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The issue, imo, is that most of our players are "cannibalized" by the NBA (and i don't think it's limited to our country, countries without real basketball tradition suffer the same - cf germany, belgium vs m'benga or even parker for being born in belgium etc). They think nba, they eat NBA, they sleep NBA (to a certain extent ofc ^^)
Most of our best players do play there and the medias in france have an easy access to the report material (videos, itw's etc) they need to cover an event or any article/subject. Cherry on the cake, when you have your leader who is married with a famous actress or when a potential center is the son of the most appreciated french guy, you can easily draw the consequences...
We badly need much more players with some responsabilities in some of the best european teams & championship to change this kind of attitude and it will take some time for sure. But we have some prospect that might end up sooner or later in those european powerhouses. Something that will help lowering the lack of knowledge of the european players of many of our players. Something that will also contribute to our level of play and to improve our "elite pool"
I don't think i am far when i think that many times when our nba players speak with their teammates or american medias, they tend to consider that france, considering their number of players in the nba, is by definition a major powerhouse in european basketball. Ofc that's biased, but our players are young and not necessary well aware of the level of european competitions (see above)
Most of our best players do play there and the medias in france have an easy access to the report material (videos, itw's etc) they need to cover an event or any article/subject. Cherry on the cake, when you have your leader who is married with a famous actress or when a potential center is the son of the most appreciated french guy, you can easily draw the consequences...
We badly need much more players with some responsabilities in some of the best european teams & championship to change this kind of attitude and it will take some time for sure. But we have some prospect that might end up sooner or later in those european powerhouses. Something that will help lowering the lack of knowledge of the european players of many of our players. Something that will also contribute to our level of play and to improve our "elite pool"
I don't think i am far when i think that many times when our nba players speak with their teammates or american medias, they tend to consider that france, considering their number of players in the nba, is by definition a major powerhouse in european basketball. Ofc that's biased, but our players are young and not necessary well aware of the level of european competitions (see above)
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