Cuban：NCAA比賽太可怕，對年輕球員沒有幫助
從前，聯盟不少人士認為，年輕球員在大學生活過，哪怕只是一年時間，也會比起由高中直接加盟NBA更理想，因為這些年輕球員將會更成熟。
可是，小牛班主Mark Cuban接受訪問時表示，他不喜歡看NCAA的大學籃球比賽，並認為這種節奏緩慢的賽事，對年輕球員進入NBA沒有幫助。
Cuban說：如果你希望孩子待在學校，不希望他們成為一名職業球員，那麼你做得很棒，因為這些孩子擁有35秒的進攻時間，根本就不會知道一場正式的籃球比賽是怎樣進行。
引用"If they want to keep kids in school and keep them from being pro players, they're doing it the exact right way by having the 35-second shot clock and having the game look and officiated the way it is. Just because kids don't know how to play a full game of basketball."
Cuban又認為，在比賽中，球隊中有3名球員在外線傳球，而當進攻時間還剩餘10秒，他們才會試圖運行戰術。可是，場上的另外兩個球員只是站在一旁，什麼也不管的跑回自己的後半場中防守。在比賽中，5位球員中有2個、甚至3個、4個人都不在戰術內。
引用"You've got three kids passing on the perimeter. With 10 seconds on the shot clock, they try to make something happen and two other kids stand around. They don't look for anything and then run back on defense, so there's no transition game because two out of five or three out of five or in some cases four out of five kids aren't involved in the play."
Cuban認為這樣的比賽非常醜陋，也是導致得分偏低的原因，而NBA早已改變了。
引用"It's uglier than ugly, and it's evidenced by the scoring going down. When the NBA went through that, we changed things."
另外，Cuban也希望NCAA的規則和裁判執法水平能有所改善，他認為大學籃球比高中籃球更差是一件很荒謬的事情。而且他認為NCAA的身體對抗性可能比NBA還要強，裁判的執法準則就應該需要保持一致，而現時裁判確實未能做好。更令Cuban覺得荒謬的事，就是每場比賽所用的籃球也不一樣。
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"It's horrible. It's ridiculous. It's worse than high school. You've got 20 to 25 seconds of passing on the perimeter and then somebody goes and tries to make a play and do something stupid, and scoring's gone down."
"The referees couldn't manage a White Castle. Seriously, the college game is more physical than the NBA game, and the variation in how it's called from game to game [is a problem]. Hell, they don't even have standards on balls. They use different balls. One team's got one ball, the other team's got another ball. There are so many things that are ridiculous."