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[QUOTE="gocraz4dasu, post: 4983064, member: 1109"]
You’re definitely correct about NBA guys struggling to watch CBB. I have a family member on an NBA staff right now (who grew up as a die hard SU fan) and we’ve discussed CBB coaching a few times. The coaching in CBB is so far behind the NBA that it genuinely makes it more difficult for teams to identify NBA talent. It’s one of the reasons why guys drafted later and later are producing more in the league now (more bball talent now-a-days too obviously). The teams have to rely more on their pre-draft work-outs than their college tape now. Many NBA coaches see far more value in watching a Euro or G-League game than a CBB game.

This is someone who lives, breathes, and dies basketball. He would break down Euro league games to identify new sets he liked in his leisure time in college. His love of Syracuse basketball as a kid and in his teens led him to pursue working in CBB. But once you makes the step to the NBA, and learn more, you begin to realize how far behind CBB now is in philosophy. He even had a short spell going back to CBB and the inability of the HC to adapt anything from the NBA game led him to bounce back to the NBA as soon as possible. It almost feels like a different game to a lot of NBA guys.
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