Leaving aside a nubmer of awesome jokes about greek love that you possess, and the sisyphean ordeal of trying to convince a guy who thinks Ricky Rubio is Oscar Robertson to not fawn over a player with vowels in his name...regarding this passage: 1) Skill set, I has it. Skill set is a noun, everybody has a skill set but you're using it as an adjective. Explicate. 2) In Greece's 4000 year history, they have produced exactly 4 native greeks that have gone on the nBA, none of whom ever survived in the L for more than one season - did you glean all of these observations from following the cup-of-coffee careers of Rentzias, Fotsis, Spanoulis, and Glyniadakis? Or do you have a Greek BL Barnyard Season pass and eagerly follow your heroes odyssey via shortwave radio?
You're right. They've never had a player come to the NBA and have a substantial career. But using that logic, then obviously Sabonis was not a great player. Greece keeps it's best players at home. We never see them in the NBA. It's just a matter of time before there is a Greek superstar in the NBA. Just like it was only a matter of time for Argentina.
Kudos sir. You indeed do have basketball excellent basketball knowledge. Now if I can just get you to watch Rubio consistently so that you can see the light on him. Vasileiadis has a 3 yer contract. He is in the first year of his contract. The last year of his contract is both a team and player option. So he really just has this year and next year left on his contract. As far as I know, his buyout amount is about €400,000 euros.
I'm not going to ever buy you on Rubio until I see him fail in the NBA (highly unlikely). I've seen too much of his game, especially the bigger the stage, which is the hallmark of the true superstars, what do they do on the world stage. Rubio has outperformed. I've watched many games of his where he single handedly torqued and warped the game to suit him winning. You are focusing on the wrong things when you look at his game. Look at his game in the same light that you look at Lowry. It's all the little things that he does, except he does them so great, it's all the plays he makes that makes his teammates better. Rubio is a superstar in waiting.
Hmmm....Kill Bill posts something, then someone supports it trying to get a conversation going, where none exists or should be.....and in the wrong forum. Now, where have I seen that before? DD
I wasn't supporting him. Just commenting on the player. Lest you forget, you and I were two of the biggest supporters of VSpan when he was here, because we wanted him to play over Rafer. I still think we were right on that one. I think Van Gundy screwed it up. I think Spanoulis would have helped us go much deeper in the playoffs than watching Rafer clunk all those jumpers and tear drops at the rim. It is in the wrong forum. But I've got a bad habit of mismatching forums too. Won't hold that against him. But don't understand the need to switch usernames so often. A man's opinion should be a man's opinion. He shouldn't have to change coats and become something different and reinvent himself on here. I don't know this poster as I don't know any of the posters here personally. And you can see where I disagree with him. Just as I disagree with you on the Brooks/Lowry debate. But you and I have agreed on an awful lot of basketball stuff regarding the Rox also. I'm not here to throw in with posters and support other's views simply based on who they are. I'm here to talk about the Rox and share my thoughts and feelings on them and read what others have to say and consider their ideas as well. I'm just a Rox and bball junkie. No other motive.
I've watched him there aplenty. They are wack on their rotations over there. And they have their own little system. Won't change my opinion on him. Looking at his stats won't change my opinion. I done seen him play against Chris Paul and Kobe. I know he can play.
Arvydas Sabonis played in 7 seasons in the NBA, that's about twice as many as all Greek players...combined. Tiny Lithuania has placed 8 guys in the NBA, including all stars like Ilguaskas and other standout players like Marciulonis, starters like Kleiza...etc etc....Greece? Not so much. Their four flops are as good as it gets But anyway, great comparison..... But yeah, sure Greece keeps its best players at home, in the barn, next to the baling equipment. And there are superstars in waiting there too...the future is bright, because if there's any country in Europe where the future is bright, it's Greece! Seriously though, why don't you answer my question though - how do you manage to keep tabs on Greek basketball and all these great players, since they don't play here? It's your barnyard, superscout....tell me how you divine their greatness. Does it have anything to do with Phrenology?
Then you would know that he has one good game and then 5 to 6 bad ones and then the cycle repeats and that he has done this now for 4 years in a row.
This guy looks like he has better body control that Budinger, which is a really under rated attribute in the NBA, but other than that I don't think he's better than bud at anything. Of course that's judging from this highlight reel.
Hmm I started suspecting that he was a troll when his response to someone saying Rubio has potential to be a star was something along the lines of "No, shut up you don't know what you are saying."
Is he actually from Europe and gets to watch the European games? Or is he making all that stuff up from Houston?
I think he is either in Houston or Arkansas....I can't recall which....but he used to pretend he had a fake greek accent too..... DD
But he is not the same guy as the "T-Mac is not a point forward" guy, right? Similarly obsessive traits...
