KBP is cursing at you from Houston.
Bonner is an NBA player.
Comparing a player from the Dleague of European basketball to any NBA player is a compliment. I probably overestimated the potential impact Bourousis could ever have in the NBA, tbh...
I am impressed by your restraint so far, but Greeks are historically horrible NBA players.
Dice earlier this season suggested that he may be retiring at the end of this season. That leaves us with Timmy, Splitter, Blair and Bonner for bigs. It wouldn't hurt to look at signing a 7 footer who is the current top big in Europe as our 5th big. And I wouldn't really look at it as adding him for next year, but preparing him for 2 yrs down the road. If we were to add him, then he could easily have a Splitter-like first year of spending lots of time on the bench, learning the system.He won't play for the Spurs with so many big men already there. Not a chance in . Next season is an option year for him. If he wants to come to the NBA he will this summer, but it will be for a team that needs a center. So it won't be the Spurs as they are right now.
So if Splitter does come around and we were to add "Boris", it'd be interesting to think of what a Splitter - Bourousis front line could look like in a couple years.
So you want to sign Rasho next summer?
lol!!! :-)so you want to sign rasho next summer?
Yet he starts in front of Bourousis...
You mean as soon as Olympiacos secured the second round in Euroleague.
Yes, it's very normal for european team to put their worst at the start, in fact if you're really, really good you might not even play...Besides the fact that Rasho does not start, in Europe there is no such thing as starters and bench. If you were actually European you would know that. I see that we have yet another spammer Euro homer here.
It is even normal for the BEST player on a team to come off the bench in Europe. In fact, when Papaloukas was the best player in all of Europe he came off the bench. So please spare the forum your Euro homer spamming.
The stats disagree.Nesterovich is a very effective and good center for Olympiacos. But to suggest he is even close to as good as Bourousis is ridiculous and absurd. He is not even as good as Mavrokefalidis (their power forward) is on the same team.
Is it true that 85% of greek men are sexuals? That percentage sounds kind of extreme, though it would certainly explain a lot. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Probably about the same in Arkansas.
Those are NBA players. SMB (Swarthy Matt Bonner) is not.
If just one Greek player could ever succeed in the NBA, you might have a leg to stand on. As it is..........
[QUOTE=Manu_Forever;4886776]Bourousis is several levels better than Blair, Splitter, and Bonner are. The chances that he would sign with the Spurs to ride the bench for a year or two (just because that is how Popovich operates) behind players that he is much better than is absolutely zero.
You make insult Amerikan players not good. I hate you like. Bonner play too good basketball better than Bourrousis. Bonner in Greek league would be hero to Greece, have Greeks make Bonner sandwich hero.
This list is a bit out of date, but still: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Greek_NBA_playersIf just one Greek player could ever succeed in the NBA, you might have a leg to stand on. As it is..........
That list includes players with Greek passports (Rasho) and Greek ancestors (Rambis).
These are all the Greek-born players who have played (and failed miserably) in the NBA:
http://www.basketball-reference.com/...ntry=GR&state=
yeah sure. Peja and Rasho "grew up" in Greece. what a nonsense.
both were already 17 years old when they went to Greece b/c of the Yugoslav wars. both came from the best youth programs in Europe at that time, which were the programs of the clubs of the former Yugoslavia Republik.
Rasho played for the youth teams of Slava and Partizan and Peja played for the youth team of Partizan.
so the point is, they both had a NBA career DESPITE having played for Greece clubs for some years. imagine how good they would have been, if they didn't take that route. Rasho would likely have become Vlade Divac and Peja would have become Drazen Petrovic.
however, luckily they didn't spend more time there and that way destroyed any chance to ever play more than 29 NBA career games and average more than 2.3 points. (or what is the best career record of any Greek player in the NBA?)
btw. you don't need Greek parents or grandparents to get a passport from Greece. you just need to pay what the officer at the passport office demands. actual prices should be pretty low. in case of need the guy will even adopt you.
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We can now add "ignoring other posters" to the long list of things at which KillBillForever fails.
Memo to Blackjack,
In the event that cir stances prevent me doing so myself, I grant you my proxy to place the above quoted post, authored by mountainballer, in nomination for Post of the Year (Troll Destruction Division) in the next annual edition of the SpursTalk Awards. The complete and total evisceration of the troll formerly known as Kill_Bill_Pana, currently posting as Manu_Forever, is truly noteworthy and deserving of permanent recognition.
Mel_13
Oh nooooeees, not permanent ignore.
Noted.
Memo to Blackjack,
In the event that cir stances prevent me doing so myself, I grant you my proxy to place the above quoted post, authored by mountainballer, in nomination for Post of the Year (Troll Destruction Division) in the next annual edition of the SpursTalk Awards. The complete and total evisceration of the troll formerly known as Kill_Bill_Pana, currently posting as Manu_Forever, is truly noteworthy and deserving of permanent recognition.
Mel_13
And _Jag, I haven't met that 85%, so I can't say with certainty that I would or would not be tempted.
A.K.A. Arkansas double secret probation.
Ummm, no. I went to the Panathanaikos v. Olympiacos game a couple of days ago. Bourousis starts.
And you lived to tell about it?
Bump
http://www.eurobasket.com/boxScores/...322_93_298.asp12 boards in 16 mins
I don't think the Spurs were too jazzed at this fool using them as salary leverage to run back to Greece last time around.
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