I agree with most of this, even Rick admitted that he maid a mistake with Drazen yesterday. Yes, Adelman isnt a fan fav of rookies but what maid the case that much worse was that Drazen was the best European player. He was used to dropping 30,40,50 on a regular basis, but was only getting 15min a game which he didnt like. Much like the Rudy F situation. Hes used to being the man and was only getting a limited role in Portland.
I highly doubt that. The Pistons and the Bulls were just that good and I don't see Petro being much of a difference maker with the wings on those teams (Zeke/Dumars/Rodman, MJ/Pip). Like Ainge, he couldn't check any of those guys.* As far as the HOF goes, he got in for his international contributions and if he lived I guess that would have happened as well. Players like Rice and Richmond are borderline HOF guys and while Petro was good he wasn't better than those two, or some other wings that may not make it.*
I'm sure Drazen would have gotten more minutes if he had informed Adelman that he was the Clyde Drexler of Yugoslavia.
That was the best thing that happened to Drazen, he had pent up anger and he was even more determined to prove everyone wrong because of his Portland experience. Then when he got his chance with the Nets, he became a star. What was Rick going to do? bench Porter and Drexler? no way
Maybe it was predictable and Hollywood, but I sobbed pretty hard during the last scene. So damn hard to watch for anyone who has ever lost a person they loved and wished they could talk to them one more time.
That assessment obviously came from someone who wasn't around to see Petrovic play in the NBA. Some people are making him out to be a basketball saint because he died young, and those same people will get sensitive about the accusation, but it's true. Petrovic was NOTHING in Portland, Ainge was a much more seasoned piece to a championship drive, not some Euro rookie. To say that Adelman should've stuck Petro in favor of Ainge is obviously tripe from someone whose entire stock of knowledge about his game came from this BSPN show. Petrovic was not even the best player on the Nets! Petrovic never scored 40 on Jordan as the program claimed, either (as if Jordan could be dominated by a Euro 1:1...please). He wasn't a top 10 player in the NBA. He wasn't even a marquee name until about 92. There's some revisionist history going on here because some people WANT to remember him as being a bit better than he was in the NBA. I'm not against Petro and I don't dispute that he became a good player w/ NJ and was probably a great player in Yugoslavia, but any assessment of his game from someone who wasn't an NBA fan in the early 90s ain't worth shht.
I thought this 30 for 30 was really good. Emotional to say the least. Shame a friendship was ruined over something that could have really meant nothing.
I'm Bosnian Muslim and **** them Serbian barbarians! Btw, Yugoslavia was one of the greatest basket-ball country ever.
true. look at the players like kleiza and jc navarro. they're both outstanding players when you watch them over seas or in international tournaments, but for some reason were never as dominant in the NBA.
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I think you probably missed the point of the documentary. the 'program' didn't say he dropped 40 on Jordan, that was Kenny Anderson's recollection.
