Following The NBA.

[bcl20]

There is more passion in your average regular season college game than your average regular season NBA game. But that is to be expected (especially this year) when NBA teams are playing 3, sometimes 4 games a week and travelling across the country.

I've seen plenty of NBA games filled with passion in the regular season and I've seen plenty of college games in which the teams looked like they didn't give a crap. The rowdy crowd at some college games creates an illusion of passion in my mind.

College crowds are clearly better than NBA crowds but that doesn't make the game better to me at all. Since I've watched the NBA game regularly, I've found the college game to be much harder to watch.

 

[cmhawks99]

I've seen plenty of NBA games filled with passion in the regular season and I've seen plenty of college games in which the teams looked like they didn't give a crap. The rowdy crowd at some college games creates an illusion of passion in my mind.

College crowds are clearly better than NBA crowds but that doesn't make the game better to me at all. Since I've watched the NBA game regularly, I've found the college game to be much harder to watch.

Well just like anything it’s a perception issue. The perception is college fans are supporting the school colors and the “amateur†athlete which by definition seems to equate to “passionâ€! Rightly or wrongly…

At the Professional level you are watching guys being paid to compete at the highest level of their profession. So it’s easy to see why some aren’t as connected, especially when they are so seemingly different and vastly more wealthy and unattainable to the majority of fans. Not hard to understand if you stop and evaluate it. Now again, just like when a fan insists that such and such coach or player or program, doesn’t know what they are doing…these things are rarely rooted in fact but mostly just “feelings†or perceived facts…..

As for your last thought….if I liked Pro infinitely better than college to the point it was “hard†to watch anything else….I guess I wouldnt bother watching anything but the NBA.

 

[bcl20]

Well just like anything it’s a perception issue. The perception is college fans are supporting the school colors and the “amateur†athlete which by definition seems to equate to “passionâ€! Rightly or wrongly…

At the Professional level you are watching guys being paid to compete at the highest level of their profession. So it’s easy to see why some aren’t as connected, especially when they are so seemingly different and vastly more wealthy and unattainable to the majority of fans. Not hard to understand if you stop and evaluate it. Now again, just like when a fan insists that such and such coach or player or program, doesn’t know what they are doing…these things are rarely rooted in fact but mostly just “feelings†or perceived facts…..

As for your last thought….if I liked Pro infinitely better than college to the point it was “hard†to watch anything else….I guess I wouldnt bother watching anything but the NBA.

Aside from watching Iowa games (since I have a connection to the school I do find it easier to tolerate the inferior version of basketball) and some big ten games (once again, I have a connection to the conference) I really haven't.

It's funny because I prefer college football to the NFL. Football seems to be a game that can mask the talent difference better than basketball can.

 

[aaronzuriel]

The problem with the NBA and average NBA BB player and athlete is that they have "out-grown" the original court dimensions, BB rim height and rules.

Naismith and others crested the game well over 100 years ago when the average BB player was much different.

The NBA game at times is incredible to watch but imagine if the court length was 114 foot long, the court was wider by 15 feet, the rim was at 10' 6"" and the free throw lane was 18 ft long and another couple of feet wide.

I love BB especially college, but the pro players have out-performed the original game.

 

[cmhawks99]

Aside from watching Iowa games (since I have a connection to the school I do find it easier to tolerate the inferior version of basketball) and some big ten games (once again, I have a connection to the conference) I really haven't.

It's funny because I prefer college football to the NFL. Football seems to be a game that can mask the talent difference better than basketball can.

Very, very interesting thought here......one I’ve never considered. I too like college football better (though admittedly I love football period) but I’ve never attacked it from a “talent” level or a highest level of play thought. I get it, but for me, I honestly enjoy High school maybe as much as I do college. There is so much diversity of schemes and play that I find it really, really intriguing……

As for basketball I honestly just this year re-found a little passion for the college game as I lost some of that for awhile. Mostly due to reading message boards and the fallout Iowa had a few years back…the back biting and finger pointing got to be a lot and I just quit watching. I hadn’t watched a full regular season game in several years until this past year and that Iowa team though flawed was fun to watch.

 

[trj]

The problem with the NBA and average NBA BB player and athlete is that they have "out-grown" the original court dimensions, BB rim height and rules.

Naismith and others crested the game well over 100 years ago when the average BB player was much different.

The NBA game at times is incredible to watch but imagine if the court length was 114 foot long, the court was wider by 15 feet, the rim was at 10' 6"" and the free throw lane was 18 ft long and another couple of feet wide.

I love BB especially college, but the pro players have out-performed the original game.

Is this what you are suggesting?