Comments on: Letter to Santa Claus

By: Os Davis

Os Davis — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 09:24:22 +0000

Mother, is that you…?

By: Zyanya

Zyanya — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 21:12:28 +0000

Can I just say, this blog is what got me through the day today? Every time I read it, I just get more and more excited about what’s next. Very refreshing blog and very refreshing ideas. I’m glad that I came across this when I did. I love what you’ve got to say and the way you say it…

By: aiste

aiste — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:13:58 +0000

Sorry, haven’t even read all the article, but one phrase that I just cannot leave.
As a fan of Zalgiris my opinion might be not objective, but as a fan of basketball I should say that Zalgiris deserves to be in a first league. as a basketball country (with the population of 3.5 mil and great achievements that’s kinda correct name to use) Lithuania has to have at least 1 team in Euroleague even though it’s pretty hard times for the team. I believe in my team so do all here

By: Tobias

Tobias — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:49:17 +0000

I dont want to take Francesco’s fame – He wrote this article and did a great job as always – I just published it.

By: Arvids

Arvids — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:56:21 +0000

I can agree with Tobi’s wish regarding agents caring about clients, but cannot agree about Jennings case whatsoever. Apart from Evans other guys have been in college for a considerable time already, so if you have some talent then by that time you should be already rather good. Can you really say that any of those kids would be able to step in decent Italian team and play a major role (or bigger role than BJ) at the moment? Maybe the kid will not raise his stock in eyes of scouts by playing in Roma, but in general I think he will learn more basketball fundamentals over here than he would playing in NCAA. Also you cannot put a tag on playing vs men instead of boys all the time. Maybe he would have been big star in NCAA for Arizona, but now he learns to play men’s ball and I will be ready to pass my judgement at the end of the season. Because he still has time to prove that he is worth the hype.

By: Letter to Santa Claus (BallinEurope)

Letter to Santa Claus (BallinEurope) — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:16:49 +0000

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By: radallo

radallo — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:02:58 +0000

24 elite teams in the Euroleague: it would be great but in my opinion sounds pretty impossible to find 24 strong team in the same season (unless you consider the idea to find 16 european + 8 nba)….

I agree it can be boring watching a 20+ point delta game.. but it can happen even between great teams (PANA-BARCA, BARCA-MPS); moreover smaller team give the oportunity to watch young player on the field (for future NIKEID edition maybe..), to improve their skill ..and mentality as well (to be sold to rich clubs).

Anyway.. this formula might have some fracture.. but the TOP16 is a great basketball show!!

New arenas update: here’s some drawings of the project of the future Fortitudo Arena..
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=767350
http://europaconcorsi.com/projects/68562-Parco-delle-Stelle/images

I don’t know if the crisis will stop the project, and if we’ll never see it overbooked (fortitudo is now around 4000 attendance on average..) .. but let’s keep dreaming!

Last, my wish to SantaClaus: stop NBA team from draining the best European player cheers

By: Javi

Javi — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:17:49 +0000

As for endless trades in the NIKEiD Fantasy Challenge, it’s a done deal, man.

But only between the end of the regular season and the start of the Top 16.

If you can’t wait, you can always join the Eurocup FabFive and trade til you drop!

By: robbe

robbe — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:06:38 +0000

Beautiful arenas
Cheerleaders everywhere
Closed league with the continent’s best teams
Spinmoves, dunks, dribblings, midrange shots
Few faceup-power forwards
Nike, Adidas, Converse
Greg Oden

I know a league for you. And I’m not even Santa Claus.

The only thing I can’t help you with is the angel-like agents.