suckfish wrote:Rakocevic leads the Euroleague in scoring (as well as the ACB), and at the same time, is one of the most efficient scorers in the league. He has one of the best scoring averages in the Euroleague this decade and is a two time scoring champion.
If he isn't an elite scorer, then I don't know what or who is.
And I never said anything about Langdon being "that much closer to a superstar than Navarro".
Fine, but you said it about Rakocevic by putting him two tiers below Langdon.
You keep throwing personal insults around though, it makes you look pretty cool.
You don't know what an elite scorer is. You obviously don't watch the Euroleague. I already explained to you that Rakocevic would average no more than probably 10 points a game on a top level European club. Put him on a club like Panathinaikos or CSKA and he would not even be one of the main scoring options. Strange how that makes him "an elite scorer in Europe".
I even explained to you how Drew Nicholas led the Euroleague in scoring, he also led the Italian League in scoring. On Panathinaikos he averaged 8 points a game. Why? Because he is not an "elite scorer" just like Rakocevic is not either. Players like that can lead big domestic leagues or the Euroleague in scoring if they don't play on a top level club.
So based on your logic then, the biggest Euroleague clubs have like a 6th to 8th offensive option on the team, all those players are being what you would refer to as an "elite scorer". It makes no sense at all and is completely wrong. Sani Becirovic goes from averaging 6.8 points per game last year with Panathinaikos to 14.8 this year with Lottomatica Roma.
I guess based on your concept of how the game works in the Euroleague Becirovic magically became 2-3 times a better scorer over one off season. Of course, the simple fact is that the best offensive player on a mid level Euroleague club like Roma, which was Becirovic, would be nothing more than a minor bench role player on a big Euroleague club.
You still don't grasp it?
Drew Nicholas averaged 18.5 in the Euroleague with Benetton and 16.5 in the Euroleague with Efes. Then he goes to Panathinaikos and averaged 8.3 a game.
If you actually watched Euroleague games you would understand that averaging 10-12 points on a club like CSKA, like Langdon does, is much harder to do and is more impressive than the numbers Rakocevic had with TAU. Of course you would also have to actually watch NBA games to know that Mike D'Antoni's teams will generally have inflated offensive stats as compared to the rest of the NBA. But according to your concept of how the Euroleague scoring stats are, they are all automatically equal and uniform across the board.
Therefore, Rakocevic, who would not be a top 3 offensive option in a big Eurolegaue club is "an elite scorer in the Euroleague".
