[Game] 79/82: Kings @ Pistons 07 APR 2025, 4pm PT/7pm ET

[SLAB]

Tye college game is levels above the nba regardless of score

lol, naaaaaaaaaaa

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

One of the “Twins” came into our restaurant last year and told the server we had the best lemon pepper wings he has ever had.

 

[iowamcnabb]

Pot meet kettle

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Pot meet kettle

I mean, it was a joke but, sure, I'll take that. No hard feelings from this end.

 

[Vinny Basketballerino]

Performance of the season in my view.

obviously Zach and Deebo ate but everybody deserves a shout out.

Domas is back to form.

Keon and Trey excellent defensively tonight.

Jonas and DC off the bench.

Great game

History will likely read that DDR on the Kings didn’t work out but it’s not going to do justice to how consistent he is. The man is a bucket and a half.

I'd like to state for the record that I always believed in this team and that they can win the Championship THIS YEAR.

When I said they should trade away everyone except Keon my account was hacked. You'll never prove otherwise.

GO KINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[iowamcnabb]

I mean, it was a joke but, sure, I'll take that. No hard feelings from this end.

I know, I enjoyed the Lebatard show

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

I know, I enjoyed the Lebatard show

Bay-BEH!

 

[KingsFanSince85]

A damnable lie.

To you.

I actually agree with him. IIRC March Madness and the Final Four outpaces NBA ratings a lot of the time, which means there are a lot of folks that also disagree with you.

Now, that said, I also agree with what @iowamcnabb said about the NBA obviously having a lot more talent. There's no debating that.

My objection to the NBA is the style of play, effort, and officiating. After having really having dove into this current March Madness from the opening games through the Final, I did find the style of play and effort on defense more appealing than the NBA. And while officiating is questionable in every sport, I do believe there is less of an agenda in the college game than the NBA game.

While they also shoot a ton of threes in the college game, they also move the ball a lot more and run more set plays. Defensively, it's almost no contest. The college kids play much harder on that end more consistently, whereas the NBA players largely only play defense in crunch time.

The only thing the NBA has on college ball is that they have a much deeper collection of uber talented players. Beyond that, though, the college game is the superior game.

If the NBA ever gets back to where they were prior to eliminating hand-checking, allowing traveling of every kind, and 40+ three point attempts every game -- I'd easily be swayed back to the other side.

 

[megapoxy]

No Monk tomorrow, no Jake and Keegan remains questionable.

 

[SacTownKid]

No Monk tomorrow, no Jake and Keegan remains questionable.

From that report on Jake about them finding out he has a fracture he could be out from here on. No way could his agent let him risk it with FA coming up, right?

 

[megapoxy]

From that report on Jake about them finding out he has a fracture he could be out from here on. No way could his agent let him risk it with FA coming up, right?

Yesterday Kyle told during the game that he is back on practice good news etc... so no idea

 

[SacTownKid]

Yesterday Kyle told during the game that he is back on practice good news etc... so no idea

Well if he's willing to risk it great.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

To you.

Judging by the responses in this thread, it's not just me.

I actually agree with him. IIRC March Madness and the Final Four outpaces NBA ratings a lot of the time, which means there are a lot of folks that also disagree with you.

Ratings don't prove jack. There's a lot of garbage that gets good ratings: NCIS has been killing in the ratings for decades. All three major networks have entire days where their prime time slots are dedicated to blocks of trash programming that gets good ratings.

The only thing the NBA has on college ball is that they have a much deeper collection of uber talented players. Beyond that, though, the college game is the superior game.

Nobody's trying to talk you out of liking college basketball. But just because you like it more doesn't make it better; frankly, youo liking it better doesn't even make it good. Besides the talent gap, the rules in college basketball also make for a lesser product: the possession arrow is wack, zone defense is wack, being able to camp out in the lane on defense is wack. Thirty-second shot clock is flat out dumb, halves instead of quarters are dumb. And I hate three-pointers on principle, so having an even shorter distance to shoot threes from is dumb, too.

And then, on top of that, the attrition in college basketball means that you can't connect to any of the players, because none of the ones who are any good are going to be there long enough for you form an attachment to them. Which might not be as big a deal if you're a "rooting for laundry" type, but that hasn't been my get-down in years, and has never been my get-down in college. I don't even root for the college I matriculated from.

And all that is before you get into the fact that 90 percent of college basketball is worse than booty. There are 352 schools that play college basketball in Division I, and only about 32 of them are worth a damn. From my point of view, saying that college basketball is good based on those thirty-two teams makes about as much sense as basing how good the NBA is on Cleveland, Boston and OKC. Like, I'm sure you do believe that they play harder and more consistently in college, when you're watching Houston versus Duke in the Final Four, but I bet you're not saying that when you're watching Southern Indiana playing Morehead State on a random Tuesday in January.