10 wins? Maybe 5 if they are lucky lol, Kendrick Nunn is their best player btw, so imagine their best player being Kendrick Nunn who couldnt even be a bench player in the NBA

That’s kind of in agreement with him though.

He’s basically saying they could beat the Jazz or Kings. You could probably give them 1:4 odds for that.

I think a European league team could maybe take a handful of games in an 82 game season just based on the terrible grind of the season/lineups/tanking teams/etc but yeah if it’s just a 1 game series and the losing team dies or something then they’re not getting anywhere close to a win lol

First unbiased take on this subject I’ve seen from a European basketball fan. You’re 100% correct

As an American, there are elements of basketball we should take from Europe but talent is not one of them. Team play in youth academies, fan environment are the first 2 that come to mind.

Wizards is a bad example considering they have AD,Trae,AJ e.t.c They would score 150 easily. Maybe they could beat the Kings or Jazz once after 20 game or something. As a European myself too.

The basketball itself certainly feels like a higher caliber (strictly in terms of fundamentals) in EuroLeague. But unfortunately, basketball requires gigantic freak athletes, and the NBA is where those players reside.

If the 10-72 Process Sixers could lose to the 73-9 Warriors by only 3 points I certainly do believe a good European team could catch a crappy NBA team off guard once in a while. They’d be by far the worst team in the league, but I don’t think they go 0-82

The 17-65 Lakers blew the Warriors out that year

I get what he’s trying to say, but he played for the eventual champions. I know they hit another gear shortly after he got traded but still.

I get it.

If anything it speaks to how garbage some nba teams may be. prob can beat the kings

I mean, I don’t think it’s controversial to say a high-level Euro League team could win a random game against a random NBA team on a random night. Particularly if we’re talking about playing euro League style rules

Obviously if they were thrown into an 82 game season they would get smashed

But there’s no way they go 0-82

I remember our sub was kind of excited for the off season signing too and then he was just unmitigated garbage

They probably could if NBA plays only with 3 players so its a 3v5 (even then maybe Euroleague players are hard brickers they have like 3 good shooters in that league lol)

That’s like that ¹⁄₁ dork claiming he’d cook TJ McConnell over the summer. You absolutely would not, Champ.

It’s always the international guys that got the most to say about being able to beat actual NBA players lol

He was also on a Celtics team that finished 4th in the East and had Tatum, Brown, Kyrie, Marcus Smart, Al Horford, and Gordon Hayward so “most talented team I’ve ever been on” is a pretty good one

Those 5 would be among the worst bench (5 thru 10) in the league, although possibly not the absolute worst. Also, I suspect most of those 5 would be on NBA teams if they could make any top 9.. so they’ve probably regressed slightly since we last saw them.

Occasionally, we see this play out where a team rests their top 5 or 6 players, essentially conceding a game for rest. These teams probably win around ¹⁄₂₀ of those games.. partly due to the “trap game” factor, but partly because bench NBA players are not terrible and can get lucky.

So they’re certainly nowhere close to an NBA team but could beat one if they had enough chances. Now if both sides treated it like a championship game 7, I’d guess they beat Sacramento 1 in 100 tries

i miss Juancho. dude was a fan favorite.

I feel like that takes away from his credibility. Like we’ve seen all these dudes play before, they are not beating an NBA team

No a group of guys who can’t make a rotation in the nba is not beating an nba team consistently

Kings always catching strays

I miss Kendrick Nunn. In Miami he was second in Rookie of Year voting (not close to ja morant) and 4th on the team in ppg in the year we went to NBA finals in the bubble. As an undrafted rookie he was 3rd on the team in total minutes and 3rd in total points on a team that went to the NBA finals.

They wouldn’t lol

Domantas Sabonis is easily better than every single player listed there.

brother, put Washington Wizards rn against any Euroleague team, on any rules, they are destroying them by like 30, Aj Dybantsa and Ad would move like they are demi gods…

So everyday

Acuff scoring 62 on 110 shots

He was on the Kyrie, Hayward, Horford, and the Jays Celtics.

I just checked a bunch of the rosters for top teams in that league and it’s all washed NBA players lmao

That is because they started with a penalty. They are first in eurolegue and one of the favorites.

Excellent point

Kenneth Faried is not on Panathinaikos

The Jazz starting lineup last night was Ace Bailey, Josh Green, Jaxson Hayes, Keyonte George and Darryn Peterson. They are bad right now.

The Wizards beating anyone is never a sure thing, even with AD.