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Originally Posted by dba  I think a lot has to do with players coming straight out of high school or to the league with minimal college experience and no real training in the fundamentals of the game.
I propose that every player who wants to play in the NBA has to spend two years in a development league. And that the development league has some unique rules...
- no dunks
- 1.5 points for non-assisted baskets, 2 or 3 for assisted baskets
- refs drilled on calling any and all traveling, carrying the ball, etc.
- take a point away for every flop and return the ball to the offense
- each player's ultimate NBA salary for the first three years is pegged to their development Sprocket Points ranking. |
I agree with most of what you say in theory.... making kids go to college for one year is a joke... they take a couple easy classes the first semester and don't even have to show up to a single class second semester while there playing....
I'd like to see the age requirement bumped up by a year... and add an option to go straight to the farm systems... change the draft so you retain rights while there at college/minor leagues and find some way that the kids in college can get paid.... say there salary goes into a trust fund that can't touch till after there 2 years are done?
To many kids start in the pro's and have to be taught the most basics of concepts... I commented on Howard last week, he's just a waste of a phyical master. if he had spent two years at a solid program learning to post up, they would be a far better team right now then they would have been againt us.