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Message: [QUOTE="Lefty2one, post: 3800700, member: 1001"] It's the skill level. In the NBA you can get away with doing different things and often more simplified offense, not to say that there aren't complicated offensive sets. Nearly every team has at least one player who can break down their defender at will or who can dominate the pick and roll game. Teams also have at least four shooters out there to open things up. Plus the NBA is much more of a finesse game than college. Even though we all complain about college refs it's still a more physical brand of basketball. The last two rounds of the playoffs in October featured a ton of headhunting and exploiting mismatches. You can't do that at the college level outside of a few studs. We're a perfect example of a college team. Bouk is the only player who can consistently break down his man but he's not a point guard. Neither of our point guards can do it. All of our shooters are inconsistent. I've seen folks complain about our point guards not being aggressive enough but that's by design; we're running our offense and relying on that to create open looks because our point guards aren't good enough to generate good looks--for themselves and others--on their own consistently. Look at how NBA teams defend the PnR vs college teams. NBA teams now play drop coverage a vast majority of the time. College teams still blitz and trap and hard-hedge pretty often (this is how everyone is defending Bouk's PnRs). That's not really an effective strategy in the NBA anymore. [/QUOTE]

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