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re: We really need Odo
Posted on 3/3/13 at 1:57 am to CourseyCorridor
Posted on 3/3/13 at 1:57 am to CourseyCorridor
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You don't know what you are talking about.
No, you dont know how to interpret what I'm saying. I wasn't trying to say we beat up on their euroleague top teams.
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All EuroLeague teams are the same teams that compete in their national club league. They just qualify to also compete in the EuroLeague.
Which is what I said, EuroLeague is the best teams in europe. But it's only 20-30ish teams across the entirety of pro european basketball for a given year (which has a few HUNDRED pro teams) of which, like i said, each country pretty much has their own pro league and MOST of the teams in these arent very good. Hence why I said your general euro pro team. A top end euroleague team isn't what I would call a general pro euro team.
Obviously when I'm making the connection that college teams are going over beating the tar out of said general pro teams I'm not talking about Real Madrid or FC Barcelona Regal. I'm talking about your general level "pro" euro team.
You dont need to explain anything on how it works over there. I know it's a tiered system much like soccer. I think you just misunderstood what I was saying.
This post was edited on 3/3/13 at 2:03 am
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Posted on 3/3/13 at 2:33 am to thunderbird1100
You don't know what you are talking about.
You are still mixing the club system with our own. Where here, you graduate from amateur to pro, over there you are always in the club system -- even as a kid -- so it's tricky and somewhat meaningless to try to decipher if a low-level club team is what we would be the equivalent of what we would consider pro.
There are tons of small, community-based clubs in Europe. They are pro in the same way a crappy local indoor football team is pro.
I mean, Spain has 48 million people, roughly the population of Californa and Oregon, and it has well over a hundred basketball clubs, all of which have adult teams that are at, some level, pro.
So saying our colleges can beat their pros is meaningless and deceiving. We can probably send NAIA teams over there who can find low-end club teams they can kill.
But pros as we think of them? Those high-end clubs that attract the best players over there?
Our college teams would struggle with those teams.
You are still mixing the club system with our own. Where here, you graduate from amateur to pro, over there you are always in the club system -- even as a kid -- so it's tricky and somewhat meaningless to try to decipher if a low-level club team is what we would be the equivalent of what we would consider pro.
There are tons of small, community-based clubs in Europe. They are pro in the same way a crappy local indoor football team is pro.
I mean, Spain has 48 million people, roughly the population of Californa and Oregon, and it has well over a hundred basketball clubs, all of which have adult teams that are at, some level, pro.
So saying our colleges can beat their pros is meaningless and deceiving. We can probably send NAIA teams over there who can find low-end club teams they can kill.
But pros as we think of them? Those high-end clubs that attract the best players over there?
Our college teams would struggle with those teams.
This post was edited on 3/3/13 at 2:35 am
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