UcanUwill wrote:Mirotic12 wrote:
No. Songaila was just a quick and fast small ball four that could run the floor, hustle, and finish. He was a pure energy and hustle role player, with absolutely nothing else to offer.
I agree that Dom will not be as good as Scola, unless he really improves. Scola is FIBA legend, guy has so much skill. You really have to be good and skilled to be relevant in the NBA with those athletic shortcomings.
Songaila had a nice jumper. Dom has far more potential at back to the basket, but overall I think they are similar. Dom is also energy guy who can run the floor, has great intangibles, but can't jumo over a newspaper.
Let's stop the thing that always happens in NBA message forums - comparing white Euroleague players only to other white Euroleague players (Sabonis and Scola), or comparing players from one country only to other players from that same country (Sabonis and Songaila, etc.).
It's almost always a nonsense, and totally illogical. It's especially true in the case of Sabonis, who has a very American style of basketball game, and was taught mainly how to play American old school big man basketball by his father. Also because Sabonis plays more with physical attributes, rather than being a scoring monster.
I can think of many non Lithuanian players, many American players, many black players, many players that never played in Europe, that he is more similar to than Scola or Songaila, or Splitter, or whatever players are being mentioned here.
This whole comparing white players to white players, Euroleague players to Euroleague players, players from one country to players from that same country, etc. was started by these NBA mock draft sites like nbadraft.net and draftexpress.com and it's just incredibly stupid. Somehow since they kept doing it, it became something that people think is legitimate and correct. It's not. It's actually completely illogical and stupid.
