Frangala
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That’s probably the dumbest statement I’ve ever heard. 4 years is 4 years no matter how you wanna slice it. It doesn’t matter when Siakam picked up a Basketball. So you telling Siakams prime is delayed 4 years because he picked up a basketball at a later age?
And what’s makes you think OG will be better than Tatum? Tatum is a year Younger and is already better at EVERYTHING. OG is a starter playing 30 minutes per game, averaging 10 points per game, 5 Boards and under 2 assists, way under Tatum’s production with about the same playing time. Its not like he’s some back of the bench project.
No it isn't athletics and being good/skillful at a sport means you need more time dedicated to it why do you think Embiid Siakam are all offspring of NBA Africa initiatives that Luc Richard Mbah a Moute championed providing infrastructure to third world kids in countries with less infrastructure and where basketball is not number one yet (soccer is).
Contrast that to their American counterparts where there is a robust infrastructure with AAU from as soon as kids show some type of promise to summer basketball, shoe camps to traveling teams to the regular school year HS basketball. You are lying to yourself if you doubt that all this infrastructure/means available at an early age and attention being paid to young players do not have a benefit down the road.
You didn't understand for the 100th time, Siakam IS better than Tatum. Tatum IS better than OG but OG WILL be better (future tense) and won't be surprising since Raptors are the top player development franchise in the league. Raptors are a better team than Boston will go further than the always underachieving Boston team this year.
Dudes were just ready to crown Tatum as the next big thing so bad that it hasn't happened yet. Giannis and Siakam have surpassed him stats and playoff performance have supported that statement.
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