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[QUOTE="HoustonCuse, post: 2108139, member: 87"]
I get what you are saying. Just as a casual fan with no team rooting interest, the NBA game is soulless to me. The players absolutely play like it is their job. The punch in, they take a bunch of shots, they leave. Yes, the overall talent level is better. But there is also the appearance (to me) of this WWE style star system where the whole thing seems to boil down to individual star A vs. individual star B and everyone else is scenery. I also am not skilled enough at watching basketball to discern very much interest in defense for most of the time I've watched. Certainly players are making calculated expenditures of effort on the D end of the floor and are also very conscious of not being in the frame for another player's ESPN highlight. College has less skill but more passion and intensity and that is something I really like about the game. I also can't ignore that I've been trained to be a die hard Syracuse fan my whole life so I am hanging on every possession. I'm sure there are Charlotte Bobcats fans that are the same way and would resist my assertion that there is no passion or heart in the NBA game (regular season anyway, I'm sure the level of intensity ramps up in the months-long playoffs).

Much of this NBA vs college debate is in the heart of the fan who either does or doesn't have an emotional attachment to one or the other.
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