Imagine every team in the NFL running the exact same offense, and the only thing separating a good offense from a bad one is the talent of the personnel. That’s the NBA right now. They need to treat basketball like it’s a video game. 3 pointers are the meta and the devs need to come in and nerf it.
"the only thing separating a good offense from a bad one is the talent of the personnel" I mean, isn't this how majority of sports are & always have been? The team with the best players typically go the furthest & win.
@@lazzi2462 frequently coaching can overcome a deficiency of talent. Or know how to get the best out of the talent they have. But at this point the NBA is “do you have good jump shooters? Or a generational big man? Then you have a good offense”. I’m a spurs fan, and a good chunk of their offense this year is just hoisting 3 pointers even though they maybe have 2-3 decent shooters on the whole squad.
Love the NFL way more than the NBA but this is a casual assessment of basketball and gives football too much credit. Because of the rule changes, you now need an elite head coach and quarterback. You always needed those to be a dynasty but now you need them to even have a shot at winning one Super Bowl.” Nick Foles, Joe Flacco, and Eli Manning are never happening again. You also used to have running backs be the best player on high end teams, have defense be better than offense, etc. but that’s changed. So let’s not pretend that football evolution has made the game more interesting than basketball evolution.
Yes and now we have big men who don’t dunk and shoot 3’s because of curry. It was fun when it was just him, now that everyone is doing it, its boring af
It’s really sad because I’m 41 and I used to love the nba. Would rush home to watch the bulls,Knicks pacers, all of those epic rivalries in the 90s. I haven’t watched a complete game in almost 10 years
39 here and I feel the same. Back then it was theater mixed with a chess match. Coaches coached and were intelligent. Players had to have a decent basketball IQ. I miss that NBA and what it was about.
Yep, a lot of players simply don’t know how to play team ball. Back in the 90’s you had 8-9 guys on every team that flat out knew how to play team ball. After James Harden, it’s turned into way too much one on one, a lot of players like Giannis who have no skill and just rely on athletic ability and height, all the guys are friends and play soft and there’s no hard-nosed competition anymore. Used to love watching those 90’s slugfests where you could tell a lot of the guys just did not like each other. It’s all watered down now
Lot of guys just don’t know how to play team ball anymore, Adam Silver has made the league soft with the amount of techs players get for trash talking. People liked 90’s NBA because those guys were relentlessly competitive. Guys these days are too worried about social media following and have completely lost track of the grit and grind of competition. Kobe and MJ would be disgusted. Even the older guys like LeBron don’t care anymore. Social media really does ruin everything.
Exactly this. The NBA jumped the shark a few years ago. It’s like watching paint dry. Barring a Magic v Bird type rivalry to revive the league….its cooked…
1). Collins 3pt suggestion works. 2). Get rid of play in tournament. Regular season means less with it. Go back to the old format. 3). Instead of best of 7 in every round. Do best of 3. For the first two rounds. Conference and finals best of 7. Makes teams take the regular season and seeding more seriously. Imagine facing nuggets in best of 3 or OKC? 4). Get rid of defense 3 seconds 5). Reduce the amount of technical fouls let players trash talk. And increase fouls to 7 befoee you can foul out. 6). Get away from a player centric league and go to team. This is the time to try it. Think about the Lions. There's not a star on the lions. But everyone enjoys watching them play. Because the NFL is team centric not player 7) get rid of load management. By severly punishing twams that do it. You must announce that a player is not playing 36hrs ahead of time (exluding a back to back). If not the fans are reimbused 75% of fhe tickets or can choose to go to another game. In addition if a team is shown to be falsfying i jury records. They will be fined heavily and loose their 1st round draft pick for the followimg season.
1. Absolutely 2. It’s pretty cool to have around. I’d it pointless? Yes but it could be very entertaining. 3. 1000% Agree 4. Keep it. It guys from standing around clogging the paint. 5. Get rid of fouling out period. Just make it after 6 fouls for an individual each foul after that the opposing team automatically gets two free throws and the ball. 6. Again you are the money! 7. I like that. Find a way to doc players pay for non serious injuries. Or get rid of guaranteed contracts.
Adam Silver and social media have made the game soft. Can’t even trash talk without getting a tech anymore. Guys are playing to get highlights on social media instead of winning.
yeah it's mostly just a 3 point contest... pass pass shoot a 3, rebound, go other way, pass pass shoot a 3, go the other way, dribble shoot a 3, over and over, barely any actual technique or strategy, just some math nerd stuff that says 60 three point attempts is the way to go honestly it's almost becoming as uninteresting as baseball
I’ve been watching the NBA since 2007. I’ve almost completely lost all interest now that my favorite player LeBron is getting older and I don’t care about the success of the team since it’s unrealistic he’ll win another ring. I am completely checked out. Every team plays the same. And I’m salty but I feel like players intentionally play harder against the lakers.
NBA is losing Christmas viewership too now that the NFL is having annual Christmas games. I guarantee you Ravens vs Texans and Chiefs vs Steelers will embarrass the NBA games in viewership. I don't even know who's playing the NBA Christmas games this year and I don't care at all
I remember how media said few years back that fans who despised the 3 pt clown show were outdated and should adapt to "new" reality. That take aged very badly since those fans were only the first to leave and others soon followed.
When you have a great QB ppl are usually skeptical about how good the OC really is. Greg Roman (Lamar) , Eric Bienemy/Matt Nagy(Mahomes), Joe Brady (Allen), Josh Mcdaniels (Tom Brady) etc
In my 50s I know a lot of people who used to watch basketball. From my friends to my older family, their number one complaint EVERY time is that the NBA is just a three point contest.
If I have to buy a cable package and three other apps just to be able to watch my Milwaukee Bucks and then still not be able to get access to ALL their games... yeah that's a problem
Ten years ago during the 2014-2015 season there was an average of 22.4 3 point attempts per game. So far this season it's at 37.5, or a 67% increase. In a decade. It obviously needs to be updated.
Just bring back hand checking, and stop touch fouls for jump shooters. Would easily take out the 3 ball reliance when the % drops below midrange efficiency
He needs to come to terms with his obsession with Bryce Harper. Harper has been in the league over a decade and has won absolutely nothing. He has a whiny personality and hasn't been that good the last couple years. I think Schwarber is more must see on his own team than he is. Schwarber is a serious threat from his first AB of the game, that's why he immediately gets walked a lot of the times
Make dunks worth 3 points too. Reinforce the athleticism that made the league amazing to watch. Ain’t no way Wemby and Luka should be taking 10 3s a game
The NBA problem Is they try and manipulate every aspect of the sport for money. They constantly try and force these young players to be stars when they're not ready, forcing older players out the door when they're not ready . trying too hard to promote international players and small markets , trying too hard to manipulate scores and winners with terrible officiating. I grew up watching NBA and do not watch at all no more .
100% agree. Things sometimes come out of balance. The Warriors changed the game, but the game needs to change to adapt. Same was true when they needed to nerf big men or when they needed to nerf physical defense…or even more simply, the addition of the shot clock. Nothing wrong with those moves, the game got stale. Hockey did the same by removing the red line…it slowed the game down to a crawl and they changed it and sped the game up and made the game better. Sometimes sports need balance changes
The issue is the NBA doesn't cater to the local team base any longer. They market major stars from the major markets. If you don't pay for the NBA's (excessively priced) streaming service, you're likely to see your local team less than 5 times all year. This is the regular season but most playoff games are now on cable as well. The league is pricing out their main audience.
Legit can’t keep up with the nba. Too many players get traded mid season, and after season. It’s just not entertaining except maybe in the playoffs but most of the time it’s 4-1s or sweeps
People tuning in on illegal streams really exposing the media people that don’t like/know ball. Love Colin but you’ve never been a hoops guy. Plenty of us still love the NBA and watching guys like Giannis play.
Yeah the nba is the only league in the world that has people use StreamEast. The league is rapidly declining in popularity. The average person in America watches less than 4-5 games a year, and id imagine there’s significantly more people that don’t watch any games at all.
Colin is right though, if nobody is paying the bills who cares how many people are watching. Same thing with social media, the league has to figure out how to convert those people into customers or it's going to shrink. Who isn't a fan of stuff that's free...
Think about the most popular basketball player in the world right now.......Caitlin Clark. If all she was, was a 3 pt chucker, people would've lost interest a while ago. Yeah the unprecedented shooting range is what drew people in, but there's so many other layers to her and her game that appeal to the masses, chiefly among them being the fact that she's also arguably one of the best passers in the game of basketball right now as well. She plays with flare and fire and is versatile (i.e. more than just a 3 pt shooter).
a deeper 3 wont change the product. It will just make the game even more boring and turn into HORSE. gotta get rid of it to make the game more competitive
@@DashahnDraper there's a lot of good basketball being played all the time the teams that truly play bad basketball are the teams at the bottom of the standings bc they suck
Last night was probably the first OKC game Colin has watched since the KD/Harden/Russ days. And probably the first Bucks game he's watched since the 2021 Finals. That guy probably pays attention to like 2 or 3 teams only. Lmao
I quit watching the NBA because of the three's, but the bigger thing was nobody cares about the regular season. By nobody I mean nobody, not the players, not the coaches or the GMs and certainly not the media. So why should fans? Nothing less appealing than watching the league try to motivate mega millionaires to do their jobs with in-season tournaments or putting playing time minimums on their awards. The Bucks are my team, but you know what I was doing instead of watching them win that NBA cup? Studying up for the upcoming Packers vs Saints.
Been saying for years that 3 point shooting at the volume its been at is bad for the NBA. That the NBA is weak and soft now with very few players caring about defense. That most players are not as talented or skilled as they used to be. Or at least don't put in anywhere close to the same effort. But whenever those complaints were made, you'd get analysts and nerds talking about how the players now are better than ever, the game has "evolved", you're just an old head. And now its gotten to a point where it's completely unwatchable trash for all those above reasons, but now it's irreversible. So congratulations
No defense, no city/team loyalty, regular season is meaningless, 90% of the NBA is a farm system for big city teams, 3 point dominance, big man play going extinct...the flaws are all fixable.
Moving the 3pt line would be so dumb. There would be no reason for players to be in the corner then, if you're only getting 2pts out of it. Imagine Ray Allen's game tying 3pt that saved LeBron's 2nd ring only being considered 2pts lmao. And if it's a late game situation where a team needs a 3pt to tie, everyone's going to be in the same spot, the wing or top of the arc 3. There would be no spacing for those situations, it'd be so hard to draw up a play in that situation or even get the inbound off due to it being so crowded. Players have gotten much better at shooting 3's the past 10 years, & now you want to punish them for that? It's like if everyone got good at dunking, then you raise the rim to 11ft. Lol
It’s not about what people are too good at, it’s about what fans want to watch. Fans don’t want to watch 70+ three point shots a game teams taking turns in a 3pt contest. It’s not up for debate, the ratings show it. If they don’t address the ratings will keep slipping.
@@ChosenPlaysYT Yall act like that's the problem for sure & as if it's a guaranteed fix. The WNBA ratings went up this season significantly because of a 3pt shooter. What if they moved the 3pt line & it changes nothing? Then what, find something else to blame? These players are getting paid way too much to give a care about a regular season game, Allstar game, or anything else outside of the Playoffs. If players would just play harder, there wouldn't be any need for all these changes, In-Season Tourney, ASG changes, etc. There are way more things they could fix before resorting to permanently changing the game just because players actually got better at shooting over the years. People will complain that Giannis can't shoot, and then also go complain that teams shoot too many 3's.
Super teams, concentration of stars, only 5 teams being relevant every year, boring three point contests every game, and over pandering of social issues / politics constantly.
Also wtf are you talking about with politics? Do you even watch the NBA? How is literally anything about it political or pandering? You people get outraged constantly over NOTHING
@ LeBron, the face of the league, literally said he didn’t want half of the country to watch because they are terrible people. And there are hundreds of other examples. The players during the Olympics deciding as a team to tell everyone who they should vote for, etc. To bury your head in the sand and act like they aren’t pandering politics constantly is intentionally disingenuous.
Yeah honestly the fact that they're crushing social media shows the social interest in their league, if they find a way to monetize it no probably be the biggest sports league and this is also only a USA problem internationally they are very popular
My cure for the all star game is go back to east west , and limit dunks to 5-10 per team or 2 per person something like that , and same with 3s . Then you’d have no choice but to shoot the mid range / post / etc . But for the regular season ? No Friggin idea .
They should add the 4 point circle like the Big 3. It grows every year. If you can't make 3's, try something else. The NBA has local deals and black-out rules. That's out of touch.
There has to be an American born basketball prodigy again. It’s a stars league and its biggest one is at the end. The same thing happened to ratings after Jordan retired. Everyone thought the new megastar would be Zion, but he does not have the fire burning inside him. Once that player comes around, rest assured that ratings will return.
It’s a game full of rich spoiled athletes who don’t care. All teams play the same, 3s and no Defense. Teams have no identity in play style. Load management has made stars less available for us to watch when we tune in. Divas who are more worried about their pregame outfit. No physicality or team rivalries, they hug and kiss each other after every game. The WNBA is more physical than the NBA at this point. Lastly, the American all stars are old now: LeBron, KD, Curry.
You only need to watch the last 2 minutes of a basketball game. I haven’t watched in 20 years because of how boring and meaningless the rest of the game was. Changing the three point line isn’t going to fix it, either. But I like ideas.
The reason I love CBB and not the NBA is because there's a passion in CBB that is non-existent in the NBA. Plus in CBB there are actually different styles of play; some teams try and drain the shot clock while others shoot as quick as possible. Watching the NBA feels like watching the same 30 teams play each other because no one has unique identity.
Colin treats everything as "The easiest thing to do", or "The smartest thing to do...". Weak analysis on Colin's part. None of those moves are the easiest or smartest. I could say the "easiest" and "smartest" thing Colin could do is to jettison JMac, but he can't do it....
@metabolicraged I don't think it's rage bait the ratings are down, but I don't think they take into account young people are not paying for cable when they can stream it online for free
I believe the only way the NBA will be interesting again to the masses is if a player like Ant Edwards or Ja Morant takes over the league wins MVPs or Championships. Its gotta be somebody that the young people consider cool 😎 Jordan was cool people wanted to be like MJ. Lebron was cool, he grew up in the hood and was superstar as a kid. Todays best players, Jokic Luka, Embiid, Giannis, kids dont wanna play like Jokic. Nobody would ever buy the new Joker 1s, Ant Edwards shoes however would sell out. The NBA needs players that resonate with the young people, but also said player needs to be at the top of the league
Architects and Engineers don't lead construction projects Colin. Project Managers and Superintendents for the General Contractor do. But I get your point.
or maybe they just need players that aren't so soft and entitled that they think being expected to play basketball a few times per week is too much work weird how load management and rest nights aren't making players more durable🙄athletes used to say iron sharpens iron, these NBA players today want a free night off every time they feel tired
82 games was never an issue in the past, don't need to lessen games. The issue is, Adam Silver was too much of a "Yes" man. The players run the league now. They get paid way too much nowadays to care about a random regular season game or any Allstar games. They all get extra pay incentives if they hit certain accolades, like making the ASG, winning awards, getting selected to All-NBA Teams. So then why not do the opposite as well? Subtract part of their paycheck if they aren't hitting certain benchmarks. You sit out a 30% of the season, then take off 30% out of their paycheck. You're getting paid superstar money but don't even make an Allstar team or the All-NBA team, then take out 10% for each miss. They need to start penalizing these players where it actually hurts.
Has Mike Vrabel paid Collin to push his narrative? Why does Vrabel have to be the Bears head coach when see clearly see a offensive minded coach is best for young QBs
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Imagine every team in the NFL running the exact same offense, and the only thing separating a good offense from a bad one is the talent of the personnel. That’s the NBA right now. They need to treat basketball like it’s a video game. 3 pointers are the meta and the devs need to come in and nerf it.
Watch the Nuggets they play real hoops
"the only thing separating a good offense from a bad one is the talent of the personnel"
I mean, isn't this how majority of sports are & always have been? The team with the best players typically go the furthest & win.
@@lazzi2462 frequently coaching can overcome a deficiency of talent. Or know how to get the best out of the talent they have. But at this point the NBA is “do you have good jump shooters? Or a generational big man? Then you have a good offense”. I’m a spurs fan, and a good chunk of their offense this year is just hoisting 3 pointers even though they maybe have 2-3 decent shooters on the whole squad.
@@lazzi2462hi watch football please
Love the NFL way more than the NBA but this is a casual assessment of basketball and gives football too much credit. Because of the rule changes, you now need an elite head coach and quarterback. You always needed those to be a dynasty but now you need them to even have a shot at winning one Super Bowl.” Nick Foles, Joe Flacco, and Eli Manning are never happening again. You also used to have running backs be the best player on high end teams, have defense be better than offense, etc. but that’s changed. So let’s not pretend that football evolution has made the game more interesting than basketball evolution.
The NBA stopped allowing defense, stopped calling traveling, allows carrying, allows foul baiting, doesn’t allow physicality, calls too my flagrant fouls, etc…the players cry after every play, players are soft, players load management, superstars join forces, etc
I mean, all of this.
But they’ll never change.
Calling grown men that you don't kno soft like you would tell them that in person
And the season is way to long
And when Ja said he would stop dunking Silver should have thrown a phone at the screen. Take charge, commish!
Preach 💯
This honestly might be his most spot on take ever
100%
Curry is known for shooting threes and is the most popular player in the nba still.
@@antmj2335 Curry is objectively the best shooter ever. False equivalency.
Yes and now we have big men who don’t dunk and shoot 3’s because of curry. It was fun when it was just him, now that everyone is doing it, its boring af
Weeks ago when Shaq said the same thing people said shut up🤷🏾
0:25 “Ain’t paying the bills bruh” 😂😂😂😂
An ad popped up 5 seconds after he said that
😂😂😂
NBA level bills.😂
I stopped watching the NBA a decade ago when this started. Gotta get rid of the flopping and crying to the refs every time the whistle blows.
Players have complained to the refs since the 50s. Stop acting like this is new
No one cares
Then why even comment or watch this segment pertaining to something you "don't watch". Lol clown
Where did you copy and paste this from?
It’s really sad because I’m 41 and I used to love the nba. Would rush home to watch the bulls,Knicks pacers, all of those epic rivalries in the 90s. I haven’t watched a complete game in almost 10 years
39 here and I feel the same. Back then it was theater mixed with a chess match. Coaches coached and were intelligent. Players had to have a decent basketball IQ. I miss that NBA and what it was about.
Yep, a lot of players simply don’t know how to play team ball. Back in the 90’s you had 8-9 guys on every team that flat out knew how to play team ball. After James Harden, it’s turned into way too much one on one, a lot of players like Giannis who have no skill and just rely on athletic ability and height, all the guys are friends and play soft and there’s no hard-nosed competition anymore. Used to love watching those 90’s slugfests where you could tell a lot of the guys just did not like each other. It’s all watered down now
Weak defence , 3 point shooting competition every game and soft diva stars
Adam silver is a god awful commissioner
Yep, his soft woke agenda ruined the league. I’m not even an anti-woke guy but this dude ruined an entire league by making everyone play SOFT.
Lot of guys just don’t know how to play team ball anymore, Adam Silver has made the league soft with the amount of techs players get for trash talking. People liked 90’s NBA because those guys were relentlessly competitive. Guys these days are too worried about social media following and have completely lost track of the grit and grind of competition. Kobe and MJ would be disgusted. Even the older guys like LeBron don’t care anymore. Social media really does ruin everything.
Exactly this. The NBA jumped the shark a few years ago. It’s like watching paint dry. Barring a Magic v Bird type rivalry to revive the league….its cooked…
Love the rant. The NBA is boring nowadays.
1). Collins 3pt suggestion works.
2). Get rid of play in tournament. Regular season means less with it. Go back to the old format.
3). Instead of best of 7 in every round. Do best of 3. For the first two rounds. Conference and finals best of 7. Makes teams take the regular season and seeding more seriously. Imagine facing nuggets in best of 3 or OKC?
4). Get rid of defense 3 seconds
5). Reduce the amount of technical fouls let players trash talk. And increase fouls to 7 befoee you can foul out.
6). Get away from a player centric league and go to team. This is the time to try it. Think about the Lions. There's not a star on the lions. But everyone enjoys watching them play. Because the NFL is team centric not player
7) get rid of load management. By severly punishing twams that do it. You must announce that a player is not playing 36hrs ahead of time (exluding a back to back). If not the fans are reimbused 75% of fhe tickets or can choose to go to another game. In addition if a team is shown to be falsfying i jury records. They will be fined heavily and loose their 1st round draft pick for the followimg season.
A best of 5 series for the 1st round and semi-finals. Then, 7 game series for each conference finals and the NBA finals. That could work too.
1. Absolutely
2. It’s pretty cool to have around. I’d it pointless? Yes but it could be very entertaining.
3. 1000% Agree
4. Keep it. It guys from standing around clogging the paint.
5. Get rid of fouling out period. Just make it after 6 fouls for an individual each foul after that the opposing team automatically gets two free throws and the ball.
6. Again you are the money!
7. I like that. Find a way to doc players pay for non serious injuries. Or get rid of guaranteed contracts.
Solid construction analogy 👏🏻
There's no point watching them run up and down the court just to be tied with 4 minutes left every game.
Aggression and fierce competition are missing from the game. It is now an overproduced mess and hard to watch.
Adam Silver and social media have made the game soft. Can’t even trash talk without getting a tech anymore. Guys are playing to get highlights on social media instead of winning.
It's boring the nba Adam sliver needs a hit a reset button
There are too many 3s. I saw a 2 min video where 2 teams ran up and down and shot only 3s and missed all. Lol
yeah it's mostly just a 3 point contest... pass pass shoot a 3, rebound, go other way, pass pass shoot a 3, go the other way, dribble shoot a 3, over and over, barely any actual technique or strategy, just some math nerd stuff that says 60 three point attempts is the way to go
honestly it's almost becoming as uninteresting as baseball
The analogy at 6:00 is spot on. 👌🏿
Pretty rich coming from Colin after he mocked anybody ringing the alarm on the declining NBA product as the "Boycott Crowd" for the past 5 years
He's an idiot
I’ve been watching the NBA since 2007. I’ve almost completely lost all interest now that my favorite player LeBron is getting older and I don’t care about the success of the team since it’s unrealistic he’ll win another ring. I am completely checked out. Every team plays the same. And I’m salty but I feel like players intentionally play harder against the lakers.
Dunks should get the ball back. Would force teams to be aggressive and play defense
Whoa
Adam Silver is really smokin that issh. The game is at a breaking point time to makes some changes bro
Its no longer the casuals that watch AFTER xmas.
Its their fanbase.
And it will get worse...
NBA is losing Christmas viewership too now that the NFL is having annual Christmas games. I guarantee you Ravens vs Texans and Chiefs vs Steelers will embarrass the NBA games in viewership. I don't even know who's playing the NBA Christmas games this year and I don't care at all
I remember how media said few years back that fans who despised the 3 pt clown show were outdated and should adapt to "new" reality. That take aged very badly since those fans were only the first to leave and others soon followed.
The Joe Brady hate is unwarranted. That offense was completely broken with Ken Dorsey and Brady is taking it to heights even Daboll couldn't do
Colin thinks good coaches drop from trees. How is someone going to get the chance at being a good coach, when Colin is shooting every new face down?
When you have a great QB ppl are usually skeptical about how good the OC really is. Greg Roman (Lamar) , Eric Bienemy/Matt Nagy(Mahomes), Joe Brady (Allen), Josh Mcdaniels (Tom Brady) etc
Also before Brady got to LSU Burrows, chase, and Jefferson was very average.
Steve Jobs GLAZE
In my 50s I know a lot of people who used to watch basketball. From my friends to my older family, their number one complaint EVERY time is that the NBA is just a three point contest.
Colin in his bag this morning
If I have to buy a cable package and three other apps just to be able to watch my Milwaukee Bucks and then still not be able to get access to ALL their games... yeah that's a problem
Should've never have gotten rid of TNT, it disheartened the fans to know its going away.
That’s the last thing they had.
Ten years ago during the 2014-2015 season there was an average of 22.4 3 point attempts per game. So far this season it's at 37.5, or a 67% increase. In a decade. It obviously needs to be updated.
Colin is going to get Vrabel that Chicago job no matter what it takes 😂
The NBA needs a new rule
Only one 3 point shot per possession
That game last night was virtually unwatchable…
Players are getting paid to not play defense. No point changing the 3 point line if players don't care about defense.
NBA should try these recommendations on the G-League. Too late for this year.
Just bring back hand checking, and stop touch fouls for jump shooters. Would easily take out the 3 ball reliance when the % drops below midrange efficiency
Love Colin but man he gets hot for a guy (Payton, example) and doesn’t stop. We get it, Vrabel asked you to help him land a job…
He needs to come to terms with his obsession with Bryce Harper. Harper has been in the league over a decade and has won absolutely nothing. He has a whiny personality and hasn't been that good the last couple years. I think Schwarber is more must see on his own team than he is. Schwarber is a serious threat from his first AB of the game, that's why he immediately gets walked a lot of the times
The fact that Lamelo ball averages 31pts per is all you need to know,today's NBA is a mess they've taken away what defenders can do.
Make dunks worth 3 points too. Reinforce the athleticism that made the league amazing to watch. Ain’t no way Wemby and Luka should be taking 10 3s a game
Then Colin gonna complain that Caleb needs an offensive coach when Vrabel doesn’t work out
One of the great Colin rants tbh
The NBA problem Is they try and manipulate every aspect of the sport for money. They constantly try and force these young players to be stars when they're not ready, forcing older players out the door when they're not ready . trying too hard to promote international players and small markets , trying too hard to manipulate scores and winners with terrible officiating. I grew up watching NBA and do not watch at all no more .
Yet TV networks are still paying hand over fist to get NBA games according to the new deals
Colin knows about onlyfans? 😂😂
And yes Colin it does pay the bills for many 😂
That's about all he knows.
The other thing is stop calling so many god damn fouls. The game stops every 4 seconds because god forbid two athletes barely contact each other.
100% agree. Things sometimes come out of balance. The Warriors changed the game, but the game needs to change to adapt. Same was true when they needed to nerf big men or when they needed to nerf physical defense…or even more simply, the addition of the shot clock. Nothing wrong with those moves, the game got stale. Hockey did the same by removing the red line…it slowed the game down to a crawl and they changed it and sped the game up and made the game better. Sometimes sports need balance changes
no need to move the line, just bring back the physicality to the perimeter
The issue is the NBA doesn't cater to the local team base any longer. They market major stars from the major markets.
If you don't pay for the NBA's (excessively priced) streaming service, you're likely to see your local team less than 5 times all year. This is the regular season but most playoff games are now on cable as well.
The league is pricing out their main audience.
NBA is in big time trouble to say the least.
Colin missed the NBA going international. It looks like Europe like basketball.
Legit can’t keep up with the nba. Too many players get traded mid season, and after season. It’s just not entertaining except maybe in the playoffs but most of the time it’s 4-1s or sweeps
Since bron left his prime the nba has been uninteresting. These players aren’t IT and Adam Silver definitely isn’t it
I think OnlyFans is paying the bills
People tuning in on illegal streams really exposing the media people that don’t like/know ball. Love Colin but you’ve never been a hoops guy. Plenty of us still love the NBA and watching guys like Giannis play.
Yeah the nba is the only league in the world that has people use StreamEast. The league is rapidly declining in popularity. The average person in America watches less than 4-5 games a year, and id imagine there’s significantly more people that don’t watch any games at all.
Colin is right though, if nobody is paying the bills who cares how many people are watching.
Same thing with social media, the league has to figure out how to convert those people into customers or it's going to shrink.
Who isn't a fan of stuff that's free...
why is colin pushing Vrabel so hard
Personal relationship
Because everyone else is saying it. Colin is a parrot. No original thought at all.
Remember he said he spoke to Vrabel recently. Vrabel's agent probably paid him to push his client
"I had a stomach ache for 13 years" lol 😂
Gave up on NBA about 8 years ago... LeBron, Popovich, Steve Kerr...Just to name a few reasons why
There is no D in the game. Team score points like its an all star game
NFL starting to look like Tecmo Bowl too.
Colin is on it today 👍🏾hate it or like it
He got really quiet about trading Giannis now. 😂😂
Way too many 3s. No midrange game at all. 3s are low percentage. U not gonna make em all. The analytics versus using common sense is way off
Think about the most popular basketball player in the world right now.......Caitlin Clark.
If all she was, was a 3 pt chucker, people would've lost interest a while ago. Yeah the unprecedented shooting range is what drew people in, but there's so many other layers to her and her game that appeal to the masses, chiefly among them being the fact that she's also arguably one of the best passers in the game of basketball right now as well. She plays with flare and fire and is versatile (i.e. more than just a 3 pt shooter).
a deeper 3 wont change the product. It will just make the game even more boring and turn into HORSE. gotta get rid of it to make the game more competitive
The NBA is boring to watch.
Colin tripping with the Joe Brady hate. I saw what LSU, Joe Burrow, Chase, and Jefferson was before he got there. They was average at best.
Legendary take by Colin 😂
There was a period this year where Caitlin Clark was a bigger story than anything NBA...
Nice try Diddy.
Who cares about social media? Colin cowherd most certainly cares about social media.
Cowherd saying every team plays the same just tells me he dont be watching basketball bc that isnt true lol
You the only one defending the bad basketball lol
In Colin's little world, that's about it.
@@DashahnDraper there's a lot of good basketball being played all the time the teams that truly play bad basketball are the teams at the bottom of the standings bc they suck
Last night was probably the first OKC game Colin has watched since the KD/Harden/Russ days. And probably the first Bucks game he's watched since the 2021 Finals. That guy probably pays attention to like 2 or 3 teams only. Lmao
@@lazzi2462 most definitely lol he don't be watching basketball lol
I quit watching the NBA because of the three's, but the bigger thing was nobody cares about the regular season. By nobody I mean nobody, not the players, not the coaches or the GMs and certainly not the media. So why should fans? Nothing less appealing than watching the league try to motivate mega millionaires to do their jobs with in-season tournaments or putting playing time minimums on their awards.
The Bucks are my team, but you know what I was doing instead of watching them win that NBA cup? Studying up for the upcoming Packers vs Saints.
The 3 point shot killed the watchability...it stretched the defenses to death...now its just a buncha bricklayers...boring!!!!😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮
Been saying for years that 3 point shooting at the volume its been at is bad for the NBA. That the NBA is weak and soft now with very few players caring about defense. That most players are not as talented or skilled as they used to be. Or at least don't put in anywhere close to the same effort. But whenever those complaints were made, you'd get analysts and nerds talking about how the players now are better than ever, the game has "evolved", you're just an old head. And now its gotten to a point where it's completely unwatchable trash for all those above reasons, but now it's irreversible. So congratulations
Yes The three's are way out of hand
No defense, no city/team loyalty, regular season is meaningless, 90% of the NBA is a farm system for big city teams, 3 point dominance, big man play going extinct...the flaws are all fixable.
I was a NBA diehard in the 80s/90s. Now it’s a unwatchable product.
Moving the 3pt line would be so dumb. There would be no reason for players to be in the corner then, if you're only getting 2pts out of it. Imagine Ray Allen's game tying 3pt that saved LeBron's 2nd ring only being considered 2pts lmao. And if it's a late game situation where a team needs a 3pt to tie, everyone's going to be in the same spot, the wing or top of the arc 3. There would be no spacing for those situations, it'd be so hard to draw up a play in that situation or even get the inbound off due to it being so crowded. Players have gotten much better at shooting 3's the past 10 years, & now you want to punish them for that? It's like if everyone got good at dunking, then you raise the rim to 11ft. Lol
It’s not about what people are too good at, it’s about what fans want to watch. Fans don’t want to watch 70+ three point shots a game teams taking turns in a 3pt contest. It’s not up for debate, the ratings show it. If they don’t address the ratings will keep slipping.
@@ChosenPlaysYT Yall act like that's the problem for sure & as if it's a guaranteed fix. The WNBA ratings went up this season significantly because of a 3pt shooter. What if they moved the 3pt line & it changes nothing? Then what, find something else to blame? These players are getting paid way too much to give a care about a regular season game, Allstar game, or anything else outside of the Playoffs. If players would just play harder, there wouldn't be any need for all these changes, In-Season Tourney, ASG changes, etc. There are way more things they could fix before resorting to permanently changing the game just because players actually got better at shooting over the years. People will complain that Giannis can't shoot, and then also go complain that teams shoot too many 3's.
Every you said can be solved with actual coaching and having a system and drawing up plays. Actually have intelligent people holding the clipboard.
Super teams, concentration of stars, only 5 teams being relevant every year, boring three point contests every game, and over pandering of social issues / politics constantly.
Also wtf are you talking about with politics? Do you even watch the NBA? How is literally anything about it political or pandering? You people get outraged constantly over NOTHING
@ LeBron, the face of the league, literally said he didn’t want half of the country to watch because they are terrible people. And there are hundreds of other examples. The players during the Olympics deciding as a team to tell everyone who they should vote for, etc. To bury your head in the sand and act like they aren’t pandering politics constantly is intentionally disingenuous.
Yeah honestly the fact that they're crushing social media shows the social interest in their league, if they find a way to monetize it no probably be the biggest sports league and this is also only a USA problem internationally they are very popular
My cure for the all star game is go back to east west , and limit dunks to 5-10 per team or 2 per person something like that , and same with 3s . Then you’d have no choice but to shoot the mid range / post / etc . But for the regular season ? No Friggin idea .
Absolutely unhinged comments about social media😂
Can anyone tell Colin to fix his AFC Playoff graphic? He has Denver and LAC wrong. 2 days in a row.
They should add the 4 point circle like the Big 3. It grows every year. If you can't make 3's, try something else. The NBA has local deals and black-out rules. That's out of touch.
There has to be an American born basketball prodigy again. It’s a stars league and its biggest one is at the end. The same thing happened to ratings after Jordan retired. Everyone thought the new megastar would be Zion, but he does not have the fire burning inside him. Once that player comes around, rest assured that ratings will return.
It’s a game full of rich spoiled athletes who don’t care. All teams play the same, 3s and no Defense. Teams have no identity in play style. Load management has made stars less available for us to watch when we tune in. Divas who are more worried about their pregame outfit. No physicality or team rivalries, they hug and kiss each other after every game. The WNBA is more physical than the NBA at this point. Lastly, the American all stars are old now: LeBron, KD, Curry.
This video has big old man yells at clouds energy.
Statistics say different. The league is boring. WWE is beating NBA
You only get 15 3s a game done
You only need to watch the last 2 minutes of a basketball game.
I haven’t watched in 20 years because of how boring and meaningless the rest of the game was.
Changing the three point line isn’t going to fix it, either. But I like ideas.
Colin rails how about how social media doesn't matter and doesn't make any money: on a monetized RUclips video😂
Sure pal
The reason I love CBB and not the NBA is because there's a passion in CBB that is non-existent in the NBA. Plus in CBB there are actually different styles of play; some teams try and drain the shot clock while others shoot as quick as possible. Watching the NBA feels like watching the same 30 teams play each other because no one has unique identity.
Yes me too. Every body shoots 3
Colin you said you don’t like Def HC
Except when it suits his narrative to make a point. Then he quickly shapes his story.
Silver should take a page from Goodell and Manfred.....Said no one EVER!!!!
Colin treats everything as "The easiest thing to do", or "The smartest thing to do...". Weak analysis on Colin's part. None of those moves are the easiest or smartest. I could say the "easiest" and "smartest" thing Colin could do is to jettison JMac, but he can't do it....
I honestly think the nbas audience is younger than NFL and MLB. Most of them stream illegally
Yeah Colin is clueless about many things in this take. It's rage bait. NBA is doing incredibly well lol
@metabolicraged I don't think it's rage bait the ratings are down, but I don't think they take into account young people are not paying for cable when they can stream it online for free
Yeah, Colin, TV is the future.
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I believe the only way the NBA will be interesting again to the masses is if a player like Ant Edwards or Ja Morant takes over the league wins MVPs or Championships. Its gotta be somebody that the young people consider cool 😎 Jordan was cool people wanted to be like MJ. Lebron was cool, he grew up in the hood and was superstar as a kid. Todays best players, Jokic Luka, Embiid, Giannis, kids dont wanna play like Jokic. Nobody would ever buy the new Joker 1s, Ant Edwards shoes however would sell out. The NBA needs players that resonate with the young people, but also said player needs to be at the top of the league
Architects and Engineers don't lead construction projects Colin. Project Managers and Superintendents for the General Contractor do. But I get your point.
The NBA needs less games. Can’t have stars sitting out and a singular game only making up 1% of the season
or maybe they just need players that aren't so soft and entitled that they think being expected to play basketball a few times per week is too much work
weird how load management and rest nights aren't making players more durable🙄athletes used to say iron sharpens iron, these NBA players today want a free night off every time they feel tired
MLB needs less games
less games ? nah players are soft af like kamala supporters
It never used to be an issue. They sit out because they can.
82 games was never an issue in the past, don't need to lessen games. The issue is, Adam Silver was too much of a "Yes" man. The players run the league now. They get paid way too much nowadays to care about a random regular season game or any Allstar games. They all get extra pay incentives if they hit certain accolades, like making the ASG, winning awards, getting selected to All-NBA Teams. So then why not do the opposite as well? Subtract part of their paycheck if they aren't hitting certain benchmarks. You sit out a 30% of the season, then take off 30% out of their paycheck. You're getting paid superstar money but don't even make an Allstar team or the All-NBA team, then take out 10% for each miss. They need to start penalizing these players where it actually hurts.
Has Mike Vrabel paid Collin to push his narrative? Why does Vrabel have to be the Bears head coach when see clearly see a offensive minded coach is best for young QBs
Because Colin has no original thought to offer. He's a broken record.
Meta has sold over 10 million headsets so there’s that