Mindaugas Kuzminskas: “There is no pressure in the NBA…in NBA you lose 6 in a row coach comes to locker room and goes ‘guys we’re in a good way, keep positive’ blah blah blah. In Europe if you lose 6 games in a row might get fired, you know”
Ok had to look up if Kuzminskas played for Doc Rivers, because that would have tracked. He played for Hornacek? Jeff Hornacek coached the Knicks? Jesus, covid has wiped out my memories worse than I thought.
Jeff “Triangle” Hornacek.. god what a stupid era in Knicksdom.
Phil made him do it.
Absolutely. People forget the many reasons the Knicks failed with Melo. Reason number 564: Phil Jackson forces the triangle on a team with an inadequate roster
Inadequate is a nice way to describe that roster
At one point “JR Smith to Jason Smith” was a connection on the court
Are you trying to convince us the triangle works better with Shaq as your center and not Samuel Dalermbert???
Oh you silly
To be fair, it also worked quite well with Luc Longley at center. No, I don’t remember who the starting shooting guard was on those Bulls teams, why do you ask?
Longley and Wennington - the true NBA twin towers
To be fair, a lot of offense work better with Shaq at center than Samuel Dalembert.
Every one of them to be exact.
It angers how many people blame Melo we made the playoffs every year in the melo era before Phil Jackson came.
Yup. Melo had vets around him the years he succeeded with the same coach. The years he failed, 4 different coaches and a plethora of different players.
Those Old York Knicks teams were the shit. Geriatric Jason Kidd, out of retirement (I believe) Sheed, 40 year old Marcus Camby/Kurt Thomas, oldest rookie ever Pablo Prigioni, Steve Novak splashing threes, that one year Chris Copeland looked good and I’m sure I’m forgetting others but they were my team in the East
With that team 4 out 1 in with Tyson Chandler cleaning up the misses was shit on 2k13
I still have absolutely no idea how that team won 54 games lmao that offseason had me convinced they’d miss the playoffs.
All those guys gave their last legs to the team and they all went down one by one. That year was fun but it definitely wasn’t sustainable.
His first move as an executive was to sign Lamar Odom….WHO WAS ON CRACK!
*Max Kellerman Face *
One of the many periods the last two decades every store in New York’s liquor sections were empty
Somehow Jeff Hornacek was the least incapable head coach from that time period.
Derek Fisher openly had no clue what he was doing (and may have been sleeping with one of his players’ girlfriends if you believe the tabloid-level rumors), and David Fizdale was neck-and-neck with Jim Boylen for the “Worst Coach of the Decade” title.
Don’t forget interim nightmare Kurt Rambis
Bro even I forgot that Hornacek coached the Knicks.
idk how old you were then, but that was prime acid taking years for me🤣 i think he coached for like a year? maybe two? it was forgettable as hell tbh
Does your nickname refer to Phil Anselmo?
Wine lover
Woah a metal reference in an nba sub? That was not expected lol
Admittedly, it was quite a Vulgar Display.
It would be pretty ironic given that he did a nazi salute and shouted white power in 2016.
Jeff somehow got that subs team to 41 wins one year i thought that was tremendous
48 wins actually! That Dragic/Bledsoe backcourt lol
He was a Knick legend
It only tracks if you have a very poor memory
adrian griffin got fired after starting 29-13
Wtf
Iirc Giannis didn’t care for him and the team REALLY did not like his schemes.
if these schemes made them better, they should tell the players to do their job and stfu.
how do players have this much power to fire a person who is doing his job good
Milwaukee gets a player like Giannis once every 40 years(if that).
Yeah and if you lose both the superstar and the locker room you’re fucking toast. It’s not like in Europe when if you’re a premier club (soccer or basketball) you have way more money than everyone and the pull to play in them is huge. You strike gold at the draft, especially if you’re Millwuakee, it’s make or break for the next 2-3 basketball generations.
This is not a criticism, but there are almost zero players who actually just want to win. Money and getting to play the way they want usually come first, among other things.
On a related note, imo the NBA will always have the potential for the actual quality of basketball to go way up because, hypothetically, players could suddenly start listening to their coaches a lot more.
This is assuming coaches consistently know how to best use their roster(s) which I wouldn’t necessarily say is true
This is true. And it’s not as simple as “just listening”. But the sentiment that coaching staff and players could work together better in basically every NBA team is also true nonetheless.
That is valid, there’s always improvement to be had between coach and player cohesion. I just don’t think it’s fair the way that original comment put it, as though the coach is always correct and valid in their methods when doc rivers exists lol. The 3 point revolution would’ve happened a lot earlier if it wasn’t for a generation of coaches.
The schemes were not making them better at all, bro was trying to run trap defense with old ass Brook Lopez on the floor
Then they went out and got Rivers
He was doing his job badly and his scheme sucked. The Bucks at that point had enough talent to pull through.
Sounds like you’re talking about Doc Rivers and not Adrian Griffin without context. Which goes to show, Milwaukee is still in the same spot they were when they fired Griffin.
Griffin was not a good hire, and I understood when he was fired. Doc was also a very bad hire, and I remain puzzled that he remains employed.
The thing is they started like 1-3 and then the players stopped listening to him and went back to buds defence rather than using Griffin’s lol
Why dont they now ditch whatever Doc is telling them and go back to Bud’s schemes
Because Giannis and Bobby are the only players on the team who played for Bud. Literally everyone else has only played for Doc.
Totally agree with your logic.
The difference is that Griffin’s schemes absolutely did not make the team better. The team arrived at this record by actively ignoring the schemes Griffin was trying to implement because they were trash for our roster. Players on the court were yelling at the coaches on the sidelines and shaking their heads in disgust at the calls in-game.
Things were real bad, the record was paper tiger.
understood, seems like this is the sentiment most people have.
In general tho, I feel like NBA coaches are more personalitx management rather than real coaches like nfl or european sports.
They’re both. Personality management is a huge piece of it, absolutely. But also, in Seven Seconds or Less, Jack McCallum, who’s maybe the GOAT basketball writer, flatly says that an NBA coach does more Xs and Os coaching in a single game than a college coach does in a full season. NFL coaches don’t have to care as much about the personality management aspect because contracts aren’t guaranteed; if there’s a mid-tier player the coach doesn’t get along with, they can just get cut for cap relief.
For sure, definitely agree.
And don’t get me wrong, anything I can say beyond what we saw is pure speculation. But vibes were super bad here for a team with their record, and generally if we as fans were seeing as much discontent as we were, it feels like things had to be pretty bad behind closed doors.
There were rumors pretty early on of issues, then Stotts suddenly left over unspecified friction, and then more and more rumors.
It was not a great situation, and definitely not the kind of things you want to be seeing and hearing from a guy whose main job definitely is personality management.
I was calling for AG to be fired after the 1st game–and we won the first game. The insanity of having Brook play defense above the 3 point line and managing to run off a 30 year veteran coach a week before the season was enough for me.
People don’t realize that AG’S tenure was the last time the Bucks were remotely healthy. Doc came in, and a week later Khris landed on KD’s ankle. Then right when he came back, Giannis injured his calf. Then Khris was out or on a severe minutes restriction until he was traded–then Dame got his blood clot and tore his ACL. Then this season the Bucks have had everyone available for exactly 23 minutes all season.
Yep, better is entirely relative. Sure they had a good record, but he literally inherited a former title winning team that had the 1 seed the previois season. They were going to have a good record no matter what. Giannis was going to Giannis and they were going to be a top team in the East.
He wasn’t doing his job good. He makes Doc look like a great coach. He just had Giannis, Dame, and Khris all healthy. Doc came in, Khris landed on KDs foot and everything went downhill.
A week before the season, Griffin ran out Terry Stotts(a 30 year coaching vet), the whole team went to him the first week of the season and said they wouldn’t play his defensive scheme anymore because Brook can’t pick people up at the logo, the players regularly changed the ATO plays on their own.
I distinctly remember one play where Griffin kept yelling at Brook to step out on a guy at the logo and he kept waiving him off. Finally he steps up and the guy drives for a WIDE OPEN dunk. Brook looks over and yells, “I fucking told you”.
AG’S tenure was the last time the Bucks were remotely healthy. It’s been 3 years of constant injuries since Doc took over.
They let up 120 ppg under him lol. They were scoring like 130 tho with Gianni’s and dame and winning.
Also they had a way easier schedule with him than with Doc that season.
Also his assistants didn’t like him.
literally the most fugazi record ever
Great band 🤘🏻
I’ve heard some rumblings that there was some out of basketball issues with Griffin. Might not be a great guy and the bucks were trying to get ahead of it.
Ugh. Don’t remind me.
*with pay.
Honestly, I’d want to get fired. It doesn’t seem to do anything to your career.
The Bucks are 93-92 with Doc.
Mike Brown went 1-4 with his new team and got fired
David Blatt started a season 30-11 and got fired
This dude played 1 season with a re-building Knicks team. Different teams, different expectations.
Mike Brown lost 6 in a row and got fired last season.
I think it’s more the expectations as well as how many games are played. Euroleague teams play a maximum of 40 games or so. Having 6 losses in a row is not good at all and more difficult to bounce back from and still have a good record. It’s obviously not good in the NBA either to lose 6 in a row but there is more time/more games to win to make amends.
Euroleague teams are also the best teams in Europe and have already proven to be the best teams in their respective leagues to earn a spot in Euroleague. Nobody is tanking in Euroleague, they are there to win and be the best team in Europe. If the wizards lose 10 in a row people just say cool they are tanking see you next season. If Real Madrid lost 10 in a row there would be riots. So the pressure on coaches is likely much greater in the Euroleague compared to an NBA organisation who has been given the greenlight to secure a top 3 draft pick. However obviously even this “pressure” is subjective, because we could imagine if Spo didn’t win with Miami’s big 3, he probably wouldn’t be in the league anymore.
The 40 Game Euroleague schedule is pretty new. It used to be group play where 6 games in a row meant an end to your Euroleague ambitions.
Ty Lue started 0-6 and got fired
Why are we comparing coaches to players lol? He said that in Europe you as a player can get fired, and that never happens in the NBA.
Isn’t that because European leagues don’t have salary caps and guaranteed contracts so that, even if they fire a player, they won’t be bumping up against a ceiling they’re allowed to spend to when finding replacement players?
I mean it’s more of an end of year review thing, but I have to imagine most NBA players are getting let go after 1-3 years. The difference really is we’re talking the very best in the world who can negotiate fully guaranteed contracts and hold more individual influence vs very good players, but not the best in the world and thus they just don’t have the same individual power over their companies.
At the end of the season these dudes are getting fired. Maybe they don’t get brought back, maybe they get traded, maybe they get demoted to the G-league, but either a bunch of players are getting fired. The structure is just different.
Guaranteed contracts
So its fair to say he got fired, like most of that Knicks team at this point
Mike brown wasn’t in his first season as the lakers coach when he got fired after we started 1-4… it was his second season and we had disappointed the year before too.
If you’re on a shitty team with no expectations there’s no pressure. If you’re a contender you could be good and on the hot seat
But the point still applies. In Europe due to the league structure you’re always competing for something so there’s never a stretch of games where there’s nothing being on the line. A lower tier team will be fighting to avoid relegation, a mid table team will be fighting for a playoff spot and top teams will be fighting for a playoff spot in Euroleague. There’s only, maybe, 2⁄3 teams in Europe that have no pressure during the RS due to being systematically superior domestically and internationally, namely Real and Oly, mayyyybe, Fenerbache. But then it all gets amplified like crazy in the Playoffs because they *must* win.
It will be wild if neither Rangers nor Celtic win the Scottish league this year. The last time it happened was 1984!
Literally 1984!!!
It doesn’t look likely unfortunately. MON is too good at scrapping wins and hearts are likely to bottle it down the stretch
I mean i’m talking about basketball and Tier 1, because that’s the basketball comparison. But even Celtic/Rangers have European football to worry about and although they’re not quite trophy material, it’s not like there won’t be pressure during the Group Stage or the knockouts.
The comparison is that there’s literally half of the league in the NBA that has ultimately nothing to play for so there’s nothing putting pressure on the players.
Does the Euroleague have regulation? I thought I read recently that most teams are not at risk of relegation and it’s not a true regulation system for those at risk anyways
Euroleague no. The domestic leagues yes.
small heads up: I think you mean relegation, not regulation :)
And even if you’re not on the chopping block missing the playoffs is a big thing for Euroleague teams. There’s a lot of money involved and a lucky run to the semis is not impossible from the play ins
That’s why their games are more fun to watch, compared to NBA where most teams just casually stroll through the regular season. It’s not even teams tanking, it’s that the majority of teams don’t have the incentive to try their best most of the season.
As a Laker fan, our fans are constantly looking for who needs to be fired, JJ, Rob even LeBron James has his haters in our subreddit it’s stupid what the expectations are when you’re expected to contend every night.
No one gave a shit when we sucked but all of a sudden if you have an off night, put in a rotation that people don’t agree with or get a promising player on a reasonable contract who doesn’t pan out. You’re ass is on the hot seat, half our fans can’t even give you a reasonable solution to the problem other then WE NEED CHANGE.
Rob has been dogshit for the past 5 years let’s not pretend this is some new spur of the moment thing
Yeah the thing is he’s saved his ass with the trade of the century. Nobody could have seen that he’d manage to get rid of Gabe and get Kennard in return. Oh and the Luka trade was pretty special as well.
Has he? Let’s break it down.
Drafting. Pretty mid but we haven’t had a lottery pick since LeBron got here. He drafted Max Christie who’s a pretty decent role player in the league who lots of guys would live to still have on the team. We traded JHS in the Luka trade getting off a dead contract in return for a SUPER STAR. Dalton single handedly won us a couple of games last year and was looking promising before going into trade rumours for Mark Williams who had injury concerns.
Mark Williams has been great this year compared to Dalton (11/8/1 vs 4/1/0) so I can see where you might knock Rob for thag but imagine if he let the trade go through, we commited to Mark and he missed two years like Vando.
Vando got a steal of a contract out of us given his output, he was basically injured for an entire season but just before he got the extension and the injury he looked great. He was locking down Curry and looked like a tall point defender who had his limitations but had a high upside.
The Gabe and Nunn signing were flops. Gabe struggled to string a long any amount of good games for us and was average on his best days, Nunn never saw the rise he had in that play off run ever again but who could have seen that. You have to swing for players.
The Westbrook trade was influenced off of our top two players, due to the bubble they were run down and they wanted another player who could take the load off. F trade giving up KCP who was a stud for us but Kuzma hasn’t done anything since.
He should never have let Caruso walk. THT was dog shit but he landed us Vando and Dlo who were pretty big pieces in out conference final runs but then did cost us the year after. 50⁄50 how you feel about that.
The Prince and Beasly signing are only bad due to how they performed on our team, they both went and shot the lights out after they left us and neither are in the league anymore.
Now let’s look at what Rob has been good at.
Rob got us Rui who’s a consistent mid range shooter who doesn’t have an ego, never complains about touches and does what is needed.
He got us Luka, albeit a lot of luck involved there.
Luke Kenard looks good.
Marcus Smart looks good.
DA has his flaws but we’re paying him fuck all.
We didn’t pay DFS.
In the last five years, which doesn’t include us winning a ring.
We’ve made the play-offs every year and apart from 2021 I’ve always felt like we could make deep play off runs.
Fans might be up in arms online… but it’s online. That doesn’t count and isn’t what this post is about.
There might be pressure for a team that sucks for an entire season with coaches on the hot seat or trades
No players that are starting are moved or fired after a bad week or two of play
Nah, in the NBA you have job security for most players. They can’t get fired as they have guaranteed multi-year contracts.
In Europe, players can get fired anytime even under contract because contracts are not fully garanteed. You don’t perform, you’re gone without salary.
Maybe but, in the NBA, there’s only 1-4 contenders each season.
90% of the league doesn’t have a realistic chance to win.
Nah. Last year was great. The old-ass Warriors looked like they had something special going before Steph went down and the Wolves have gone from an absolute joke of a team post-KG, into this perennial Western Conference Powerhouse. The Spurs are one of the best teams in the league and despite their recent struggles, the Rockets looked really good coming into the season. Add in the Celtics and Knicks in the East and factoring in last year’s Pacers run, there are a lot of teams that can realistically hoist the O’Brien just this year and that’s without mentioning the Thunder, Nuggets or Lakers.
Yeah every championship winning coach from 2019 to 2023 has been fired by their team afterwards.
I do think the Celtics and Thunder will buck that trend and keep their coaches for awhile
Dude played 1 year on a bad knicks team
Yeah you probably know better
Good chance they do, often Euro flame outs say the NBA has this issue or that issue.
But the Euro legends or even just the career players, never say anything like this. You’d never see Tony Parker or Luka saying this shit.
It’s always Mario Hezonja and Mindaugas Kuzminskas
Imagine Dirk saying there’s no pressure in the NBA.
If Dirk played for the same era Knicks team he’d probably be pissed that there was no accountability too
Yea we were all pretty pissed about the Phil Jackson era, he really did not want to be there and it infected the organization top to bottom.
“There is no pressure in the NBA,” says guy that got fired from the NBA.
He also played for a particularly bad coach and team. Probably low standards.
I guarantee Miami Heat Players feel pressure from Pat Riley to win games 😂
Random respect from a Celtics fan, I (hate) love it.
Some of the worst basketball I’ve watched that year. Truly dark times.
Well the Euroleague has 38 games so yeah losing 6 in a row is much worse
And that’s your answer
Was going to say it’s like 1/6th of the season, about a whole month with no win
Sure you may not get fired, but the more likely repercussion would be getting less minutes, having to sit on the bench more and possibly costing yourself your future contract right?
This is the part that gets me. He felt like it was easy because he didn’t get yelled at for not bringing anything to the team. I’m sure it was an easy year for him.
But his mentality and lack of holding himself accountable for that year ended his NBA career. An NBA player is expected to be a professional and hold himself to a high standard. Guys who can’t or won’t do that wash out of the league very fast.
Also: he basically stole $3 million from the Knicks in his second year. He played 2 minutes all year and they cut him by November. I’m sure nobody yelled at him. Probably just said “we decided to go in a different direction.” Might have even complimented his hard work and dedication, he was too dumb to realize that’s the American way that management calls you a failure.
This quote from him actually really annoys me. I was a fan, watched him play. We were waiting for him to be good, supportive in the hopes he figured it out. And in all that time he was just wasting our time and stealing the teams money because he didn’t realize he’s the one who needs to get himself to the gym, train hard, work on his game and bring intensity on the floor. Did he want somebody to force him to? What the fuck.
Ironically Kuzminskas did get fired. After one season in NY, he never played in the NBA again. It takes a unique level of ignorance to claim there was no pressure, yet your ass got sent back across the Atlantic to never return.
He got waived so we could:
Make room on the roster for Joakim Noah, who was returning from PED suspension the previous season and only went on to play 7 more games with the Knicks averaging 6 minutes a game.
Keep Ramon Sessions, who was supposed to be the veteran starting point guard but lost his spot 3 games into the season and completely fell out of the rotation making half as much money as Kuz.
Keep Jarrett Jack, who became the starting point guard over Ramon Sessions but was on a non guaranteed contract. Also making half as much money as Kuz.
Bench players talking like starters. He played 1 year in the league where the entire season was Melo and Phil Jackson beefing with each other in the media.
theres no pressure in the only league every basketball fan on earth follows
no pressure
It’s the only professional basketball league in the world where numerous teams are not even trying to win.
because its also the only league where players can’t go any higher. tanking for draft picks doesnt work in a league where that player, if he is an all time great, will just leave the league for a better one.
In other “pro” leagues, you don’t win, you don’t exist.
NBA is a genuinely successful endeavour unlike 90% of the world’s professional leagues. You can afford to plan for the future.
No pressure on re-building teams no
No pressure for the team to get wins, sure
There’s 1000% pressure on the players to prove that they belong in the league.
You mean the league without relagation? The league where team bench their best player to lose game?
In the NBA the governor of the team might buy the coach a new car if the team loses 10 in row, if the team is tanking
ignore the flair
this might be the first time I’m hearing europeans brag about job insecurity
Europeans drink way more at sporting events. That’s all I’m going to say.
What coach can just lose? In the NBA you can win coach of the year, lose the conference finals in game 7 and get fired
The coach of a tanking team.
They get fired at the end of the season too
You think Rick Carlisle is gone after the season?
The original KuzGod. People really sleeping on how good he was 🔥💩
I tried to get Mind Dog to catch on as his nickname lmao, I had completely forgotten about him until this post
Always the bum euros saying stuff like this and never the good players lol
I do remember Luka saying it was a lot easier to score in the nba
Not directly maybe, but he only lasted one year in the league.
So he probably wasn’t deemed important enough as a mature age rookie to try and pressure to give more.
Also he looks great for what would have to be mid-late 30s.
He played for a rebuilding Knicks team. Of course they didnt care about winning a lot.
I looked him up and he’s currently playing for Athens and is coached by a 73 year old serb born and raised in Yugoslavia. Yeah he’s getting chewed out after every game lmao.
Didn’t feel enough pressure to keep his job lol probably should’ve felt the pressure to perform or otherwise you’re out of the league. And if you’re feeling too much pressure in the Euroleague cause you know you play bad enough there’s not many more leagues left for you to play in
The original “KUUUZ” chant. Loved him on the Knicks.
Who the fuck is this
Actual NBA player: “I experienced more pressure in Europe than in the NBA”
Reddit users who don’t watch games: “YOU’RE WRONG!”
People are clowning this because his own experience contradicts what he’s saying here
Stupid European centric storylines. It gets so old. NBA had to change the entire product to cater to their skill set now they they get to criticize? GTFOH and go home.
I don’t necessarily think that’s a bad thing on the NBA’s part. You don’t want to exaggerate after 6 games
Mans just wanna fire every coach after every 6 game losing streak in a 82 game season.
Yeah, that’s because NBA is the high point of talent, so there’s no point in firing a guy to replace them with worse. Not to insult European basketball, but the players can actually be replaced, which isn’t something true of the NBA
In 2015-2016, the Cavs had the best record in the East and fired their coach in the middle of the season. They went on to win the NBA championship. Do you think David Blatt didn’t feel pressure to win? What about Tyrone Lue, who replaced him?
The real pressure in the NBA is in the playoffs
If he wasn’t feeling any pressure I’d guess he was unaware he was playing his one and only season in the league. Yeah nobody really yells in professionals faces over here in the states, you just get your ass canned and someone else will do your job full effort.
82 game season versus a 38 game season btw
Who?
Redditors pretending like they have any more knowledge of what actually goes on than a guy who actually played and got to see it first hand are arguing with walls in the comments lmao.
I don’t think playing 1 season for a bad Knicks team at the very beginning of transitioning from being Melo’s team to being Porzingis’ team gives him an expert’s perspective on the pressure of the NBA or playing in New York City.
If he only played 1 year in the NBA, does that not mean he got “fired”?
He got waived the following season to make room for Joakim Noah who was returning from a PED suspension from the previous year. They waived him over waiving Ramon Sessions who lost his starting spot and spot in the rotation three games into the season or Jarrett Jack on a non-guaranteed contract. He played 2 minutes in a blowout loss in his sophomore season.
Just to put some perspective on the level of competition that got him fired.
Well people dont care about regular season. Even the In season tournament doesnt get credit. So whats the logic about pressure here?
I wonder if boom mic operators get sick of the trend of showing off the mic and stand.
The “blow it all up” approach is a reset button. It rarely speeds up the time to getting good.
Maybe that is why you play in AEK and never did anything in NBA
Knicks legend 🔥
I know he’s decent in Euroball, but this guy was total butt for the Knicks
This guy basically lasted a single season in the NBA. Maybe he shouldve felt more pressure for himself
alex i’ll take stupidest shit ever said for $500
Guy played one season in the NBA, started 5 games, promptly got waived and returned to Europe.
“There is no pressure in the NBA”
Maybe you should have felt some pressure to perform my dude.
These guys talk about Eurobasket like it’s King Von I’m getting tired of it
David Blatt comes to mind. Coached Cleveland caveliers. Must be the exception
Mundungus fletcher ahh
If only Europe can incentivize tanking…
Only then will they truly be good
Bc the season is longer in the nba and most teams are tanking.
I wish these guys would STFU. There are 82 NBA games and the culture is ring culture.
Losing 6 in a row in NBA is equivalent to losing 3 in a row in Europe. They simply don’t play as many games so it is a bad comparison
Sounds like a guy who couldn’t make it in the nba
Kuz was such a good player and didn’t get a real opportunity with us.
Dog you played for the Knicks in their dark ages I don’t think you’re qualified to say what the environment in the NBA is like lmao
“Man, no one was upset when I was on the 10-72 76ers!”
The power of unions and contracts is the real reason here
I’ve never been able to watch euro ball (can’t find games). Does he mean that players can get fired midway through the season if they just play like shit for multiple games in a row?
Because he played under the Steve Mills knicks lol
I have had my picture taken with Kuzminskas last year.
Mono AEK.
False equivalence.
Euro ball is, what 40 games? 6⁄40-something games isn’t the same as 6⁄82. You lose 10-12 games in a row, in the NBA, depending on injuries and rebuilding and the next draft, it’s still different, but a closer comparison.
He uses faulty, unnuanced logic.
Does Europe have an 82 game season?
It’s a marathon in the NBA.
In europe they are unaware of variance?
Cause as long as the owners turn a profit they don’t care anymore. It feels like owners more so own a team as a business venture than love of the game like it used to be.
Yea I can see this being legit. It doesn’t seem like players are really under pressure to perform anymore. Everyone knows that as long as they do the bare minimum they’ve got a bag coming their way
This dude has literally no credibility to back up any of this but he says the thing they want to hear so wheel him out I guess
Absolute nonsense statement, when millions of dollars are on the line there is always pressure.
The real Kuz. Idk why he’s talking all that when he was barely in the league lmao
Not everyday you hear someone arguing Americans aren’t reactionary enough.
they only play like 30 games so obviously 6 games would mean more lol pea brains
Who is this?
I’m not even american. but it is pretty funny some random Europeans acting like a hardass for some reason where in reality their team would probably get aboslutely shit on by an average NBA teams. Jokic, Luka, and Giannis are Europeans basketball legends, but they are more humble than this guy lmaoo
Knick legend