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AK on our freshmen squad

Can’t wait till the AI world gets fully developed and we can watch the new nba play the old nba….
 
cohenzone said:
Responding to someone’s post. Do you think we need to know about your car being stolen? Jerk.
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Did you confuse this with your nextdoor account?
 
Chief00 said:
What passes as the NBA game today, will soon have to be blown up. Finals TV ratings have dropped nearly 2/3rds from the Michael Jordan days. 50% of the shots being 3’s with the other guys just standing around the 3 line, just doesn’t work. Nor does Adam Silver’s Commissionership. A poor imitation of the great David Stern. Some guys like Hathaway were always meant to be number #2 administrators not strategic leaders.

The day will come again when teams with guys like Adama will be the model again. It will be about, defense, rebounding and fast break. As with Bird, the 3 will be a timely weapon at the right moments. Post play will come back too. I see Alex Karaban being successful in that model too.
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That will never come back. The emphasis now on the 3 is because everyone figured out that’s what won games. Teams aren’t gonna stop doing what wins.
 
My issue with the NBA is that the regular season is like a sham as we saw this year. This is not the NBA of Bird, Magic, Jordan, Chuck, and others.

I would like to see the 3-point line moved back so it is not as easy as it is for a number of shooters in the league.
 
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I’m not gonna sit here and pretend I watch 75 regular season NBA basketball games per season, but the product is 500x better than any regular season game I went back and watched from the 80s/90s. It’s pure nostalgia if you think the sport hasn’t improved in modern times.

But anyone who thinks there’s no defense in the modern NBA playoffs either isn’t watching, or is incapable of processing what they are watching. Remember the illegal defense rules? Comical.
 
The relaxation of rules for traveling and palming has really favored the rise of athleticism and also enhanced the value of spreading the court with the three.

I think the game does get boring when everyone plays the same way and they rely on the same plays and types of players over and over.

I enjoyed the NBA in the Magic-Bird through Jordan eras. The very physical Pistons teams started to lose me, and I was lost for good when they introduced the illegal defense rule in 2001, eliminating zone-like defenses. I haven't watched enough since to judge today's game, but if Chief is right that viewership has dropped 2/3, I'm not inclined to give it a try. Ordinary people are good judges.

What's interesting to me is variety of styles of play and the matchup of distinct strategies. If everyone is following the same strategy, then you can almost award the championship to the team with the best players for that strategy. Things get predictable and therefore boring.

The 2023 Huskies played a really beautiful brand of basketball, and Jokic's passing looks beautiful in highlights, so I don't think one can say that there is a clear trend downwards in the interestingness of basketball. But I agree with Chief, there is something wrong with an NBA that has no room for Adama Sanogo but room for hundreds of 3-and-D specialists.
 
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PS - What would it take for college ball to bore me - if every team played the way San Diego State or Arkansas played -- recruit big strong athletes, play very physical, and if you start losing, get more physical. It works, those teams went far, but fortunately that wasn't the only approach on display. When UConn had its losing streak in the Big East, it was because the refs let opponents get very physical, but didn't give UConn the same opportunity. Having refs decide the outcome is as boring as having 3 point shots decide the outcome. To be interesting, it shouldn't be just a game of chance or pure athleticism, but of teamwork and strategy.
 
metsfan2323 said:
We also have that video of the player gushing over Castle's passing to JJ Reddick. Magic Castle? We got ourselves a dream team.

Seriously though, I think preseason expectations right now are as high as we have seen for any team in UConn history, and justifiably so. Ticket demand should be through the roof.

UConn/St John's at the Garden next year will be a Big East event straight out of 1985. Danny and Pitino will need to wear sweaters.
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No, expectations should not be as high for this team as any team in history. When we won in ‘99, we returned basically the entire squad from a team that had won the Big East and lost to a competitive UNC team in North Carolina. This team lost its three most important players plus some key role players.

That isn’t saying we won’t be just as good this year, but being just as good will require a huge step up from DC and Castle playing at an all conference level as a true frosh. There are other teams during the period during which we were competitive almost every year that one had far more certainty about than this year’s team as well.
 
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businesslawyer said:
This team lost its three most important players plus some key role players.
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and we are replacing those three players with two projected lottery picks and a stud transfer in Spencer. We'll find out about the bench, but this thread started with Karaban suggesting the newcomers look terrific. BTW we have every reason to expect Karaban,Clingan and Newton will improve. Our entire starting lineup has all Big East potential.

Yes we need players on our bench to step up but that could be said about every team, no team ever has a proven bench going into a season, if they were proven they would be starters.
 
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People are really pining for the return of the 80’s/90’s bashball and underdeveloped creativity in basketball. Alright.
 
Reading comprehension may be the problem here, or maybe it's the way some thoughts are being expressed.
 
pj said:
The relaxation of rules for traveling and palming has really favored the rise of athleticism and also enhanced the value of spreading the court with the three.

I think the game does get boring when everyone plays the same way and they rely on the same plays and types of players over and over.
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I would tell you to give the NBA a try again or at least watch the Nuggets. It's not hyperbole to say Jokic may be the best passer ever, I think his instincts and skill level will blow you away.

I agree completely with what you say here. It's said all the time now that the players are much more athletic, bigger stronger now. That's a myth, they play a different way now because of the way they're reffed, analytics and guys like Dirk and Steph changing the game but this idea they're all jumping higher, faster, taller, stronger than they were 25 years ago is bunk.
 
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HailUConn said:
The evolution of NBA games has much more to do with rule changes than players athleticism or teams offense and defense schemes. The league and referees are dictating the trend and playing styles. In terms of sheer athleticism, I don’t think anyone can surpass Jordan’s era. Just watch what Jordan did against those Detroit and Knicks defense. The joker would not be as dominant as if he was playing back in 80’s or 90’s.


To me, this makes NBA games less appealing to me as I like to watch hard defense and physical games.
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Agreed, college basketball is easily my favorite sport to watch. Nba has zero appeal to me. Players make so much money and the lack of effort is quite often apparent. College basketball players bring it every night or they will be on the bench. Players not coaches run the show in nba. No accountability, see ja morant and trae young. They would be fired in the real world
 
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