kurupt

Not to mention, that the competition in Germany is definetly higher than anything you can face in the NCAA.

Yeah, no sound. Have another URL, but the source seems to be the same.

I am so pumped, 1 hour to go! Game will start 1:30 am here in Germany, but I guess I will have to make it work the next day Coffee be my saviour!

What an insightful assessment of a rookie. Thats the definition of someone who hasn´t played an NBA game, let alone a season...

Reading this thread made me realize just how different the approach to basketball (and maybe sports in general) in the US and Europe is. Over here it is about the end result, the team winning and it doesn´t matter as much who was/is the most important or best player - if you contributed to your team winning in the best way possible, you did everything right. This quote about Ricky Rubio sums it up pretty well: (Schöder said the same thing in an interview after the last game: "I shoot the ball if the team needs me to score. If there are other ways to make us win, Il´ll try those first. I don´t care about how we win.") Not to compare Rubio to Schröder, but I think the situation in Minnesota is very interesting. Even with Rubio being very popular, Kevin Love is seen as (by far) the best player on the team and one of the best in the league. But if you look what the team accomplished with him, the results are pretty terrible. They are a 22-28 win team with Love. They were a .500+ team when Rubio played, regardless of Love playing with him or being injured. Somehow, it doesn´t matter that he shoots poorly. Somehow, him playing makes this team a lot more successful, regardless of the individual stats he puts up. You can see the same if you watched the summer league games so far: the team looks so much more poised and focused when Schröder plays PG than with any other player doing it. Even if he struggles, even if the +/- may be negative: it looks like real basketball and not like typical summer league basketball. And I think that wins you games, because thats the approach the Spurs have taken for years: don´t care how it looks or if it makes you a star, but playing the right way makes you win. And by the way, Teague is haads and shoulders betther than Schröder right now. They way Schröder plays, he won´t be able to play more than 20-25 mpg tops anyway, especially in his first NBA season. It will also be good, if he has to fight for more minutes and doesn´t get a starting job handed to him. It probably benefits both PGs that they are different in their play style and skill-sets.

They do, but they also have more drug testing and (especially) more severe punishments for failing them. (this is part serious, part exaggeration )

40% from 3pt-range on 3+ attempts per game last season. (Going up from 25% -> 30% the years before) /thread 1. He clearly has to work on his finish at/around the rim (lay the ball up on the glass faster to force goaltends, jump higher and develope a floater) - this will take time, but it will happen, because he has a good feeling for the ball. 2. Adjust to the NBA-3pt range. This will happen/has already happened. He will never be Ray Allen, but he´ll lnock down open 3's at a 35+% clip (potentially better), which is more than enough to keep defenses honest and a lot better than a lot of the top PGs currently playing. 3. He has to get better off the dribble, both with his mid-range and 3-pt shooting. This is the only area that needs so much work, that it might be something that he never gets "good enough" or "good" at. Also: he is not a scoring PG, but a "leader". He only scores if there is no better option for his team at that moment, much like Chris Paul, who has some offense tools, but doesn´t use them as often as he could.

12:13 pm here in Germany, I am so pumped up for a Summer League game. What is happening :D