Entitlement, instant gratification, no development, no loyalty, lower quality, constant movement... Is this a case of College Ball mirroring modern Society-at-Large... or Society-at-Large mirroring basketball? Or both just mirroring and reinforcing each other?
In a rush for name-recognition, fame, and fortune... a few things seem to get lost along the way. In both arenas of Life. Whether this is done on or far away from a basketball court... our World has fundamentally changed and the only sporting group that still holds most of the loyalty and ‘no-movement’ are the fan bases.
I’m all for players ‘Getting Theirs’ because coaches and institutions have long been getting theirs for a long time. But we can’t expect players to have a different mind-set from coaches who seek their best financial deals and loyalty extends only so far as the length of their contracts.
And yes, the quality of roundball has deteriorated in general at all levels after high school. High school still retains a great deal of the sound fundamentals and basic loyalties that go with the local families and communities that are its foundation.
And much of the NBA today is a full-on atrocity of play.