> No okay see this is that bs dominance I was talking about.

So what's real dominance, then? Not winning as many games?

> Kinda like how it is now where noone plays defense

Haha. NBA defense has never been better than it is right now. All the rules favor the offense and almost every player can shoot. The schemes are far more complex than they were 20 years ago. You clearly don't like the game and don't know what you're talking about.

What are you talking about? Shaq was a force like that. Lebron is a much better player and more successful and dominant than Wilt.

Yeah because all of those things are the same as saying that the refs are being paid off? Come on dude. Nowhere near the same thing.

> Basketball is a unique sport, it's unique in the sense that if someone entered the sport that absolutely dominated everyone, the sport would die.

What do you mean here? How is that different than if it happened in another sport?

You're definitely right. As is pointed out often, the top schools are getting younger and the lower seeds are getting older.

And it's not like this is a super-recent problem, but so many of these players are sheltered and not challenged as soon as they get the right attention -- they play AAU on a team with D1 guys against teams of NAIA guys and they don't realize how good every D1 player is.

The margins are so small at the highest levels. The only reason a lot of the small-school guys aren't at a bigger place can just be a few inches of height or a few notches of athleticism. It might keep them out of the pros but they can beat you in any random game.

Haha indeed, I was meaning small-school guys in general, but yes with Princeton it's future hedge-fund guys more likely.

Agreed. In some ways this feels like one of the biggest upsets of what could have been a 1-seed, like when Middle Tennessee beat MSU. In other ways it feels totally predictable.

It gets worse: Ramey made a jumper with 11 minutes left to give them 49.

They finished with 55.

Arizona didn't score in the last 4:43 of the game. They played lazy, arrogant and stupid throughout. Their talent still almost won out, but props to Princeton's defensive gameplan and effort.

There's real reasons we see big upsets more often now: there's talent, size and athleticism everywhere, the whole world is getting recruited better, and it's hard to give the most effort all the time. It's hard to compare the passion future NBA guys have for this tournament to what future car salesman do. I'm not saying they don't care or that they all don't try, but there's no way to remove the mindset of the future.

He’ll come back right on schedule to demand another trade.

Agreed. Feels like inevitable diminishing returns from here. Just hoping for a slow descent rather than a nosedive.

Check out the video from the front, it’s way more on the side than it looks from the regular TV view.