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greenarcher2
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Spain destroyed Slovenia 99-79
Skill, mobility and athleticism matter more. These three can override size easily.
For a 5, I prefer an AJ Edu or Japeth-type of bigman.
For a 4, I prefer a Kelly Williams, Jamie Malonzo-type of forward.
For me, our game against the Dominican Republic is an eye opener. Size is not everything in basketball. Without superior skills and athleticism, size means nothing but a big/tall body.
For me, AJ and Japeth have an ok size for a 5. Japeth is 6'9 while AJ is 6'10. Malonzo, though undersized like Pingris, has a high motor and length which I find it to be more valuable than being just tall.
Don't forget AK too,with AJ,KAi tandem that would a good frontline two 6'11 and a 7'2 that's Euro size,I wouldn't mind them sliding AJ to 3 once in awhile.Geo should be good enough as a backup on SEA GAMES level,and some windows qualifier.
I excluded Ange because he's taking the NP slot kaya id rather have a strong/big guard in Stephen Holt or Sedrick Barefield But if there will be better candidates like a Clarkson sure
Point is, media doesn’t like teams with less NBA players because it doesn’t get clicks.
As a Liga ACB fan, go Bar
Spain destroyed Slovenia 99-79
Spain is the top fiba world ranking, and most consistent eurobasket top finishing team. It plays excellent basic spartan basketball. It obviously doesnt care who the personalities are on the other side of the floor. It takes an all-nba elite stars team to handle them well.
if the top pba players even come near the focus, abilities and size of the top 24 spanish players, we wouldnt be worrying about who will get selected in the final 12.
Spain is one of the very few teams which doesnt even need nba players to finish very consistently near the top. A us team without 6 nba all stars will be kicked around by other top ten teams.
Does the phrase "consistently good" go well together with a coachot team? Why, all his selections always come under public suspicion for lack of world-class focus, abilities and size.
Is there anything inferior in this hereunder spanish pool?
Can't help but compare.
Ateneo beat the University of Sydney by a wide margin. The University of Sydney is the current champion of the Australian University Basket League with no losses.
Gilas, on the other hand, barely won against the youth team from Ukraine, Lithuania, and Estonia.
Is the Australian University Basketball League that bad?
The game between Gilas and Ateneo was done closed doors. I wonder if Ateneo didn't want to embarrass Gilas and allowed them to win.
Did you deliberately not include Kai? Because unless I missed something, I think he should take the place of one of the fringe guards.I will stand with my 12:
C - Edu/Aguilar/Fajardo
F - Malonzo/Oftana
F - Ramos/Parks
G - Perez/Pogoy/Abando
G - Clarkson/Newsome
I will put emphasis on skills, length and athleticism over height alone.
Did you deliberately not include Kai? Because unless I missed something, I think he should take the place of one of the fringe guards.
Can't help but compare.
Ateneo beat the University of Sydney by a wide margin. The University of Sydney is the current champion of the Australian University Basket League with no losses.
Gilas, on the other hand, barely won against the youth team from Ukraine, Lithuania, and Estonia.
Is the Australian University Basketball League that bad?
The game between Gilas and Ateneo was done closed doors. I wonder if Ateneo didn't want to embarrass Gilas and allowed them to win.
I did. Barely practicing with the team and being indecisive as to whether or not he will still join Gilas with just 13 days away. I believe that excluding him from the final 12 is a better choice so as not to disrupt whatever chemistry that has been built by the team.
I really don't get our obsession to have a size at par with Europeans. Even if our players are as tall as Europeans, if the skill level and laterals are not good, then being tall has no use at all. Just superficial.
For me, I would rather look like a Mexican or a DR team because that will be more realistic than be like Spain or Serbia.
like what i said before when it comes to size we are on par with other national teams its just we lack the skills to play smaller than our size, like a 6'6" is already a center for us while other countries has 6'6" shooting guard
Well to be fair Ateneo lost to alot of teams in FilOil. Won 1 point against G. Anderson's Corsa team and close win against No FSA CSB in Filbasket. Won a small margin against U22 Japant NT that might not be as tough has the U22 of Euro teams.
But lets not give alot of importance to tune up games.