Would a hypothetical Yugoslavia team win gold this olypmics?

[knickballer]

Dragic/Ukic
Hezonja/Bogdanovic
Saric/Bogdanovic
Vucevic/Saric/Teletovic
Jukic/Nurkic/Petkovic

Remember there are two bogdanovic(one for serbia and one for serbia). I get them mixed up so I just listed one at SG and one at SF :oldlol:

Am I missing any players?

[knickballer]

Not one response? Jesus ****ing christ...

[iamgine]

:lol

[FKAri]

I don't understand how this has anything to do with Lebron. Try OTC.

[KrizMiz]

Remember there are two bogdanovic(one for serbia and one for serbia). I get them mixed up so I just listed one at SG and one at SF :oldlol:



...:roll:

[KrizMiz]

A Yugoslavian Team would beat evey other nation in almost ever teamsport, there is no doubt!

[sick_brah07]

A Yugoslavian Team would beat evey other nation in almost ever teamsport, there is no doubt!
yugoslavia would thump the usa in basketball right now lol

shit croatia and serbia alone would let alone with the bosnian and montenagro players

[AintNoSunshine]

Hezonja can't be Slavic, because his name doesn't end with 'ic like all the 11 other dudes.

[zeerghit]

Dragic/Ukic
Hezonja/Bogdanovic
Saric/Bogdanovic
Vucevic/Saric/Teletovic
Jukic/Nurkic/Petkovic

Remember there are two bogdanovic(one for serbia and one for serbia). I get them mixed up so I just listed one at SG and one at SF :oldlol:

Am I missing any players?

wow, ukic/dragic over teodosic? GTFO
saris over bogdanovic? GTFO

[qrich]

This Olympics? Possibly.

If it was the US A-Squad, sure.

[r0drig0lac]

I don't understand how this has anything to do with Lebron. Try OTC.
:roll: :applause:




they would have a great chance
ps: no Teodosic? wtf

[Euroleague]

Hezonja can't be Slavic, because his name doesn't end with 'ic like all the 11 other dudes.

He isn't. He's an Italian Croat, just like Kukoc was (Kukoc was not his real name BTW).

[Euroleague]

wow, ukic/dragic over teodosic? GTFO


no Teodosic? wtf

Teodosic is a much better player than Ukic and Dragic, however he's also probably the single biggest choker of European basketball in the last 30 years.

A smart coach would leave him off of any such selection, since he would not be needed, and since he can single handed lose you the game with one of his infamous epic choke jobs.

[Rooster]

A Yugoslavian Team would beat evey other nation in almost ever teamsport, there is no doubt!

Reality check:no:

Our college boys went 6-0 against Yugoslavia in Olympic:confusedshrug:

[Bosnian Sajo]

Vucevic is a center, Teletovic would be starting.

[Bosnian Sajo]

He isn't. He's an Italian Croat, just like Kukoc was (Kukoc was not his real name BTW).


What the ****? lol.

[tamaraw08]

Dragic/Ukic
Hezonja/Bogdanovic
Saric/Bogdanovic
Vucevic/Saric/Teletovic
Jukic/Nurkic/Petkovic

Remember there are two bogdanovic(one for serbia and one for serbia). I get them mixed up so I just listed one at SG and one at SF :oldlol:

Am I missing any players?

IMO, Milos Teodosic will be more valuable than Ukic. The guy looks really good out there, esp with his passing.

[Milbuck]

Teodosic is a much better player than Ukic and Dragic, however he's also probably the single biggest choker of European basketball in the last 30 years.

A smart coach would leave him off of any such selection, since he would not be needed, and since he can single handed lose you the game with one of his infamous epic choke jobs.
What are you smoking? Dragic is a good player in the NBA, he shits all over Teodosic. Let me know when Teodosic averages 20 in the pros.

[FreezingTsmoove]

No raduljica or teodovic :facepalm

[knickballer]

Teodosic definitely deserves a spot on this roster. Dude is a magician with the ball but you can tell he's a big liability defensively.

Revamping this lineup I'd probably start Bojan Bogdanovic(Croatia) at shooting guard and move Hezonja to the SF. This will stretch the floor out a bit more and add some more quickness at the small forward spot to counter an athletic US squad. I like Bogdanovic's ability to score.

To the person that said Teletovic should be starting possibly. He's a great stretch four but this team doesn't have a dominant scorer to make his stretch play useful. For example if they had a dominant scorer like a Lebron then his stretch play will come in handy. Saric is a pretty good defender at the 4 as well.

Dragic/Teodosic
Bogdanovic(Croatia)/Bogdanovic(Serbia)/Hezonja
Hezonja/Saric/Random Serbian player
Vucevic/Telotovic/Saric
Jukic/Nukic/Petkovic



I also guess Mirotic can be a part of this roster considering he is Montenegrin and became a naturalized Spanish player...

[brownmamba00]

No

[Nikola_]

He isn't. He's an Italian Croat, just like Kukoc was (Kukoc was not his real name BTW).

:biggums:

[knickballer]

What the ****? lol.

So I googled to check if what he was saying is correct and the main source that comes up is his own post dating back from 2015.

http://www.insidehoops.com/forum/showthread.php?t=367739

I guess the evidence is in the writing then :confusedshrug:

[SamuraiSWISH]

My hypothetical Team USA is better

CP3 / Kyrie
Curry / Westbrook
Leonard / Harden / George
LeBron / Durant / Melo
Davis / Jordan

[Euroleague]

What the ****? lol.

Both Hezonja and Kukoc are of Italian descent, as are many, many, many people in Croatia. Look at a map genius.

[Euroleague]

What are you smoking? Dragic is a good player in the NBA, he shits all over Teodosic. Let me know when Teodosic averages 20 in the pros.

Dragic is nowhere near as good as Teodosic you moron. Dragic on his best form is like half as good as Spanoulis.

[Euroleague]

So I googled to check if what he was saying is correct and the main source that comes up is his own post dating back from 2015.

http://www.insidehoops.com/forum/showthread.php?t=367739

I guess the evidence is in the writing then :confusedshrug:

You can take 5 seconds and google Toni Kukoc Toni Petrelli and find out it is true.

[Euroleague]

Teodosic definitely deserves a spot on this roster. Dude is a magician with the ball but you can tell he's a big liability defensively.

Revamping this lineup I'd probably start Bojan Bogdanovic(Croatia) at shooting guard and move Hezonja to the SF. This will stretch the floor out a bit more and add some more quickness at the small forward spot to counter an athletic US squad. I like Bogdanovic's ability to score.

To the person that said Teletovic should be starting possibly. He's a great stretch four but this team doesn't have a dominant scorer to make his stretch play useful. For example if they had a dominant scorer like a Lebron then his stretch play will come in handy. Saric is a pretty good defender at the 4 as well.

Dragic/Teodosic
Bogdanovic(Croatia)/Bogdanovic(Serbia)/Hezonja
Hezonja/Saric/Random Serbian player
Vucevic/Telotovic/Saric
Jukic/Nukic/Petkovic



I also guess Mirotic can be a part of this roster considering he is Montenegrin and became a naturalized Spanish player...

Again, a smart coach (not that Serbia's coach is smart - he's a complete moron) would not have Teodosic in such a team.

Because in such a team he's not needed, and all he would do is add his huge choking factor to the team. They would be better off with any number of other point guards.

That team could still win whatever without Teodosic, so there would be no need to add the biggest choker in Europe to the team, making a possibility that he could cause another choke job.

[qrich]

You can take 5 seconds and google Toni Kukoc Toni Petrelli and find out it is true.

http://bfy.tw/7JQC

Another lie.

[Euroleague]

http://bfy.tw/7JQC

Another lie.

It literally took 5 seconds with Google for me to find a source stating that a book was even written about Kukoc that said he was Italian and his family name was originally Petrelli before they had to change it due to Yugo government laws.

[Screamin A Smit]

It literally took 5 seconds with Google for me to find a source stating that a book was even written about Kukoc that said he was Italian and his family name was originally Petrelli before they had to change it due to Yugo government laws.

can you post that link for us

[Rizko]

I literally never post. But Euroleauges claim forced me to. So i did the google search and the first three results were:

A. Euroleauges thread posted earlier where he states it without a source

B. A Wikipedia article that says nothing about it

C. A boardreader result showing a link to Euroleauges first thread referenced earlier.

http://i65.tinypic.com/15p2y9s.jpg

Now the fourth result was actually a little bit interesting. It's a foreign language website. It's some shit I can't read but according the the google translation there's a poster on that site claiming that his favorite resident of some Croatian town "split" was Toni Kukoc. This poster claims that his father was named Toni Petrelli and changed his name after WWII to remove the stigma of being associated with fascist Italy (I've highlighted the part where this poster makes the claim).

http://i64.tinypic.com/iwnho1.png

But thats it as far as evidence goes. One poster on a foreign website (that could be Euroleauge afaik) making an unsubstantiated claim that Toni Kukoc's father was actually named Petrelli. Contrary to Euroleauge previous claim, the book the thread is about has nothing to do directly with Toni Kukoc and is therefore not corroborative evidence. It's more of a general Yugoslavic basketball book. So unless one of us can get an excerpt of the book itself with Euroleauges claims clearly stated in it? Then IDK what to say.

TBH this is a step up for Euroleauge tho. I remember when he posted on his first handle. NolakasYo (NolinksYo) and this one thread he made a similar ridiculous claim, people started harassing hims with NolinksYo slams. So he does end up producing a link saying what he said, but we found out the evidence supporting it was a reference to an earlier post NolinkYo had made in another thread. So really his supporting evidence was using his own claim as the support of THERE claim lol. So at least in this case there's like a 2% chance hes not full of shit. I doubt it tho

[Screamin A Smit]

^^^^ Nice work lol