Comments on: NBA does not = College

By: Career Development

Career Development — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 08:41:12 +0000

I just finished my secondary studies and it has suddenly hit me that I have absolutely no clue of the career road i’m going to choose. I have always been a “straight A” student, but now that i’ve had several months in the real world, I feel that I have been focusing too much on unattainable goals. I feel it’s come to a point where i’m goint to have to seek out some kind of career planning or something of that nature to guide me in the right direction. Has anyone here gone through an ordeal like this?

By: will

will — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 16:21:58 +0000

i\’ve heard your nachos were fantastic too.

By: casie

casie — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 15:46:07 +0000

scoogs,

i went to my first nba game as well last week. it was the celtics vs new orleans and it was actually a good nba game. i agree with brent in that the nba kind of sucks. but if you can watch a couple of teams play who have no name young players that still play like they are in college its not bad. u are definitely lucky in your seating…i was at the top row of the arena…but my nachos were freakin fantastic!

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 21:49:39 +0000

Scott: I totally agree that NCAA players try harder. I guess that’s why NBA is considered “entertainment” than “pride”. But wait till the Playoffs, those are some of the most exciting games there is.

By: will

will — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 15:30:27 +0000

Paul,

I completely understand what your saying. You, like me make total sense.

Thanks, your friend,
George Bush

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 14:50:07 +0000

Im not saying they arent good or lack talent, im saying they lack enthusiasm. They walk on and off the court the walk up and down the court unless they have the ball. Its just a differnet tempo than seen in college games. Its like they dont really care if they are there or not as long as they are gettin there millions of dollars. It just seems like they really want to play more and harder in college.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 14:46:57 +0000

Ahhh……spoken like a true Southerner. We lose in basketball to Europeans because we don’t play as a team. We don’t take the time and train as a team and have the “team chemistry” like they do. We train for a few months for this “event”, while they train for years and years preparing this “event of their lifetime”. We still didn’t do too badly, I think we came in 3rd.

By the same comparison, if you take a bunch of NCAA players and didn’t train them as a team, I think they would do a lot worse than the NBA players did.

I don’t think NBA players “lack fundamentals”, it’s just that “fundamentals” like pick & roll don’t get them too far in the NBA, so it’s less used. But if you watch all the people who move without the ball, and basic jumpshooting abilities, people like Peja or the former Reggie Miller will beat out any NCAA stars.

By: Brent

Brent — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 22:01:07 +0000

Fans of the NBA are not fans of the sport of basketball. It”s marketed to children and people who don’t know any better. The NBA is like pop music. All style and no substance.

That’s why our “major leaguers” continually get their shit handed to them by european teams that are not as quick,strong or talented. They know how to play the game and exploit out pro players lack of basic fundamentals.

I agree that the NBA makes for some great clips on Sportcenter, but if you can actuallly sit through an entire regular season NBA game, you’d better be either drunk, retarded or both because that is not basketball.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 15:04:18 +0000

If you’re looking for the type of atmosphere where the audience gets fired up and show some “real patriotism” to the home school/city, then NBA probably isn’t your thing. It’s more about “family entertainment”.

But with that being said, why not watch a sport at its best? Those guys are much quicker/stronger/more talented than NCAA players. I bet the Cavs playing the way they played over the weekend will beat Duke at their best.

I DO understand the idea of “We got the best minors in the country, so we all watch minors”, but don’t just rule out the majors just because there isn’t a “majors” team in the RDU area.