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International Player Rankings in 3 years

Discussion in 'NBA Draft' started by Jauquinsux, May 23, 2003.

  1. Jauquinsux

    Jauquinsux Member

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    We all know that taking a foreign player is a big risk by any team. Teams were lucky to have Dirk, Peja and Pau turn out better than alright. How would yall rank these players' improvement over the next 3 seasons?

    Nicoloz Tskitishvili, Bostjan Nachbar, Nene Hilario, Darko Milicic, Marko Jaric?
     
  2. Hobbs

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    Milicic, Nene, Skita, Nachbar, Jaric

    There's gonna be a ton of other foreigners that step up too. Mehmet Okur will be real good. Lampe should be real good. Tiago Splitter should be up there by then. And on and on. There's a lot of people playing basketball in a lot of places.
     
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    I believe that nene will be a very good player in the years to come. I believe in him! Also, Marko Jaric is a player I believe can do some damage. He have played many years in europe and Jaric is pretty strong. He also got the height. There's only two centimetres difference between Elton Brand and Jaric... When it comes to Darko Milicic, I haven't seen him play but I don't think he will do much in the NBA in the next 3 seasons. He's still very young (born in 85). Tskitishvili is also a very young player (born in 83), but I believe he can improve and become a pretty good player in the next 3 years. For Nachbar, I really don't know how good he will be. This year he played 5 mpg for houston, and it was strange to see Nacbar going from being a very good player in Euroleague to that kind of player in the NBA. That says something about the difference between Euroleague and the NBA...
     
  4. Sir Geving

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    Well 5mpg in the games he actually was allowed to play in.......
    He only played in about 15 games.....
    But you are right. I saw him play in Euroleauge too, and I believed that Nachbar could make an impact for Houston right away.... But I hope and think that he will play better, and more next season. Maybe the new coach will give him more minutes.
    I also believe that Milicic will struggle at first, but I believe that he has a special talent. So I believe that he will shock a lot of people right away. I think he will be pretty good after 2 seasons...
    Nene and Jaric has already proven too be good enough, so a comment for their future is unnecessery.
    I don't got such a good feeling about skeeta. I don't think he will be anything special. I don't believe that he can be better than an average starter. Nothing special.
     
  5. Newgirl

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    International??? What about Yao Ming? :D

    As for Euros, I too like Nene and Darko. I actually think Nene is not far off Amare who got way more press. Nene's just as athletic and with quicker hands and better passing ability. He's gonna be great.
     
  6. The Jet

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    Nene is from Brazil, which would make him a south american , not a euro

    get your geography straight!!!!!!! :)
     

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