They still want Joey, badly, as they are still looking for a C. Howard is a decent sign, but he is charmin and incredibly slow, yet intelligent. Rumor has it that Dorsey would quite literally rather try and play football then go to Europe...
Your trolling is very weak. They had one roster spot open for an American player under league rules. The first choice was Howard, the second choice was Dorsey. They signed the first choice, as he accepted their offer. They cannot "still want Dorsey" because they could only sign 1 American player. Try to improve your troll attempt next time.
Oh lord I know better than to engage the troll, but in this case I cant help myself. PLease forgive me forum gods. :grin:
"Olympiacos BC is looking at a lot of American guards and forwards, including Marcus Thornton of the Sacramento Kings. The Reds are searching for players in the U.S. to fill the three places they have in their roster for foreign players" http://www.gazzetta.gr/article/item/212396-koitaei-markous-thordon So they can only sign one from America? Interesting...
Their first option for their 3rd string power forward. He was signed as their 3rd string power forward. In fact, he probably would have been a 2nd string in the NBA.
They can sign 3. Sop please tell me where Olympiacos players Kyle Hines and Kalin Lucas are from? Kalin Lucas Kyle Hines Matt Howard Looks like 3 American players to me. Howard was their first choice, Dorsey their second. They signed Howard and cannot sign Dorsey as they already have 3 Americans on the roster now. Meaning they have absolutely no reason to sign Dorsey, since under Greek league rules they can only have 3 Americans on the roster.
Not just any European team, but European team in screwed-up impoverished crooked country generally known as the Afghanistan of Europe.
Over and over, US sports media makes up and fabricates these stories that the players in Europe "don't get paid". They even make up fake interviews. Several times they reported Childress and Jennings never got paid and even made up fake quotes from them. To which, both players stated officially in the press the stories were lies and they never said any such thing. But gullible and easily manipulated people like you will apparently believe anything that you read - even from US media, which lied about the WMD in Iraq and have zero credibility anywhere on the planet, outside the USA. Josh Childress himself, states that he got every cent paid by his team, he flew in chartered flights, and stayed at the best hotels. Basically tears to shreds every single myth and made up lie that US sports media makes up about the Euroleague, in order to make it look bad. Because they get paid by the NBA to do so. But, any sports writer writes something saying otherwise, and people like you believe it. I have personally explained to you, probably 15-20 times, that there is an independent tribunal body of FIBA that handles the payments of players in Europe. And that if a team does not pay its players, they are banned. Over and over, I have explained this to you, and that the US sports media is lying about these players not getting paid. This body governs the issues in Switzerland, and the players have it written right into their contracts. US sports media claimed numerous times that Josh Childress did not get paid in Greece, but it is not true. It's almost never true in any of the cases where they make up this nonsense. Do you actually believe that the players in Europe simply play for free? Or are you even able to comprehend how absurd that notion is? VIDEO PROOF -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAUDSIpZ0pM Josh Childress was paid ALL money, he stayed at the best hotels, he flew on chartered flights. There is an independent governing body that oversees the contracts in Switzerland that has a tribunal for such issues. It is written into the player's contracts and they get paid their money. OHMSS
The difference between the Euro League and the NBA is roughly equivalent to the difference between MLS and Premier League. There are 1 or maybe 2 players on a team that would play in the NBA or Premier League... but nothing more. Still high quality product, but clearly below the best.
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The "Euro League" is the women's competition. The men's competition is called the Euroleague. The Premiere League is considered the 3rd best soccer league in the world. THIRD best in the world. The MLS is considered to be somewhere around the 30th to 50th best. The NBA and Euroleague are considered to be #1 and #2 universally. So your comparison is extremely flawed, incorrect, and is absolutely nothing short of ridiculous. The NBA would actually be the Champions League and the Euroleague would be La Liga. Of course, you would have to actually know something about both basketball and soccer to actually know this.
That proves that some time ago it wasn't a ****ty country. They have nothing to do with the people that invented democracy or anything else (though they claim they have). It's like saying that we hungarians are the descendants of Attila the Hun (BS), or that italians have anything in common with ancient roman culture. Well we all live at the same place those cultures existed but that's nothing to be proud of and it shouldn't be a foundation to why Greece is more european than say Poland. They got into the EMU by forging their economic indicators and even then they weren't eligible (but come on, they invented democracy, they are by definition European!). Now they are a crap country feeding on EU funds all the way. 6% of their GDP is from EU funds, that's an insanely huge number. Even right now they are cheating on some numbers to get even more funds. They don't even care to print their official documents with the latin alphabet, they cling to their adapted greek alphabet like actually something depended on it. (I'm not against them using their alphabet, it's just they don't even try to make it easier to deal with them, because Greece is Europe Supreme.) So all in all, Greece sucks. They are just like Turkey, the difference is that Turkey doesn't want to look like the cradle of everything that is good.
I don't. FIBA basketball is completely different. Games are not called the same way, the pace is much slower and there is a lot of grinding. Players are less athletic and defense is more about teamwork than anything else. The NBA is a better league, but you have to take a lot of things into account. Basketball is a less important sport in Europe (it is important, but not THAT important), there are alternatives that are not that popular in the US: handball, waterpolo, soccer, rugby. Countries and markets are much smaller and some of the bigger european teams are secondary to the soccer activity in the same club like RM and Barcelona (and yes, Olympiakos or Besiktas, or Fenerbahce). All in all, FIBA is a different league. I'd say MLS is not a good analogue because the PL, La Liga, Bundesliga, Serie A and arguably the Russian PL is more important than MLS and the MLS market is quite separated from the European one. A better and more trivial analogue should be what the US is to Europe: Europe is way different and a bit (but not very far) behind. Europe is more diverse and the best talent always somehow land in the US.
