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Zur Zeit großer Artikel in der USA Today: http://www.usatoday.com/sports/basketball/europe/2006-04-19-bargnani-cover_x.htm
"NBA teams are realizing it's less risky to draft internationals because they're more coachable, more socialized, have no posses and have not been Americanized," says former college coach George Raveling, Nike's director of global basketball. Raveling's prediction: International players will comprise 50% of the NBA by 2010.
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Toronto Raptors GM Bryan Colangelo says it's a combination: "It's players domestically just not focusing on the fundamentals and an indication of what focus has been put on the development of the game at the very purest level in Europe."
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"The Euros and foreign players and coaches," Spurs coach Gregg Popovich says, "are doing things in some ways we have forgotten about and used to do."
This is the bottom line for Dave Blatt, Benetton Treviso's American-born coach who has spent the last 20 years playing or coaching in Europe: "I still believe the best basketball players in the world are in the U.S. But the best-taught basketball players are no longer there."
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The world is not only reteaching the USA the importance of the game's fundamentals, it is schooling NBA-stocked U.S. Olympic and world championship teams. U.S. teams, which finished third in the 2004 Olympics in Athens and sixth in the 2002 world championships in Indianapolis, are learning a concept that is, quite literally, foreign to them: Substance and five-on-five play usually beat slam-dunk style and one-on-one flair.
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Bargnani learned the game from the outside in, that is, from the perimeter facing the basket. In the USA, in contrast, coaches in school-sponsored programs, from junior high to college, teach big players the game from the inside out — with their backs to the basket.
Joe Crispin, a guard with Navigo.it Teramo in Italy who played for Penn State, marvels at team practices where big men are included in dribbling drills with the guards.
"I'd love to tell every coach in America you need to learn how to coach like this," he says. "It's not the same mentality, but college and high school coaches have to learn how to develop guys. Frankly, they're not."
Interview mit David Stern und Jordi Bertomeu:
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/basketball/europe/2006-04-19-euroleague-qanda_x.htm
"NBA teams are realizing it's less risky to draft internationals because they're more coachable, more socialized, have no posses and have not been Americanized," says former college coach George Raveling, Nike's director of global basketball. Raveling's prediction: International players will comprise 50% of the NBA by 2010.
...
Toronto Raptors GM Bryan Colangelo says it's a combination: "It's players domestically just not focusing on the fundamentals and an indication of what focus has been put on the development of the game at the very purest level in Europe."
....
"The Euros and foreign players and coaches," Spurs coach Gregg Popovich says, "are doing things in some ways we have forgotten about and used to do."
This is the bottom line for Dave Blatt, Benetton Treviso's American-born coach who has spent the last 20 years playing or coaching in Europe: "I still believe the best basketball players in the world are in the U.S. But the best-taught basketball players are no longer there."
......
The world is not only reteaching the USA the importance of the game's fundamentals, it is schooling NBA-stocked U.S. Olympic and world championship teams. U.S. teams, which finished third in the 2004 Olympics in Athens and sixth in the 2002 world championships in Indianapolis, are learning a concept that is, quite literally, foreign to them: Substance and five-on-five play usually beat slam-dunk style and one-on-one flair.
...
Bargnani learned the game from the outside in, that is, from the perimeter facing the basket. In the USA, in contrast, coaches in school-sponsored programs, from junior high to college, teach big players the game from the inside out — with their backs to the basket.
Joe Crispin, a guard with Navigo.it Teramo in Italy who played for Penn State, marvels at team practices where big men are included in dribbling drills with the guards.
"I'd love to tell every coach in America you need to learn how to coach like this," he says. "It's not the same mentality, but college and high school coaches have to learn how to develop guys. Frankly, they're not."
Interview mit David Stern und Jordi Bertomeu:
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/basketball/europe/2006-04-19-euroleague-qanda_x.htm