What would you do to change/fix American Basketball?

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10bandz said:
That's because the foreign stars are all from different countries. At the end of the day the US still has to biggest talent pool, this country has more people those smaller countries.

But if you had it where it was USA vs World, or even USA v Europe, it would get spooky. Because right now you got Giannis, Luka, Joker, playing with scrubs internationally for countries much smaller than the USA. Now what if they were all on the same team?
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If you Avenger'd teamed up vs the US. Ofc it would be a closer game

Spooky is a silly way of framing your position
 
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VegetasHairline said:
Luka wasn't even in the NBA when Kobe made those comments.
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Exactly. Jokic and Giannis were just getting started as well. So clearly these feelings about AAU ball vs international development predates when foreign players started racking up MVPs. Kobe and others at the time basically saw all of this coming.
 
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10bandz said:
Exactly. Jokic and Giannis were just getting started as well. So clearly these feelings about AAU ball vs international development predates when foreign players started racking up MVPs. Kobe and others at the time basically saw all of this coming.
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There's no staying power in the NBA with white foreign players

So why are their development practices so lauded?
 
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In The Zone '98 said:
If you Avenger'd teamed up vs the US. Ofc it would be a closer game

Spooky is a silly way of framing your position
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Avenger teaming up is a country of 300M people playing countries of 10 million (Greece), 6.6 M (Serbia), and 2.2M (Slovenia). Obviously thats the structure of the Olympics, but it doesn't mean much for y'all to say oh the USA always win the Olympics. Well duh, we're 4-10x bigger than all of our opponents. France only has 66M people. Spain, 48M

if you set up a Ryder Cup style competition with the USA vs Europe things would be much closer.
 
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10bandz said:
Avenger teaming up is a country of 300M people playing countries of 10 million (Greece), 6.6 M (Serbia), and 2.2M (Slovenia). Obviously thats the structure of the Olympics, but it doesn't mean much for y'all to say oh the USA always win the Olympics. Well duh, we're 4-10x bigger than all of our opponents. France only has 66M people. Spain, 48M
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So when they win competitions it should be referred to as luck and not changing of the guard, correct?
 
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Maybe actually play American basketball rather than trying to be more like the rest of the world. Stop making every player have to be a shooter. Eliminate the zone and make it a fair, varied fight. You gonna be on the floor you better be able to guard your man.

The AAU shyt is disgusting. Truly sad what it has become. NBA may have to intervene, as this is affecting them and their bottom line with these dudes coming in with all these miles and suffering all these wear and tear injuries in their 20s.
 
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Every player from every other country is trying to make it to the US to play "american basketball" but people think it needs to be fixed :pachaha:
 
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