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[QUOTE=fandarko]You clearly don't have a clue, any debate is pointless.
Like I said, it's a completely different game.
You should ask any US player who plays there how hard it is to score the ball.
How complicated it is to get minutes.
A child would say "Harden would average 30 there".
But Harden wouldn't play more than 27-28 minutes in a top Euroleague team.
He would have to play defense.
He wouldn't get nearly as many touches.
He would have to rely more on his outside scoring, forget about driving to the basket as much as he does.
Forget about having the green light to shoot it every time you want.
It's team first.
Granted, the top 20-40 players would be equally successful (thought their numbers would probably be slightly down).
But for everybody else - it would be a complicated process to adjust, if ever.
[B]Because IT'S A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT GAME.[/B][/QUOTE]
One where people who can't make it in the NBA go to become superstars
[QUOTE=fandarko]Let's be real, Spanoulis is past his prime.
He brought his A game in the last quarter alone and it was enough to decide the winner.
The way Euroleague basketball is played is that you simply can't have dominant scorers. It's soo different than the NBA.
The rotations are tighter, star players don't have nearly as much freedom as in the NBA. It's awfully difficult to score.
It's not only the physicality and the rules, it's the fact that you don't have the requisite number of touches or the freedom to create and try.
I honestly think Kentucky or Duke wouldn't score more than 30 points in such a setting. With the defensive intensity these two teams played tonight, they would beat the top NCAA teams by 50.
It's like comparing oranges to apples.[/QUOTE]
yeah NBA stars had so much trouble under these international rules they only scored 129 points in that final against Serbia.129 points,in 40 minutes..let that sink in..
[QUOTE=Jon_Koncak]yeah NBA stars had so much trouble under these international rules they only scored 129 points in that final against Serbia.129 points,in 40 minutes..let that sink in..[/QUOTE]
First of all, you know very well that Serbia's team from last year did not have much in the way of Euroleague players.
Second, you also know that Team USA plays by NBA rules. That the refs call them under NBA rules, as has been done ever since the 2008 Olympics.
Team USA does not play under "FIBA rules" other than having a 10 minute quarter or the court dimensions. Those are basically meaningless, when they are allowed to play all the important rules (ball handling, defense rules, foul rules) under NBA rules.
I get it when NBA only fans say this kind of nonsense trolling. But when you say it, it's a bit ridiculous. There is no reason at all for you to even bring it up, or for you to be trolling like that. Never mind the fact that it has absolutely nothing at all to with the Euroleague or the NBA.
Especially since there isn't a single NBA team that could stay within 30 points of any Team USA selection. Yet, somehow these stupid comments come out like that means something, when Team USA would annihilate every NBA team. And with the addition that non USA teams from the FIBA World Cup were basically other than Spain or France, a lot weaker than a good Euroleague team. Serbia that you mention, of 2014, would be crushed by any of these 4 teams in Euroleague final four.
It's one thing this kind of ludicrous nonsense trolling from NBA only fans, but it's another thing coming from you, when you follow European basketball.
[QUOTE=dannywpt]:roll:
You really didn't think this through, did you. If a 3ppg NBA bench warmer is the MJ of Euroleague [I]at minimum[/I], what does that say about the level of competition over there? Your arguments have as many holes as swiss cheese.[/QUOTE]
Can we have a response, Euroleague?
[QUOTE=T_L_P]Can we have a response, Euroleague?[/QUOTE]
No. Because he is trolling. I have already explained many times here why Spanoulis did not get playing time in Houston. And anyone that has any basketball knowledge knows he can play in the NBA.
He's trolling. I'm not answering ridiculous trolls like that, because they are trying to derail the thread. If you are trying to also, then I will ignore you as well.
The Euroleague GOAT is one of the WOAT in the NBA. Case closed, Euroleague is like a poor man's NCAA at best.
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Ginobili and Rubio are Spanoulis stans :lol
Maybe there is something there after all...