1. 02-03-11 07:39 AM #71
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    LOL at people who said Manu Ginobili.
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  2. 02-03-11 07:56 AM #72
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    Dirk is too soft

    Wouldn't have lasted in era of Petrovic
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  3. 02-03-11 08:17 AM #73
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    Sabonis if judged by all around talent, Dirk if judged by production in the NBA
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  4. 02-03-11 08:45 AM #74
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    DJ Mbenga of course
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  5. 02-03-11 08:45 AM #75
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bradyd View Post
    Prove it ... I would love to hear this argument...
    NBA Championship rings or World Championship rings. What has Dirk won in his career in a meaningful game? He got busted out of the playoffs as #1 seed from the #8 seed. And his Germany national team is awful. The other three have actually won rings.
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  6. 02-03-11 09:06 AM #76
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    Quote Originally Posted by pavyracer View Post
    NBA Championship rings or World Championship rings. What has Dirk won in his career in a meaningful game? He got busted out of the playoffs as #1 seed from the #8 seed. And his Germany national team is awful. The other three have actually won rings.

    is JJ on break Pavy? is your shift to post stupid, inane opinions.
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  7. 02-03-11 09:21 AM #77
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    Quote Originally Posted by gryfyn1 View Post
    is JJ on break Pavy? is your shift to post stupid, inane opinions.
    Petrovic, Kukoc and Divac played in the best Euro team ever assembled (Yugoslavia). Nowitski won nothing. Most people here are too young to remember how good that team was and probably have never seen them play. You say Nowitzki is the best because this is the only guy you ever saw growing up.
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  8. 02-03-11 11:12 AM #78
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    Quote Originally Posted by pavyracer View Post
    NBA Championship rings or World Championship rings. What has Dirk won in his career in a meaningful game? He got busted out of the playoffs as #1 seed from the #8 seed. And his Germany national team is awful. The other three have actually won rings.
    That's your argument for the best European-NBA player of all time? Tell me you are joking?? Getting a ring doesn't make you a better player, because if it did than Robert Horry is better than Karl Malone, Lebron, and a whole list of other great players... You gotta keep things in perspective....
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  9. 02-03-11 11:46 AM #79
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    Why no love for Pau Gasol???? He's already surpassed Vlade, Kukoc, Detleff and company.

    I believe Bargnani will be in the discussion when the smoke settles down the road.
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  10. 02-03-11 12:11 PM #80
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    Quote Originally Posted by pavyracer View Post
    Petrovic, Kukoc and Divac played in the best Euro team ever assembled (Yugoslavia). Nowitski won nothing. Most people here are too young to remember how good that team was and probably have never seen them play. You say Nowitzki is the best because this is the only guy you ever saw growing up.
    you mean the team that beat the college players in '90 by 8 points and then lost two games by a combined 65 points to NBA players in '92?
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  11. 02-03-11 12:18 PM #81
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    Kukoc and Divac for me
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  12. 02-03-11 12:20 PM #82
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    divac is a bum was very hated . He was a dirty player at times
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  13. 02-03-11 12:22 PM #83
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    Quote Originally Posted by gryfyn1 View Post
    you mean the team that beat the college players in '90 by 8 points and then lost two games by a combined 65 points to NBA players in '92?
    They were all 22 years old when they beat the best US college players. So in terms of age and experience they were equal. And the NBA deam of 92 was well established with virtually every player on the team a HOF.
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  14. 02-03-11 12:23 PM #84
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    Drazen Petrovic (R.I.P.)
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  15. 02-03-11 12:26 PM #85
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    Growing up playing ball, I remember people at the courts calling me Divac cuz of my little half hook.
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  16. 02-03-11 12:42 PM #86
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    disco dirk is the greatest euro player. gasol is up there. from just watching international highlights petrovic was great to watch but no way in hell is he the best euro nba player. he had one year he dropped 22 and that was it. very sad his career got cut short.
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  17. 02-03-11 12:45 PM #87
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    how are you putting guys like sabonis and divac if front of dirk? look at how dallas plays with and without dirk, guy is way more valuable than them
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  18. 02-03-11 12:48 PM #88
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    dirk or pau gasol
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  19. 02-03-11 12:51 PM #89
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    yao ming or barbosa
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  20. 02-03-11 12:58 PM #90
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    Quote Originally Posted by OmgUrMom View Post
    how are you putting guys like sabonis and divac if front of dirk? look at how dallas plays with and without dirk, guy is way more valuable than them
    Has dirk ever won a title, at any level?

    Guy wouldn't last 5 minutes in a locker room with Petrovic

    Once heard a story of Drazen stabbing an equipment manager because the guy mis-pronounced his name
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  21. 02-03-11 01:17 PM #91
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    Easily Dirk, IMO.
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  22. 02-03-11 01:18 PM #92
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    No love for the frenchman Tony Parker?
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  23. 02-03-11 01:24 PM #93
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    Sabonis I think could've been a top 50 NBA guy if he had started here and played on better teams. He was one of the best shooting and passing big men who ever stepped on the floor. He didn't take over games like other guys but his ability to do a lot more than just dunk made for some tough match ups.
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  24. 02-03-11 01:29 PM #94
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    Sabonis, he was so nasty and by the time he was here he could barely walk with those big ole knee braces on!
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  25. 02-03-11 01:35 PM #95
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    I already posted in this thread:

    PETROVIC--HANDS DOWN (HE JUST HAPPENED TO GET KILLED IN A CAR ACCIDENT) PETRO USED TO SCHOOL EVEN MICHAEL JORDAN AT TIMES. DIRK NOWITZKI IS A GREAT PLAYER BUT PETROVIC WAS A HELL OF A LOT TOUGHER AND A SLIGHTLY BETTER PLAYER THAN DIRK

    I'VE SEEN PETRO PLAY FOR THE NETS (IN PERSON). IT'S VERY SAD. THEY HAD A DOCUMENTARY ON ESPN ABOUT HOW DIVAC DISRESPECTED CROATIA AND THAT PETROVIC NEVER FORGAVE HIM. REALLY SUCKS. THE WHOLE THING
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  26. 02-03-11 01:48 PM #96
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    Quote Originally Posted by katstale View Post
    Sabonis. and he was past his prime when he made it to NBA. i think if you look at his international play he wins this hands down.
    Exactly correct.
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  27. 02-03-11 02:01 PM #97
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    Quote Originally Posted by OmgUrMom View Post
    how are you putting guys like sabonis and divac if front of dirk? look at how dallas plays with and without dirk, guy is way more valuable than them
    Because in his prime Sabonis would mop the floor with both Divac and Nowitzki
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  28. 02-03-11 02:44 PM #98
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    Quote Originally Posted by will2survive View Post
    I already posted in this thread:

    PETROVIC--HANDS DOWN (HE JUST HAPPENED TO GET KILLED IN A CAR ACCIDENT) PETRO USED TO SCHOOL EVEN MICHAEL JORDAN AT TIMES. DIRK NOWITZKI IS A GREAT PLAYER BUT PETROVIC WAS A HELL OF A LOT TOUGHER AND A SLIGHTLY BETTER PLAYER THAN DIRK

    I'VE SEEN PETRO PLAY FOR THE NETS (IN PERSON). IT'S VERY SAD. THEY HAD A DOCUMENTARY ON ESPN ABOUT HOW DIVAC DISRESPECTED CROATIA AND THAT PETROVIC NEVER FORGAVE HIM. REALLY SUCKS. THE WHOLE THING
    Petro was good, but not as good as you are making him out to be. And you can't give him credit for something he didn't have the chance to accomplish. Dirk is essentially the first ever true-european franchise player, and the first to ever win an MVP award, 9 NBA All-Star games, 4 ALL-NBA first team, 4 ALL-NBA second team.. But yet you want to put Drazen as the best because he had the potential?? You can't reward for potential, only by what happen.
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  29. 02-03-11 02:49 PM #99
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    Sabonis is the best one...
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  30. 02-03-11 03:21 PM #100
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    LOL at anyone saying Petrovic. He's not even in the top 10.

    Nowitzki, Parker, Turkgolu, Shrempf, and Kukoc are the starting 5, in that order.
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  31. 02-03-11 03:33 PM #101
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    Quote Originally Posted by dimon View Post
    Sabonis is the best one...

    not as an NBA player he wasn't --

    in the 80's Sabonis was probably the top Euro player but by the time he made it to the NBA he was 30 and already playing injured --
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  32. 02-03-11 03:39 PM #102
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    Most Europeans I speak with say Petrovic

    Very interesting debate
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  33. 02-03-11 03:42 PM #103
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    Surprising that nobody has mentioned Šarūnas Jasikevičius
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  34. 02-03-11 03:55 PM #104
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    Quote Originally Posted by pavyracer View Post
    Petrovic, Kukoc or Divac are much better than Nowitzki and is not even close.
    your nba opinions are irrelevant

    divac and kukoc are better than nowitzski please just stop posting on sbr. i'm serious. you might be the least knowlegable person posting in this thread. just stop talking, please. do us all and do yourself a favor and don't make me embarass you in this debate.
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  35. 02-03-11 04:05 PM #105
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    Manute Bol

    Petrovic was a horrible defensive player
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