Title: Rubio - most hyped player ever in europe? Post by: PacersGM on August 23, 2006, 01:18:30 AM I can´t believe this kid at the age of 15 is already playing meaningfull mins in the first division in spain at the senior level at the PG position. Possible the best league in europe.
But his performance in the U16 European championship game is just crazy. if i can find a video i will post a link here. for the moment this arcticle describes his performance enough. http://draftexpress.com/viewarticle.php?a=1442 Title: Re: Rubio - most hyped player ever in europe? Post by: KingsGM-old on August 23, 2006, 11:13:56 AM Never heard of him but my friend ws watchin U18 games and he said there was some kid who went for 54pts, 25rebs, 15sa and 12 blocks. Is that him?
Title: Re: Rubio - most hyped player ever in europe? Post by: BlazersGM on August 23, 2006, 12:57:31 PM that was Oden maybe, there's no chance PG gets 25 rebs
Title: Re: Rubio - most hyped player ever in europe? Post by: PacersGM on August 23, 2006, 01:15:34 PM :lol2: you are almost right but rubio can:
his stats in the semifinals: 19/10/13 and 11 steals in 33mins in the finals he had: 51/24/12 and 7 steals :hail: at the end he was the leader per avg. in pts, rebs (as a PG!), ass and steals. Not for his team for the whole tournament. Only Deng had some similar stats as a youngster for england but that was against minor competition and the english team was so bad they still lost most games. But rubio did that for the U16 champ at the age of 15 :screwy: Title: Re: Rubio - most hyped player ever in europe? Post by: KingsGM-old on August 23, 2006, 01:36:23 PM Yeah, that's him.
Title: Re: Rubio - most hyped player ever in europe? Post by: MavsGM on August 23, 2006, 04:08:24 PM He's 6'3 at the age of 15. Could be the next Magic.
Title: Re: Rubio - most hyped player ever in europe? Post by: BlazersGM on August 23, 2006, 05:11:13 PM Roko is better
Title: Re: Rubio - most hyped player ever in europe? Post by: KingsGM-old on August 23, 2006, 05:23:40 PM Not impressed at all. They're cheatin on age all the time on such tournaments. He might as well be 17 or 18. Off course, then it's a diferent story.
Title: Re: Rubio - most hyped player ever in europe? Post by: PacersGM on August 23, 2006, 05:26:40 PM Not impressed at all. They're cheatin on age all the time on such tournaments. He might as well be 17 or 18. Off course, then it's a diferent story. what are you talking about? What would you say if he were croatian? Title: Re: Rubio - most hyped player ever in europe? Post by: KingsGM-old on August 23, 2006, 05:42:35 PM Croatian? Dude i've played against Josip Sesar and Dalibor Bagaric back in my junior days. Sesar was named "Croatian Jordan" by many (and that includes some US experts, couple of years later i was supposed to be his first backup, i was 19 at that time), he was unstopable, the man among kids, he had something like 40ppg just to found out couple of years later that he was OLDER then the rest of us. 2 years older. So when we were 16, he was 18. And that's a huge, huge diference. These cheatin on age is happening all the time, specially in U16, U18 and U20 tournaments.
This guy definitely doesn't look like he's 15, i can tell you that by the definition of his arms and body structure. You can see that he's way above his peers psychicaly. The most of them are going to catch him up (most of the kids don't develop that earlie, i know that by myself. I was 5'7 at the age of 16 and 6'6 by the age of 18) and then we will see how good he really is. That's why i mentioned Bagaric (still can't belive that idiot played for the Bulls, but they let anyone in NBA these days as it seems). When we were playin against him he was something like 6'10 and our first C was a laughter at 6'4. Off course, he droped 45 and 20rebs on us. But once he got into senior competition, where there are many C's with his size and strenght, he was a mockery. And it's still a mockery today. Title: Re: Rubio - most hyped player ever in europe? Post by: BlazersGM on August 23, 2006, 05:57:44 PM I agree with Kings on that, and i say again my thing "Roko is the best"
Title: Re: Rubio - most hyped player ever in europe? Post by: KingsGM-old on August 23, 2006, 06:01:23 PM At first i thought you were joking. But now i know you're complete fool. Roko's what!?
Title: Re: Rubio - most hyped player ever in europe? Post by: MavsGM on August 23, 2006, 06:06:54 PM Quote This guy definitely doesn't look like he's 15, i can tell you that by the definition of his arms and body structure. You can say the samething about almost all players. Look at Oden, he looked like someone's grandpa but he's 18 years old. (http://media.scout.com/Media/Image/23/239731.jpg) Also take a look at this guy for example, he is 6'8 256 playing in little league world series at the age of 13. (http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/060820/060820_Durley_vmed_3p.widec.jpg) Title: Re: Rubio - most hyped player ever in europe? Post by: KingsGM-old on August 23, 2006, 06:10:26 PM Black players don't count. They mature much earlier. White, and euroes specially, on the other hand not.
Title: Re: Rubio - most hyped player ever in europe? Post by: BlazersGM on August 23, 2006, 06:20:41 PM Roko is better then that spanish guy, he plays like black.
Title: Re: Rubio - most hyped player ever in europe? Post by: KingsGM-old on August 23, 2006, 06:23:25 PM He plays my ass. And second, he's almost 20 years old, there's no way you can compare him with any 16 or 17 year old kids. It's like apples and pears.
Title: Re: Rubio - most hyped player ever in europe? Post by: BlazersGM on August 23, 2006, 06:56:05 PM what ? i saw him about 30 times playing, you saw him what ? few times on Euro champ where he played great and was best player against Spain in that rip off, he's 20 y.o but he plays professional basket since 15 and 1/2, he was captain of our champion at age 17, he made a wise move to not go to NBA and play in Spain for 2-3 seasons fpr Tau Ceramica and Barcelona now and gain more experience to not make mistakes of many european players who went to NBA when they were 18-20 years old and did nothing, now he's a player with experience in Euro League and Raptors are beginning him to come to play for them but most likely he'll stay 1 year more in europe to learn more and then go to NBA.
Title: Re: Rubio - most hyped player ever in europe? Post by: KingsGM-old on August 23, 2006, 07:01:54 PM He's the most overated player EVER in the history of croatian basketball. He has done absolutely NOTHING, from individual (his stats are MISERABLE) to team achievements. Absolute zero. He's just nice for a eye, but nothing more.
Title: Re: Rubio - most hyped player ever in europe? Post by: BlazersGM on August 23, 2006, 07:23:30 PM ahhhh, its impossible to talk with you, you saw guy 2x times maybe in your life, nobody even talks "too much" about him in media, he's the greatest talent we ever had (i dont count Petrovic, he was not a talent, he was a super hard working guy), he was our best player at Euro championship with 18 years old who got us back in game with Spain, i mean 18 !! while others so-called true stars of euro basketball were scared as shit and did nothing later (like Milicic for example and like Andrea will do now in Raps), anyway, you'll see how good he is when he goes to NBA, its possible he gets this season as Raptors are trying to get him even he still doesnt want to go.
Title: Re: Rubio - most hyped player ever in europe? Post by: PacersGM on August 24, 2006, 01:04:34 AM roko couldn´t even find a starting role on a team like tau with a PG who is so good :bods: that he is buried deep on the bench of the argetinian team. YEs he is a talented streetballer but he has no idea how to play team ball.
Title: Re: Rubio - most hyped player ever in europe? Post by: BlazersGM on August 24, 2006, 09:04:12 AM he played 20-25mpg if im not wrong on top spanish team, he came there to learn, not to play 38mpg, this year he's a starter, and next year he'll go to Raps, then you'll see (in case Raps dont convince him to come now, but i doubt they will) :)
Title: Re: Rubio - most hyped player ever in europe? Post by: KingsGM-old on August 25, 2006, 11:39:59 PM DON'T LISTEN TO ME! LISTEN TO YOUR HEAD!!!
LIES LIES LIES!!!!!!!!!!!!! Title: Re: Rubio - most hyped player ever in europe? Post by: BlazersGM on August 26, 2006, 10:53:00 AM bla bla bla bla
Title: Re: Rubio - most hyped player ever in europe? Post by: KingsGM-old on August 26, 2006, 11:13:18 AM haha, it was nothing about the topic...i was drunk so just wrote the first thing that crossed my mind :lol:
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