good point...I've only caught 1 or 2 Japanese pro games and their league might be better than the CBL which like you say is crazy considering Japan doesn't invest nowhere near as much as China does
The defense in the CBA is awful. They make their big men bulk up so much that they become soft fat guys like a Bargnani or a Eddy Curry. They had some talented guard prospects, but they burned them out or in the case of someone like Guo Ailun, they blocked him from going overseas (he had a chance to go to college, or go to Greece). They let every team sign 3 foreigners, and they don't limit how much the foreigners get to play anymore - so every team plays their foreign talent 40 mins a game. I don't think they realize how much they've fukked up, just by letting a 40 year old Marbury and Shavlik Randolph take 20 shots every game.