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Q. What do you strive to achieve in the NBA to hopefully bring more light to the Bosnian players growing up like yourself a couple years back?
DZANAN MUSA: I want to have, first of all, work ethic, to show them how it’s done. Work hard every day, stay humble, not get obsessed with media, with social media. Stuff like that. I just want to be humble and show them how it’s done.
DarkXaero wrote:Chucking 3s, yea. Musa's weakness seems to be iso plays tho. His idol is Kobe so it makes sense.CalamityX12 wrote:DarkXaero wrote:I don't see the Bogdanovic comparison at all, I think that's just a lazy "white euro player" comparison. This guy's ball handling ability/potential seems to be way beyond what Bogdanovic can do. He also seems like a better athlete to me, with a much quicker first step. On the other hand, he's not the shooter that Bogdanovic is, and his 3pt shot seems to be inconsistent. Also doesn't seem to have any post game which is something Bogdanovic did have in Europe.
I like most of what I've seen from Musa but his body build/frame and T-rex wingspan is a concern. Hopefully he also takes out the Kobe esque chucker mentality out of his game here in the NBA.
isn't Kenny's system based on chucking?
„To je bilo na kampu. Imao sam 11 ili 12 godina. Ja stvarno ne volim gubiti. U igri jedan na jedan, ispred mene bio je igrač koji je imao 18 godina, bio je dosta jači i nisam ga mogao pobijediti. Udarao sam ga, tukao, ali nisam ga mogao pobijediti. Na kraju sam zaplakao i otišao. Nema veze. Sad kad bi se sreli, bila bi drugačija situacija."
"It was on (some) camp. I was like 11 - 12 years old. I really don't like to lose. I played one on one againt a 18 years old player, he was much stronger (than me) and I couldn't beat him. I hit him, I kick him, but I couldn't win. In the end I started crying and went away. Never mind. If we meet again, it would be a whole different situation."
steady wrote:From interview after he was selected by Nets tonight
Q. The human body is obviously a huge thing playing this game of basketball. How important is your mindset? How important is the mental in this?
DZANAN MUSA: I think the most important thing is your mental strength and your basketball IQ. You have (Nikola) Jokic from Serbia in Denver, he doesn’t have a muscle in his body and he’s still one of the best centers in the NBA. You have to have it in your head.
Rich Rane wrote:I think we're all missing the point here. vc4pres needs to stop watching games.
vincecarter4pres wrote:steady wrote:From interview after he was selected by Nets tonight
Q. The human body is obviously a huge thing playing this game of basketball. How important is your mindset? How important is the mental in this?
DZANAN MUSA: I think the most important thing is your mental strength and your basketball IQ. You have (Nikola) Jokic from Serbia in Denver, he doesn’t have a muscle in his body and he’s still one of the best centers in the NBA. You have to have it in your head.
Throwing mad shade at Jokic.
Thanks for the honesty.MorbidHEAT wrote:My dislike for Lin started during Linsanity. It was absurd. It's probably irrational dislike at this point, but man he gets on my nerves. He's been tearing us up though.
Touché LOL!!CalamityX12 wrote:DarkXaero wrote:I don't see the Bogdanovic comparison at all, I think that's just a lazy "white euro player" comparison. This guy's ball handling ability/potential seems to be way beyond what Bogdanovic can do. He also seems like a better athlete to me, with a much quicker first step. On the other hand, he's not the shooter that Bogdanovic is, and his 3pt shot seems to be inconsistent. Also doesn't seem to have any post game which is something Bogdanovic did have in Europe.
I like most of what I've seen from Musa but his body build/frame and T-rex wingspan is a concern. Hopefully he also takes out the Kobe esque chucker mentality out of his game here in the NBA.
isn't Kenny's system based on chucking?
Is he though? He's not lying.vincecarter4pres wrote:steady wrote:From interview after he was selected by Nets tonight
Q. The human body is obviously a huge thing playing this game of basketball. How important is your mindset? How important is the mental in this?
DZANAN MUSA: I think the most important thing is your mental strength and your basketball IQ. You have (Nikola) Jokic from Serbia in Denver, he doesn’t have a muscle in his body and he’s still one of the best centers in the NBA. You have to have it in your head.
Throwing mad shade at Jokic.
LOL what a boss!Stackey wrote:First time when he joined practise of the Bosnian senior national team, and he was like 17 and barely played serious basketball in life, asked about the team he answered: "We're good, there's me, Teletovic and Nurkic".
DarkXaero wrote:I don't see the Bogdanovic comparison at all, I think that's just a lazy "white euro player" comparison. This guy's ball handling ability/potential seems to be way beyond what Bogdanovic can do. He also seems like a better athlete to me, with a much quicker first step. On the other hand, he's not the shooter that Bogdanovic is, and his 3pt shot seems to be inconsistent. Also doesn't seem to have any post game which is something Bogdanovic did have in Europe.
I like most of what I've seen from Musa but his body build/frame and T-rex wingspan is a concern. Hopefully he also takes out the Kobe esque chucker mentality out of his game here in the NBA.