Americans' enthusiasm for college basketball, just as Europeans don't understand "what's so touching about American football", is not enough for outsiders. Of course, NCAA covers the whole United States, and Americans have an alma mater complex, which is glorious and glorious. However, in the eyes of outsiders, NCAA is only the cradle of cultivating NBA talents. After all, college students are young and have little knowledge. Compared with professional teams, amateur teams are different. Where is the beauty? If it is not native to the United States, then nothing can be said.
First, American college sports have a long history, far above NBA, NHL and other professional leagues. Basketball giants such as UCLA, North Carolina and Duke are pedantic and independent of the NBA. College basketball has strict rules and regulations, no better than NBA. For example, UCLA has the first coach in North American history, 100-year-old john wooden, who followed his UCLA offensive system for half a century. Giants and universities all put the achievements of university teams first, unlike the lame diploma mill, which specializes in training an NBA player, so that he can run amok and stand out from the crowd. In contrast, the iron-blooded soldiers of NBA teams, no matter how long the tradition is, can't help but be bent down by managers and bosses who have several abacus. The new york Knicks are also regarded as NBA giants, and they have been very strong from the 1960s to the 1990s. In 2008, in order to rebuild the system, its style fell all the way to Kuaiwan and Sanshi. In the NCAA's big team, it is hard to imagine this kind of defection: the university system is quite difficult to shake the mountain and the Yue family army.
Looking back on college basketball from NBA players, there is actually a faint bloodline. For example, the University of North Carolina loves two kinds of people. From Jordan, Carter and stackhouse, the No.2 and No.3 trapeze trapezes with comprehensive skills and outstanding singles ability; Jamison, marvin williams, Rasheed Wallace and other big men have the trademark of power forward, but their three-pointer and small forward attack skills are excellent. For another example, shooting guards from the University of Connecticut, such as Ray Allen, Hamilton and Ben Gordon, are all cold-blooded shooters with excellent shooting skills and cunning running without the ball; UCLA produced an insider who is both a rebounding master and a coping expert, as early as Jabbar and Bill Walton, and as late as 2008, Kevin Love. Georgetown University has produced all the hardcore ironmen: Ewing, Mutombo, Mourning, three centers, and Iverson, the most rebellious little man in the world, the No.1 in 1996.
Second, the annual Crazy March Competition can cut out 100 cruel youth movies. The NCAA is very big, but only 60 people are elected to the NBA every year. If so, the annual NBA draft, no matter how to accompany the last figure, as long as you don't fall into Sun Shan, will always be among the dragons and phoenixes in the university. And these young people who dream of basketball, except for a few geniuses, can enter the NBA, all decided by Crazy March. Beauty is beauty, which was eliminated in the first battle of the top 64 champions. There are many scouts outside the stadium, and the fate is imminent. Even if the university plays for four years, there are only four chances to win the championship. Young people in their early twenties are in college, and life is as early as river sand, washed away by the river of time. Americans like to watch NCAA better than NBA, which is cruel and grassroots. Accidental, exciting and unstable young people have the truest tears, regrets, ecstasy and passion. Jordan once recalled the process of winning the NCAA championship with North Carolina at 1982: "When we won the championship, I was still a freshman and I was still ignorant of the unknown. I watched my teammates burst into tears with excitement and thought, aren't we playing college league to win the championship? What is there to cry about? Later, I realized the significance of all this. "
Finally, it is also the biggest gap between NCAA and NBA: NCAA is willing to be an "amateur" and based on it. The salary of college coaches can be comparable to that of NBA professional coaches, but the income of players, except scholarships, is basically negligible. NCAA has various controls over students: accepting private sponsorship from businessmen and engaging in profit-making activities are restricted. College basketball will not change all kinds of rules to satisfy the public's visual desire like NBA. Although this set of rules and regulations is becoming more and more difficult to implement in today's college basketball world-a large number of talented new stars have won the favor of NBA teams after playing in college for one or two years, and left home halfway to try their luck in the draft and get a million-dollar contract-NCAA is unmoved. This purity is also the reason why many famous coaches, such as john thompson, Duke of Georgetown, prefer to stick to the campus rather than go to the NBA for profit: college basketball is at least more obsessed with basketball itself than the NBA business field.
Just like the world now despises commercialization more and more, but loves susan boyle's civilian draft, watching some grassroots dreams spring up like mushrooms after rain: the most honest and passionate is always the most touching.