And he didn't even touch a basketball until he was 15 so how can you not consider him an American hooper
This problem is deeper than I thought if mfers are tryin to claim Embiid
There’s a crisis with the new generation of American Hoopers
- Thread starter Braman
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This problem is deeper than I thought if mfers are tryin to claim Embiid
THIS THREAD IS LITERALLY
ABOUT MOST OF THE YOUNG
GUYS BEING SOFT AS shyt.
THE NBA IS NOW A GATEKEEPERS
LEAGUE.
The thread is just spewing bs and inaccurate hot takes though cause nikkas are obsessed with 'dawgs'.
Ja grew up in a two parent, middle class household and you gonna say he's soft as shyt? Dumb as shyt yeah, but he ain't soft.
How you gonna pine for the days of guys like Xavier McDaniel and Charles Oakley while simultaneously crying that the American talent ain't good enough?
You sound emotionalThe thread is just spewing bs and inaccurate hot takes though cause nikkas are obsessed with 'dawgs'.
Ja grew up in a two parent, middle class household and you gonna say he's soft as shyt? Dumb as shyt yeah, but he ain't soft.
How you gonna pine for the days of guys like Xavier McDaniel and Charles Oakley while simultaneously crying that the American talent ain't good enough?
Thread ain’t about bein soft although that plays a part. It’s about there clearly being a flaw in American players’ youth/HS development
Why isn’t AD as great consistently as Jokic, Embiid, and Giannis?
Why isnt KAT a top 10 player?
Why is Josh giddey a better player to have than Jalen green?
Why are these euro bigs scoring and skilled but American bigs are turn into JJJ big ass 3&D’s (Jabari smith you next)..
No one is considering these questions so the issue gets worse
staticshock
Veteran
It’s dominant my brotha
And that’s how domination works. It’s only gonna be 4,5 players that dominate an era. And at this trajectory, once the OG’s are gone those players could all be foreigners.
Dominant?
What foreigners have led their teams to rings other than Dirk & Giannis?
An American beat Giannis and Embiid this year
This the first season Jokic & Denver didn’t choke in the playoffs
You sound emotional
Thread ain’t about bein soft although that plays a part. It’s about there clearly being a flaw in American players’ youth/HS development
Why isn’t AD as great consistently as Jokic, Embiid, and Giannis?
Why isnt KAT a top 10 player?
Why is Josh giddey a better player to have than Jalen green?
Why are these euro bigs scoring and skilled but American bigs are turn into JJJ big ass 3&D’s (Jabari smith you next)..
No one is considering these questions so the issue gets worse
It ain't me claiming it is my guy
AAU baby culture. Ruins their minds and their bodies.
Too comfortable with losing games (3-4 games every weekend since 8 years old—no incentive to win. Also why they’re always hurt), and don’t know how to do anything without the ball (too much traffic cone training)
Too comfortable with losing games (3-4 games every weekend since 8 years old—no incentive to win. Also why they’re always hurt), and don’t know how to do anything without the ball (too much traffic cone training)
How long will it be before LEGITIMATE (2 black parents) blacks are no longer 50% of the nba?
Art Barr
INVADING SOHH CHAMPION
Would Austin Rivers have ever made it to the NBA if he didn't have AAU level favoritism and benefits? Let alone his father. Would he be as entitled and arrogant as he is?
That's the problem. There are talented hoopers around the world who don't make it close because they are written off early by these AAU/youth coaches. Alot of the wisdom, training and guidance they need to make it isn't there. Even though they work way harder than the players like KAT
This issue has many layers. But who wants to talk in depth about something like this in here?
Prolific posting.
Alluvdis......
Art Barr
Be in denial brehs
Part of this is in plain sight (last 5 MVPs….4 of 5 first team all nba). And some of it takes some foresight: how Denver is set up maybe get 1 or 2, how OKC is set up to run the league, Wemby.
Some of you get it
What you mean "that's a way to put it"? You believe Ja will be blackballed? If not, you're crying for nothing. Which is something you seem to do often.I mean…that’s a way to put it
If Booker isnt a superstar that supports my point. Why is he just a “great scorer”
He’s a career 35% shooter from 3. After 5 years. He is not ‘fine’. And “timeline” means nothing in a young man’s league with no defense , and guys like Ja and SGA can propel their young teams. Trae is another supporting point to this thread; why is an alleged top shelf face of American hoops plateauing and not translating to good basketball
Again, that’s a way to put it
SGA, Giddey, Wemby are youngins. Best projected future team, best projected future prospect. Murray is the same age as everyone else
You just spent an hour saying ‘they’ll be fine’ and there ain’t no problem
You need to ask Booker and his trainers/coaches.
Trae's 3PT% is irrelevant. Ja's team has a better record without him, using that is a moot point. SGA has not done more than Trae for their respective teams, so flat out false. Trae has always had these limitations be an issue, he was just as likely to be Jimmer Fredette as he was to be an All-Star. He was boom or bust from Day One.
Ain't no "way to put it". That's what it is. The fact you can't zoom in on one player makes the point.
Giddy is good but isn't more dominant than any of these American players named, stop it. Wemby has not played a game on American soil and hasn't even proven he can play an NBA season. Stop it.
I took 3 minutes to type that and this.
mastermind
Rest In Power Kobe
The problem Is youth coaching/training structures
This “nuclear family“ shyt completely misses the mark and exposes that most of you watch too much Clarence Thomas-like content.
This “nuclear family“ shyt completely misses the mark and exposes that most of you watch too much Clarence Thomas-like content.
Embiid came up through the AAU/American hoop infrastructure as well.Maybe not the best year to make this thread breh...
Embiid is American too btw.
