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Originally Posted by King Glorious
Not the whole season. He played 26 games last year and averaged 18 points, four assists, and three turnovers per game while shooting 40% from the field (34% on threes).
The year before that, he averaged 15, three and a half assists, and three turnovers shooting 43% (32%).
Hardly bad numbers for a freshman and then a sophomore but hardly earth moving considering the conference he was playing in and after reading all of his Olympic press, you'd think he would be much better. The Olympics tend to do this with guys a lot. The Lakers took a guy off the Chinese Olympic team that can't get off their developmental squad. Some years back, I remember Andrew Gaze would kill people in the Olympics but was just an average college player. Does anyone believe Oscar Schmidt could have come to the NBA scoring 35 a game?
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I'm not sure I am understanding using Patty Mills as an example of Euros (or Aussies in his case) not being good players? Mills was the best player in his league. He is a 6 foot 175 pound point guard. What exactly was he supposed to do? You do realize that they play 40 minute games in the NCAA? Do I have to start using Euro/foreigners that have been lights out? Pau, Dirk, Drazen Petrovic, Peja, Tony Parker, Hedo, Detleff, Manu, etc?
Rubio is a 6'5' point guard who excelled playing in professional leagues and the Olympics at age 17 and 18. Who else does that? Think he'd be heavily recruited if he decided to go to a US college this year? To say that the Olympics are exhibitions is ridiculous unless you didnt bother watching them. Hell Kobe played harder there than he did most of the regular season.