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TurkfromGermany2
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Who is the star right now? Nobody. No player carry this team on his own. You are already proving my point. In the past, we at least had one player that is labelled as the leader of the team. Okur, Erdenay, Kutluay, Türkcan, Aşık or like or not Türkoğlu were all leaders and arguably stars in basketball world. We got one Eurobasket silver and one WC silver with the leadership of these players. Can you dream of a medal right now with freaking Osman and Korkmaz taking the helms when the things matter on the court? What is worse than having no star in your roster is that having average players who show off themselves as star players as Osman and Korkmaz does.
The thing is that we have never had a lot of quality players in our talent pool, but we had enough number of them to get 2 medals in a decade. Now, we have none. We will never have another one unless we keep up with the changing basketball concepts.
Your opinion is that turkish bb doesn´t produce enough quality too receive a better level. I´m not happy with the produced prospects, with producing role players etc. but even with this level of prospects turkish bb would reach the level among top 5-6 in Europe if those players would get real chance in their teams. I don´t know why turkish people bashing so hardly against Furkan Korkmaz´ NT performance. Can you show me 1 turkish player with good NT career? No you can´t because there isn´t 1. Even this Furkan Korkmaz showed in all his tournaments at least decent performance and if he had the character too lead a team then he would even show much more.
In cases of Onuralp and Sadik we can see what happens if you get a real chance. You said that from 98-06 generations there are 3 difference makers with Adem Bona, Demir Dogan, Hamza Mestoglu(big fan of him but do you know that this kid is just 200 as PF?). Did you missed just the name of Alperen Sengün or do you no believe that he will be difference maker for turkish NT?