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… but Yao Ming does

October 1, 2007

The headline just makes sense if you have read the article about Sam Mitchell, coach of the Toronto Raptors. Yao Ming, currently playing at the CBA Euroleague challenge (by the way, follow this event it is great!) for Team China gave euroleague.net his thoughts on European Basketball.

“I think that European teams have a couple of different styles,” he said. “Some, like those from Greece, play good organized games, using the full shot clock of 24 seconds. You have to play a lot of attention on defense, because they keep moving the ball until they find the best chance to take a shot. Some other teams, like Slovenia, play more like a U.S. team. They play very physical and try to score as much as they can. And France, I don’t know much about except they left a big impression on me in 2000 when Antoine Rigaudeau made six three-point shots in a row to beat us.”

By the way – I just watched the game Team China vs. CSKA Mosow. Talking about organized games you have to mention Teo Papaloukas who got some good offers from some NBA teams like the Lakers this summer but stayed with CSKA – now wearing Steve Nash’s new signature sneaker.

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