Last time Real Madrid won the Euroleague championship was 1995. I think there is a good chance they are not the best team in the world outside the USA. BTW - the last 4 teams that did win it all in Europe were Barcelona, Tel-Aviv, CSKA Moscow and Panathinaikos - each one won it twice in the last 8 year span. If Sergio really went there with the idea that they were the best team out of the NBA - he is not that smart of a guy...
Well, he started, beating out Duhon, and was there only 2 months. He could only improve given more time in D'Antoni's system. I wouldn't call it "blowing up" but his role would certainly have "expanded" now that Duhon has left.
I'm a Sergio fan too, but not all of us are as delusional and fucked in the head about Rodriguez as MARIS and you.
Please, the Sergio fanboys are more delusional than ever. First Nate "runined him" in Portland. So, he was traded to Sacramento where Paul Westphal was supposed to be his Frank Layden. He quickly became the worst PG on one of the worst teams in the league, racking up a string of DNP-CDs behind a rookie combo guard and Beno Udrih. Then he was traded to the team whose coach was taylor-made to Sergio's supposed strengths. He flat out sucked in NY. Sure, he started 8 games out of 27. D'Antoni, his supposed dream coach, gave him the starting role to lose, which he promptly did. In spite of the D'Antoni system, that greatly inflates individual stats, Sergio posted a PER of 12.8 and the lowest assist rate of his career of 26.9. BTW, Andre Miller, who the Sergio fanboys like to criticize as a selfish player who looks for his own shot had an AST% of 30.2 (and a PER of 18.1). Miller racked up more AST/36 playing in Nate's glacially slow, isolation based offense than Sergio did in D'Antoni's free flowing seven-seconds-or-less fast paced offense. Of course, Sergio also turned the ball over almost twice as frequently as Miller (TOV% = 24.0 vs. 13.8). For those keeping score at home, that gives Miller and AST/TO ratio of 2.6 and Sergio, in NY, an AST/TO of 1.7. So much for Sergio's great PG skills. Sergio already received his one overpaid NBA contract. That's the last one he'll ever get. He's no longer in the NBA for one very simple reason. He's not an NBA level talent. After four full seasons in the league, he has EXACTLY the same weaknesses and makes the same mistakes he did as a rookie. It took one breakout game from Sergio as a rookie to alert other teams to exploit his many weaknesses (can't shoot, can't play defense, turnover machine). And, that was that. No improvement in 4 years = no more NBA career. Plain and simple. BNM
