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Originally Posted by JRutledge
And what does any of this prove? The best players in the NBA are not international players. And I would suspect that just like in the case of those international players, they were also developed by their teams to run the offenses or to defend the way they wish.
And again, the rules changes are not going to prevent someone from learning how to better dribble, shoot, pass or defend.
Most of the contact rules are the same (until you get in the post) and the NCAA brought back the 3 point line (scoring is at a low) a few years ago. Some want to open up the lane, which I see little or no benefit for that when you cannot shoot any better or have no diversity to your game. And that also does not help if the coaches want to run clock or run their their sets multiple times.
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What does this prove? Not sure it proves anything you asked a question and I answered it.
Players are developed to run the offenses and defenses their clubs want. With the unique difference in most international setting at the youth level the priority is not winning or avoiding being cut. Its developing your skills as the club is going to keep you in some capacity form youth until adult levels, your skill development determining which team you play on into your adult years.
Rules don't prevent someone from becoming a skilled player, but some rules can allow coaches to hide less skilled players or at least not put a premium on individual skill.
We can agree to disagree. I think that if you change ENOUGH rules to make the game speed up, to take the ball out of the coaches hands, and eliminate the abilty to run sets and offenses mulitple times per possession, and increase the freqquency with which players have to attack/be creative (when scoring happens and when most fouls occur) . . . then in the long term you end up with coaches and players needing to value the ability to create, make shots, handle the ball etc not just who you can defend how and your ability to run their stuff. If the players and coaches value skills over tactics then that trickle down increases your number of players who can handle, create and make shots. Also with simple math if you increase the number of possessions and reduce the amount of breaks all while increasing the situations where teams may foul, then each team needs to recruit/develop more skilled players.