Kobe says European players more skilled than Americans, blames AAU

[QUOTE=julizaver]the same as Brazilians are better suited for football (soccer). [/QUOTE]

stopped reading there.

Brazil's success in soccer is cultural, not metabolical.

[QUOTE=SpanishACB]stopped reading there.

Brazil's success in soccer is cultural, not metabolical.[/QUOTE]

It is cultural - of course.

[QUOTE=JtotheIzzo]Why do most European teams start a black American who was cut from the NBA at center then?[/QUOTE]


More about publicity and marketing. Very little to do with performance.

[QUOTE=Sharmer]More about publicity and marketing. Very little to do with performance.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, because they would rather lose and overpay than win with local talent.:rolleyes:

The issue with AAU is its all about marketing young black players with minimal skills and forcing every negative stereotypes on young white players and not providing them with similar exposure. White Europeans don't have to deal with the reverse racism and thats why they are more successful in the NBA than white Americans.

[quote=Jtothezoo]Why do most European teams start a black American who was cut from the NBA at center then?[/quote]

[QUOTE=Sharmer]More about publicity and marketing. Very little to do with performance.[/QUOTE]

What?

you quote someone talking out of his ass to reply to him from your own ass.

Where are you guys getting this information from? I'm legitemely concerned...

First of all, European teams employing American centers is a myth that guy made up and I'm clueless were he got it from.

There's 32 teams in the Euroleague and only 3 or 4 so teams have USA Centers and not all of those start them. Pana, Berlin, Kazan (has a bunch of americans) and probably someone else...

They do have American guards though and some forwards. Good defenders, good shooters. Just like almost all relevant NBA teams have key foreign players...

Were you talking about national leagues? Please englighten me

[QUOTE=masonanddixon]The issue with AAU is its all about marketing young black players with minimal skills and forcing every negative stereotypes on young white players and not providing them with similar exposure. White Europeans don't have to deal with the reverse racism and thats why they are more successful in the NBA than white Americans.[/QUOTE]


Interesting username to go along with this post.

[QUOTE=sportjames23]Interesting username to go along with this post.[/QUOTE]

How so?

[QUOTE=Rooster]I agree with Kobe for the most part except we developed guards here better than anywhere. Generally, Euros are much better skilled but they are very unathletic and soft.[/QUOTE]

You are Australian.

[QUOTE=Nash]who cares, at that point he was already a pro. Kobe talking about the AAU years and at that time Manu was back in South America.[/QUOTE]

Almost every single player and coach in the history of Argentina's national team is Italian. And they took their entire basketball knowledge from Italy's basketball program.

Stop being such a freaking moron.

[QUOTE=SpanishACB]What?

you quote someone talking out of his ass to reply to him from your own ass.

Where are you guys getting this information from? I'm legitemely concerned...

First of all, European teams employing American centers is a myth that guy made up and I'm clueless were he got it from.

[B]There's 32 teams in the Euroleague[/B] and only 3 or 4 so teams have USA Centers and not all of those start them. Pana, Berlin, Kazan (has a bunch of americans) and probably someone else...

They do have American guards though and some forwards. Good defenders, good shooters. Just like almost all relevant NBA teams have key foreign players...

Were you talking about national leagues? Please englighten me[/QUOTE]

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Also, as has been said about 1,000 times here in this forum, there is no such thing as "starters" concept in Euroleague. Anyone that mentions that is an automatic TROLL.

[QUOTE=SpanishACB]What?

you quote someone talking out of his ass to reply to him from your own ass.

Where are you guys getting this information from? I'm legitemely concerned...

First of all, European teams employing American centers is a myth that guy made up and I'm clueless were he got it from.

There's 32 teams in the Euroleague and only 3 or 4 so teams have USA Centers and not all of those start them. Pana, Berlin, Kazan (has a bunch of americans) and probably someone else...

They do have American guards though and some forwards. Good defenders, good shooters. Just like almost all relevant NBA teams have key foreign players...

Were you talking about national leagues? Please englighten me[/QUOTE]

Maybe not Center but there are more American named Euroleague MVP, Final Four MVP, All Euroleague First and 2nd Team than any nation in Europe. Some of them are corpses and obscure players. McAdoo, Galis, Clifford Luyk
Wayne Brabender etc.:roll: :roll:

[QUOTE=JohnMax][img]http://i.imgur.com/rBcEXie.png[/img]

[img]http://i.imgur.com/gzkPLmw.png[/img]

[url]https://twitter.com/DraftExpress/status/551429058014494721[/url]
[url]https://twitter.com/DraftExpress/status/551429447736635395[/url][/QUOTE]

Pretty much this.

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[QUOTE=TheBigVeto]Pretty much this.

:applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause:[/QUOTE]

That's out of context. When Kobe was a kid in Italy learning the game there, that was EXACTLY how they played the game.

The way Kobe plays, is EXACTLY 100% how they played in Italy.

So, Givony is taking that out of context.

[QUOTE=JtotheIzzo]Yeah, because they would rather lose and overpay than win with local talent.:rolleyes:[/QUOTE]
That is actually true.

Most Euroleague teams look for talent in d-league or they try to buy small time nba players, because they're cheaper than local talent who can produce at the same level, much cheaper