For Slovenian Fans: Beno and Lakovic

[Slomo]

That is BS. Jaka is our dream player for Eurobasket. Lorbek is just a center (worse then Brezec or Rasho) on a good team, so he gets lots of rational feeding. He has talent, but he is not out of space.

Jaka is on the other hand like Udrih accomplished player. Udrih was being harrased in Maccabi, when they had the most difficult season (playing also Adriatic league, which they given up after they couldn't take the pressure of being on 4 compe ions on a top quality level). After that season Maccabi had a vision, that was made by Beno and his cooperation with the team. Jasikevicius then just took over a quality team and kicked ass. Our (Olimpijan players) player really kicks ass! Maccabi game is mostly on their Croatian center Nikola Vujcic (will be amazing in NBA). So Udrih played for Vujcic's stats, and not for his.

Jaka was not under pressure. His coach loved him, and so he progressed in Greece. He is a leader of his team, MVP of his team and so on. Who is better? I think Beno. Jaka is more offensive player (has 3rd best RT points score ever in Euroleague), but less a team player. Udrih does not do much about his stats, if he feels he can do better with letting others play their game. Jaka could took over a game from a hot player to cool it down. Beno is also saving his shots more.

Lorbek? Pha, he played NCAA, but again he is not much in a better form as maybe Darko.

I agree that Erazem is a worse centre than Rasho or Brezec, specially since he's a PF. The guy has one weakness and that's defence - which most agree is a direct results of his (lack of) body strength. But this weakness is well offset by the fact he's only 21 and still has time to hit the weights. There is no doubt about his talent or bball IQ, every scout report I ever saw about him has praised him as a great prospect. I personally would add that he's very compe ive and therefore is someone who has a predisposition to improve his game in the next few years.

As for Lakovic, I've always liked him and actually asked in this thread why Kamnik_SLO thought he would not come to the NBA (something I think he could do - or better yet he is capable of doing) and if you read his answer he makes a good point - I hope he's wrong but I understand what would stop him.

Just to clarify something I think Jaka is fearless and would kick some serious ass in the NBA - if he wants to!

[SLOVENIAN 8]

PAO : Efes Pilsen 48:39 * After 1st half.

the winner of this game will play on final four of Euroleague.

Lakovic score 12 pts in first half.

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