Excluding Canada which basically has the same development system as America, why is the rest of the world not producing any good guards? All the good international players are 6’8+. Luka, Jokic, Giannis, Embiid, Siakam, Sabonis, Markannen, Porzingis, Sengun, Gobert etc. Meanwhile who is the best small international player? Dennis Schroder? Kind of an interesting discrepancy
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Its harder to make it in the NBA/get given a chance as a 6’2 guard, more competition.
Soccer fields
Pretty much lmao. Kids in Europe want to be the next Messi and Mbappe.
Why would they want to be poor like Luka when they coule be rich like Mbappe
Isn’t this the answer?
If you look at sports worldwide, there’s a few much more popular than basketball like soccer, cricket, hockey, and tennis. And then there’s other sports like rugby that aren’t popular in America.
But if you are 6’8” basketball is an obvious choice
Bro, I was in Croatia and the amount of tennis courts there are wild lol Every day night there’d be matches going on and crowds just watching lol They go hard into tennis
i wish Rugby would take off here. crazy fun to watch. also last i watched they had the crazy “3-D” adds painted on the field.
Cricket is dominated by the UK and commonwealth countries and South Asia so the large populations of India, Pakistan and Bangaldesh, tennis is just as accessible at a professional level to the average person, ice hockey requires a lot of equipment and an ice rink it’s not as popular across the world, while field hockey is more popular in South Asia. Basketball is definitely the second popular and widely played sport across the world.
Don’t worry Nikola Topic is coming
We have Killian Hayes
there is a finite amount of 6’8 and above humans in the planet, so it makes sense there are more international players in that range
Respect frank the tank
Tony Parker
White men can’t jump
Shai is Canadian
Don’t forget Jeremy lin from taiwan
The first point before we even get to an answer is quite simply this: you’re not a guard because you’re small. Look at the Euroleague, and you’ll see how many bigger players are running the point.
Josh Giddey is meant to be a point guard (has spent most of his NBA career so far being played out of position due to roster construction). Dyson Daniels is also a guard/wing type. Tyrese Proctor is expected to be a high draft pick this year too.
On the older side, Dennis Schroeder just led Germany to a FIBA World Cup win.
And you know, Luka.
Giddey’s also 6’8.
Vasilije Micic (Euroleague MVP drafted to OKC) - 6’5”
my guess is that if ur very tall someone will say you should play basketball whereas in the states most kids play basketball to some extent on their own volition.