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if it is.. is it not very common right now?i saw something about a guy from another team being an NBA player..but i wonder if scouts have their eyes on cheap foreign imports
To be honest, you got all these blacks from urban areas that grew up playing ball, and they're just better and more athletic than hardly anybody else in the world. A lot of these guys haven't done a damn thing BUT play Basketball since they were 5, and they're just flat out better than someone who hasn't practiced for hours, for nearly 15 years, you know? So not only are there not TONS of foriegn players, there aren't tons of white players, either, because they typically aren't from an urban area, and the black players that are have much more skill @ playing. Baseball's pretty incredibly diverse, there's a lot of south american and latin players, similar reasons, they play a lot of ball down there as kids and end up just better than anybody else because they've played so much.Practice Practice Practice
but one on one... still no one can beat a United States player.
A lot of it has to due where you grew up too. A white kid growing up in an urban area is goin try an play the ball a black kid in the park is playing. I think a lot of it has to do where you grow up 2.
Player (Team) CountryTariq Abdul-Wahad, Dallas FranceRobert Archibald, Toronto ScotlandCarlos Arroyo, Utah Puerto RicoLeandro Barbosa, Phoenix BrazilRaja Bell, Utah U.S. Virgin IslandsRuben Boumtje Boumtje, Cleveland CameroonPrimoz Brezec, Indiana SloveniaZarko Cabarkapa, Phoenix Serbia and MontenegroSamuel Dalembert, Philadelphia HaitiBoris Diaw, Atlanta FranceDeSagana Diop, Cleveland SenegalVlade Divac, Sacramento Serbia and MontenegroPredrag Drobnjak, L.A. Clippers Serbia and MontenegroTim Duncan, San Antonio U.S. Virgin IslandsNdudi Ebi (1), Minnesota EnglandObinna Ekezie, Atlanta NigeriaFrancisco Elson, Denver NetherlandsRick Fox (2), L.A. Lakers CanadaAdonal Foyle, Golden State St. Vincent and the GrenadinesDan Gadzuric, Milwaukee NetherlandsAlex Garcia, San Antonio BrazilPau Gasol, Memphis SpainEmanuel Ginobili, San Antonio ArgentinaGordan Giricek, Utah CroatiaZydrunas Ilgauskas, Cleveland LithuaniaMarko Jaric, L.A. Clippers Serbia and MontenegroAndrei Kirilenko, Utah RussiaToni Kukoc, Milwaukee CroatiaMaciej Lampe, Phoenix PolandRaul Lopez, Utah SpainTodd MacCulloch, Philadelphia CanadaJamaal Magloire, New Orleans CanadaSean Marks, San Antonio New ZealandStanislav Medvedenko, L.A. Lakers UkraineDarko Milicic, Detroit Serbia and MontenegroJerome Moiso, Toronto FranceDikembe Mutombo, New York CongoBostjan Nachbar, Houston SloveniaEduardo Najera, Dallas MexicoSteve Nash, Dallas CanadaMamadou N'diaye, Atlanta SenegalNenę, Denver BrazilRasho Nesterovic, San Antonio SloveniaDirk Nowitzki, Dallas GermanyMehmet Okur, Detroit TurkeyMichael Olowokandi (3), Minnesota NigeriaZaza Pachulia, Orlando GeorgiaMilt Palacio, Toronto BelizeTony Parker (4), San Antonio FranceAleksandar Pavlovic, Utah Serbia and MontenegroMickael Pietrus, Golden State FranceZoran Planinic (5), New Jersey CroatiaVitaly Potapenko, Seattle UkraineVladimir Radmanovic (6), Seattle Serbia and MontenegroZeljko Rebraca, Atlanta Serbia and MontenegroDaniel Santiago, Milwaukee Puerto RicoDarius Songaila, Sacramento LithuaniaJon Stefansson, Dallas IcelandVladimir Stepania, Portland GeorgiaPeja Stojakovic, Sacramento Serbia and MontenegroCezary Trybanski, New York PolandJake Tsakalidis, Memphis GreeceNikoloz Tskitishvili, Denver GeorgiaHedo Turkoglu, San Antonio TurkeyWang Zhizhi, Miami ChinaJiri Welsch, Boston Czech RepublicYao Ming, Houston China
^exactly.sorry to say that, but most black americans play to look good and whites (especially Europeans) look to play good. you know? it's like they go for the hard dunk when the other ones rather go for the secure lay-up, stuff like this.
Quote from: Tom Gotti on August 29, 2004, 04:29:25 PMA lot of it has to due where you grew up too. A white kid growing up in an urban area is goin try an play the ball a black kid in the park is playing. I think a lot of it has to do where you grow up 2.Yeah, obviously. But in Europe people start playing bball in a gym, 3 times a week, with minibasket and shit. No playground, but REGULAR basketball. In the States, most of the people start playing bball in the street, close to their home, or at the school, where there's a rim on the wall, and they can shoot or play 1 on 1, or 3 on 3. 3 on 3 KILLS basketball. When you raise up playing 3 on 3, you cant play 5 on 5 no more!! Cause playing 3 on 3 means you have to outscore your opponent, going always 1 on 1 or playing only with your body. You aint double-teamed. Opponents cant play zone defence. They cant make pick n rolls or schemes. 3 on 3 it's just who has more skills wins. That's totally a different concept. In Europe you raise up in a gym with a team. And you only play 5 on 5. It's a team! Team concept.Then americans move to the playgrounds. Then they go to school (college-Uni) and they start to play bball in a team for the first time there.I started playing in a real team, in a gym and everything when i was 5. FIVE. I grew up in a gym, playing schemes till i was 9 years old, using pick n roll's till i was 12, playing zone pressure since i was 14. When i was 18, i was totally mature as a player, knowing the game, all the schemes, how to defend on zone, how to make lay-ups with the left hand and not being blocked, how to use a pick n roll, how to shoot from 3pts, how to make a FT (Italy had the best percentace from FT and 3pts in the Olympic tournment), etc.Feel me? At 18 i was a PERFECT player.Only difference between me as a 18 years old player and a 18 years old black guy is that the black guy plays OVER the rim and i play UNDER the rim. I dunk, but i've never dunked in an official game. Why? Cause a lay-up is safer. And if i miss a dunk, my coach forces me to sit on the bench for 3 games! You know what i mean? That's the difference! People in the States starts to play in a gym, in a team and with a real coach when they 17-18. When i'm 17-18, i can teach basketball.
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