10-12-2021, 01:01 PM
(10-12-2021, 08:14 AM)Mavs2021 Wrote: Forward projection and everything, but sometimes NBA logic is just strange.
Jokic, Saric and Bitadze were ABA MVP´s at Samaric´s age, while Samaric was a mere game to game footnote, yet he was picked 19th. Not even sharing a first name with Doncic, should have gotten him into the 1st round.
Not advocating Samanic, but here in europe there could be a lot of factors about playing time and giving a chance to a younger player and prediction what could he become in Nba.
Jokic and Bitadze were playing for ''private club'' of one of the biggest agents in european basketball and that club don't have any results expectations and sometimes is called a ''club were players come just to put good numbers'' and then got a better contract elsevhere.
Saric was playing for Cibona who is historically big club, but now they're in financial crisis for more then a decade and are mostly focused on (young) homegrown players and 1 or 2 cheap Usa players.
Also, Dragic, Nurkic and Cancar were also relatively unknown in euroleague level of basketball and without ''MVP role'' in Aba league but all have succes in Nba.
A lot of times is giving a chance to a younger players in europe a problem. Sometimes a good prospect signs with a bigger club because of history and money, but then is also a problem because that club is always under a preasure of winning and is not giving a chance to a young player, sometimes club is fighting to stay in the league and are also not giving a chance to a younger players...