Comments on: The Inbounds: NBA schmoe, International Superstar of Mystery

By: jerkize

jerkize — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 17:54:33 +0000

The NBA is first and foremost a business. The NBA leadership (David Stern, owners, and even some players) think they can maximize their profits best by highlighting the superstars as much as possible and ensuring that big market teams are always in the hunt. This goes a long way towards explaining why foreign players don’t seem to perform as well in the NBA as they do in other leagues. In the NBA, making money is priority one, which is fine. However, with the way they’ve rigged the game, the integrity of the game has suffered too much.

By: LPad

LPad — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 18:27:11 +0000

Not sure what games your watching, but Chris Paul is definitely not struggling. Also Calderon is playing exactly how he plays in Toronto, good shooting and passing mixed with bad D. Mozgov is playing well because most teams don’t have anyone taller than 6-10. Patty Mills is showing why Pops think he has a chance to be a good player in the league.

By: pavelfitzgerald

pavelfitzgerald — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 02:54:43 +0000

A HUGE difference is the way the game is called with travelling actually being enforced (travelling in the NBA is an absolute joke). You also don’t see superstars getting the Kobe/MJ treatment where they go to the line every time someone breathes on them. Kobe’s embarassing in the NBA when he doesn’t get a call, he’s worse then the guy who thinks he’s Kobe in your local rec league

By: heathater4lifeson

heathater4lifeson — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 02:01:03 +0000

Ahhh yes because we all know how accurate stats are when evaluating a player’s value

By: Tim's Neighbor

Tim's Neighbor — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 22:40:39 +0000

Bravo. Excellent read.

By: zblott

zblott — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 21:17:46 +0000

Calderon *might* be the most underrated PG of all-time. Check out the numbers without the names next to them (compared to CP3 and Steve Nash of all people) and see what I mean:

http://www.behindthebasket.com/btb/2011/12/18/season-preview-eastern-conference-atlantic-division.html

By: shzastl

shzastl — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 20:53:17 +0000

It’s really simpler than that. The difference in style of play is somewhat of a factor, but the bottom line is that these guys like mills are just the best players on their international teams, and even on a bad team, someone’s got to put up numbers. If the guys ahead of mills on the spurs depth chart played for Australia, they’d likely be the best players on the squad and mills wouldn’t be in position to be putting up the numbers he is.

By: dacapt704

dacapt704 — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 20:39:21 +0000

Actually Patty Mills can still get his off in the NBA, he is just buried in SA behind Parker and Neal. He showed when he got a chance to play at the end of last season that he is quick as lightning and can shoot the lights out…I think he had like 20-something points in every game he started? Could be wrong but I remember him balling out..I wish Patty would get a chance to play somewhere, dude can ball