Still think West Coast Basketball sucks???? read this east coasters

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i always thought the job of a college coach was to win games and championships . preparing players for the nba should not be a goal for a college coach. however, if your premise is true and western players are being snatched up in the nba at an alarming rate then i guess it is the coaches and not the players who suck in the west. as an easterner i am quite content with the mediocre basketball we have here. duke, nc state and unc within 20 minutes from my home and wake 1.5 hours away.
 

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well nc state is mediocre and i believe wake has the best record as a 1-2 seed to never have reached to the final four....congrats....

the point is, there is just as much talent (pro prospects) on the west coast as the east coast.........but you'd never know that watching/listenting espn.
 

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if indeed you are correct in that there is as much talent in the west then you must agree that the coaches must be at fault for not doing well in the big dance.
 

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not at all....there are 7x as many major d1 teams in the midwest and east coast....the west coast gets, maybe, 8-10 teams out of 65 in the tourney each year (and that counts the wcc, big west, big sky, etc..)

much like football, west coast sports is scoffed at as second rate....the drafts into professional sports say otherwise
 

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Just a few in recent years from CT:

Emaka Okafor ...Rookie of the year
Ben Gordon... 6th man of the year
Richard Hamilton...Nat Champion at CT and NBA
Ray Allen.......no need to say......about his NBA stature
Caron Butler.....not bad
Charlie Villanueva #7 this year
Andrew Bynum...#10 this year......good thing.....he would have sat the bench at CT
lots more in last 10 or so years......
not bad for an eastern school!
 

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you don't see the marvin williams of the east go west to play basketball, however on the otherhand....
 

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Who beat Arizona in the big dance this year?

Oh yeah, one of those weak East Coast teams (Illinois).

Another great point by gjn23.
 

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forget it, you guys always miss the point, keep believing nothing exists out here except:

nascar, white trash, the klan, good ole boys, inbreeds, and slow tawlkers.....oh wait that's the south....sorry au.
 

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btw...love how louisville, mich st, illinois are "east coast" teams.......funny, i lived in chicago and never heard anyone there refer to the city as an east coast city.
 
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