Author Topic: Most of the recent international NBA prospects played badly in this Olympic  (Read 1310 times)

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Offline Stig

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Dario Saric
Mario Hezonja
Domantas Sabonis
Zhou Qi
Juan Hernangomez

The only exception I can think of is N.Jokic from Serbia.

The best of them didn't come, including Simmonds, all Canadians and Greek, but european basketball is on a low ebb now.

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Saric didn't play badly on the whole.  12 points, 7 rebounds, 3 assists, 43%.  Not great, but not that bad really.  BTW, those ~7 rebounds were good enough for 6th in the entire Olympics.

Hezonja shot 48% (and was 50% from three).  Again not great, but not terrible play from him.

Sabonis didn't shoot very well, but played ok overall. 

Qi shot 70% from two.  The Chinese team is so bad though it is really hard to get a gauge as to anyone on that team. 

Hernangomez scored 6.6 points a game in under 11 minutes.  Not sure how anyone can think he played poorly, he just didn't play very much of course when you are on a team with Pau Gasol  and Nikola Mirotic there aren't as many minutes available for a big man.
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Most of the guys you mentioned are really, really young.

Team USA wasn't carrying any teenagers.
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Most of the guys you mentioned are really, really young.

Team USA wasn't carrying any teenagers.
Second that.