College O Style vs NBA Success?

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I know that the coach himself is the most important part, but is there any small link between the offensive style a college team runs and the future NBA success of their players?

I'm asking this as UT has flip-flopped offensive styles drastically over the past 20 years (O'Neil to Green to Peterson to Pearl to Martin), and top high school players are looking for a coach and system that will get them ready for the NBA. Which system (not coach) has TN produced the best NBA players?

From my very limited view, coaches who favor low scoring half-court offenses do not produce as many future NBA players as those that run a more uptempo offense - do you think this is true?
 
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I think the NBA is interested in individual talent and potential vs how the team plays.
 
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The NBA is such a different game offensively that no college system as a whole is comparable. Maybe a certain system offensively agains a certain system defensively. UT in martins tenure was pretty similar to a NBA defensive look with the exception of the occasional 1-3-1 zone.
 
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The dribble-drive offense like Calipari runs is similar to what you'll see a lot of in the NBA. Drive and dish, feed the post, face-up, pick and roll, ball screens, etc. But I wouldn't equate half-court offense to "slow paced". NBA offenses are played in the half-court when fast break opportunities aren't there.

Doesn't really matter what kind of offense you play in college. Cuonzo's offense looks like an NBA offense, the difference is in the NBA the players are highly skilled and can execute the way it's supposed to be done.
 
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AAU ball is built for developing NBA players. More focused on individual one on one ball instead of team ball.
Ky had a center a couple of years ago that averaged 3 pts and was a first round pick. Guys like Morrison who led the ncaa in scoring can't get pt. Lofton is one of my favorite college players of all time and I wouldn't trade him, but he can't make a roster. The list is long. It's just a different game. One that I don't care to watch until the playoffs.
 
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Spartacavolus said:
AAU ball is built for developing NBA players. More focused on individual one on one ball instead of team ball.
Ky had a center a couple of years ago that averaged 3 pts and was a first round pick. Guys like Morrison who led the ncaa in scoring can't get pt. Lofton is one of my favorite college players of all time and I wouldn't trade him, but he can't make a roster. The list is long. It's just a different game. One that I don't care to watch until the playoffs.
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Orton is/was horrible in the NBA too. It was a bad pick.
 
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Spartacavolus said:
Cousins has had some dominant games in the NBA. Can't remember what he avg'd in college but he's been a much better pro player
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When I think of players that were much better in the pros than in college, first name that comes to mind is Rajon Rando.
 
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Most NBA teams run a ton of set plays due to the 24 second clock, and if they don't get a look, they go into ball screen or Iso to take advantage of the limitations the rules put on teams defensively. That's why the triangle got so much attention, but it was just unique at that time for an NBA team to run a multiple option unscripted motion offense. Now, teams run a lot of early offense and secondary break that flows right into their half-court stuff (ex. Popovich/Spurs). Still, many college programs run NBA sets, in fact Martin ran a lot of Horns series this year at Tennessee, which is probably the most popular set in the NBA right now. There's a lot of crossover between the two as far as different sets and actions coaches run, but offensive philosophy is quite different between the two levels.
 
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