SportsGuy8 wrote:Saying that "There is not a single NCAA Division I team that would not go 0-30 in the EuroLeague regular season. And I am 100% positive of that." is neither objective, truthful, nor realistic.
It's one thing to say that you don't think any NCAA team would be able to get a win, but to be "100% positive of that"? I don't think you realize what kind of strength differential would warrant that ...
You're basically being the same as those Team USA fanboys that kept saying over the summer that there's no way any other team has a chance and that they're going to cruise through the whole tournament, with no chance of anyone beating them. Yes, they ended up undefeated, but that was after a few serious scares ...
Take any top 5 ranked NCAA DI team and list their roster. Then we can compare it to any roster of any one of the 16 EuroLeague teams. Anyone that thinks it will even be close either isn't being serious, or they don't have basic basketball knowledge.
Bob8 wrote:This "prospect" thing is more or less wild guessing and always favors big and/or athletic guys, because this's the only thing we can foretell. Why nobody has predicted how good Curry will be? Because he doesn't fit in what prospects should look like. What has Doncic that nobody else has at this moment? He has already showed he can play with professionals in a good competition. He's one of the best players of Real Madrid and statistically one of the best players in Euroleague. Nobody else in the world did that at his age ever. To do that you have to have great talent. I heard fairytales that he is so good at his age because he has great body, like 25 years old man and that's the reason he is so good. His body is o.k., but to say he has advantage because of it over other Euroleague players is ridiculous. He will need years to develop body in what it should/could be. What else do we know about him? He's 6.8 and still growing. We heard he is too slow for Pg and that speed is more or less genetic. He surely can't run like Bolt, but some adjustments can be done on this field too. On the other hand, can 18 years 6.4 great prospect still grow?;) Leaving other considerations aside, would you rather have 6.8 pg or 6.4? Doncic is 17 years old, big for his position, great body frame, still growing, has great talent, great BBIQ, great court vision, playing in the best league player at his age possible could,
is important member of the best team in Europe, he already showed he is a clutch player too, is intelligent, his father was good basketball player, so his genetics is great too,and maybe the most important thing, he has great work ethic and respect. Because of his great work ethic I'm 100% sure he will make big improvements in his physique and skills. What else do you possibly want from prospect? And now tell me why he's not better prospect than let's say Dirk. What had Dirk when he was 17 to be considered better prospect than Doncic?
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It's highly unlikely Spanoulis would have play with torn muscle. He has some kind of muscle strain, grade 1 or maybe grade 2. He's going to play this week. His biggest problem is, he's getting old and try to play like he used to. He can't anymore. And then we have, 29% 3FG and
http://www.euroleague.net/main/statistics?mode=Leaders&entity=Players&seasonmode=Single&seasoncode=E2016&cat=Turnovers&agg=PerMinute
When did Real Madrid become the best team in Europe? I've not seen anything so far to suggest they are better than teams like CSKA, Olympiacos, or Fener.
It's not highly unlikely Spanoulis has a muscle tear. It's a fact. The abductor muscles in his right thigh are torn, and he's been playing with that for months now. I don't think it's due to "old age", as the injury happened when someone's knee hit him in the thigh on a drive to the basket. Maybe "old age" makes you more susceptible to that kind of injury though.
UcanUwill wrote:Yeah, that was sweat, not the first time seeing him pulling of that. He spent most of the game with just 2 field goal attempts, just at the very end of the game he scored that one, and chucked 2 threes with the shotclock winding down when the game was already decided.
His defense against Langford tho was bad, couldn't stay in front of him at all.
He can't stay in front any EuroLeague guard with a decent handle. He is a clear point forward and not a point guard. That's how he would be used I think in any other EuroLeague team. Laso is the only EuroLeague coach that truly cares 0% about defense being played by his team.
He should be defending small forwards, but he's way too weak right now to do that. So he defends guards, which he cannot stay in front of. But Laso is OK with that, because he does not care about defense. But it's a better deal to have him guard guards, since he has size and length, which can at least help, whereas against small forwards, he has no size and length advantage, and he will just get bullied and overpowered in the low post by most of them.
It makes sense also of course on offense, as I said earlier, and as others pointed out also, he can just shoot over point guards on offense and pass over them, something he can't do against small forwards.
Laso is doing everything possible to hide a teenager on defense, mainly because again, he does not care about defense. But in any team that cares about defense, they won't have him guarding guards, considering man to man defense in open space, he can't stay in front of any of them in EuroLeague, as least I have not seen it so far.
He should be defending the 3 position, once he gets some strength.
