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aspiring (and failing) 19 year old white basketball players: man it was all good in high school
What has happened to all the White American players, tbh?
In the mid-80s, around 25% of the players in the league were White Americans..the decline began in the 90s, but the fall wasn't too severe..
According to an article I read yesterday, only 9.9% of the players in the league are White Americans, at the moment..
What happened?
aspiring (and failing) 19 year old white basketball players: man it was all good in high school
teams understood that the euro players are smarter, so they only need americans for monkeyballing
Not fundamental enough to offset the lack of athleticism. Modern game has magnified this.
Similar to what happened to African-American players in baseball, I suppose. African-Americans are now more inclined to gravitate toward football and basketball, while White Americans typically gravitate more toward baseball, football (Quarterback position), hockey (in the colder states) and maybe povertyball now.
White kids have hoops on their driveway. Stay at home mommy driving them to gym
Black kids spend more time with a ball in their hands without scoring.
This is why there are so few White guards. Black guards are facing superior quickness growing up, in the hood.
4 words: Fast twitch muscle fibers.
Outside of Korver and Love..I can't seem to think of any decent white american player.
It's either black or a euro.
They suck I guess, you have euros which are white mostly.
good question.
i don't know how much of a factor athletic ability is because the league has enough white euros/international players.
Could it be that White Americans have diluted genes compared to their European counterparts? Most of the top Big Men in the College game this season were Europeans born overseas or first generation Americans.
We are witnessing the same dilution occur in the American Black community (Olympics)
i think maybe AAU has something to do with it. it can get discouraging for a white child who is dominating his white peers all year to get his pushed in by some inner city s in summer AAU tourney's. it can kill a kids confidence and make him question this basketball .
Basketball is the most racist sport in the USA. You think black teammates will allow a white guy to dominate the show in an AAU game?
Coaches aren't labeled saviors when they help a middle class White child excel
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black players are more driven than their white american counterparts
Black player: if I don't make the NBA I will end up in jail or grave
White player: if I don't make the NBA I will use my 4-year degree to buy home and raise family
Most of these White European players are from tougher upbringings than the White Americans. If they fail, they will end up returning home drinking themselves to death
i disagree about basketball being racist. its not about the black kids allowing anything. its all boils down to skill. if the white kid has the skills to impose his will, then there is nothing anybody can do. white guys who can hoop and are great at it, get a lot of respect from their black peers. i wonder if its the same way for black hockey or black tennis players.
Larry Bird "“As far as playing, I didn't care who guarded me - red, yellow, black. I just didn't want a white guy guarding me, because it's disrespect to my game.”
i don't know what you're getting at about black coaches not being saviors when they help white kids excel. do you have some examples?
there is some truth to this as well
Coaches decide who plays and who gets the ball/takes the shots
Same as when Blacks were discouraged from being QBs in the past.
Coach is far less likely to allow an athletically freakish tall guard go thru the lumps if he's White. He'll shift him to SF. But a black kid, he'll roll the dice because he might be the next James/Magic
I just wanna see if Kaminsky can excell this is the POTY, had a great tourney but can he succeed where plenty have failed? I hope he does I think it would be great for a really good white player to compete at the same level they did in college in the pros ...
disagree, fam.
black coaches don't play favorites like white coaches do. lately, we've seen white football coaches being better at putting their best athletes out there regardless of race so i do acknowledge that. i need some examples of white players who were good being overlooked in favor of a scrub black players.
kamisky is matt bonner, cherokee parks status in the leauge
ESPN today compared him to backup PF. Supposedly spoke to 5 NBA GMs and they came up with.....
Sam Dekker = Kyle Singler
Justise Winslow = Kawhi Leonard
Jahlil Okafor = Al Jefferson
I agree. I think White players are more likely to be pigeon toed into certain positions: SF/C which ends up stunting their growth.
what white, tall guards with ballhandling skills and nba potential have you seen moved to the sf/c positions?
Yeah, maybe not as bluntly as he put it, but there is an element of pro sports being "a way out" for black kids. They mistakenly (imo) don't view a traditional University education as a viable option. They also play more basketball at an early age as opposed to white kids at baseball/lacrosse camps and
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