<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (pegs @ Mar 25 2008, 10:52 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (cpawfan @ Mar 25 2008, 10:28 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Gallinari should be very good, but Kiki's track record with international players isn't very good</div> I just feel like breaking this down. Nene- Bust. (My opinion, at least.) Tskitishvili - Bust. Sani Becirovic - Who? (Did some research, 26 years old. Hasn't come over yet.) Axel Hervelle - Who are these guys? (24 years old Belgium PF. Hasn't come over yet, either.) Ricky Sanchez - Hasn't come to the NBA yet, traded to Philly. Linas Kleiza - DING DING DING! We finally have success! So...2 misses, 1 hit, and 3 undecided. Meanwhile, Thornski's got 1 hit, 3 misses. That's a combined 2 hits, 5 misses...and 3 that haven't come to the NBA yet. </div> Kid Chocolate is obsessed with Axel Hervelle.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (NetIncome @ Mar 26 2008, 06:54 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (cpawfan @ Mar 25 2008, 09:28 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Gallinari should be very good, but Kiki's track record with international players isn't very good</div> Tskitishvili - worst top five pick in last decade Nene - not a great pick, but injuries deprive us of making a real determination. Kleiza - excellent pick at 27. Hervell, Sanchez and Becirovic -- late second round picks who he took risks on -- cant measure a GM on his late second round picks. Becirovic was a risk...but a smart one. He had been compared to Petrovic before he blew out his knee. http://hoopshype.com/general_managers/kiki_vandeweghe.htm About the same as Stefanski. Krstic a terrific pick at #24, but Drejer at #51 and Ilic at #43 were pretty bad too. Only really good late second round foreign pick in the last decade was Ginobili. </div> Kleiza played college ball at Missouri and Drejer played college ball at Florida. Neither counts as drafting an international player as the player categories are conventionally termed college, high school and international. Also, Sanchez was a #35 pick, not a late second round pick.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (NetIncome @ Mar 26 2008, 06:54 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (cpawfan @ Mar 25 2008, 09:28 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Gallinari should be very good, but Kiki's track record with international players isn't very good</div> Tskitishvili - worst top five pick in last decade Nene - not a great pick, but injuries deprive us of making a real determination. Kleiza - excellent pick at 27. Hervell, Sanchez and Becirovic -- late second round picks who he took risks on -- cant measure a GM on his late second round picks. Becirovic was a risk...but a smart one. He had been compared to Petrovic before he blew out his knee. http://hoopshype.com/general_managers/kiki_vandeweghe.htm About the same as Stefanski. Krstic a terrific pick at #24, but Drejer at #51 and Ilic at #43 were pretty bad too. Only really good late second round foreign pick in the last decade was Ginobili. </div> You forgot about our favorite European bust, Zoran! He sucked.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (The Dark Defender @ Mar 26 2008, 11:14 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/t;object width=&"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/t;object width=&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350" /></embed></object></div> Just turn the sound off. This guy is a beast, the Nets could have a killer frontcourt rotation with Boone/Sean/Krstic/Gallinari for years to come.</div> Why is it that everytime I see a video of a European player the music is like they are straight outta Harlem? Anyway, I don't like this guy he looks like another Nachbar. We don't need another guy who thinks he can dunk and stuff we just need a pure shooter. In the European Leagues the only way I'm impressed is if you average about 10 3's a game. Anyone can be the "European LeBron James" in Italy playin against those scrubs.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (J-HoAgZ @ Mar 27 2008, 09:39 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Why is it that everytime I see a video of a European player the music is like they are straight outta Harlem? Anyway, I don't like this guy he looks like another Nachbar. We don't need another guy who thinks he can dunk and stuff we just need a pure shooter. In the European Leagues the only way I'm impressed is if you average about 10 3's a game. Anyone can be the "European LeBron James" in Italy playin against those scrubs.</div> Kind of how I feel about him from that clip... wasn't overly impressed.
