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Old 01-20-2013, 04:00 AM   #113
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Re: How did he make the NBA

If you guys think it's an exaggeration and have that amount of supreme confidence in your abilities then God bless you, but I don't think there is anyway on Earth Team OS keeps it under 75.

Team OS would have to play like pirates and pull out stuff from Bill Laimbeer's Combat Basketball to get it to 5 on 1 or something.
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Old 01-20-2013, 08:24 AM   #114
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At least name guys like Chris Quinn, Mike Penberthy etc. etc. I have no idea how they got into the league but God bless them for accomplishing that.
Chris Quinn was a 18pt/6ast, >40% 3pt-shooter in college selected for All-Big East...and went undrafted. Even his skill level is beyond anything someone could handle unless he was at least a very good D2/D1 level talent.

And guys like Scalabrine and Cardinal are absolutely underrated considering the insane level of skills/fundamentals you need in order to become a professional bball player lacking any athleticism.
You'd assume a guy like James White could at least find a role in the league by being a defensive specialist given his athletic ability. So yeah, I'd absolutely prefer to have Steve Blake on my team instead of White.
Especially a level below NBA competiton, where Blake would become a very capable starting PG with enough intelligence to run pretty much any offensive system.

The truth is that many NBA "scrubs" are incredibly smart players with great fundamentals that get overlooked.
Look at the 2011 finals and the key charges Cardinal took, how many players on the planet can make these plays? Seriously, they're much better than one would assume.

It would be enough to take a 2nd-tier Euro team methodically running an offensive system you have to understand in order to defend it and playing full-court press for most of the time and you'd need at least a very good D2-level selection to do anything against them.
The same with the "could a college team beat an NBA team"-thread. Of course if you play enough games, but no matter how much the Bobcats suck, which college team can average 94 ppg against NBA competition?

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Old 01-20-2013, 11:20 AM   #115
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I start and never come out.

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Old 01-20-2013, 03:12 PM   #116
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course if you play enough games, but no matter how much the Bobcats suck, which college team can average 94 ppg against NBA competition?
Agree with everything you said but this, no college team could beat an NBA team, ever.
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Old 01-20-2013, 04:11 PM   #117
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I'm retracting my statement about beating an NBA player.

I went to go watch the Marist vs St Peter game. And it just surprised me how good these players actually are.

It was the first time I saw a college game in person

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Old 01-20-2013, 05:19 PM   #118
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I'm retracting my statement about beating an NBA player.

I went to go watch the Marist vs St Peter game. And it just surprised me how good these players actually are.

It was the first time I saw a college game in person

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And those are guys that probably aren't even good enough to play in mediocre European leagues (most of them).
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Old 01-20-2013, 07:00 PM   #119
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Honestly, none of them that were playing could make it to the league. And in my eyes, these guys were amazing.

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Old 01-20-2013, 07:22 PM   #120
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@Nathan - you're in HS playing? Are you even being recruited?
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