General Sports Water Cooler

As I said in the twitter thread:

Are people selecting Kentucky ignoring the fact that the NBA has back-to-back-to-back games this year? The Wizards actually play back-to-back-to-back next week!

Wed 04 vs Indiana
Thu 05 @ Detroit
Fri 06 @ New Jersey

If your life depending on winning that New Jersey game (assume you can transfer it to Rupp), who would you select? The Wizards or Kentucky's team?

If you say Kentucky, you deserve to lose your life. On April 6, the Wizards will be a better option than Kentucky, whether they play head-to-head or some other opponent.

John Wall and Jordan Crawford would torch their back court
Cody Zeller gave Anthony Davis problems imagine what Nene would do

People who argue that a great college team could beat a terrible pro team need to remember that pretty much every player on that terrible pro team(such as the Wizards or Bobcats) were great in college and the NBA experience makes them WAY better than the college guys. Even the NBA guys who dominated college basketball last season are either struggling to get playing time(Derrick Williams, Jimmer Fredette, Tristan Thompson) or are on teams who rarely win(Brandon Knight, Kyrie Irving).

This is absolutely correct.

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For some reason Charlotte radio was discussing Kentucky vs. the Bobcats today. It seems people forget how good Kemba Walker was in college and now he doesn't even start on a 7-40 NBA team.

So then why do college stars like Adam Morrison struggle so much? Because the defense is worse? That doesn't make any sense.

Your example has nothing to do with my original point. Please go back and read my response in context. We were talking about praising PPG in the NBA. I could give you a large list of players that have higher PPG in the NBA than they ever did in college. You factor in increased MPG among other things and you can see what I mean.

Everyone of those players there are 100 Juan Dixon's who are college scoring studs and score for shit in the pros.

I'm convinced that at some point in the 3rd quarter, Nene might accidentally murder Anthony Davis with a power move/inadvertent elbow.

That guy is built like Juggernaut.

The games are 20% longer.

And of course there are individual players that develop over time in the NBA. They used to say that the only guy who could hold Michael Jordan under 20 ppg was Dean Smith. You don't let a 18-year old kid take that much control of an offense, but you do by the time he's 25.

LOL at the idea that they don't defend in the NBA and double LOL ay using "but I know 5 guys whose ppg went up in the NBA" to defend it.

GREAT comparison!! That 1996 Kentucky team will definitely goes down as one of the most talented college teams of all time, but if you look at that TERRIBLE Vancouver Grizzlies team they had Greg Anthony, Bryant BIG COUNTRY Reeves, Lawrence Moten, Cuonzo Martin and Erik Murdock who were all elite/Conference Player Of The Year type college players not long before that 1996 season. And despite how great that Kentucky team was, it looks like Antoine Walker was the only one who became an All-Star in the NBA, maybe Ron Mercer and/or Derrick Anderson made it once.

Even other elite college teams('82 UNC, '84 UNC, '85 Georgetown, '91 UNLV, '92 Duke, '99 Duke) during the era where great players stayed in school for 3 or 4 years would have a very difficult time beating the worst NBA team due to lack of physical strength, speed and NBA experience. The best players from the college teams I mentioned had great rookie years but for the most part were on bad teams. If those guys lost a lot of games as rookies surrounded by NBA players, they'd have NO CHANCE of beating NBA teams with their college team.