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Originally Posted by BigRedChief
That tells you how bad the mens game has fallen and how far they are behind. Stars only stay 1 year. You can't follow their growth. Players switch teams at will. Way too often its boring basketball. They use to get 3X the viewers of the women's game, Hope they are paying attention.
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Yeah - I've gone from a pretty big college hoops fan to a strictly Mizzou fan (so this year was...quiet).
You alluded to the problem but man it's just bad basketball. Missed open looks left and right, no throughput to speak of so you have little offensive cohesion and you end up with a lot of really simple iso play stuff offensively. And a lot of guys in the mid-tier programs are looking to goose their stock for transfers so you don't get a lot of buy-in. If Defense won't get them to a bigger program or an NIL deal, they ain't gonna burn energy playing it.
Young guys have to play before they're ready or they'll walk, so you get sloppy play there while fringe top 100 recruits are finding their way. And oftentimes it's to their detriment anyway.
You don't really get vested in any specific players so even the successes are fleeting and don't mean as much. Mizzou's last 2 tournament squads were largely mercenaries (with a Kobe Brown and/or Kevin Puryear thrown in there as guys you watch grow with the program).
And honestly it just doesn't feel like it's good for the player either. I mean how was catering to Torrence Watson so he could eventually come off the bench as a Super Senior for Elon a good thing for him? If you ask Mizzou fans to name their top 5 favorite college basketball player of the last 5 years or so, Kassius Robertson is gonna be on there and he played
one year here. That's not great at all.