Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has made it very clear that he is not fond of college basketball. While some owners prefer the one year rule as it helps develop players for the NBA, other owners prefer the old rule where basketball players can enter the league right out of high school. Cuban is part of the latter group and he says it’s because of the physical, slow-down style that has become common in the NCAA which results in prospects who are poorly prepared to jump to the NBA.
“If they want to keep kids in school and keep them from being pro players, they’re doing it the exact right way by having the 35-second shot clock and having the game look and officiated the way it is,” Cuban said Wednesday night. “Just because kids don’t know how to play a full game of basketball.
“It’s uglier than ugly, and it’s evidenced by the scoring going down. When the NBA went through that, we changed things.”
“It’s horrible. It’s ridiculous,” Cuban said. “It’s worse than high school. You’ve got 20 to 25 seconds of passing on the perimeter and then somebody goes and tries to make a play and do something stupid, and scoring’s gone down.
“The referees couldn’t manage a White Castle. Seriously, the college game is more physical than the NBA game, and the variation in how it’s called from game to game [is a problem]. Hell, they don’t even have standards on balls. They use different balls. One team’s got one ball, the other team’s got another ball. There are so many things that are ridiculous.”
Source: ESPN
