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Old 10-17-2005, 07:27 PM   #15 (permalink)
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Re: David Lee Impressive for pre-season

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Originally Posted by benfica

Why are whites who grow up in a small country like Lithuania and Croatia, thousands of miles from any blacks, doing better at the black man’s game than American whites who grow up just 5 miles away from the inner city?

As someone who coaches three rec teams in the suburbs I think i have many of the answers, but I keep them to myself for now.
Very Simply----THEY DON'T PLAY ENOUGH to be great players! MOST great athletes develop without many distractions---American Youth have the BENEFIT of more distractions...certainly, white boys have more recreational alternatives than black boys. I suspect that many of these foreign players are in situations with few alternatives to their main sports interests.
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