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It is obvious from reading this forum that 99% of US NBA fans have never seen these foreign players play. The comments around here make this very clear. I think it's a good idea to start posting youtube videos of the players from some of the best Olympic rosters, the ones that US NBA fans clearly have never seen play and know nothing about. This will help US fans to actually know the other Olympic players, which they obviously don't.

I will just post for players that have not played in the NBA or did play in the NBA but never got off the bench and no one got see them play and just for the teams that can compete for one of the 3 medals. And YES this is related to general NBA because it's information for the Olympics where Team USA, all the NBA players will be playing these guys.

(if you have a youtube account you can set your video options to view in high quality this helps a lot)


Greece:


Vassilis Spanoulis PG

http://youtube.com/watch?v=OFJfbQDNwM8


Antonis Fotsis PF

http://youtube.com/watch?v=JGMpqM2KVfw


Theo Papaloukas PG

http://youtube.com/watch?v=g98ZR90KuEE


Dimitris Diamantidis PG

http://youtube.com/watch?v=IqhWhvovB80


Panagiotis Vasilopoulos PF

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uiN6B7O754


Sofoklis Schortsanitis C

http://youtube.com/watch?v=L0QJHzCY0mM


Kostas Tsartsaris C

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4JdhNOw1kw


Lithuania:


Robertas Javtokas C

World Record Dunk 12 foot rim

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvYgYijGCtY

highlights mix

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTsnMFr7-g0


Mindaugas Lukauskis SG

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP7FX3EXUWU


Jonas Maciulis SG

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WSJBrOGZME


Ramunas Siskauskas SF

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uyx6u_jF3pc


Rimantas Kaukenas PG

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDpEI-emtnY


Marijonas Petravicius PF

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfasSEQ5H2o


Spain:


Ricky Rubio PG

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvnKmfAe-Bg


Rudy Fernandez SG

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzaRAZ_yNTQ


Marc Gasol C

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRMmQQA-XNM


Argentina:


Pablo Prigino PG

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDFYW3JeosU


That's what Team USA will see from the teams that have a legit chance to medal (excluding the guys that NBA fans all know already like Gasol, Calderon, Jasikevicius, Manu, Scola, etc.)

These scouting breakdowns from past FIBA events are pretty interesting too. Shows teams tendencies and set plays etc.

http://www.fiba.com/subsites/sideLine/c ... index.html

I know the scouting reports! Sofoklis Schortsanitis is freaking fat!

DelaneyRudd wrote:I know the scouting reports! Sofoklis Schortsanitis is freaking fat!

No, he's just big-boned.

I wonder what his contract is, because with Brand gone the Clippers should offer him a real contract. Pretty soon he will be too old to devote time to.

DelaneyRudd wrote:I wonder what his contract is, because with Brand gone the Clippers should offer him a real contract. Pretty soon he will be too old to devote time to.

1) He is not old (85' er, if i recall correctly).

2) He plays center strictly, so the Clippers don't really need him now, with Kaman, Camby and DeAndre Jordan on board.

seattlefan35 wrote:These scouting breakdowns from past FIBA events are pretty interesting too. Shows teams tendencies and set plays etc.

http://www.fiba.com/subsites/sideLine/c ... index.html

This is a much better link for scouting, as opposed to...say... youtube highlights, where anyone can look like a goat candidate.