NBA & NCAA Basketball: The Trend Away from Physical Play

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00:00You saw Davis and Bede when they were playing, and Bam Adebayo, they were literally getting

00:11thrown to the ground, and they were doing the same thing the other way.

00:16It's often said that FIBA is a more physical game, and I don't believe that that's the

00:21way the game is going.

00:23The game in the NBA is certainly not going that way, the game in the NCAA is not going

00:28that way.

00:30It's not going that way.

00:32And if the idea is, well, the only way Europe can keep up is to allow the game to be played

00:38that way, I got a better idea.

00:40Get better.

00:41I mean, if you can produce a Jokic or a Giannis or a Luka, then why can't you do more than

00:47one of those guys?

00:48If you can do it, go out and get better.

00:51It just relies on the game being physical so you can stay with the United States in

00:56international competition.

00:58Learn the game of basketball better.

00:59I mean, everybody keeps telling me that they teach it way better over there, and all the

01:04players that come here are more fundamentally sound and all that.

01:07Well, if that's the case, then why does the game have to be that physical at the FIBA

01:11level?