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The Truth #6
10-12-2010, 07:03 PM
30 for 30 documentary airing now on ESPN about the Yugoslavian "dream team"...possible Zarko references (for Spurs fans from Robinson's rookie year.)
Latarian Milton
10-12-2010, 07:11 PM
an all-Yugoslavian soccer team would look more prodigious imho. had they stayed united Yugoslavians would have been a challenger in both basketball and football areas against the spanish teams tbh.
MaNu4Tres
10-12-2010, 08:24 PM
One of the best documentary's ESPN's 30 for 30 has had to offer.

:tu
sa_kid20
10-12-2010, 08:26 PM
I DVR'd it so I'll check it out later tonight for sure.
lil_penny
10-12-2010, 08:39 PM
One of the best documentary's ESPN's 30 for 30 has had to offer.

:tu

x2

such a shame drazen was taken away so early.. didnt know the whole story between him and vlade till now
Texas_Ranger
10-12-2010, 08:44 PM
That was great.
The Truth #6
10-13-2010, 05:45 PM
Now that I think about it...in the 1990 Western Conference Semifinals the Spurs played Portland...so Zarko (Serbian) would have played against his Yugoslavian teammate Drazen (Croatian)...not that either of them played much...

Anyway, big picture - that was a really good documentary. Vlade was a very sympathetic narrator and the brief interviews with Toni Kukoc made me appreciate him more as well.
Bukefal
10-14-2010, 09:41 AM
This documentary was beautiful, emotional. Especially if you are from the region. One of the best of 30 for 30.

Dražen was a great in all of the Yugoslav republics and he still is. A legend. Already so many years have passed since he died, he still is popular. With the old and with the kids. A great one has gone.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1010/1232723032_96928a4f24.jpg
http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/profile-ak-snc1/object3/1429/2/n26241887043_733.jpg
thispego
10-14-2010, 09:45 AM
They going to show this again? Sounds good
Bukefal
10-14-2010, 09:49 AM
A must see!
They'll air it again on these dates;

Thursday Oct 14 11pm ESPN Classic
Wednesday Oct 20 9:30pm ESPN
Sunday Oct 31 9pm ESPN Classic

http://30for30.espn.com/film/once-brothers.html
DrSteffo
10-14-2010, 10:48 AM
:toast It's obvious the deepest euru bball culture and talent is in the Yugo-area. Talent/population wise is very easy too = Lithuania. The best of all time pretty easy too (he was from Greece).
SenorSpur
10-14-2010, 11:10 AM
That was one of the absolute best documentaries in the entire series.

It's a damn shame that Vlade and Petro's friendship became a casualty of political consequence. The fact that they never got the chance to mend that friendship is about half as tragic as the untimely death of Petro.
ALVAREZ6
10-14-2010, 12:04 PM
I wish I caught it...hopefully I'll be able to see it on one of the coming air dates. Looks awesome.
Strange Botwin
10-20-2010, 08:35 AM
Zarko looked trimmer than I thought he would be. I guess Pizza Hut's Personal Pan Pizzas didn't go Serbside.

Either that or Z's still smokes a carton of Salems daily.
velik_m
10-20-2010, 09:38 AM
The best of all time pretty easy too (he was from Greece).

Rasho isn't from Greece, he just has greek citizenship. :downspin:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_National_Basketball_Association_players_by _country
ALVAREZ6
10-20-2010, 08:33 PM
BUMP!


This just started on ESPN, tune in.
ALVAREZ6
10-20-2010, 09:43 PM
Drazen should have boarded that plane...


In all seriousness though as good as he was, his personality was weird. He was perpetually butthurt with Vlade doing a courageous act with the Croatian flag incident, he was butthurt over not playing much in his first season in the NBA at Portland...just always butthurt all the time. To get pissed forever at Vlade over nothing and end a strong friendship like that...pretty damn pathetic.

I praise him as a player but I have a feeling I wouldn't get along with him, because I don't get along with butthurt pussies.
alamo50
10-21-2010, 07:24 AM
Just by coincedence (doesn't excist in my opinion) I zapped to this documentary waiting for the Ajax champions league game. I only watched the last 30 minutes of that Ajax game.

I was touched by the documentary and actualy felt stupid not knowing more about Divac' and Petrovic' (broken) relationship in the time I was just introduced to the NBA.

I'll never forget that moment in the offseason that I was at home and heard on the radio that Petrovic was killed in an automobile accident on the German Autobahn.............