greekbuck34 wrote:My point is Jokic, Giannis and Luca would easily beat Italy, Germany and Poland in a 7 game series. Hell even in a 5 game series. They will average a near 30p triple double because it's inevitable.
A random great/trash shooting night, or a bizzare bad night for a MVP caliber player or a completely wrong defensive plan from the coach can easily cause an upset. It's happening so many times in the game 1s in the NBA but teams have time to study or get over the bad luck and prevail. For me that's way better to witness.
Eurobasket was fun but I don't even care anymore who wins it now that all the MVPs are out. Spain and France could make the finals without even facing one of them in the knockouts.

The NBA is largely dictated by the refs, by the league's money making goals, and by the fake sports media's marketing gimmicks and slogans. The NBA is listed as an entertainment company, and not a pure sports competition. It's really amazing that people that watch the NBA, then something like FIBA, cannot see how the NBA is so very clearly a show, and not meant as real true sportive competition.
Like really, Giannis looks like Superman in the NBA, and he either plays like total crap in FIBA, if his team tries to play like a team, and they lose, or he stat pads in ridiculous nonsense video game hero ball, with completely taking his other teammates out of the game, and making all the other players on the team noticeably worse, instead of better, and then still loses anyway.
While in the "vastly superior NBA", the whole story line, is will Giannis win every championship from now until whenever, or will one of his key help players get injured, or will he miss a key free throw.......AKA as the "narrative" fake storyline that is created. It's amazing that people can see NBA refs and then see FIBA refs and not see how insanely fake the NBA is.