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Message: [QUOTE="Hoov50, post: 1365353, member: 1056"] Mark Cuban is a smart man (some of the time). The lack of consistency and "legal" physicality of college basketball has killed my love for the game. With the exception of Syracuse games, I literally watched 2 and a half full games this year, and those were just because I thought Kentucky was going to lose. In my view it started about 15 years ago in the Big 10 and has poisoned NCAA basketball from there. The Big 10 allowed football tactics to bleed onto the basketball court, bodying up dribblers, grabbing and clutching players who are cutting without the ball, lowering shoulders in the paint (on both offense and defense) to get separation. From the Big 10 it spread to the Pitts and Marquettes of the world, the teams with minimal talent and coaching, but that could use physical play to compete with the big boys. Now it has spread like the black plague to all of college basketball. Look at SU's lack of offensive flow the past 4-5 years and Kentucky's complete lack of offense, on what some people were arguing was a top 5-10 team of all-time this year! If you put this year's Kentucky against any of the national championship teams from the 90's with officiating from the 90's and they lose by 15-20 points! Teams, including SU, get away with having very little offensive playmakers begin seasons 25-0 because of defense (at least we aren't fouling 90% of the time). Two of our "best" offensive players the past 5 years are ranked in the top 4 when it comes to offensive inefficiency in the NBA! In the NBA players play defense the way it is written in the rule book. They play defense with their feet, not with their bodies. For the NCAA fans out there they see this as a lack of defense, because they have been brainwashed by the ridiculous way the college games are officiated. [/QUOTE]

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