Dragan Bender - 97 born Croatian prospect

[Rosque]

Basketball is not a number two sport in croatia for a long time, i hope with Hezonja, Saric and Bender with mix of Bogdanovic, Tomic and others will change that...

It stopped being number two a year or two after Drazen passed away. I think that Hezonja, Saric, Bender, Bojan, Tomic and other marvelous talents will draw more people to basketball

[TheSuzerain]

What is #2 then?

Soccer is #1?

[Mustinjo]

What is #2 then?

Soccer is #1?

Sadly, it's probably handball.

[Rosque]

What is #2 then?

Soccer is #1?

Sadly, it's probably handball.

It is. Even hockey's been really more and more popular with Croats due to Medvescak's success.

[kuly1990]

hockey? Medvescak success?? what success?? hockey is just good marketing by medvescak people... handball is number two, and than there are basketball, waterpolo, athletic tennis and others

[Rosque]

hockey? Medvescak success?? what success?? hockey is just good marketing by medvescak people... handball is number two, and than there are basketball, waterpolo, athletic tennis and others

Full Arena every game is what I'd call success. Hell, Dinamo who is best club in the nation had average attedance of 8% of stadium capacity. I'd call Medvescak success.

[Von Bismarck]

Dragan Bender (11/17/97) with Maccabi Tel Aviv (European powerhouse) senior team. Tel Aviv coach said he counts on Dragan to be 2nd PF this season in both Euroleague and Israeli championship. He also said Dragan is very mature and obedient. 15 minutes in Euroleague will do miracles for him.

What I find intriguing is that the guy on the right from him is their center and is 211cm tall (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%ADtor_Faverani), that means Bender is around 214. He also put some muscles as you can see on the following photo;

[165bows]

Dragan Bender (11/17/97) with Maccabi Tel Aviv (European powerhouse) senior team. Tel Aviv coach said he counts on Dragan to be 2nd PF this season in both Euroleague and Israeli championship. He also said Dragan is very mature and obedient. 15 minutes in Euroleague will do miracles for him.

What I find intriguing is that the guy on the right from him is their center and is 211cm tall (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%ADtor_Faverani), that means Bender is around 214. He also put some muscles as you can see on the following photo;

Vitor could block shots at the NBA level, but I'd have to look up the standing reaches to compare. It looked like he had the talent to be a solid rotation big at first, but could never put it together, then hurt his knee.

[pohani komarac]

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[doordoor123]

He moves so fluidly. Reminds me of Julius Erving.

[Damkac]

Next next Dirk

[Marcus]

Hoping to catch this kid in the next Hoop Summit.

[No-Man]

Hoping to catch this kid in the next Hoop Summit.

you should watch him first, in Euroleague, he is going to be a main rotation guy with Maccabi
The possible cut of James Ennis and if the interest from Maccabi is true could get Bender minutes down but they need to get Rochestie an israeli passport, we shall see.

Currently they got

Farmar-Ohayon
Rochestie-Landesberg
Devin Smith-Pnini
Brian Randle-Bender
Mbawkwe-Faverani

[Marcus]

Hoping to catch this kid in the next Hoop Summit.

you should watch him first, in Euroleague, he is going to be a main rotation guy with Maccabi
The possible cut of James Ennis and if the interest from Maccabi is true could get Bender minutes down but they need to get Rochestie an israeli passport, we shall see.

Currently they got

Farmar-Ohayon
Rochestie-Landesberg
Devin Smith-Pnini
Brian Randle-Bender
Mbawkwe-Faverani

how are you catching the Euroleague games? Is there another way to see them outside of NBA TV?

[No-Man]

Well you can pay for livebasketball or just watch normal streams of course, I am from Spain and I live in Sweden so it's not difficult to catch them, might be a problem schedule wise I guess, but not worse than for us watching NBA games late at night.
Maccabi should be a top8 team this season, Euroleague is looking strong, Madrid is the clearcut fav, but Khimki, CSKA, Fenerbaçhe have terrific teams as well, Barcelona, Maccabi, Efes, Olympiakos, or Panathinaikos are a bit out of the bubble but should be right there competing for getting to the Final Four.

[Von Bismarck]

You can always find good streams for Euroleague, not in HD but in 480p - yeah. And that's fine if you ask me, I watched many 360p and even 240p NBA streams

[sisibilio]

Well you can pay for livebasketball or just watch normal streams of course

Livebasketall won't carry it anymore. I guess the Euroleague wil relaunch his own streaming service like they had a few years back.

[Johnny Firpo]

You can always find good streams for Euroleague, not in HD but in 480p - yeah. And that's fine if you ask me, I watched many 360p and even 240p NBA streams

I remember watching some truly terrible streams a decade ago when the whole streaming thing started. There is no way I would watch that quality now. We got spoiled.

[Von Bismarck]

You can always find good streams for Euroleague, not in HD but in 480p - yeah. And that's fine if you ask me, I watched many 360p and even 240p NBA streams

I remember watching some truly terrible streams a decade ago when the whole streaming thing started. There is no way I would watch that quality now. We got spoiled.

I know right, I remember I had to watch 144p NBA streams for a month about 10 years ago cause my satellite was broken. That was HC indeed

But 480p streams of Euroleague are watchable, nothing wrong with it.

[sisibilio]

the good ole days of the sopcast and coolstreaming. I kind of miss those chinese broadcasters.