<div class="quote_poster">Quoting saad:</div><div class="quote_post">i say deng. he has had a god summer, and the other guy is averaging only 11 ppg in the olympics. if hes averaging 11 ppg, how will he do against NBA players that are 10 times bigger and better?</div> Well mabye that is because he is playing with the best people from his country. Look at team USA Wade, James, and Melo are all averaging under ten points a game as well as others like okafor marion and amare does that mean there not good? Also look at other players on the team like Duncan two time mvp only socring fifteen points a game is that mean he sucks. Eleven points in the olympics is pretty impressive considering your playing with the best people from your home land.
Im with Pure Skillz on this one, Andres Nocioni will play much better in the NBA. The only thing that could stop him are the differences as in rules and the 3PT and stuff like that.
oh yeah, because the guys from argentina are so good...and i'm sure lebron, etc. are playing seriously against these weak foreign players.
Give me Noicioni only because he is less raw and has more experince in bigger games rememebr that Deng is only 19 nocioni is a lil young himself but he has experince vs. the competion but if u really think about it noicioni or deng is small forward is better then any small forward the bulls had last yr. i honestly dont even rememebr who there small forward was
Jalen Rose before he got traded. I think start Nocioni and give Deng a lot of time off the bench. Mainly because Nocioni has more experience. This is after watching Nocioni play in the game against the US.
Nocioni w/o a doubt because I think he is definitely NBA ready. Deng will sit because I think he is about a 2 year project.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting saad:</div><div class="quote_post">oh yeah, because the guys from argentina are so good...and i'm sure lebron, etc. are playing seriously against these weak foreign players.</div> i'm guessing you're being sarcastic, but the guys from argentina are GOOD, real good. It was fun watching them, the olympics was really competitive this year. and if you're saying lebron and the rest of the team weren't playing serious against the rest of the world you are out of you're mind. I tip my hat to the USA team because they gave great effort and played well, but just came up short. manu ginobli was out of this world, it was kind of interesting cuz he was playing against duncan and his coach. Andres Nocioni, after seeing him play with argentina, i really like his game, he's a tough guy. he should definetly get the nod over deng. did you guys hear about the one guy who looked like fabio and what happened to his family. his mother, fiance, and sister died in a car accident and then a year later or something his father died from a heart attack. That is really sad, we shouldn't take life for granted.
He has to be joking w/ and dumb-founded coment like that. Someone needs to make him watch the replays of the games to see that Argentina won the gold and the US was lost in just about all the games.
I think they should start Luol Deng for 20 games and see how he plays out...if after 10 games hes doing very bad....take him out and start Nocioni and also see how good he does...because honestly i think both are very good players but Deng might be better...it all just depends on how well he plays D and how well he Scores and rebounds....thats my opinion on this.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting TheAnswerIsAi3:</div><div class="quote_post">I think they should start Luol Deng for 20 games and see how he plays out...if after 10 games hes doing very bad....take him out and start Nocioni and also see how good he does...because honestly i think both are very good players but Deng might be better...it all just depends on how well he plays D and how well he Scores and rebounds....thats my opinion on this.</div> Honestly if anyone is a little better at rebounds, points, and defense they are always the better player because outside of passing that is basically the whole NBA game or at least the most vocal part of the game. I honestely think that Deng will start, but his defense will take a while to catch up to the NBA game do to him coming out aftr only one season at college he is not going to be completely ready for stronger players.
I think Skiles will mix it up to see who is ready for the NBA. It may come down to a nightly basis. Do they need more defense (Nocioni) or do they need scoring (Deng) but in the end I think Deng is going to be the better all around player. Although Nocioni has seen more profesional time he really hasnt seen the best the NBA has to offer so his game will take time to develope as well as Dengs.
Nocioni can score, I think he will be great, and think in the NBA the scoring stats tend to go up coz the uptempo style, Gaso here in Spain use to score 15 points per game, in the NBA he's got some 35 games...
Nocioni can score, I think he will be great, and bear in mind that in the NBA the scoring stats tend to go up coz the uptempo style, Gasol here in Spain use to score 15 points per game, in the NBA he's got some 35 games...
