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Two of the biggest critiques of the NBA that is said is the lack of defensive effort each individual shows on the court, and the apparent selfishness. Then when people look at college basketball, they say that it contains very little of that, but I say it contains much more. In college, the reason you go is to get to the NBA and therefore you do whatever it takes to get there. Your main goal is not to win the national championship; your main goal is to is to be signed by an NBA team as soon as possible. In this mindset, you loose the team aspect of basketball and gain players trying to do to much to impress NBA scouts. For example look at a player like O.J Mayo he went to go play basketball at USC, not such a great basketball program at the time. He could of gone to some place not so far away (UCLA) and had a much greater chance at winning the national championship, but that was not his goal, his main goal, like I said before was to reach the NBA. You can say that most college players don't leave after their first or second year, but that is because most college players aren't good enough to. And to those that are good enough, good for you in sticking with your team, but again those players are rare. The one major exception, the 2005-2007 Florida Gators team in which they won two consecutive national champions. Good for them, they stuck with their team and it payed off, but this is a small exception. On the defensive end in both college and professional looking at the score you would think that college shows much more defensive effort, but this is not true. First a college game is eight minutes shorter; now still that is not enough to make up for on average a 20 point difference between the two games. The other major factor is the lack of offense at the college level. At first glance of a college game all you see is two or three guys constantly jacking up threes and occasionally learning from their mistakes and driving the lane. Then when you look in deeper to the offensive scheme you, you were right, it is just about jacking up threes. A nice example of this was in the Final Four of 2008 when UCLA played Memphis in which Memphis won 78-63. The UCLA star Kevin Love was only held to 12 points. Somewhat of it was the good defense of Memphis, but a majority of it was the stupidity of the UCLA guards. They went away from what worked so well throughout the year to get the to the Final Four and started to jack up threes and most of the time missed. Whenever they did go into Kevin Love, he at least made it look like Memphis had to put effort into their defense instead of just standing around and waiting for another UCLA guard to throw up another miss. Here is the problem; each player wanted to be the savior for the team and impress NBA scouts, but that is not how you win a game. You win a game by ball movement, post ups, and when in doubt give it to your best player to make a play. In the NBA they understand that because everyone on the team is in it to win it. In college, the best players, are trying to get the highest they possibly can in the draft, and the fairly good players are just trying to get noticed, and the not so good players, they are in it to win it, this will be there only chance to succeed in basketball and see no real future in the NBA. In the end college is where you better yourself, NBA is where you better your team.