  In college?  That's not a game most kids are going to succeed in, and it limits the focus to the top players; which completely takes away a team game...which in turn develops players who understand the sport but not the game of basketball.

 

I also think he's right about officials.  In the NBA, there's one standard and one guy in charge of officials.  In college?  Every conference has a different set of standards by which games are officiated.  And there are some bad referees out there.....Ted Valentine still has a job, for example.   The missed call the other night was inexcusable with replay available.  The NBA isn't my favorite brand of basketball by any stretch, but the brand of basketball being played in college is slowly moving toward isolations and everything off the dribble....and if you don't have the best players, that doesn't win.    And that's been my complaint about IU's offense for 6 years.    There's little movement in the half court, and when teams take away our transition game (which is terrific), we're just not very efficient; and it's not just Indiana.  Coaches just aren't that creative anymore.

[WayneFleekHoosier 51,614]

Mark Cuban is a classic Hoosier. Representing IU tonight on Shark Tank. "Are you kidding me, I hate Notre Dame, I went to Indiana!"

My man Mark!

[KingPG21 6,606]

Mark Cuban is a classic Hoosier. Representing IU tonight on Shark Tank. "Are you kidding me, I hate Notre Dame, I went to Indiana!"

My man Mark!

What context is this in?

[WayneFleekHoosier 51,614]

"Inventors" were promoting a company that offers homes to rent in popular college football locations. Notre Dame is their biggest location, 350 homes. Cuban was an investor and they invited him to tailgate with them at Notre Dame.

After Cuban responded with quote from above they said they will come to an Indiana BASKETBALL game.

[HoosierCoop 4,159]

  Refs are one thing but White Castle?

Some of my best memories involve the Castle and 3 AM Sat mornings.

That is ,what I'm able to remember anyway.

When I am in need of being "regular", I know that it is only a short drive away.