Yeah it was really great to see that espn 5 star top 25 recruit come off the bench to help his other 5 star teammates.
I'm not taking anything away from Duke or Kentucky or their players. I'm saying to me, as a fan, watching them win a title is as boring as watching paint dry. I guess it's not really a debate, it's just the feeling of boredom I get watching these two teams with identical uniforms win titles with the top players.
If I want to watch the best athletes, well that starts a couple weeks from now. Outside of ISU, NCAA basketball is only exciting to me if I can cheer for some team climbing the mountain. Kentucky doesn't have great basketball players or a great team compared to the Spurs. An NCAA team that hasn't been there before, that's exciting to me. A team that really does have the best players in the world trying to be the greatest of all time (NBA dynasties), that's interesting to me.
College football isn't as extreme since the programs have to recruit so many elite players. Even Alabama with their classes, there are just too many players for it to ever get that boring where the half of the top 20 of every NFL draft is an Alabama player which is kind of what the top 5 or top 10 nba draft picks all playing on one team for just one year, that's what the NCAA has become with mainly those programs just dominating the top picks.
Not getting to know some of these guys in just one season adds to the insane boredom too, I liked watching Kaminsky gradually become a force. For a college player to truly be entertaining for me to watch on some random team he just has to be INCREDIBLY fun to watch in terms of doing acrobatic and wild things. Curry, Wade, Durant and Napier in their final NCAA seasons are about the only non-ISU players recently where I got excited to watch them because of their incredible skills compared to how excited I would be to watch several dozen NBA players in the playoffs. Even a now dominant guy like Anthony Davis was still a fledgling his one season compared to watching NBA guys of that year.