The think about Brown is that his intangibles are also a red flag so I'd pass. Can't play + no effort no please
Yeah.
I'm all for drafting guys who can play the 3, but I think there'll be better options for that in the middle of the 1st round. You have to be able to shoot and defend to be a 3-and-D guy, and there's no telling if Brown will be able to do either.
This Michigan State game is funny.
A team of teenagers getting beaten up by a team featuring fully grown men. Darnell Harris is 24 years old. About the same age as half of the Celtics roster. He'll be selling cars or adjusting insurance claims a couple years from now.
But right now he just busted a #2 seed and made those "teenagers" (Their 3 best players, Costello, Valentine and Forbes, are all 22) cry. I take it you're a Spartans fan?
I just think it's funny. NCAA basketball is a big mess, but for two weeks every year we pretend its exciting and the results of this tourney mean something.
Yeah, its called being a sports fan.
I'm a fan of lots of sports, but I find NCAA basketball to be mostly chaotic and ugly, and I think March Madness is more about rampant betting and providing casual fans with the spectacle of inevitable upsets than anything else.
I'm a fan of basketball, and a lot of what ends up on the TV this time of March is on par with a Suns - Sixers match.
The allure of the NCAAs has to do with the breadth of it's reach. Every area of the country is represented and every conference represented....and every teams fans think that they have a chance at some glory, be it by defeating a much higher ranked team, or making the Sweet Sixteen, the Elite Eight, the Final Four or becoming national champs.
Yale's win yesterday and MTSU's win over MSU today were great theater. And granted, especially in the first round, there are probably 4-5 clunkers for every one of those, but those closely contested upsets make it all worth it to me.
College basketball, like college football has an electricity about it because of the age, passion and closeness that the fans (especially the student body and alums, like Tommy at The Cross) share.
Is the talent level better than the Suns/Sixers? No. But the buzz and excitement for many is far superior.