Is there any FIBA rules on the number of naturalized player/s in a National Team. I think they should limit it to 1 or none at all. This will destroy the concept of "National Team" and most naturalized players are in the Middle East Countries, no offense by the way. Remove the naturalized players and we will know the true strength of a National Team. Just my observation.
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Originally posted by dgenxIs there any FIBA rules on the number of naturalized player/s in a National Team. I think they should limit it to 1 or none at all. This will destroy the concept of "National Team" and most naturalized players are in the Middle East Countries, no offense by the way. Remove the naturalized players and we will know the true strength of a National Team. Just my observation.
It does seem to be mosty African and U.S. players though. Africans coming from poor nations that have poor basketball programs and teams. U.S. citizens that aren't good enough to make the national team (or NBA) and play overseas making (sometimes) new homes.
I do have a problem with naturalized players that have no ancestry to the nation or only live there to play for a club team.
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For the asian teams = 1 naturalized player
For quatar = btw 6 and 12 naturalized player
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i think 1 naturalized player is okay since for many teams this player can strengthen the main weakness of the team like lebanon has vogel(210) for height and jordan has rasheem wright cuz they need a go to guy and a scorer so its no big deal but i have a problem with countries that have nothing to start with so they naturalize a bunch of africans by changing their names since its illegal to naturalize more than 1 player...qatar right now has no naturalized players cuz it changed all the names of the africans they have and they are now looking for a player to naturalize.......in reality they have 12 imports but changed all their names so for fiba they have no naturalized players and are allowed to naturalize 1............
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no that was last year they had the short chubby qatari(175) who used to speak for them in after game interviews as if the world doesnt already know their africans this country is freaken stupid................but this year they removed him i guess they couldnt do it with an actualy qatari on the team , it would bring them down
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Originally posted by Czarkazem13I do have a problem with naturalized players that have no ancestry to the nation or only live there to play for a club team.
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Originally posted by alermacThe limit counts for those players, not for the ones that have ancestry or have lived in the country since they were kids. These two kinds of players have no limit, you could make a whole NT with 12 of them. (I think Ireland once built its NT with 10 Irish-Americans)
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Originally posted by Czarkazem13I didn't mean players raised in new countries. However, I thought players with ancestry but have never come to that nation until to play basketball that it WAS considered a naturalized player (in other words it counts like any other naturalized player).
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Originally posted by alermacI thought so too, but last year's Nigerian NT had 10 Nigerian-Americans that have never even been to Nigeria.
As for Nigeria that is also surprising. They have a lot of good talent, unfortunately they don't take advantage of that. There are many Nigerians in the NCAA which makes it more surprising that their national team would have many U.S. born players (though usually going through better systems).
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