"Danny doesn't like to draft foreigners": analysis

[greece66]

It is not 'Giannis' (Greek for John).
It is ANTETOKOUNMPO. Do memorize this name.
If you have watched any Milwaukee games, you know what I am talking about.

[footey]

It's so hard to scout the foreign player.  Generally, you get only the games they play nationally to actually look at them against 'some' NBA/NCAA competition.

The foreign player is usually going up against lesser competition, even lesser than NCAA competition at times.  How do you scout that ?  How do you compare ?

What happens when they play the best of the best ?  Or get out there with guys in division 1, who often times dominate a lesser conference but yet are still drafted late in the first or early in the second rounds ?  I.E. Guys like J.R. Giddens (ran through the Mountain West Conf. like it was nothing)

Do you take Giddens who dominated tougher competition here, or do you take Jawai who dominated slugs ?

It's a true guessing game when it comes to the foreign players.  You get lucky every once in a blue moon.

You draft DeAndre Jordan, that's what you do.

[sahara]

It is not 'Giannis' (Greek for John).
It is ANTETOKOUNMPO. Do memorize this name.
If you have watched any Milwaukee games, you know what I am talking about.

ANTETOKOUNMPO was the greekified(lol) name. What was the original (Nigerian?) name, I forgot that?

[footey]

Word was the Danny loves Porzingis in this coming draft, though I doubt he will be available when we pick.  I doubt he opposes drafting foreign players, per se. Just has to be the right guy.  They do enough scouting abroad to make good judgments.

[mr. dee]

Olynyk, Melo and Iverson are technically foreigners. Both Olynyk and Iverson are Canadians and Fab Melo is a Brazilian.

Let's not also forget Semih Erden (Turkey).

Had Olynyk been taken away earlier last year and we will have Giannis. Had the Jazz not taken Exum and we might have picked him.

[greece66]

It is not 'Giannis' (Greek for John).
It is ANTETOKOUNMPO. Do memorize this name.
If you have watched any Milwaukee games, you know what I am talking about.

ANTETOKOUNMPO was the greekified(lol) name. What was the original (Nigerian?) name, I forgot that?

He was born and raised in Athens. There is no 'original' name.

[BballTim]

It is not 'Giannis' (Greek for John).
It is ANTETOKOUNMPO. Do memorize this name.
If you have watched any Milwaukee games, you know what I am talking about.

  Did you resurrect an old thread just to complain because people don't know how to spell that name?