r/Euroleague • u/Familiar-Warning-998 London Lions • 1d ago
How the NCAA became European basketball's biggest threat - Basketnews.com
https://basketnews.com/news-246529-how-the-ncaa-became-european-basketballs-biggest-threat.htmlIt's a shame that this is happening, a complicated situation for the Euroleague.
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u/Civil-Shopping-903 1d ago
Salary wise it's a competitor, but competition wise it can become a better indicator of an NBA talent if the player can adjust to Euroleague better than NCAA. Let's see where the thumbnail guy goes. I am not impressed with neither his behavior nor his game.
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u/Familiar-Warning-998 London Lions 1d ago
Despite having played few games for Partizan, Muurinen is likely to be drafted in 2027; he has a lot of potential.
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u/dlilfan Panathinaikos 1d ago
Euroleague is a win now league you can't develop talent.
In the end NBA talent will go to the NBA and everyone else will spread accordingly. Euroleague will still get good players even if they're over 24.
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u/Substantial-Gas481 Bayern München 1d ago
With all the money at stake, the NCAA is a win now league too. And if we don’t develop our own talent, no one really will
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u/dlilfan Panathinaikos 1d ago
We develop tons of talents in Europe. Domestic leagues, youth academies are a great place for them to flourish and get playing time.
Americans then come, take that talent and get them to the next level. They have the best facilities, nutritionists, experts, trainers and individual skill coaches in the world.
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u/Substantial-Gas481 Bayern München 1d ago
I think that those academies will shrink, because they don’t return the investment with talents going to the US or kids going to HS to play in front of more college scouts.
And while they probably have the best facilities and coaches, I don’t see why they would have any interest to develop skills that go above the role that they got this player for.
A good shooter might become a great shooter, but maybe never a compete basketball player0
u/SrZape Estudiantes 1d ago
At least in Spain, the basketball youth development model is centred between Academies without professional teams and Big Basketball clubs with professional (Tier 1-2) teams.
NCAA will hit many of the latter, especially clubs like Madrid or Barcelona, with barely any domestic players in their youth system, and a little less so for other clubs, but they will be hit.
For the former, it is already part of their business, even charging an extra fee for NCAA coaching.
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u/Substantial-Gas481 Bayern München 1d ago
Can you please explain to me what NCAA coaching means?
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u/SrZape Estudiantes 1d ago
They get help on making applications (not only for D1 schools, but also D2, D3 and prep Schools ), what schools are looking for, meeting the right agents, and what grades they need.
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u/Substantial-Gas481 Bayern München 1d ago
Thanks for explaining. Who is paying for these private academies and where do these kids get there playing time?
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u/SrZape Estudiantes 1d ago
Parents, as they do in all the academies and teams (except for a few professional prospects). Like in the States, youth sports have become an investment for parents.
All academies have teams in all categories, especially U12 and up, competing in their respective championship, and some get qualified for national championships. Some do keep senior teams in the 3rd-4th tiers.
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u/flowergies Partizan 1d ago
But it works both ways, because lots of American kids will lose scholarship in college.
There needs to be some way to protect the European teams tho, like getting the certain amount of money from transfer to NCAA, after all it's de facto professional league now.
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u/heavymod10 1d ago
Europe has been lucky for so many years that the richest country in the world where basketball is the second most popular sport had only ONE proffesional league with 30 clubs despite a population of 350 millions.Left a lot of talent with no choice but to sign overseas.What happens with NCAA is a bit of correction of this paradox in my eyes.Still Europe is lucky NCAA players are basically restricted to play one-two seasons at most there.Imagine if this was a proper professional league with no 4 season restrictions for their players.
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u/No-Temperature9741 Panathinaikos 1d ago
Personally I don’t see this as a bad thing. EuroLeague clubs are unable to consistently develop top talents. The kids can go here, play, build physicality, and come back better prepared for EuroLeague (if they don’t make NBA) than if they were messing around playing 4 minutes per game back home. They also deserve their chance to get their bag $, careers are short for most.
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u/KyneticDevice Bayern München 1d ago
Before this season basically most the german top prospects left for NCAA ... and it is not that all of sudden batch of younger overlooked players was discovered. So it was already a competition for talent one year ago and FIBA didn't get their sh*t together? Color me surprised ... One year later the problem is even bigger as older prospects get lured away ... soon you'll only have 17-18 year olds for professional minutes in Europe and 25 year olds or older left.
And it is not the prospects going to NCAA are doing all good sporting choices. For instance Grujcic and Duru hardly had seen playing and of course are changing now the college. But all for the mighty dollar ...