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Generally speaking I like the NBA much more because the quality of play is 10X better than that of the college game which is filled with a lot of bad basketball. This NCAA tournament has had a lot more close encounters with higher competition this season, or it may just seem that way since I am a UK fan. In that sense it has been a fun past couple of weeks. I have always felt though the NCAA tournament is exciting for all the wrong reasons. It is an inverted pyramid of excitement and we root for bad teams to knock off the good ones. That sets up bad games later in to the tournament when the stakes are higher because these teams cannot sustain. A lot of these upsets occur when you take teams and you ship them across country to odd arenas or stadiums, start the games at 11:00 a.m. or 11:00 p.m. and "madness" occurs. Couple that with the three point line being too close and limiting star players with early foul trouble you can see why teams may be off or on by typical standards.

 

On the flip side the intensity and quality of play increases with each round of the NBA playoffs. It does drag out too long... the first round does at least.

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great points!! personally i love college basketball from november until april. I watch the NBA playoffs usually, but here is why I prefer college basketball. Plain and simple, heart. College basketball players play with an incredible level of heart and energy, which is the reason these 14 and 15 seeds make upset runs in the tourny. Pure heart and love for the game. I think the NBA is the only sport where no one has heart until the playoffs. Basic fundamentals of the game are ignored in the regular season, mainly defense and it makes me sick. I think the NBA should follow the playoff format that the MLB uses. Much more effective.

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great points!! personally i love college basketball from november until april. I watch the NBA playoffs usually, but here is why I prefer college basketball. Plain and simple, heart. College basketball players play with an incredible level of heart and energy, which is the reason these 14 and 15 seeds make upset runs in the tourny. Pure heart and love for the game. I think the NBA is the only sport where no one has heart until the playoffs. Basic fundamentals of the game are ignored in the regular season, mainly defense and it makes me sick. I think the NBA should follow the playoff format that the MLB uses. Much more effective.

Outside of the NFL all professional leagues go through the motions through a lot of the season because it is such a grind. But also the rules in the NBA are totally different and the players are so skilled, it often looks as if they are not playing defense or trying but they really are. The no defense is a myth. An NBA team would hold the best college team to 30 points.

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I love both. But the NBA has much better quality play. I'm a basketball junkie so I watch both leagues whenever I can. I'm an NBA league pass subscriber and I'm flipping between NBA and NCAA all week. I really never get the beef with the NBA from some UK fans. There was a 2-3 year span after Jordan retired from the Bulls where overall play was down in the NBA, but other than that the league has been fun to watch.

 

They both have their strengths. I love the NBA because of the 7 game series you almost always get the best teams playing for the title. March madness is fun because of the one game elimination format, but in year like 2010 it can drive you mad because you know that John Wall led team could of probably only lost to Kansas that year in a 7 game series.

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College Basketball hands down, not even close. NBA is unwatchable for me. The non traveling calls, the fouls they call and don't call never make sense. You can be mugged on one end and no whistle while you can be breathed on a second later and a foul is called. the continuation call is a joke in the NBA, you can be fouled at half court and you continue to take your 5 steps for a layup and they call it a shooting foul. NBA = not good.

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People who say there is no defense being played in the NBA don't know NBA basketball. It's being played, and it's being played at an extremely high level.

 

If defense is truly being played at "an extremlely high level" then 120 points would never be broken.

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as 100+ points are scored a game per team. Defense is awesome!

 

If defense is truly being played at "an extremlely high level" then 120 points would never be broken.

 

These posts completely prove my point.

 

If defense in the NBA is so horrible, how come so many elite college players suck when they get there? Adam Morrison ring a bell? Guy put up near 30 a game in college, couldn't sniff the floor in the league. How's that possible if the defense is so bad?

 

Outside of the obvious metrics that account for more scoring in the NBA, the talent level is another huge factor.

 

There are roughly 351 D-1 schools. 15 players a team, so just over 5,000 guys in the NCAA in a given year. 60 of them (1.2%) have what it takes to get drafted, and that numbers high because it doesn't factor in that at least 10 guys from overseas are drafted each year. Add in the undrafted guys that stick, and you're looking at maybe 1.5-1.75% a year, and that's being generous.

 

What that means is the guys have to be elite to have even a chance to play at the NBA level. The better players get, the more fluid they play the game. The more fluid the game is played, the easier it looks to the uneducated eye. Do you guys think the "elite" defenders in the college game get to the NBA and all of a sudden forget how to play defense? Of course not, the talent level is increased about 100x though. In a given college season an elite level defender may check 2-3 guys that have what it takes to be career guys in the league. Maybe once they'll face a future NBA superstar, but probably not. Every single night in the league these guys are going against guys that are far superior offensively to the best of the best they faced in college.

 

Everyone can agree Kobe was/is an elite defender. You have Kobe trying to check guys like Melo, Durant, LeBron, and they'll still put up 20+ almost every time. When you get guys as good as they are at scoring the ball, it doesn't matter how good you are defensively, they're going to make shots and get theirs.

 

Then you've got the metrics of the game that allow for higher scoring games. In a college game we have 2,400 seconds of play, with a 35 second shot clock, which averages out to roughly 65 possessions a game. The NBA game we have 2,880 seconds of play, with a 24 second shot clock, which averages out to roughly 120 possessions a game. More possessions equals more shots, more shots equals more makes, more makes equals more points. Then when we factor in that the guys in the NBA are far superior in talent level than the guys in college, it's understandable that they're much more likely to shoot a higher %, regardless of how good the defense is, which in turn means....you guessed it, more points.

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