The fact that most college players can't shoot them is a travesty, there is no excuses except the lowering of standards by coaches.

College basketball players are bad at basketball. During the season I only watch games with lottery prospects. Today after seeing multiple games with the best player on the court having mere D-League upside, I laughed out loud several time at the level of play. Its all slow motion and nothing is smooth.

All the "experienced" and "veteran" players are just europe and D league bound seniors who outlasted the top players in their class (who are finishing their 3rd season in the league by now). And they didn't stay in school because of a love of college or learning. They stayed because they were rejected by the association. Joel Embiid needs to get healthy and kick the asses of all these pretenders. And Adam Silver needs to save this game with the 2 and through rule.

What is strange is athletes get better in every sport except basketball, for the last 20+ years players are worse each year. And it is all about coaches wanting athletes over players and then never demanding athletes improve their game. There are some guys in the NBA that skill levels hasn't improved much since junior high. It is hard to fathom such group think exist.

The NCAA needs to adopt more of the NBA rules, namely the 24 second clock and the illegal defense and 3 second rules. Too much zone keeps scores low and players don't learn to play individual defense for the NBA.

Watching some "good" teams earlier today reminded me why I never watch college basketball.

I'm flabbergasted by the number of missed "point blank shots," lay-ups, dunks, put backs, etc. You'd think if the athleticism were getting better year by year, this would be one area that would improve at least. The only explanations I can think of is A) all the good players are already playing pro, as was mentioned by PascalsWagner, or B) players have gotten irredeemably soft.

[This message has been edited by R0GUE (edited 3/21/2014 2:40p).]