bravor wrote:Na he is right. Sengun was killing in the Euroleague before geting drafted. Wait. he was not... And there are numerous examples (incl. top picks who went from Europe to ncaa or nbl).
EL used to be a decent way to monitor best prospects development, but not anymore. Too many teams relying on experienced players and we are far from the Fortitudo playing both Mancinelli/Belinelli at around 18 yers old (or Batum with Le Mans at 17/18 and Gallinari at the same age) with quite a decent amount of minutes. I am not gonna pretend tracking all euro prospects, but for me it stoped being a league where best euro youngsters were playing relevant time in the beginning of the 2010 (up to mid 10ies).
Last exemple was Advija who did not play a lot of mn in the El with the MTA.
Mirotic* is acting like there are Doncic everywhere. Well not. He is a once in a blue moon exception, and its geting worst year after year.
The good plan for young players is to develop and improve their game. Not to be relevant at all cost in a league that will encourage the HC to bench him everytime he does a rookie mistake.
And so far, it does work for most of them. If working means geting a guaranteed nba contract, with the development behind.
Eurocup level is better than what you say. Otherwise the winners of the EC would not perform so well in the all mighty Euroleague.
Anyway Victor won't play in any european cup so far. He apprently chose the project of Boulogne-Levallois and that team (which finished 3st of the regular season) is not qualified for either the EC or the BCL.
Unlike the 15th of our league and the 11th. Go figure, but ECA is amazing i know.
ps : And i forgot to add that Eurocup used to be a good place to see young prospects develop. Best examples are teams like Hemofarm Vrsac who had their fantastic trio of Markovic-Macvan-Marjanovic back in the end of the 2000.
Anyway, even if i am disappointed by Victor's choice (he should have chosen a project with either EC or the BCL), that wont prevent him from working on his body/game to get ready for the next big step for him.
Anyway, we will see. European cups are a mess right now (talking about the choices from the organizations which are far from stemming from results merit, as if in the nba a spot in post season was always granted to the Lakers even when they s* just because they are the Lakers).
/rant off
David Kahn (former wolves GM) is the owner of Paris Basketball, they also will play in the arena in Paris at Porte de la Chapelle after the Olympics (8000 ppl), so way more attractive ... but very unfair
) his english is even impressive than his bball level !!!
